July 11, 2025: A significant milestone was reached on Wednesday in the construction of India’s first high-speed rail project — the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train corridor. Engineers recorded the first breakthrough in the 21-kilometre-long underground tunnel stretching from Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) to Shilphata, marking the successful completion of a continuous 2.7-kilometre
July 11, 2025: Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde announced in the Maharashtra Assembly on Tuesday that the long-stalled redevelopment of buildings located in the Mumbai airport’s funnel zone will soon be revived. He was responding to a calling attention motion raised by BJP MLA Amit Satam. Redevelopment work in the
July 11, 2025: The Bombay High Court has dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by lawyer and social activist Sagar Devre, which challenged the transfer of salt pan lands in Mumbai’s suburbs for rehabilitating people affected by the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP). The PIL opposed the State’s move to
July 10, 2025: The Bombay High Court on Thursday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by a Mumbai-based lawyer challenging the Maharashtra government’s decision to utilise 255.9 acres of salt pan land for the rehabilitation of Project Affected Persons (PAPs) under the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP). The bench, comprising
July 10, 2025: Mumbai received a significant infrastructural upgrade on Thursday with the inauguration of a new flyover intended to ease congestion in the city’s southern corridors. The structure, now renamed the ‘Sindoor Flyover’, was inaugurated by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on July 10. Open for public use from
July 10, 2025: In a significant development for commuters along Thane’s busy Ghodbunder Road, Phase 1 of the Kasarvadavli flyover was opened to traffic on Tuesday, offering much-needed respite from daily congestion. Ghodbunder Road, a crucial thoroughfare, is heavily used by office commuters and freight vehicles heading towards the Mumbai-Gujarat
July 9, 2025: A proposal by the Breach Candy Residents Forum (BCRF) to create designated overground parking zones in Breach Candy and Bhulabhai Desai Road has hit a roadblock, as the designated area remains under the jurisdiction of the Coastal Road department and has not yet been handed over to
July 9, 2025: The Maharashtra government has committed to relocating the Airports Authority of India (AAI) transmission towers from DN Nagar in Andheri (West) within six to eight months—a move expected to unlock long-stalled redevelopment projects affecting hundreds of ageing buildings. The announcement was made during the ongoing Assembly session,
July 9, 2025: Mumbai’s Metro Line 1, the 11.4-km Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar corridor, is facing intense overcrowding, leading the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) to establish a high-level committee to assess the issue. This action comes after a technical failure on July 7, 2025, which halted a train at Azad Nagar
July 9, 2025: Barely four days after its long-delayed inauguration, Mumbai’s Palava flyover has come under sharp criticism from commuters and safety experts for its perilous surface and substandard execution. Conceived to ease congestion along the Shilphata-Kalyan corridor, the Rs 250 crore structure is now being dubbed a “skidding zone”.
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