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1 week ago

Mumbai transport: BEST to add 1,300 e-buses to its fleet

MUMBAI: The Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport Undertaking received a boost on Monday, as in the first day of the winter session of the state legislature in Nagpur, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis announced that 1,300 electric buses will be added to its fleet soon. Meanwhile, before Fadnavis’s announcement, BEST had placed orders for 2,300 buses, which include 2100 AC single-decker …

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Days after Kurla accident, BEST bus runs over a 27-year-old biker

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: A week after eight people were crushed to death by BEST buses, the city witnessed another fatal incident on Saturday night. A 27-year-old bike rider, Dikshit Rajput, lost his life after being struck by a BEST bus near the Shivaji Nagar bus depot in Govandi West at approximately 11:30 pm. BEST bus services resumed along Kurla West Station Road …

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Days after BEST Bus accident, now a motorcyclist gets run over in Mumbai

The Hindu

Days after a BEST bus mowed down seven persons in Kurla, a motorcyclist got run over by an electric bus of the transport body in the Govandi area, police said on Sunday, December 15, 2024. The bus was heading towards the Kurla bus depot from Shivaji Nagar when the victim's two-wheeler came in contact with one of the rear tyres …

Mumbai Best Bus Accident Kurla Bus

1 month ago

'Ranting Gola' issues bizarre apology after her video calling Abu Azmi a corrupt politician goes viral, netizens ask if all her videos are 'scripted'

Op India

On the 19th of November, a video of Modi-BJP detractor Shamita Yadav aka “Ranting Gola”, ‘ranting’ against Abu Azmi, the Samajwadi Party MLA from Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar in Maharastra, went viral on social media. 😔 pic.twitter.com/hkUBGou3Lp — Sunny November 20, 2024 As the video went viral on social media in no time, Shamita Yadav quickly published a video giving ‘clarification’ …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Ajit starts Mumbai poll campaign from Nawab Malik’s constituency

Hindustan Times

MUMBAI: Paying no heed to the opposition raised by the Bharatiya Janata Party, Ajit Pawar not only fielded former minister Nawab Malik for the assembly elections but kicked off his party’s Mumbai poll campaign from Malik’s constituency on Thursday. Malik is contesting from Mankhurd-Shivaji Nagar against the Samajwadi Party’s state chief, Abu Asim Azmi. Ajit starts Mumbai poll campaign from …

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Pawar Scrutinizes Aspiring Candidates, Signals Tough Election Battles Ahead

New Indian Express

The next generation of the Thackerays is stepping away from their families’ ‘remote control politics’ and is interested in roughing it out in the electoral field. The next Thackeray, Amit, becomes the second to enter the electoral arena, with some questioning Raj’s decision. Pawar Sr, the party’s patriarch, has personally screened over 1,600 applications of aspirants, ensuring a diverse and …

Government Politics Law Mumbai

3 months, 3 weeks ago

Audi driver booked for assaulting Ola cabbie in road rage incident

Hindustan Times

MUMBAI: The Parksite police have booked a Ghatkopar resident for allegedly assaulting an Ola driver after CCTV footage of the apparent road rage incident on August 18 went viral on Thursday. Audi driver booked for assaulting Ola cabbie in road rage incident In the CCTV footage, the accused is seen lifting the Ola driver and flinging him to the ground …

Car Driver Ola His Statement Audi Ghatkopar Road Rage Incident

4 months ago

Parking mafia seizes 5 BMC pay-and-park areas in M East ward

Hindustan Times

MUMBAI: Five designated pay-and-park areas in M East ward have allegedly been taken over by the parking mafia for unauthorised parking of vehicles and running private cab services. There is rampant illegal parking in M East ward in Mankhurd, Govandi and Shivaji Nagar, where certain mafias are operating. “There is rampant illegal parking in M East ward in Mankhurd, Govandi …

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5 months, 1 week ago

78-year-old injured in GMLR hit-and-run succumbs to injuries

Hindustan Times

MUMBAI: A 78-year-old pedestrian, Basha Shaikh, who was injured in a hit-and-run incident on Ghatkopar-Mankhurd Link Road, succumbed to his injuries on Monday night. Shaikh, a resident of Shivaji Nagar in Govandi, was hit by an unidentified auto-rickshaw on July 9, resulting in a severe head injury. Shoaib later called his father’s mobile number, and an unknown person answered, informing …

