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No more traffic jams at Coastal Road exits? BMC's 10-point plan for the north stretch
May 11, 2026 5:03 am
From JVPD flyover to Mrunaltai Gore bridge, here's how the civic body plans to decongest the Versova-Dahisar corridor
BMC plans parking fee hike by 40 per cent
May 08, 2026 9:53 pm
The existing pay-and-park rates expired in March 2021. However, the charges were not revised owing to COVID and the dissolution of the civic house in March 2022.
BMC probe flags 87,000 birth-death record changes: Medical health officers across Mumbai to be transferred, 2 suspended
May 01, 2026 12:02 pm
BMC Commissioner Ashwini Bhide approved a five-point reform plan that recommended an investigation of birth-death registration cases across Mumbai’s 24 wards by the civic vigilance department.
BMC targets July 15 to finish Sion flyover, halts road digging before monsoon
April 17, 2026 2:04 pm
BMC Commissioner Ashwini Bhide on Thursday took stock of the ongoing works across Mumbai city, including the Sion bridge.
As Mumbai launches two giant Tunnel Boring Machines, one lies abandoned 60 metres below Powai, and no one is coming for it
April 15, 2026 10:58 pm
A German-made tunnel boring machine has been entombed in volcanic ash beneath the city since 2019. Here's why the BMC abandoned it, wrote off the cost, and started again.
BMC gets power to recover past property tax: What does it mean for Mumbaikars
March 26, 2026 5:58 pm
The amendment also gives more powers to the Municipal Commissioner to decide how the tax system will be structured and implemented.
Blaze at 24-storey Mumbai high-rise, elderly woman dead
March 23, 2026 10:57 am
In a bid to douse the flames, the Mumbai Fire Brigade pressed its personnel alongside the police and ward staffers from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation.
Monsoon preparedness: BMC to spend Rs 144 crore to deploy 547 dewatering pumps in Mumbai
March 21, 2026 6:14 pm
This year, BMC will install these pumps along 547 flood-prone pockets, of which 223 will be in the western suburbs, 178 in the eastern suburbs and 146 in the island city.
Two years on a footpath: BMC clears last homes of Jai Bhim Nagar in Powai
March 17, 2026 1:32 am
Nearly two years after the first demolition, the BMC on Monday cleared the last remaining structures of Jai Bhim Nagar — a Powai settlement of migrant workers that had existed for nearly four decades.
BMC set to name garden after Golwalkar, junction after George Fernandes
March 11, 2026 10:07 pm
Proposals moved during administrator rule to come up before civic general body on March 17
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Make in India fire: BMC blames organisers of 'gross negligence'
February 24, 2016 3:34 pm
Mumbai, Feb 24 (ANI): The Mumbai Fire Brigade on Wednesday submitted an investigation report on a fire which occurred during the 'Make in India' programme last week to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), in which it has accused the organizers of the event of 'gross negligence'. Pratap Rahangdale, Chief Fire Officer of Mumbai Fire Brigade, said that report was prepared by analyzing accounts of several witnesses and circumstantial evidence. He said that they have opened the report for the public. We studied circumstantial evidence and witness accounts. Rahangdale added that he was also one of the witnesses, as I was the first one to use extinguisher there. By studying all that we arrived at the chain of events leading to fire and prepared a final report.
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