Mumbai: Mumbai airport set a new all-time record for aircraft movements on Nov 21, handling 1,033 flights in 24 hours. This surpassed the previous high of 1,032 movements recorded on Nov 11, 2023.The airport managed 518 arrivals and 515 departures throughout the day, said an Airports Authority of India official. Traffic remained consistently heavy across…
Pune: The letter of intent issued to Amadea Enterprises LLP, in which deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar’s son, Parth, is a partner, will be cancelled or withdrawn on grounds of the false declaration and affidavit by the applicant, officials from the state industries department told TOI on Friday.They said the letter of intent (LoI) has…
New Delhi: Stepping up its winter action plan, Delhi govt has intensified on-ground enforcement to curb dust emissions from road-cutting and construction activities. Environment minister Manjinder Singh Sirsa warned of “zero tolerance” and penalties of up to Rs 5 lakh for violations of dust-mitigation guidelines issued by Delhi Pollution Control Committee.According to the environment department,…
Mumbai: The BMC is carrying out resurfacing of the MSRDC bridges on the Eastern and Western Express Highway and other deteriorated portions of the main carriage way of the highways at a cost of about Rs 136 crores. The resurfacing of the surfaces would be carried out on 12 bridges across the Western and Eastern…
Pune: Revenue minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule has secured an all-party approval for a major overhaul of stalled redevelopment policy for housing societies on govt land. The proposal would now be sent to the cabinet for final clearance, after which a govt resolution (GR) would be issued to operationalise the new framework, a senior official told TOI…
NEW DELHI: The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has revised the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) for Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) following observations by the Supreme Court regarding deteriorating air quality. The latest comprehensive GRAP schedule, originally issued on 13 December 2024, has been updated after a hearing in the Supreme Court…
Mumbai: Four men were arrested from a village in Pune by Mumbai crime branch on Friday in connection with the bid on Charkop-based developer Freddy D’Lima’s life. Among those arrested are three bike-borne assailants, one of whom shot D’Lima outside a school on Wednesday. D’Lima is still unconscious and under observation in a Kandivli hospital’s…
Pune: Back to back playoff losses could have become a mini jinx for any golfer, but for Yuvraj Sandhu they were yet another stepping stone to success.And success did come in spectacular fashion as the 28-year-old scripted a nine-stroke start-to-finish win at the Rs 1 crore India Oil Servo Masters in Digboi, Assam, on Friday…
Delhi has become a breathing danger for citizens. Stop playing, running, exercising – and if possible, stop breathing!For millions who live in and around the capital, air is no longer an invisible backdrop to daily life. It has become a persistent health hazard — an omnipresent fog that coats lungs, corrodes hearts, clouds classrooms and…
Mumbai: Cama Hospital near CST has become the first public hospital in the state to receive permission for egg freezing and sperm bank facilities. The accreditation, which allows Cama Hospital to set up an ART (assisted reproductive technology) bank for the collection, screening, and cryopreservation of donated sperm, eggs, and embryos for infertility treatment, comes…
