June 28, 2011 03:59 IST
To curb the rampant evasion of octroi at five nakas in the city,the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation will now initiate legal action against the defaulters.
Tue, Jun 28, 2011June 27, 2011 00:30 IST
After more than a year of living with just her left arm,23-year-old Shreya Sen shook hands with her robotic right arm for the first time on Saturday.
Mon, Jun 27, 2011
June 23, 2011 03:36 IST
Music Room One at the Yash Raj Studio resonates with the sonorous sound of the Sarangi considered to be one of the toughest oriental instruments to master.
Thu, Jun 23, 2011June 22, 2011 03:57 IST
Even as a number of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation departments engage in bringing out the annual Environment Status Report of the city
Wed, Jun 22, 2011June 21, 2011 03:54 IST
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to gather accurate data on the quality of air that Mumbaikars breathe.
Tue, Jun 21, 2011June 20, 2011 02:09 IST
After five years of continuous decline in water quality,citizens finally have something to cheer.
Mon, Jun 20, 2011June 12, 2011 00:35 IST
Did you know that the earliest presence of Christianity in Mumbai dates back to as early as the fourth century AD?
Sun, Jun 12, 2011June 09, 2011 03:39 IST
While the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation decided to forcefully evict tenants from dilapidated civic buildings ahead of monsoon this year
Thu, Jun 09, 2011June 08, 2011 03:21 IST
Two years after its launch,the countrys richest civic body which spends close to Rs 100 crore annually on its information technology budget
Wed, Jun 08, 2011June 06, 2011 03:23 IST
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation move to increase road contract amounts by nearly ten times and invite reputed firms to build roads has been cut short by the Standing Technical Advisory Committee.
Mon, Jun 06, 2011June 02, 2011 03:28 IST
In a bid to check violations by builders,Municipal Commissioner Subodh Kumar has expedited the process of redrafting the Development Control Rules
Thu, Jun 02, 2011May 30, 2011 03:10 IST
With any large augmentation of water supply to the city still years away,the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has initiated its first ever outreach programme to make citizens aware of the huge losses to the distribution system owing to unmetered and illegal water connections.
Mon, May 30, 2011May 30, 2011 02:45 IST
With the monsoon already hitting Kerala,the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is gearing up to tackle the annual surge in the number of monsoon-related ailments.
Mon, May 30, 2011
May 27, 2011 03:30 IST
Besieged by indefinite delays,the cost of the vital Brihanmumbai Stormwater Drainage project has ballooned to seven times its originally projected cost.
Fri, May 27, 2011May 23, 2011 03:07 IST
The Centres Unique Identification project is seeing a rather slow start in the city.
Mon, May 23, 2011May 19, 2011 03:45 IST
The shopkeepers and hawkers in Pakmodia Street initially mistook the chaos on Tuesday night as yet another raid by the municipality to crack down on illegal hawkers.
Thu, May 19, 2011May 19, 2011 03:07 IST
The shopkeepers and hawkers in Pakmodia Street initially mistook the chaos as yet another raid by the municipality to crack down on illegal hawkers.
Thu, May 19, 2011May 18, 2011 00:45 IST
More than a year after the successful completion of the first two stormwater pumping stations at Haji Ali and Irla Nullah,work on the next three to be built under the vital Brihanmumbai Stormwater Drainage project is yet to begin.
Wed, May 18, 2011
May 16, 2011 03:34 IST
While there is some disbelief at the BMCs claims that the work of desilting drains across the city will be complete well in time for the monsoon,the bigger and more immediate worry for civic officials is finding land or a landfill site to dump thousands of tonnes of silt being dredged from the citys nullahs.
Mon, May 16, 2011May 12, 2011 03:32 IST
In a bold move to improve the condition of roads across the city,the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has for the first time decided to loosen the control that local contractors have over ward-level road contracts
Thu, May 12, 2011May 09, 2011 00:43 IST
* On May 7,total water in all six lakes was 3,26,849 million litres.
Mon, May 09, 2011May 06, 2011 01:03 IST
The Brihanmumbai stormwater drainage (BRIMSTOWAD) project may be only 40 per cent complete and the Mithi river rehabilitation project may be crawling after the first phase was completed under a court-appointed deadline
Fri, May 06, 2011May 05, 2011 03:11 IST
Its been a year since the state government issued an ordinance to municipal corporations across the state to switch to the capital-value based system of assessing property tax
Thu, May 05, 2011May 02, 2011 02:48 IST
The much-delayed Rs 520-crore proposal to install X-ray scanners at the citys octroi nakas to check evasion has been scrapped by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation in its current form.
Mon, May 02, 2011April 27, 2011 03:59 IST
With the luggage scanner installed at gate number 6 of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporations headquarters in CST out of service for over two weeks now,visitors are walking in without any baggage check.
Wed, Apr 27, 2011




