Truck breakdown causes four-hour jam on T-B Road
Traffic on the busy Thane-Belapur Road was thrown out of gear for over four hours on Thursday morning, due to breakdown of a multi-axle trailer
View ArticleIdols that are lightweight and eco-friendly
Noted sculptor and professor, Moreshwar Pawar from Nerul, will be doing his bit this year too, to popularize eco-friendly Ganpati idols.
View ArticleNavi Mumbai group starts campaign for ‘honest, well-educated netas’
A group of professionals from across the city are attempting to come to a consensus on the ideal MLA candidates that political parties should field for the upcoming state elections
View ArticleGreen blow for 103 stone crushing units
The regional office of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has served 97 notices for the second time to 103 stone crushing units in the last fiscal and till June this year for violating...
View ArticleNavi Mumbai Cops want 250 more cameras across city
Cops have decided to go all in after the successful launch of the e-challan system. The police commissioner, sources said, has asked mayor Sagar Naik to supplement the system by providing the...
View ArticleNerul school wins badminton championship
Riding on its star shuttlers, Delhi Public School (DPS) of Nerul proved their dominance over other city schools at the Navi Mumbai district-level inter-school badminton championship held at Navi Mumbai...
View ArticlePanvel Nayab Tehsildar, PA granted bail
The Panvel Nayab tehsildar and an internationally acclaimed body builder, Panvel Nayab tehsildar Suhas Khamkar, and his personal assistant Ganesh Bhogade, arrested on Monday for taking bribe, were...
View ArticleMumbai traffic police to issue on-the-spot challans in Bandra in a week
After Navi Mumbai, the spot traffic challan system will be implemented in Bandra in a week’s time, a senior state official said
View ArticleOver a dozen people jumped from first floor to escape Navi Mumbai hotel fire
The Navi Mumbai chief fire officer, Vijay Rane, informed that around a dozen persons jumped out of the Wanton House hotel building from the first floor after the fire started early today at Vashi,...
View ArticleAxis Bank employee dead in hotel fire; 17 others admitted
The dead person in Friday morning's Wanton House hotel fire in Vashi has been identified as Salman Khan (22).
View ArticleCidco gets notice from NMMC for garbage dump in Vashi
The Vashi ward office has notified the town planning body that a private garbage contractor has been leaving oversized black polythene bags around a dumping bin next to a mall
View ArticleNew civic hospitals need 4 months to start
The chief medical officer, Deepak Paropkari, said that it will take another four months for the civic hospitals at Nerul, Belapur and Airoli to start functioning
View ArticleVashi school recycles waste to make rakhis
Students from Tilak Education Society’s Vashi English High School are gearing up to celebrate Raksha Bandhan in an eco-friendly way.
View ArticleKharghar skywalk may double as shopping mart
City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) is planning to conduct a daily bazaar or a weekly mart for the public on the 1.7-km-long Kharghar skywalk, on the lines of Janpath market at...
View ArticleNo women on the pyramid this Dahi Handi in Navi Mumbai
Revellers will miss out on the unique all-women Govinda troupe this year after it was revealed that no company, NGO or local body is sponsoring the group
View Article‘Why allow illegal temple in Kharghar green belt?’
Aam Aadmi Party activists in the city have lodged a complaint with City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) and the chief minister’s office about an illegal temple built in the restricted...
View ArticleNMMT will run 2 routes from city to airports
The civic transport wing has scheduled the inaugural run of its four new routes on August 15 to roll out 30 out of the 50 new Volvos it has acquired under the JNNURM scheme
View ArticleTransport minister roped in as Nerul RTO project delay increases
After six years of delays, fines and political pressure to get the Nerul RTO constructed, NMMT has asked the transport minister for help
View ArticleSarpanch gets one year jail for graft
A woman sarpanch of Kadav grampanchayat in Karjat taluka has been sentenced to one year rigorous imprisonment (RI) and Rs 7,500 as penalty by Alibaug sessions court on Saturday for accepting bribe.
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