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Putting an abrupt end to all the ‘save the wetlands’ campaign that Navi Mumbai citizens and environmentalists have been rallying since years, CIDCO has simply refused to accept those sites as wetlands, saying they were once salt pans and farm lands Navi Mumbai: The City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra Limited (CIDCO) recently wrote […]
Although malls in Navi Mumbai reopened on Wednesday, sending a wave of joy amongst mall owners and retailers, concerns about safety against COVID-19 still remain among citizens Navi Mumbai: Finally, malls in Navi Mumbai were thrown open on Wednesday, 2nd September, 2020. The decision came after months of deliberation and the recent failed reopening stint […]
Navi Mumbai: Additional Director General of Police, Bipin Kumar Singh, has become the new Commissioner of Police of Navi Mumbai. He was given charge by former Commissioner of Police, Sanjay Kumar, on Thursday, 3rd September, 2020. The move came in as the term of Sanjay Kumarcame to an end recently. Bipin Kumar Singh was the […]
Navi Mumbai: As ‘Mission Begin Again’ is gradually relaxing down the strict lockdown rules that once were in Navi Mumbai, opening up many economic centres around the state, the opening of malls and internal business centres still remains to be discussed. The NMMC commissioner, Abhijit Bangar, informed TOI that the matter would soon be discused […]
Navi Mumbai / Uran: Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has asked the Maharashtra state forest department to look into the illegal hacking of mangroves at the Panje wetland in Uran. The directive comes after numerous complaints by environmental activists and local residents, about the illegal act of destroying the mangroves in Uran. Apparently, the revenue department […]
Monsoons show their full force in Navi Mumbai and Mumbai, with dark clouds lashing every part of the two cities and areas in the Thane and Raigad regions from Airoli to Panvel. The Navi Mumbai rains have been rendering the skyline dark since the last week, and this week too, things seem to remain the […]
Navi Mumbai / PMC: The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC), has asked all malls in Navi Mumbai to shut down again after they were allowed to reopen recently after months of lockdown. The reason, they said was ignorance of social distancing norms and other related issues. The NMMC had allowed the reopening of all malls […]
Rains continue to lash Navi Mumbai, Mumbai and Thane areas as the IMD issues a red alert for the next 24 hours Navi Mumbai / Kharghar: Short violent gusts of wind and rain lashed several nodes of the Navi Mumbai on Wednesday. While it had been raining since Tuesday through the day and night, the rain […]
Navi Mumbai / PMC: The monsoons have finally set in with Navi Mumbai and Mumbai receiving heavy rain since the last two days, with parts of Mumbai getting as close to 268.6 mm of rainfall on Tuesday. In Mumbai, rain had been falling for a straight 24 hours and BMC’s disaster management department’s phones kept […]