Shoaib Shaikh

5 months, 4 weeks ago

Gujarat: Surat Crime Branch exposes major drug racket in massive operation, 10 arrested

India TV News

In a coordinated operation, the Surat Crime Branch has uncovered a major drug racket, conducting simultaneous raids at five locations in a single day. The operation began when the Surat Crime Branch received a tip-off that Rabia Sheikh, a resident of Govandi, Mumbai, was transporting a large consignment of MD drugs to Surat. At the Kacha Marina Hotel in the …

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6 months, 1 week ago

One man on a mission to save 38 trees in Govandi

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: Appalled at how a large number of trees were dying in Govandi due to concretised bases and civic apathy, 39-year-old Irfan Khan decided to take matters into his own hands. After his complaints to BMC went unheeded, last month Khan approached the Bombay high court with a writ petition to save 38 trees. His petition said that 11 of …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

How youth groups helped transform Govandi, among Mumbai's poorest neighbourhoods

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: In 2011, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences launched ‘Transforming the M-Ward’ project after it was found that it ranked lowest on the human development index of all the wards in the city. Mumbai, India - February 15, 2023: Artists and talented youth boys and girls participate in the 5-day Govandi Arts Festival, which aims to create a ‘safe …

Youth Mumbai Area Govandi Youth Groups

8 months ago

How a few activists ensured a peaceful Ram Navami in Mumbai

Hindustan Times

Mumbai Meetings with mohalla committees, stern warnings against provocative behaviour, heavy police bandobast at the entrance of sensitive roads and outside mosques, and the presence of senior police officers – all these measures ensured that Ram Navami went off peacefully in the city this year. “The police worked really hard; senior officers were in the area days in advance of …

Mumbai Muslims Singh Fir Ram Syed Petition

8 months, 2 weeks ago

23 illegal medical facilities operate in Govandi-Mankhurd slums

Hindustan Times

MUMBAI: Twenty-three unregistered hospitals and nursing homes without fire compliance licenses are doing brisk business in M East ward, an RTI reply procured by an activist on April 1 has revealed. {{^usCountry}} {{/usCountry}} Dr Mohammed Khalid Ansari, who has been running the eight-bed Diamond Nursing Home at Govandi’s Baiganwadi slum for the last five years, said the BMC had “stopped …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

Govandi’s Rafi Nagar cemetery now officially open

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: Nine months after the Rafi Nagar cemetery in Govandi was shut owing to the incidence of partially undecomposed bodies, the burial ground was officially thrown open on February 27. Burials had resumed at the cemetery around two months ago, but an official notice was pasted following requests from local residents, said the medical officer of health of the Brihanmumbai …

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10 months ago

Govandi resident gets life term for killing coworker over monetary dispute

Hindustan Times

MUMBAI: The sessions court on Wednesday sentenced a Govandi resident to life imprisonment for stabbing his coworker in 2018 for allegedly causing monetary loss to the convict. HT Image According to the prosecution, the deceased Dharma was a tempo driver and the informant Salim Qureshi, Dharma’s friend, was a rickshaw driver who often accompanied him on his tempo as a …

Dharma Fir Salim Sayyed His Tempo

10 months ago

Govandi slum residents scramble for documents after demolition

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: Panchasheel Nagar in Govandi, also known as Tata Nagar, was engulfed in uncertainty on Sunday. “In a meeting with officials of the M East ward on Thursday, they agreed to give the residents seven days’ time to submit their documents, after which they will prepare the annexure, and then take action,” said Kothari. Nearly all families lost a lot …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Mumbai: Massive fire in Adarsh Nagar, 15 houses gutted, video shows people using buckets to douse flames

India TV News

Maharashtra: A massive fire broke out in Baiganwadi, Adarsh Nagar area of Mumbai on Saturday morning. A video of the incident has surfaced showing people using buckets full of water to douse the flames. "Around 15 galas on the ground floor and some houses on the first floor were damaged in the fire that broke out in a chawl at …

