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Seven crushed in Mumbai hillock crash
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Mumbai: At least seven people were killed and six others injured after a portion of a hillock collapsed on some homes beneath at Gausiya Chawl off Chiragnagar in Ghatkopar where they were sleeping, early on Wednesday following torrential downpour, officials...
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Administrative Homicide
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Every monsoon, Mumbai wages war against the rain. Too often, however, it is the city’s own administration that proves deadlier than the weather. The death of a 60-year-old man, swallowed by an uncovered manhole during civic maintenance work, was not...
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Thirsty Metropolis
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Barely a year after torrential rains submerged large parts of Mumbai’s, the city’s water sources have fallen to critical levels and water rationing has returned. This year, a bad monsoon has led to Mumbai’s reservoirs falling to barely 9 percent...
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Tussle between BMC, WR leaves Dadar dry
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Mumbai: Dadar is the only railway station in Mumbai that has no authorised water connection. This, as per the sources, is due to an ongoing dispute between the Western Railway and the BMC.
The tussle between the BMC and the...
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BMC under fire over tree cutting plan
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Mumbai: On May 29, the BMC decided to cut 1900 trees for Versova-Bhayandar Link Road. The decision saw a massive uproar by the opposition as well as the environmentalists concerned about the city’s rising temperature and unpredictable climate.
The BMC...
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‘Transparent, smarter, faster, and corruption-free’
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Mumbai Mayor Ritu Tawde dreams of Mumbai’s transformation with innovative ideas and team work
Pic: Bhushan Koyande
On May 22, Ritu Tawde completed 100 days as Mumbai’s Mayor. She is the only second Mayor of the City of Dreams from...
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Mahayuti marks it with sweeping civic reforms
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Mumbai: Marking a decisive shift from historical administrative opaqueness to a new era of civic accountability, the ruling Mahayuti alliance completed its first hundred days in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) by showcasing a comprehensive report card of twenty-three major...
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End of the Old Boys’ Secretariat
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With Ashwini Bhide helming the BMC, women in Maharashtra are no longer merely breaking bureaucratic ceilings but redesigning the building itself.
India has a powerful legacy of women power in the political and administrative field, and when the power is...
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BMC plans parking curbs in narrow lanes
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Mumbai: Amid mounting concerns over delayed emergency response in congested neighbourhoods, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is preparing to enforce parking restrictions in several narrow lanes across the city, where indiscriminate on-street parking has increasingly emerged as a critical civic...
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MNS red-flags BMC proposal to engage private player
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Mumbai: A storm is brewing over the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)’s plan to set up its first-ever 4-year nursing degree college - now mired in a row with a proposal to engage a private player for the prestigious project.
The...
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Enter the ‘executioner’
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Mumbai: Creating history, senior IAS officer Ashwini Satish Bhide has been appointed the first woman Municipal Commissioner of the 160-year-old Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), bringing with her a formidable reputation as an ‘executioner’ of the most difficult assignments.
With this,...
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