The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday ordered that bodies of all the coronavirus victims should be cremated irrespective of religion. No burial will be allowed, Praveen Pardeshi, the BMC commissioner said today.
Actor Hrithik Roshan, during the times of COVID-19 pandemic, announced a donation of N95 and FFP3 masks for the BMC workers and caretakers to ensure their safety.
The BMC on Friday wrote to Mumbai suburban district collector to arrange 25 non-AC buses and taxis at the airport here to ferry travelers with home quarantine stamps to their desired destinations.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has attached three out of four properties in Mumbai of fugitive diamond businessman Nirav Modi for the recovery of property tax worth Rs 9.5 crore pending against them, a civic official said on Thursday.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation seized nearly 410 kg of plastic from shopkeepers and traders in the city and imposed a fine of Rs 6.60 lakh on them on Tuesday, a civic official said.
In an unprecedented move, the Brihan Mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has seized two helicopters of MESCO Airline for non-payment of Property Tax (PT) dues of over Rs 16 million for the current year (2019-2020).
The Bombay High Court on Thursday questioned the Maharashtra government and BMC's campaign urging students of civic schools to drink more water, and asked if these schools indeed provide clean drinking water.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has introduced a formula-based penalty for unauthorised parking which will be equivalent to about 40 times the existing parking charges, said officials.
A thali of staple food will include two chapatis, rice, dal, and two vegetables. Maharashtra government will bear ₹ 40 of the total cost of ₹ 50, which is the actual price of a plate of meal.
Days after the Shiv Sena snapped ties with the BJP, the latter on Sunday decided to contest the 2022 Mumbai civic body elections on its own. The Sena has been controlling the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the country's richest civic body, since the last 30 years.
This comes in the wake of the police's recent surprise raids conducted at several bars in the western suburbs of the city, where they found that most of such establishments had illegally created wall cavities and secret rooms to hide the girls, who are illegally employed to serve liquor and perform dance there
The Income Tax Department has detected alleged irregularities to the tune of Rs 735 crore after it conducted searches on civil contractors who work for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the CBDT said on Thursday.
The BMC Tree Authority has issued the final permission letter to the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) for felling and transplanting trees in Aarey Colony for construction of the proposed car shed for the Metro 3 corridor.
A division bench of Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Bharati Dangre was hearing a petition filed by an environmental activist, Zoru Bathena, challenging the Tree Authority's approval given on August 29 for felling of the trees for the Metro car shed.
Flight operations at the GVK group-operated Mumbai airport were crippled partially on Wednesday due to the incessant rains that have been lashing the city since Tuesday with around 20 flights cancelled and another 280 delayed, as per a live flight tracking website. However, much to the surprise for Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL), the private aerodrome operator, the operations were "normal". The Mumbai Airport, with crossing runways, handles around 1,000 arrivals and departures per day.
The Rajya Sabha member urged Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Mumbai Metro and civic authorities to find alternate solutions for the metro car shed and preserve Aarey Colony in suburban Goregaon, which is known as a major green lung of the metropolis.
The Shiv Sena, an ally of the BJP, controls the BMC, known to be the country's richest civic body. Gadkari made the remarks after performing `bhumi pujan' (ground breaking) for a mangroves park in Gorai area.
Confusion prevailed over the ownership of the 'Kausarbaug' building, believed to be 100 years old, which crumbled Tuesday morning in Dongri area of south Mumbai, killing 12 persons and trapping several others.
A CCTV captured, how Divyansh slipped into the open manhole after which the BMC was informed regarding the issue.
A two year old boy named Divyanshu, drowned in a manhole in Goregaon area of Mumbai late Wednesday night. The incident was caught on CCTV.
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