103 tree-fall incidents across city on Sat

MUMBAI, July 5 -- The city witnessed a surge in tree and branch falls on Saturday, with the BMC reporting more than 103 such incidents from Matunga, Khar, Chembur, Churchgate, Dadar, Malabar Hill, Ped... Read More

Tree collapses: Lives lost, lessons still not learnt

Mumbai, July 5 -- For Mumbai's residents, trees have become an unlikely source of fear. Two lives have already been lost to tree collapses in the first seven months of this year - an 11-year-old boy c... Read More

'Can't stand, sit for extended periods'

THANE, July 5 -- Majha purna ayushya barbad zhala (My entire life has been destroyed), says Amol Randhve, 28, for whom a night of merriment went horribly wrong around four years ago. One moment he was... Read More

'You cannot place a price on a person's life'

MUMBAI, July 5 -- Nine years ago, Kanchan Nath, 58, was returning home from yoga class around 8am, when a coconut tree at Swastik Park in Chembur toppled onto her head. A Doordarshan anchor, Kanchan f... Read More

'Civic officials haven't bothered to check on us'

THANE, July 5 -- Three days after he was hit by a falling tree, Pawan Jha, 52, can still barely move. He fractured three vertebrae when the tree came crashing down at Wagle Estate on Wednesday, damagi... Read More

'Every tree makes us anxious, traumatised'

MUMBAI, July 5 -- Every time Prakash Nayak, 43, walks past the Ashoka tree near Kavale Math on Walkeshwar Road, a shiver runs down his spine. It's been eight years since a branch broke off and fell on... Read More

'All netas want are votes, but our lives don't matter'

THANE, July 5 -- Arpita and her son Pratik Walawalkar were participating in the final Ganesh Chaturthi aarti when a peepal tree branch fell on the pandal at Kolbad in Thane. Arpita, 54, was hit on the... Read More

Monsoon batters Mumbai; no lives lost

MUMBAI, July 5 -- Under a red alert issued by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Mumbai witnessed one of the season's heaviest spells of rain on Saturday, with the red alert set to continue ti... Read More

Flood, sewage water enters Kurla chawl

MUMBAI, July 5 -- For the residents of Jivabhai Chawl in Kurla, Saturday's torrential rain brought their worst nightmare to life once again. As the downpour intensified, families watched helplessly as... Read More

Torrential rain cripples MMR; transport, flights hit

MUMBAI, July 5 -- Large parts of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) turned into a waterlogged maze on Saturday as torrential rain pounded Thane, Navi Mumbai and Vasai-Virar. With the India Meteorolo... Read More

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