August 30, 2025: Central Railway will carry out a five-hour mega block on Sunday, between 10:55 am and 3:55 pm, to undertake maintenance and repair work on railway tracks, the signalling system and overhead wires. The block is expected to disrupt suburban services and cause major inconvenience to Ganesh devotees
August 30, 2025: Days after the Virar building collapse that claimed 17 lives, state minister Pratap Sarnaik on Friday proposed that the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) temporarily hand over 60 vacant flats from another project to the Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation to accommodate displaced families. Sarnaik, who visited
August 30, 2025: Once known as a weekend escape, Alibag is fast transforming into one of Maharashtra’s most dynamic real estate markets. Developers and consultants suggest the coastal town is increasingly being viewed as an “extension of South Mumbai”, driven by improved connectivity and rising demand from homebuyers. The appeal
August 30, 2025: The Bombay High Court has issued a strong warning to civic authorities, stating that if drastic measures are not taken to curb illegal constructions, rapidly growing towns could face “a colossal failure” in achieving the goals of lawful and sustainable town planning. The court cautioned that unchecked
August 30, 2025: Residents of Indiranagar Ganpati Pada have expressed grave concern over the deteriorating condition of drains near the Ganpati Mandir, warning that waterlogging and broken drain covers are posing a serious threat to public safety. In a written complaint addressed to the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC), Siddharam
August 29, 2025: The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) has approached the Supreme Court seeking an urgent hearing of its pleas challenging a Bombay High Court order which directed the formation of a high-level committee to examine the issuance of 935 notices under Section 79-A of the MHAD
August 29, 2025: After months of resistance, residents of the top 18 floors of the 34-storey Willingdon View CHS in Tardeo finally vacated their homes on Thursday, a day after the Bombay High Court’s deadline of August 27. Twenty-nine families have now moved out, either to lodges or to their
August 29, 2025: Mumbai’s growth story has long been inseparable from India’s wider economic trajectory. Home to more than 22 million people and over 3,000 multinational companies, the city continues to expand at remarkable speed. Projections from global research firms suggest that India’s urban GDP share will increase significantly by
August 29, 2025: India’s first bullet train is set to begin operations on the Mumbai–Ahmedabad high-speed rail corridor in 2027, with the Ministry of Railways releasing fresh images of a station currently under construction in Gujarat. Once completed, the service will be the fastest train in the country, travelling the
August 28, 2025: The Bombay High Court has called on the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) to fast-track pending slum rehabilitation projects, cautioning that prolonged delays undermine the very purpose of the scheme, which is to provide secure housing to slum residents. A Division Bench of Justice G. S. Kulkarni and
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