Mumbai: Water Supply and Sanitation Minister Gulabrao Patil has directed officials to submit objective, village-wise action plans to tackle all stages of potential water scarcity in the Nagpur, Amravati and Konkan divisions by October 25. He also instructed authorities to prioritise the completio...
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Mumbai, October 21, 2026: Western Railway has reported a 100% pass rate in all 18,610 drinking water quality tests conducted across its network between September 1 and October 20, 2026. The tests included checks for residual chlorine and bacteriological contamination, with the ra...
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Mumbai, October 21, 2026: Tensions flared at Wednesday’s BMC Standing Committee meeting as the ruling party and the Opposition clashed over the withdrawal of thousands of crores of rupees from the civic body’s fixed deposits (FDs). However, Chairman Prabhakar Shinde revealed that...
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Mumbai, October 21, 2026: Traders travelling through Mumbai’s railway stations will not have their bags checked without a valid reason, Government Railway Police (GRP) Commissioner M Rakesh Kalasagar said at a programme organised by Bharat Merchants. The assurance came after text...
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Mumbai, October 21, 2026: After days of anticipation, three key infrastructure projects—the Vidyavihar flyover, Sion flyover and Goregaon-Mulund Link Road (GMLR)—will finally be inaugurated by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday. Mumbai Mayor Ritu Tawde will preside over...
safety
Mumbai, October 21, 2026: The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT), Mumbai, has awarded compensation of ₹1.79 crore to a 20-year-old engineering student who lost her right upper limb in a bus accident on the Western Express Highway in June 2019. The tribunal held the bus owner a...
