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Mumbai: Two days after the Rs 4,165-crore tender to outsource garbage collection and transportation hit a hurdle as contractors quoted 34% to 64% above BMC’s cost estimates, the civic administration seems to have returned to the drawing board. Senior officials have been re-examining their internal calculations and have held discussions with bidders to understand their…

Mumbai: If an area’s Air Quality Index (AQI) remains consistently above 200 despite ongoing mitigation efforts, industries and construction activities responsible for the air pollution will be shut down under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP-4), BMC stated on Thursday.GRAP-4, civic officials said, is the last step after all measures to control pollution in an…

Mumbai: A 17-year-old girl died by suicide reportedly after being repeatedly threatened by her boyfriend that he would morph her photograph and circulate it. Goregaon police have regisetred a case of abetment against her boyfriend. No arrest has been made.Police said the girl was found hanging at her residence at Goregaon earlier this week. Earlier,…

Bhiwandi: Bhiwandi-Nizampura City Municipal Corporation (BNCMC) has initiated a large-scale road widening project after directives issued by CM Devendra Fadnavis, who in June this year instructed authorities to widen the road parallel to Metro Line 5 work. The CM had stressed that both projects should progress simultaneously to deliver long-term congestion relief to citizens.The municipal…

Thane: The Thane police have seized heroin worth Rs 1.35 crore and arrested a man hailing from Punjab, allegedly involved in distributing the contraband in the area, an official said on Thursday.Based on a tip-off, the anti-narcotics cell raided a premises at Kopri village in Thane east on Wednesday and recovered 271.8 gm of heroin,…