Shiv Sena corporator Sheetal Mhatre tells Mumbai civic body to take action against shops 'illegally' displaying lingerie mannequins and cancel licences if required.
CM Devendra Fadnavis ordered that responsibility for the collapse be fixed by Friday evening given that an audit had cleared the bridge as structurally safe in 2016.
A case has been registered against officials of Central Railway and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation in connection with the incident, police said.
Experts weigh in on whether Mumbai deserves the amount of rainfall that it gets. BMC promises better preparednes. Yet Mumbaikars continue to face hardship.
Fauja Singh, 114, died after being hit by a speeding car. His death renews questions about India’s deadly roads, rising accidents, and poor traffic discipline.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
Woes of Mumbai, partly are because of the political parties and partly because of the people who come to Mumbai to make their home a nd ignore all the requirements of sanitation and cleanliness. Shivsena has been ruling Mumbai for the past 15 years and almost no steps have been taken to address the issue. A parallel system of drainage is almost non existent and Mumbai depends upon the drainage system built by Britishers. What we need is forced exodus of people from Mumbai with the exodus of industries so that over dependence on Mumbai’s crumbling infrastructure gets reduces.
Chennai doesn’t have enough water, Bombay at the moment has too much of it. Given the city’s gargantuan appetite for water, a mild year long drizzle which makes Ireland the Emerald Isle is not good enough. We need immense downpours of the sort seen in the last few days to fill up the lakes. The BMC has no shortage of financial resources. The Shiv Sena controlled body can give a better account of itself. The manner in which Bombay has grown adds to the problem. With better forecasting and communication, the effort should be to ensure that there is no loss of life, on particularly bad days people are advised not to move out There is no way Bombay’s old storm water drainage system, low lying areas and the occurrence of the high tide can all be overcome. 2. Some things could be done better. There is no justification for foot bridges being unsafe. The other, more stubborn problem is the slow pace of reconstruction of old ceased buildings in the Island City, most of 1940s – or earlier – vintage.
Woes of Mumbai, partly are because of the political parties and partly because of the people who come to Mumbai to make their home a nd ignore all the requirements of sanitation and cleanliness. Shivsena has been ruling Mumbai for the past 15 years and almost no steps have been taken to address the issue. A parallel system of drainage is almost non existent and Mumbai depends upon the drainage system built by Britishers. What we need is forced exodus of people from Mumbai with the exodus of industries so that over dependence on Mumbai’s crumbling infrastructure gets reduces.
Chennai doesn’t have enough water, Bombay at the moment has too much of it. Given the city’s gargantuan appetite for water, a mild year long drizzle which makes Ireland the Emerald Isle is not good enough. We need immense downpours of the sort seen in the last few days to fill up the lakes. The BMC has no shortage of financial resources. The Shiv Sena controlled body can give a better account of itself. The manner in which Bombay has grown adds to the problem. With better forecasting and communication, the effort should be to ensure that there is no loss of life, on particularly bad days people are advised not to move out There is no way Bombay’s old storm water drainage system, low lying areas and the occurrence of the high tide can all be overcome. 2. Some things could be done better. There is no justification for foot bridges being unsafe. The other, more stubborn problem is the slow pace of reconstruction of old ceased buildings in the Island City, most of 1940s – or earlier – vintage.