Mumbai Massive Fire Houses Gutted

10 months, 2 weeks ago

Govandi slum demolition stopped temporarily after residents’ protest

Hindustan Times

MUMBAI: Demolitions in the Panchsheel Nagar slum in Govandi were stopped temporarily for seven days after 500 residents protested outside the BMC’s M East ward office on Thursday morning. Mumbai, India - Feb. 8, 2024: Residents of Panchsheel Nagar Basti, Govandi West protest outside the Govandi ward office after the Mumbai Municipal Corporation demolished their 200 houses in Panchsheel Nagar …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

4,000 kg ‘illegal’ meat seized from market in Govandi; 3 vendors fined

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: 4,000 kg ‘illegal’ meat seized from market in Govandi; 3 vendors fined The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s markets department has seized nearly 4,000 kg of allegedly illegal goat and sheep meat from the Kena market in Govandi west over the past one week. The seized meat comprises offal such as head, legs, brain and intestines of goat and sheep slaughtered …

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1 year ago

BMC gives 15 days to MLA’s skill centre in Govandi to pull down illegal construction

Hindustan Times

: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has sent the third and final notice to Niyaz Ahmed Minorities Educational and Welfare Trust, run by MLA Abu Asim Ansari, to demolish the unauthorised construction in a public library it is operating at the Shahu Maharaj recreational ground in Govandi. BMC gives 15 days to MLA’s skill centre in Govandi to pull down illegal …

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1 year ago

After defeating one BMC project, Govandi residents brace for another battle

Hindustan Times

MUMBAI: Residents of Govandi, subjected to toxic fumes from a biomedical waste treatment plant since 2009, won a long battle in September when the Bombay high court directed the BMC to shift the plant to Patalganga in Borivali within two years. “Govandi has become a testing hub and we are the guineapigs,” said Faiyyaz Alam Shaikh, president of the Govandi …

Mumbai Waste Bmc Khan Plant Shaikh Deonar

1 year, 1 month ago

Students forced to sit on floor at Govandi civic school

Hindustan Times

MUMBAI: Almost 100 students of Class 4 and Class 6 in a BMC-run Urdu-medium school in Shivaji Nagar, Govandi, are reportedly compelled to sit on the floor in class due to a shortage of desks. “However, when we visited the school on Friday to distribute face masks to students to protect them from the city’s poor air quality, we were …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Many Dharavi leather units to be shifted to a swanky space in Deonar

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: The leather industry in Dharavi is set to get a shot in the arm with the state government’s plan to set up an industrial park on a two-acre land parcel near the Deonar abattoir. Dhammajyoti Gajbhiye, managing director of Lidcom, said such an enterprise was needed, as the number of leather units in Dharavi have dwindled over the years. …

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Mumbai transport: BEST to add 1,300 e-buses to its fleet

Days after Kurla accident, BEST bus runs over a 27-year-old biker

Days after BEST Bus accident, now a motorcyclist gets run over in Mumbai

'Ranting Gola' issues bizarre apology after her video calling Abu Azmi a corrupt politician goes viral, netizens ask if all her videos are 'scripted'

Ajit starts Mumbai poll campaign from Nawab Malik’s constituency

Pawar Scrutinizes Aspiring Candidates, Signals Tough Election Battles Ahead

Audi driver booked for assaulting Ola cabbie in road rage incident

Parking mafia seizes 5 BMC pay-and-park areas in M East ward

78-year-old injured in GMLR hit-and-run succumbs to injuries

Gujarat: Surat Crime Branch exposes major drug racket in massive operation, 10 arrested

One man on a mission to save 38 trees in Govandi

How youth groups helped transform Govandi, among Mumbai's poorest neighbourhoods

How a few activists ensured a peaceful Ram Navami in Mumbai

23 illegal medical facilities operate in Govandi-Mankhurd slums

Govandi’s Rafi Nagar cemetery now officially open

Govandi resident gets life term for killing coworker over monetary dispute

Govandi slum residents scramble for documents after demolition

Mumbai: Massive fire in Adarsh Nagar, 15 houses gutted, video shows people using buckets to douse flames

Govandi slum demolition stopped temporarily after residents’ protest

4,000 kg ‘illegal’ meat seized from market in Govandi; 3 vendors fined

BMC gives 15 days to MLA’s skill centre in Govandi to pull down illegal construction

After defeating one BMC project, Govandi residents brace for another battle

Students forced to sit on floor at Govandi civic school

Many Dharavi leather units to be shifted to a swanky space in Deonar