Youth cheats driver, flees with SUV in Belapur
A 22-year-old driver, Prathamesh Kulkarni, was cheated by a passenger, who hired his SUV from Badlapur on Friday.
View ArticleRs 2 lakh goods stolen from Panvel home
An unidentified burglar targetted a locked house in Joshi Aali lane, Panvel and made off with gold jewellery and cash worth Rs 2.4 lakh.
View ArticleMore public toilets to come up in Navi Mumbai
More public toilets are on cards for Navi Mumbai.
View ArticleToll issue burns, yet another one planned
The widening and concretization of Sion-Panvel highway is expected to complete in May 2014.
View ArticleGold, cash stolen from transport firm's office in Diwale
Gold and cash worth Rs 3.35 lakh was stolen from a transport company on Thursday.
View ArticleSchool kids run a minithon to promote fitness through fun in Nerul
Over 4,000 students from 50 schools will run a minithon in Nerul on Sunday to promote fitness through fun.
View Article'Will the LPG delivery scheme change again after the polls?'
Many were happy to hear the Union cabinet's move on Thursday to approve a proposal to raise the quota of subsidized LPG cylinders from nine to 12 per household in a year from February 1.
View ArticleNavi Mumbai tops list of cities that generate maximum plastic waste
The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporat (NMMC) area is one of the highest generators of plastic waste in the overall municipal solid waste disposed of on a daily basis, a study stated.
View ArticlePanvel boy swims to Kasa Island in in four hours
One of the youngest swimmers in the city, Suchit Patil (11), was the first Navi Mumbaikar to swim 19.3km from Elephanta Caves to Kasa Island.
View ArticleCity woman hosts beautician courses for the underprivileged
Following the success of catering vocational training courses initiated last year for underprivileged women, a city woman has started a beautician training programme with the same goal in mind.
View ArticleFile FIR against Javed Ahmed over illegal arrests: Court orders cops
The first class judicial magistrate court at CBD-Belapur on Saturday ordered the Vashi police to lodge FIRs against four senior police officers following a petition by a senior citizen, Mohini Kamwani...
View ArticleSoon, ride 12-car rakes on CST-Panvel route
Harbour line commuters will soon be able to ride 12-car rakes on the CST-Panvel route. Railway authorities claimed that the first 12-car rake on the route will be operational in six months.
View Article‘We will do our best to save city’s mangroves’
The chief conservator of forests (mangroves cell) N Vasudevan, who visited the city on the eve of World Wetlands Day on Saturday, told TOI illegal activities along the city coast that damaged the green...
View Article‘Food security scheme launched sans infra setup’
When Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar and chief minister Prithviraj Chavan launched United Progressive Alliance’s (UPA) flagship food security scheme from Airoli on Friday, the annoucement was...
View ArticleCrematoriums in Navi Mumbai need to install air filters: Residents
Residents from areas around crematoriums insist that in the recent round of refurbishing crematoriums, the civic body should install air purifiers to reduce the smoke released from funeral pyres.
View Article150 participate in science fest
Around 150 Students from 30 civic schools across the city participated in Science Utsav - a science fest held at Gujrat Bhavan, Vashi on Sunday.
View ArticlePWD engineer in the dock for Rs 13cr fraud case
Chief engineer of the public works department, Premdas Surajbhan Mandape, was booked on Saturday for awarding a Rs 13 crore road contract to a city-based civil contractor on the basis of forged documents.
View ArticleSpeeding tempo mows down three crossing highway, injures one
A speeding tempo, which was ferrying poultry to Mumbai, hit three women and a man crossing the Sion-Panvel Highway near Kalamboli on Sunday morning, killing three of them on the spot.
View ArticlePanvel youth kills man in drunken brawl
A 22-year-old youth, Ravi Katkari from Panvel was arrested for murdering a 35-year-old man, Sunil Katkari, on Sunday.
View ArticleKids to distribute paper bags in Nerul on February 5
As an effort to perserve ecology, students of Sterling College of Arts, Commerce and Science, Nerul have prepared 1lakh bags, made up of newspapers, to be distributed among Nerul residents.
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