Mumbai: The Cuffe Parade police on Sunday registered an FIR against a private contractor for dumping truckloads of debris on a government land at Navy Nagar. The complaint was lodged by officials of the Greater Mumbai Collectorate, who had surveyed the area following frequent complaints from residents.

MUMBAI: The Pulse Polio drive on Sunday covered 68% of the 13.25 lakh children below the age of five years, said civic officials.

Mumbai: An NGO converted a drinking water fountain on Marine Drive into a urinal after walkers petitioned the BMC that they needed a place to relieve themselves more desperately than they needed water. The water fountain-turned-urinal was opened to the public on Monday.

MUMBAI: On the auspicious occasion of Gudi Padwa, Maharashtra

MUMBAI: Why are bicycles, which don't pollute, take up little space, are cheap and have virtually no maintenance cost, not a popular mode of travel in Mumbai? According to activists and cycling enthusiasts, the reasons are a mindset that favours motorised vehicles and a lack of infrastructure to promote cycling in the city.

MUMBAI: If you want to save GenNext from the hazards of climate change, enlist the support of youngsters, starting today. That's scientist and Nobel Laureate R K Pachauri's latest mission as he looks to schools across the country seeking to turn students into green ambassadors.

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court has asked the BMC to furnish a list of 28 trees that are to be hacked for the Nepean Sea road widening project.

A division bench of Chief Justice Swatanter Kumar and Justice Dhananjay Chandrachud have also asked the corporation to submit a list of the 46 trees that have gone "missing'' from the road over the last few years.

MUMBAI: All those who commenced construction on forest land between June 22, 2005-when the Bombay high court passed its judgment on the forest land case-and June 22, 2006, may get relief from the Supreme Court.

The Central Empowerment Committee (CEC) of the SC plans to recommend to the apex court "extension of relief" to residents and builders by a year.

MUMBAI: While the BMC plans to transplant 73 trees on Nepean Sea Road, experts say only 21 trees will survive transplantation, that is, if proper
protocol is followed.

In recent reports, the BMC has said it will increase the number of trees transplanted from 57 to 73 along Nepean Sea Road, which is being widened.

MUMBAI: The much-awaited Nano, launched in the city on Monday, has caught the fancy of taxi owners who are increasingly seeing this as the ideal car to bail out thousands who are forced to replace the old kaali-peeli Premier Padmini.

With the government order to phase out taxis older than 25 years, the Nano couldn't have come at a better time, say many taxi owners.