NMMC’s clean city mission hindered by expanding slums, lack of toilets:...
The civic body launched the Clean Navi Mumbai Mission on Saturday, as part of its plan to claim smart city status. But activists and residents have termed it eyewash due to NMMC’s failure to curb the...
View Article‘Breast cancer a fear for women over 30’
Oncologists and doctors have highlighted one disturbing aspect that also needs to be addressed—the necessity for timely tests of cancers that are becoming increasingly common among women.
View ArticleWoman jumps to death from top of 7-storey building
A 25-year-old woman, Diya Batuk of Kopar Khairane, is believed to have committed suicide by jumping from the terrace of a seven-storey building here on Friday
View ArticleOde to woman power at Navi Mumbai Happy Streets Season-II grand finale
After 18 weeks of fun and games, Season-II of Happy Streets came to an end on Sunday with special events for women to commemorate International Women’s Day
View ArticleGarbage pick ups start today in Vashi
The much-awaited door-to-door garbage collection service will begin in Vashi on Monday. Sources in the NMMC said that nine compactors and five mini-garbage vehicles will be pushed into service.
View ArticleKin of cabbie who died in mishap awarded 17L
The family of a 22-year-old cab driver, Bharat Bhanushali, was awarded Rs 17.22 lakh as compensation by the Thane Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) on Thursday. Bhanushali died in a mishap in 2010.
View ArticlePre-poll rush: Scramble to clean up Vashi Mini Seashore
With the civic election scheduled next month, political parties are now trying hard to keep their promises of beautifying and cleaning up the of the city.
View Article‘Panvel-Indapur stretch repairs to be over by May 31’
State PWD minister, Chandrakant Patil has instructed the road contractor firm to repair all cracks and potholes on the 84-km-long stretch of Mumbai-Goa Highway by May 31.
View ArticleNavi Mumbai purse-pinchers get a taste of woman power
A 41-year-old woman pharma employee turned into a vigilante on Sunday when she accosted two people who she believed stole her purse
View ArticleMajor snarls at Koparkhairane underpass due to absence of divider
Motorists have to spend more than 30 minutes to negotiate the vehicular underpass from Balaji multiplex in Koparkhairane to Thane-Belapur Road near the Trans-Harbour railway track, as there is no...
View ArticleVashi student set to prove his tech skills
Tarun Chauhan, a twenty-year-old mechanical engineering student of Fr C Rodrigues Institute of Technology, Vashi will represent India at 43rd WorldSkills competition, to be held in Brazil in August
View ArticleCidco seeks cop help to raze illegal temples
Twenty eight illegal temples at Parsik Hill may be demolished soon as Cidco has sought help from cops to raze them
View ArticleCivic drive to separate waste at source soon
The civic body will soon start a campaign to educate residents on the importance of segregating dry and wet waste and the means to do it.
View ArticleNMMC engineer threatened to kill me after bad road complaint: Activist
An activist, Anarjit Chauhan, has written to the NMMC chief, alleging that a civic deputy engineer threatened to kill him
View ArticleAuto, 3 bikes torched in Vashi colony
Some miscreants set fire to three bikes and an autorickshaw parked inside a residential colony for ESIS hospital staff in sector 5, Vashi on Tuesday.
View ArticleH1N1 cases on the rise in Navi Mumbai but most patients stable: Doctors
Records released by NMMC have revealed that the number of patients suffering from H1N1 rose dramatically in 2015 when compared to 2013 and 2014
View ArticleAlphonsos and grapes suffer heavy damage
Not just pulses and grains, but also the state's mango and grape harvests were damaged by unseasonal rains earlier this year.
View ArticleNo action yet against illegal temples in Kharghar
Cidco is still verifying the legality of two temples that have come up on the Kharghar side of Parsik Hill, said sources from the town planning body
View Article‘Temporary spaying centres to check canine population’
The civic body will now set up temporary sterilization centres in every node to curb population of stray dogs. The solution was proposed by deputy municipal commissioner J Sinnarkar on Wednesday, as...
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