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Chawl collapse, tree falls raise rain toll

Mumbai/ Navi Mumbai/ Thane/ Vasai, July 6 -- At least 13 people were killed as heavy rains accompanied by gusty winds lashed the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) on Sunday. The largest death toll was ... Read More


2 hurt as heavy rain triggers balcony collapse in Thane

Thane, July 6 -- Two pedestrians were injured after a section of the first-floor balcony of a nearly 45-year-old residential building collapsed onto them in Wagle Estate, Thane, late on Friday, prompt... Read More


Severed leg found near Kharghar waterfall, search for two continues

NAVI MUMBAI, July 6 -- The search operation for two youth who were swept away in separate drowning incidents at the Pandavkada waterfall in Kharghar continued on the third day on Sunday, with rescue t... Read More


Deaths, havoc across state as rain intensifies

Mumbai, July 6 -- Relentless monsoon rain battered large parts of Maharashtra on Sunday, turning rivers, waterfalls and hill routes into danger zones. Four tourists drowned in separate incidents in Ra... Read More


Floods highlight VVCMC corruption

MUMBAI, July 6 -- Kishor Namdev Lokhande, a 50-year-old watchman, was attempting to reach his workplace on Saturday when he was swept away by the torrential flood waters at Mangulipada-Bhoidapada in V... Read More


Largest tunnelling machine begins work on 6-km bullet train tube

MUMBAI, July 6 -- The Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train project crossed a construction milestone on Sunday with the country's largest railway Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) commencing excavation from Vikhrol... Read More


Rains put abandoned ship at risk of capsizing; HC steps in over crew safety

MUMBAI, July 6 -- An abandoned merchant vessel anchored about a nautical mile off the city's coast may become a maritime hazard, with the Bombay High Court being told that the ship could drift, capsiz... Read More


Intense heat leads to inflated power bills

Mumbai, July 6 -- A study by the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (MSEDCL) has found that the prolonged and intense summer this year led to a sharp increase in household electric... Read More


MbPA eyes Rs.15.4 cr annually as Ballard bldg is leased out

MUMBAI, July 6 -- The Mumbai Port Authority (MbPA) has put up a prime land parcel and the century-old Railway Manager Building in Ballard Estate for a 30-year lease, seeking to earn more than Rs.15.43... Read More


We need to protect Ram from the BJP: Uddhav

MUMBAI, July 6 -- Amid the outcry over the theft of donations to the Ram temple at Ayodhya, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday launched the 'Ram Raksha Andolan' by reciting the Ram Raksh... Read More