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Andheri: Residents fume over choked drains, sewage pools outside homes

Andheri: Residents fume over choked drains, sewage pools outside homes

Andheri locals say choked drains are a nightmare for past few days; sewage water pools outside homes, trickles down street, housing colony

13 December,2024 12:47 PM IST | Mumbai | Hemal Ashar
Colaba: Police on the lookout of pervert who stalks women and then...

Colaba: Police on the lookout of pervert who stalks women and then...

There have been at least three women who have suffered at the hands of the yet-unidentified man, who also follows them home

13 December,2024 12:44 PM IST | Mumbai | Diwakar Sharma
Zero action against hawkers: Bombay High Court pulls up BMC

Zero action against hawkers: Bombay High Court pulls up BMC

Division bench pulls up state for ignoring orders to bring additional force to control hawking violations

13 December,2024 12:42 PM IST | Mumbai | Prasun Choudhari
Borivli hawker menace: Road cleared, ply your buses, BMC tells BEST

Borivli hawker menace: Road cleared, ply your buses, BMC tells BEST

Following concerns by residents that delays will embolden illegal vendors to return, BMC tells BEST to expedite resumption of services

12 December,2024 05:30 PM IST | Mumbai | Prasun Choudhari
Why is there no will until VIPs arrive in city?

Why is there no will until VIPs arrive in city?

This is a familiar pattern where spaces are swept clean in double quick time for VIP visits

07 December,2024 07:28 AM IST | Mumbai | The Editorial
Mumbai: Colaba Causeway gets quick clean-up thanks to VVIP movement

Mumbai: Colaba Causeway gets quick clean-up thanks to VVIP movement

Colaba Causeway transformed into orderly stretch owing to swearing in; locals say where there is VIP, there is always a way

06 December,2024 11:38 AM IST | Mumbai | Hemal Ashar
Borivali: Illegal hawkers back as BMC, police fail to launch coordinated action

Borivali: Illegal hawkers back as BMC, police fail to launch coordinated action

Residents alarmed that lack of coordination between civic authority and police might see reclaimed Bhaji Market Gully being run over by illegal vendors again

05 December,2024 07:06 AM IST | Mumbai | Prasun Choudhari
Mid Day Impact: Hawkers removed from Borivli road after human rights panel steps

Mid Day Impact: Hawkers removed from Borivli road after human rights panel steps

mid-day's coverage this month highlighted how hawkers had occupied the entire road, making it nearly impossible for pedestrians to walk or vehicles to pass. The situation had worsened to the point that BEST bus routes through Court Lane in the area had to be diverted, as confirmed in an affidavit filed by BEST with the human rights commission

30 November,2024 07:20 AM IST | Mumbai | Prasun Choudhari
Exclusive: Mr. Commissioner, how are you going to reclaim this road?, asks MSHRC

Exclusive: Mr. Commissioner, how are you going to reclaim this road?, asks MSHRC

BEST comes on record to say that the Borivli hawkers have curtailed its routes since 2013 by fully encroaching public roads; notice fired to civic body chief seeking fact-finding report on why no action has been taken yet

29 November,2024 09:05 AM IST | Mumbai | Prasun Choudhari
Anarchy caused by city’s hawkers can’t continue

Anarchy caused by city’s hawkers can’t continue

Giving a set number of licences. Putting the legal hawkers in a hawking zone. Demarcating zones and regulating the entire hawker network

16 November,2024 07:18 AM IST | Mumbai | The Editorial

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