‘Clear illegal parking to save trees on footpaths’
Civic chief Abasaheb Jarahd cited lack of space for pedestrians for not adhering to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order to ensure no tiling work takes place within 1 sq m area around the trees on...
View ArticleNavratri shopping spoilers: Rain, rising prices & noise curbs
With just a few days to go before Navratri, shops in the city have started putting up their best wares on display, be it dandiya sticks, lavish clothes or dazzling accessories
View ArticleOne held for sending ‘lewd’ texts to Nerul woman
A 21-year-old youth from Malad was arrested on Tuesday by the Nerul police for allegedly sending lewd messages and pictures to a Nerul-based woman.
View ArticleVendors block footpaths despite NMMC action
The civic body has failed to stop vendors and shop owners from encroaching footpaths in Vashi, residents claimed.
View ArticleEducational institutes not keen on cop complaint boxes
The idea to set up complaint boxes in various educational institutes has failed to take off, despite 19 schools and colleges being instructed by Vashi police to install the boxes. Just two or three...
View ArticleVashi MBA college charging Rs 40,000 over fixed fees: Students
Students from the Oriental Institute of Management, Vashi have alleged that the institute has been charging them an additional Rs 40,000, though the government’s Shikshan Shulka Samiti has fixed the...
View ArticleNavi Mumbai cops intensify poll drive, 110 cars in Vashi checked in 3 hours
Cops have stepped up their code of conduct drive and have increased the number of nakabandis and random checks on parked vehicles at various locations
View ArticleSena undecided on Belapur, Airoli seats
The Shiv Sena is yet to take a call on its candidates for Airoli and Belapur constituencies for the upcoming assembly polls, despite Uddhav Thackeray interviewing as many as 12 aspirants
View ArticleCentral Railway should take up railway, platform area upkeep by 2015, says Cidco
City and Industrial Development Corporation wants Central Railway (CR) to take up repair and maintenance work of the railway and platform area of the 14 stations by March 31, 2015.
View ArticleNavi Mumbai shopkeepers tech WhatsApp, SMS route to boost business & up...
Years ago when Srikant Battin, the owner of Dadar Handloom House in Vashi’s sector 12, needed traditional Bengali festive wear for Durga Puja, he had to make a trip to Kolkata to check out the...
View ArticleYouth held for sending ‘lewd’ texts to Nerul woman
A 21-year-old youth from Malad was arrested on Tuesday by the Nerul police for allegedly sending lewd messages and pictures to a Nerul-based woman
View Article234 godowns across Maharashtra to store foodgrains
The state government’s food, civil supplies and consumer protection department will set up 234 godowns across the state in the next two years to preserve food grains in a scientific manner
View ArticleEducation board site goes offline, emails bounce
Online queries to the Maharashtra State Board for Secondary and Higher Secondary Education are bouncing back for almost four months. Access to the official website is also being denied.
View ArticleVashi vendors block footpaths despite NMMC action
The civic body has failed to stop vendors and shop owners from encroaching footpaths in Vashi, residents claimed
View ArticleCollege drives in aid of J&K flood victims
Students from city colleges came forward to help the flood-affected victims in Jammu & Kashmir by running voluntary donation drives.
View ArticleFIR against MNS leader over political hoarding in Vashi
An FIR has been lodged against the Navi Mumbai president of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), Haji Shahnawaz Khan, for displaying the party hoarding with the names and photographs of the MNS leaders in...
View Article8 days after Belapur murder, cops no closer to finding kin
Eight days after a woman was found strangled to death in Belapur village, the police are no closer to finding her identity
View ArticleNavi Mumbai home buyers protest delay in starting project
A group of home buyers, who have booked flats in a housing project at Moje-Rohinjan in sector 36, Kharghar, came together on Saturday to protest against a real estate group for allegedly not starting...
View Article21 traffic violators defy e-challan norms, don’t pay penalty within 15-day...
The e-challan system was implemented in the city on August 2 with the objective of minimizing routine violations. Since then, the CCTV command centre at the police commissioner’s office in Belapur has...
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