A taxi driver and four traffic cops displayed remarkable alertness and agility to save a 56-year-old woman who was about to fall into the Arabian Sea from Atal Setu, an official said on Saturday.
Twenty school children were injured, one of them seriously, when their school bus caught fire at Navi Mumbai on Thursday morning.
Miscreants had also set fire to a police outpost.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Wednesday said he was hopeful of speedy clearance to the Navi Mumbai airport project but Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh feared it would destroy large swathe of mangroves at the proposed site.
GVK Group that runs the swanky MIAL (Mumbai international airport) pipped rival GMR Group to bag the contract for the proposed facility in Navi Mumbai which will ease the severe congestion at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport.
The list also includes the names of Mumbai BJP president Ashish Selar, fielded from the Vandre West seat, and senior party leader and Lok Sabha MP Narayan Rane's son Nitesh Rane, fielded from Kankavli, a seat he currently represents in the assembly.
The gang planned to use sophisticated weapons, including AK-47, from Pakistan for the attack, the official said.
The Board of approval in the commerce ministry took these decisions along with approving two fresh proposals of Shyam Steel Industries and Limitless Properties in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, respectively. The BoA also ratified extension of time to 23 developers, including Satyam Computer Services, for implementing tax-free enclaves in the wake of economic slowdown.
Says Bhushan-Essel combine, the highest bidder, has withdrawn but latter denies having done so.
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Park Hotels, promoted by Apeejay Surrendra Hotels, has launched the first boutique hotel 'The Park' in Navi Mumbai's CBD Belapur, a thriving business district and a IT-manufacturing hub.
According to the government, the additional chief secretary of the state housing department is designated to sign an agreement with the Union government for the land lease transfer.
Babasaheb Adhav, a sub-inspector at the Rabale police station, was killed outside the Maharashtra and Punjab Cooperative Bank in Airoli.
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'Why has Maharashtra slipped up over the past couple of decades?' 'Not only is this question critical for residents of the state, but given that it accounts for 14% of India's GDP, a faster-growing Maharashtra implies a faster-growing India as well, point out Shishir Gupta and Rishita Sachdeva.
Trouble started at Ghansoli village after some 'mathadi' (porters) workers allegedly molested a local girl on Wednesday.
A fire broke out on Wednesday at the Central Warehousing Corporation godown in Navi Mumbai, officials said.
Being touted as a competitor to the country's busiest Delhi airport -- which handles approximately 1,200 flights a day -- the Noida airport was expected to start flight operations by the end of this year. But supply-chain disruption, caused by pandemic and subsequent global upheaval, has hit the pace of construction at the airport which is coming up in the Jewar area of UP's Gautam Budh Nagar, some 75-km from the Delhi airport.
People affected by the Navi Mumbai international airport insist they be allotted developed land as compensation, not cash as the land acquisition Bill, recently cleared by Parliament
CIDCO moves Supreme Court against Rs 1,200 cr compensation order for land parcel
Actual construction on the Navi Mumbai international airport, which received the much-awaited environment clearances early this week, would begin in October next year as certain formalities remained to be done, said the City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco), a nodal agency for the project.
Reacting to Waze's claims, Fadnavis, who heads the Home department, assured to conduct a proper inquiry.
This is the question that comes again and again in the mind of every Mumbaiker regarding the Navi Mumbai airport. Though the proposal has been going back and forth to the Union Environment Ministry many-a-times, the ministry is yet to give a green signal to the project citing environmental concerns.
The 40-metre-long crack was detected near Fatiyabad village on chainage 443/650, a release from the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation said.
An environment impact assessment study by the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, for the proposed Navi Mumbai international airport, has categorically said there should not be any compromise on retaining the geomorphology of rivers, the aquatic life and mangroves in the airport zone.
Authorities on Tuesday old the special Maharashtra Control of Organised Crimes Act court that they are contemplating shifting the suspected Lashkar-e-Tayiba operative and key plotter of 26/11 terror strikes Abu Jundal from Arthur Road jail in Mumbai to a facility at Taloja in Navi Mumbai.
Two persons including a man who allegedly opened fire outside Bollywood actor Salman Khan's residence in Mumbai have been arrested from Gujarat, police said on Tuesday.
The driver of the cab that fatally knocked down former Intel India country head Avtar Saini in Maharashtra's Navi Mumbai, has told the police that he lost control over the vehicle as he dozed off because he was driving all night, an official said on Friday.
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Whether the collections were original or fake is yet to be ascertained, the police said.
Furniture retailer Ikea India on Thursday said it will shut down its store in Mumbai's R City Mall by the middle of this year and explore omnichannel formats in the city. The store at R City Mall, which is spread across 72,000 sq ft, opened in June 2022 to test the viability of small-format stores. The company's plan to shut down the store illustrates the concerns surrounding the viability of running a small-format store, given the rising rentals.
It was not clear if anyone is trapped among the debris.
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The Maharastra government has given the City and Industrial Develoment Corporation (Cidco) an "in principle" approval to hand over 150 hectares of land for the ambitious project.
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The new greenfield airport at Navi Mumbai will come up at the proposed site and not be shifted elsewhere. Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has also written to the Civil Aviation Ministry for building the airport at the originally proposed site. There had been demands to shift the proposed Navi Mumbai airport to a new site due to environmental issues. The regulator would look into aspects like aeronautical charges, user development fee and passenger fee.
L&T has denied the charge and said the delay was entirely due to a dispute between Cidco and the railways.
Notwithstanding opposition from some villages to the Rs 14,500-crore (Rs 145 billion) Navi Mumbai airport, the implementing body, Cidco, has decided to go ahead with the project and would issue 'request for qualifications' on February 5.
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