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Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and his wife Rashmi Thackeray met Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari in an informal meeting at the Raj Bhavan in Mumbai. Their meeting comes ahead of the swearing-in as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, scheduled for Thursday evening. Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray would administer oath as chief minister at Shivaji Park […]
A new research found that rising sea level could “wipe out” India’s financial capital, Mumbai. The research paper written by Climate Central, a science organization out of New Jersey was published in the journal ”Nature Communications’. According to the new research, some 150 million people are now living on land that will be below the […]
A 51-year-old man, whose family has a deposit of over Rs 90 lakh with the troubled Punjab and Maharashtra Bank Cooperative (PMC) Bank, has died due to a heart attack. The man Sanjay Gulati a resident of suburban Oshiwara, Gulati had lost his job after the grounding of Jet Airways. He received a bigger blow […]
After chopping 2,141 trees, Mumbai Metro said on Monday that it will honour the Supreme Court order and will not cut any more trees. “Following the decision of Hon’able High Court on 4/10/19 upholding the permission of the Tree Authority the felling of 2,185 trees was undertaken on October 4 and 5, 2019 and as […]
More than 200 protesters were detained and roads leading to Aarey were blocked by police in Mumbai. The government has imposed Section 144 — a curfew — to ban unlawful assembly in the area. The Bombay HC on Friday gave a nod to authorities to cut down over 2,500 trees for a metro car shed project. […]
The Bombay High Court on Friday dismissed all the petitions urging Aarey colony to be declared as a forest. This is a huge setback to activists who were protesting against the move to cut down 2000 trees for building a metro car shed. The court dismissed the petition filed by NGO Vanashakti to declare the […]
Eight people were killed after a major fire engulfed a Mumbai hospital. Over 140 people were rescued and many remained critical. The incident broke out at Kamgar Hospital, Andheri area of Mumbai. The patients were evacuated and shifted to other hospitals, about ten fire tenders rushed to douse the raging blaze. The hospital failed a fire […]