Setting leftovers right

Sunday 19 May '13

Ritesh Vaid collects excess food from weddings, events and parties and distributes it to the needy.

DB Realty gets ultimatum on Bandra promenade beautification

Thursday 16 May '13

In 2010, MSRDC signed a lease agreement with DB Realty and handed over the 1.5-km promenade to the real estate major for 15 years for advertising rights, as well as beautify and maintain it.

Top south Mumbai stores a nightmare for disabled: Activists

Tuesday 14 May '13

Malini Chib, who suffers from cerebral palsy, met with an accident at a store in Kala Ghoda. As the store does not have a ramp or an elevator for people with disabilities, she was forced to use the es...

BMC proposal for LBT on builders raises hackles

Tuesday 14 May '13

PROPERTY prices in the city could go up further, with BMC considering a proposal to bring construction activity under the purview of local body tax (LBT).

Women, too, will pilot VAG Metro

Tuesday 14 May '13

PRIYANKA BALID, 24, always wanted to make a career out of her love for trains.

Contract terms for sea link toll collection revised

Sunday 12 May '13

Move will encourage more firms to evince interest in tender, say MSRDC officials.

Regional waste treatment plant to come up by 2015

Thursday 9 May '13

Will process 2,500 tonnes of garbage from MMR daily, convert it to electricity.

No blocks left as MMRDA gets right of way for freeway stretch

Wednesday 8 May '13

Nearly four years after MMRDA started work on the 17-km Eastern Freeway, the city''s development authority has finally managed to get the complete right of way, or ownership of land along the entire a...

It''s home sweat home for these Mhada lottery winners

Tuesday 7 May '13

They will have to spend at least Rs 1 lakh each to carry out repairs at HIG flats in Powai.

Pvt sector members 'skip'' empowered panel meetings

Monday 29 April '13

Attendance of members from the corporate sector has been less than 50 per cent for the past six months in the meetings of the Empowered Committee on Mumbai Transformation.

Expressway rash drivers, beware! You will soon be watched

Friday 26 April '13

To curb accidents, Science and Technology Park, Pune, has proposed the setting up of speed cameras along the 94.5-km Mumbai-Pune Expressway for police to easily detect and penalise speeding and rash d...

MHADA gives flats for MLAs, struggles to recover Rs 15 cr

Thursday 25 April '13

More than three years after MHADA kept aside 225 apartments in upmarket Versova to form a housing society for legislators, it is yet to recover money for at least 25 of these flats.

First phase of Eastern Freeway nearly complete

Monday 22 April '13

After nearly five years of laborious work involving tedious land acquisition and coordination with multiple agencies, the construction of the first phase of the ambitious Eastern Freeway, touted to be...

Metro trial run likely on May 1

Friday 19 April '13

Work on the city''s first Metro line is on at a furious pace with a short trial run likely in May.

Worli-Haji Ali sea link stuck in cabinet sub-committee

Thursday 18 April '13

The Worli-Haji Ali sea link, the second segment of the Western Freeway, is waiting to be appraised by the state cabinet sub-committee on infrastructure.

City anchor: These MHADA lottery winners don''t want to take it at all

Wednesday 17 April '13

With houses sold through the annual MHADA lottery getting expensive by the year, 38 winners have decided to surrender apartments citing high cost.

26 builders yet to hand over tenements to government

Tuesday 16 April '13

Redevelopment Those who fail to comply by month-end to face action.

Few takers for affordable housing scheme in Mumbra

Monday 15 April '13

The response to state government''s rental housing scheme, aimed at stemming slum proliferation and preventing unauthorised structures from sprouting in the city''s metropolitan region, has so far bee...

Japanese companies want to provide technical knowhow

Wednesday 10 April '13

Even as the proposed Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro is still in the planning stage, well-known Japanese firms have already started showing interest in supplying technical knowhow for the project, touted as...

Underground utility line slows down phase II piling work

Monday 8 April '13

EVEN as the Chembur-Wadala monorail is scheduled to be commissioned this year, the second phase of the corridor from Wadala to Jacob Circle still faces hurdles, with the city''s development authority ...

Dharavi redevelopment: Few societies respond, most want out

Thursday 4 April '13

The draft plan for redevelopment of Dharavi has drawn tepid response from people, with the project authorities having received only 20 suggestions and objections so far.

Your building, your land are still owned by the builder

Tuesday 2 April '13

Despite government efforts, an abysmally low number of housing societies has got deemed conveyance (transfer of land and building obtained from developer as a legal recourse) in the state.

Wire ropes to curb accidents on Mumbai-Pune Expressway

Monday 1 April '13

By next week, a 2.4-km stretch of the Mumbai-Pune Expressway will be protected with a new crash barrier that is expected to curb accidents as the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC)...

She''s their Jaadu

Sunday 31 March '13

For the 17 children whom Supriya Joshi taught the values of life, she is an inspiration

MMRDA used only 50% funds for projects in MMR in last 4 yrs

Thursday 28 March '13

The reason for this is being attributed to changing priorities of top officials, regulatory hurdles in execution of projects and land acquisition issues.