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IIT-B's localised weather forecast helped BMC in recent downpour

India, Aug. 22 -- When heavy rains lashed the city earlier this week, causing waterlogging in several areas, the BMC was prepared in advance, armed as it was with forecasts from the Indian Institute o... Read More


MbPA plots should be leased out only for fishing trade, demand Sassoon dock community

India, Aug. 22 -- The Mumbai Port Authority's (MbPA) plan to lease 28 plots of over 217 acres along the city's Eastern Water Front has left the fishing community at Sassoon Docks concerned. The proper... Read More


'I thought my heart would stop'

MUMBAI, Aug. 20 -- "I was close to having a heart attack inside the train," was how Amey Bane, a corporate employee working in Lower Parel, summed up the experience. Bane is not a regular monorail com... Read More


'I thought my heart would stop'

India, Aug. 20 -- "I was close to having a heart attack inside the train," was how Amey Bane, a corporate employee working in Lower Parel, summed up the experience. Bane is not a regular monorail comm... Read More


2 buried in Vikhroli mudslide as rain batters city

India, Aug. 17 -- At Varsha Nagar in Vikhroli Parksite, fear is a constant companion and denial a survival tool. But time ran out for a father and his teenage daughter in the early hours of Saturday, ... Read More


Activists serve legal notice over celebrations in SGNP

MUMBAI, Aug. 17 -- A day after writing letters and expressing concerns over the festivities taking place inside the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), environmental activists on Saturday sent a legal... Read More


Vikhroli Parksite mudslide buries 2

MUMBAI, Aug. 17 -- At Varsha Nagar in Vikhroli Parksite, fear is a constant companion and denial a survival tool. But time ran out for a father and his teenage daughter in the early hours of Saturday,... Read More


Environmental activists serve legal action over celebrations inside SGNP

India, Aug. 17 -- A day after writing letters and expressing concerns over the festivities taking place inside the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), environmental activists on Saturday sent a legal ... Read More


Two consignments of trafficked wildlife to be deported

India, Aug. 13 -- In a rare instance, two wildlife consignments trafficked into Mumbai via flights operated by Indigo airlines will be deported back to their origin country, Bangkok, on Wednesday morn... Read More


Two consignments of trafficked wildlife to be deported to Thailand as per DGCA norms

Mumbai, Aug. 13 -- In a rare instance, two wildlife consignments trafficked into Mumbai via flights operated by Indigo airlines will be deported back to their origin country, Thailand, on Wednesday mo... Read More