The Shiv Sena-UBT-Maharashtra Navnirman Sena panel has lost all 21 seats in the election to the BEST Employees Cooperative Credit Society Ltd, a platform where the two parties came together, sparking buzz about a pan-Maharashtra alliance.
A video of cutting and felling of trees in Aarey is being circulated by protestors on social media.
A biker was killed after he was crushed under a double decker Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking bus that overturned in Bandra's Kalanagar.
Mercedes, the world famous luxury automobile company, has lent three buses to Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport undertaking in Mumbai to find the road-worthiness of the vehicles on an experimental basis.
A biker was killed after he was crushed under a double decker Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking bus that overturned in Bandra's Kalanagar.
The first phase of the project, 8.8-km stretch between Wadala and Chembur, is expected to be thrown open to public in Aug.
Mumbai's senior opening batsman Wasim Jaffer lost his father, who passed away at the LilavatiHospital in suburban Bandra on Friday, following a brief illness.
Taking a cue from cities like New York and London, public transport authorities in Mumbai are planning to equip the city's iconic BEST buses with bluetooth-enabled services.
Suburbs like Bandra, Santacruz and Chembur, and pockets in central Mumbai such as Dadar reported the outage for over 15 minutes starting at 2130 hrs.
BEST unions had struck work demanding, among other things, a pay-revision and an increase in dearness allowance.
Over 42,000 BEST employees are participating in the strike called to demand revise pay scale.
In its decision over a tariff revision proposal submitted by the BEST, the MERC has given this direction.
The BMC declared a holiday for all government and private schools and colleges in Mumbai on Thursday after the IMD issued a 'red' alert for the metropolis.
The power failure comes at a time when the state is reeling under power deficit.
The Shiv Sena on Monday slammed diplomat Devyani Khobragade's father Uttam Khobragade, a former Indian Administrative Service officer, for calling Marathi media casteist after being confronted with a query about her flat in the controversial Adarsh housing society.
A Mandoli-bound goods train had crossed Wadala station when three rear wagons of the trains derailed.
All India Congress Committee General Secretary Sanjay Nirupam on Saturday threatened to immolate himself if his demand for reduction in power tariff in Mumbai was not accepted.
Even as the lockdown remains in force till June 30, the Maharashtra government, as part of the phase-wise reopening of the economy and public activities under 'Mission Begin Again', has allowed private offices to resume operations with 10 per cent staff. Since the lockdown came into force in March, regular operations of BEST buses were suspended and services were available only for the essential services staff and health workers.
Recalling the veteran socialist's association with the city, Communist Party of India leader Prakash Reddy said that Fernandes had in 1967 emerged as the "giant killer" by defeating Patil, who was then called the "uncrowned king of Bombay" and represented the Bombay South Lok Sabha seat.
Devyani Khobragade, the Indian diplomat who is at the centre of a diplomatic row with the United States, is one of the 25 allottees who have been found ineligible to own a flat in the controversial Adarsh Housing society by a judicial panel which probed the scam.
Former colleagues recall the veteran political leader as a visionary with strong ground connect.
Mayura Janwalkar travels to Kedambe, a tiny village in Maharashtra's Satara district, now better known as 26/11 hero Tukaram Omble's home. An excerpt from 26/11 Stories Of Strength by The Indian Express.
Shifting to a PPP model could repeat the errors of the past
India's top metro cities need to improve their infrastructure and other civic amenities too.
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