Tag: BMC
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Sachin Tendulkar provides financial aid to 4k underprivileged people
Tendulkar has made the donation of an unspecified amount to Hi5 Youth Foundation, a non-profit organisation based out of Mumbai.
May 9, 2020 -
Mumbai: Work from home, 2-week leave for BMC staff above 55
However, attendance is absolutely compulsory for all other staff employed in office and on field assignments, officials added.
May 1, 2020 -
Mumbai makes face masks compulsory to repress spread of COVID-19; offenders to face arrest
The order says that action will be taken against offenders under section 188 of IPC, which can lead to arrest up-to six months.
April 8, 2020 -
Mumbai: BMC declares Wockhardt Hospital containment zone as 26 nurses, 3 doctors test Coronavirus positive
An elderly heart attack patient, who was tested positive for coronavirus on March 27, could be the potential source through whom the rest of them got infected. Two nurses who attended the 70-year-old man also got infected, and thereafter several of the staff tested positive for COVID-19.
April 6, 2020 -
BMC withdraws its ‘no burial’ order for dead bodies of COVID-19 patients
The development came after the state government intervened in the matter.
March 30, 2020 -
Dead bodies of COVID-19 patients should be cremated irrespective of religion, no burial allowed: BMC
'If someone insists to bury the body, they will only be permitted if the body is taken out of Mumbai city’s jurisdiction.' BMC says.
March 30, 2020 -
FIR against 6 people for stealing groundwater worth Rs 73 crore in Mumbai
As per the complainant, Suresh Kumar Dhokha, a tenant in Pandya mansion, the owners of the building have dug two illegal wells and sold water amounting to Rs 73.18 crores for the past 11 years.
October 17, 2019 -
Hacking of trees resumes in Aarey Colony as Section 144 imposed; 29 activists arrested
Protests were held late Friday night and continued during the wee hours of Saturday as authorities began cutting down trees at Aarey Colony to build an upcoming metro car shed.
October 5, 2019 -
‘No point for Centre to speak about plastic pollution when Mumbai Metro destroys Aarey’: Aaditya Thackeray
Thackeray took to Twitter and termed the felling down of trees as "shameful and disgusting" act which was carried out "in cover of night, with slyness.”
October 5, 2019 -
Midnight protests in Mumbai’s Aarey Colony as BMC begins hacking trees, over 100 detained
Leaders including Jignesh Mevani, Aaditya Thackeray have shown their protest against the cutting of trees in Aarey Colony and have appealed to the people of Mumbai to resist the 'illegal' action.
October 5, 2019 -
Heavy rains lash Mumbai; schools to remain shut today, IMD issues red alert
Meanwhile, the IMD has predicted high tide to hit at 14:23 pm, with a height of 3.83 meters and a low tide is expected around 20:28 pm, with a hight of 0.98 meters.
September 19, 2019 -
Mumbai rains: Red alert issued, road, rail traffic hit; BMC asks people to stay indoors
The IMD said that the monthly average rainfall for the month of September for Mumbai has already been crossed in four days.
September 4, 2019 -
Train services suffer, 400 rescued by boats as rains pound Mumbai
The BMC, Indian Army, Navy and Air Force, besides all other agencies, are on a high alert for any eventuality.
August 4, 2019 -
BMC withdraws 10 pc water cut as stock in seven lakes rises
'The decision to lift the water cut was taken by the standing committee of the BMC and it was implemented from today.'
July 20, 2019 -
Rains return to Mumbai after hiatus; airport ops hit briefly
'Dear Mumbaikars, the city has experienced heavy rainfall in the last couple of hours, especially in the eastern suburb. We regret all the inconvenience that has showered along. But the intensity is on decline now & our teams will try to pump out logged water as soon as possible.'
July 8, 2019 -
Mumbai virtually crippled as continuous rains break 45 year old record
Mumbai received 375 mm of rainfall on Monday, making it the maximum July downpour that the city has seen over a 24-hour period, breaking the record of 1974.
July 2, 2019 -
4 charred to death in Mumbai
The fire which broke out around 3.30 p.m. on Sunday had quickly spread to neighbouring areas, destroying several scores of adjoining hutments
December 24, 2018