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Navi Mumbai: With the monsoons just around the corner the administration has geared up to prepare for the rains. The NMMC commissioner, Ramaswami N, has asked all ward officers to ensure that the pre-monsoon gutter cleaning work gets completed before 25th May and nothing remains to be done during the rainy season. Civic officials informed […]
Navi Mumbai: The summers have been made unbearable for many as the city reels under frequent power cuts across several nodes. While power cuts are not unacceptable, the unscheduled cuts have not been well received by citizens. The most affected areas have been Digha, Airoli, Turbhe, Ghansoli, Koparkhairane and Vashi in the Thane district. These […]
Navi Mumbai / Kharghar: Two Pune based bookies were arrested in Kharghar by a crime branch central unit team on Sunday. The duo were placing bets on the IPL match between Chennai Super Kings and Kings XI Punjab. Officials informed that they acted based on a major tip off about such an activity underway at […]
Navi Mumbai / Panvel: The Panvel police arrested seven people accused of cruelty against animals by participating in illegal bullock cart races held in Panvel. Police officials informed that the police busted an illegal bullock cart race that was being held in Shiravli village in the Panvel taluka. As the cops arrived, people ran away […]
Navi Mumbai / Panvel: A team from CIDCO’s anti-encroachment team department had to return without which demolishing an illegal colony of chawls set up on a piece of land falling under the airport area. The reason for such return – angry villagers protesting for proper compensation although they did ot posses any legal documentation, like […]
Navi Mumbai: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class XII exams results are out and the schools have been lauding their students more than before. Why? Well, 99% of the students have passed with many schools having got 100% results. The city is proud to house a few toppers too with the science topper […]
Navi Mumbai / Turbhe: The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) has taken a great leap in sanitation by introducing high-pressure jet sprays to clean public toilets. The corporation recently directed the civic contractor in charge of the cleanliness and maintenance of public toilets in the city to implement it immediately. As a result, a mobile […]
Navi Mumbai / Maval: In a one of a kind incident, six out of the 2,504 polling stations in Maval, will be managed by women. The decision of the Election Commission to do so comes as an example and their first attempt at empowering women in the state. Also read: Election commission appoints over 14,000 […]
Navi Mumbai: The Election Commission has appointed over 14, 488 polling staff for the upcoming election on 29th April. The staff will be monitoring 2,504 Maval parliamentary constituency which happens to be the largest one in the state. It surpasses all other regions with regard to the number of polling booths and comes second when […]
Navi Mumbai / Vashi: The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) has taken two engineers to task and suspended them after an internal inquiry into the recent foot over-bridge collapse at Vashi Mini Seashore. NMMC municipal commissioner, Ramaswami N, informed that the engineers, deputy engineer Yeshwant Kapse, and junior engineer Vishal Suryawanshi, had been suspended […]