November 17, 2025: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has stopped all redevelopment activity at Habib Mansion in Byculla after unauthorised deep excavation and backfilling led to the deaths of two labourers and left three others seriously injured. A stop-work notice was issued late on Saturday, along with a 24-hour intimation
November 17, 2025: Union Minister and North Mumbai MP Piyush Goyal inaugurated a series of development works in Borivali on Sunday, including an eco-friendly sculpture and the newly beautified Green View Garden. The sculpture, conceptualised by the Shri Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav Mandal—an organisation with an 80-year-old tradition—and funded through the MPLADS
November 17, 2025: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is advancing plans to develop Mumbai’s second dedicated bird park in Mulund, with four companies submitting bids for the Rs 166-crore project. Officials confirmed that work could begin as early as December once the contract is awarded. Spread across a 17-acre plot
November 15, 2025: Mumbai’s Mahim Nature Park—one of the city’s most critical and centrally located green lungs—is once again at the centre of public concern as momentum builds around the Dharavi Redevelopment Project. Urban planners and environmental groups warn that the renewed push for land consolidation could intensify pressure on
Sidhant Shekhar Jha November 15, 2025: Mumbai’s real estate sector is under increasing pressure from flood risks that threaten both property and investment value. According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) 2024–25 climate budget report, nearly 35% of the city’s population lives within 250 metres of over 100 flood-prone zones.
Sidhant Shekhar Jha November 15, 2025: Mumbai is entering a new era of urban living, where drone technology, automated aerial delivery systems integrated into residential buildings, is reshaping the logistics landscape. This innovation supports the city’s growing vertical development by enabling faster, safer, and more efficient delivery of goods directly
November 15, 2025: The Agri-Koli Youth Foundation (AKYF), during the second edition of its Jan Samvad series, called for urgent and decisive intervention from the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) to resolve the long-standing housing and land regularisation issues faced by original residents. The organisation reiterated that meaningful progress will
November 15, 2025: The Maharashtra government’s high-power committee has granted long-awaited approval for the 34-acre redevelopment of Kamatipura, marking a transformational moment for one of Mumbai’s oldest, most densely populated neighbourhoods. The move brings renewed momentum to a project that had been pending for years, with local MLA Amin Patel
November 15, 2025: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Gujarat today (15 November) to take stock of the construction progress of the Mumbai–Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail (MAHSR) Corridor, India’s first Bullet Train project. During the visit, he is expected to inspect the under-construction Surat station at around 10 am, marking a
November 14, 2025: The International Federation of Landscape Architects – Asia Pacific Region (IFLA–APR) Congress opened in Mumbai on Friday with an urgent call to rethink how India’s major urban centres are growing. While cities like Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, and Pune continue to expand at unprecedented speed, experts at the
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