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2 weeks ago | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Vijay Singh |V Narayan |Chittaranjan Tembhekar |Somit Sen |Manthan K Mehta
Mumbai's local train passengers endure extreme overcrowding, particularly during peak hours, making commuting a daily struggle. Despite efforts to improve services and infrastructure, the overwhelming number of commuters results in severe conditions, with passengers often forced to travel in unsafe and uncomfortable conditions. Railways are working on capacity enhancement projects to mitigate the situation. MUMBAI: There are Mumbai local trains.
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1 month ago | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Somit Sen |Nitasha Natu |Chittaranjan Tembhekar |Asmita Dey
NewsCity Newsmumbai NewsLure of commission turns 10-minute delivery bikers into speedstersTrendingMumbai's 10-minute delivery bikers, incentivized by earnings, zoom dangerously through traffic, flouting regulations due to e-bike exemptions. Authorities struggle with enforcement as delivery timelines increase risks. Recent policing efforts have led to numerous FIRs and seizures, highlighting the urgent need for stricter regulations and support for gig workers.
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2 months ago | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Mohua Das |Chittaranjan Tembhekar
Mumbai's iconic smoky tandoori flavours may soon face an existential crisis as the city's restaurants scramble to comply with an impending ban on charcoal and wood-fired ovens. While the move is aimed at tackling Mumbai's worsening air quality, restaurateurs argue that without traditional tandoors, kebabs might lose their smoky depth and naans may not puff up quite the same way.
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2 months ago | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Chittaranjan Tembhekar
Trending Mumbai: In a move that will enable the anti-pollution machinery to act swiftly upon the rise in pollutants in air, the state govt has sanctioned the state pollution control board to employ staff to its maximum capacity from existing 460 employees to 1310. "Immediate inspections and punitive action against those contributing to smoke and dust pollution will be feasible very soon.
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2 months ago | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Chittaranjan Tembhekar
NewsCity Newsmumbai NewsMumbai to Goa in Just 6 hours; highway to be completed by June 2025TrendingThe Goa Highway project in Maharashtra is set to be completed by May-June 2025, significantly reducing travel time between Mumbai and Goa from 12 to 6 hours. The project cost has risen to Rs 7,300 crore due to delays. Some bypasses, underpasses, and flyovers in specific towns remain incomplete, with the Panvel-Indapur section developed by NHAI.
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2 months ago | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Chittaranjan Tembhekar
NewsCity Newsmumbai NewsMaharashtra pollution control board seizes 15 tonnes of banned single-use plastic in statewide raidsTrendingMumbai: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board, jointly with the municipal bodies in the state, raided several retail installations across Maharashtra and confiscated a huge stock of banned single-use plastic bags weighing 14.50 tonnes. The raids were conducted by the flying squads between June 5, 2024, and Jan 26, 2025.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Chittaranjan Tembhekar
Mumbai: A housekeeping company, and not a security agency, has been providing guards to Satguru Sharan, the Bandra building where actor Saif Ali Khan was attacked last week, said top office-bearers of the Maharashtra chapter of Central Association of Private Security Industry, the apex body of India's private security industry.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Chittaranjan Tembhekar
NewsCity Newsmumbai NewsPower firms submit five-year tariff plans for city to MERCTrendingMumbai: BEST, Adani Electricity and Tata Power have put forth their power tariff proposals for residential consumers in Mumbai for the five years beginning 2025-26. The tariff proposals will first be debated at the state's power regulator, the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC), before they are finalised for consumers in different consumption categories.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Chittaranjan Tembhekar
Mumbai: As the city prepares for the Tata Mumbai Marathon (TMM) 2025, the air that thousands of participants will breathe on Sunday may not be satisfactory. Just 48 hours before the annual mega running event, a survey conducted by an environmental group on Friday morning found pollution levels along the route very high and breaching safety limits.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Chittaranjan Tembhekar
Mumbai: With the burgeoning leopard population in the state and their incursions into human settlements becoming a substantial concern, the state forest ministry shall promptly seek the Central govt's authorisation to sterilise them. To address this predicament, MLC Satyajeet Tambe had advocated neutering leopards to regulate their escalating population and penned a formal letter to the Maharashtra govt accordingly.
