Vallabh Ozarkar

The operation was stopped at the request of village residents, who preferred for the bodies to remain buried rather than pulled out in a mutilated or decomposed condition.

According to officials, 11 bodies were recovered from Taliye village on Sunday, and 31 more are still feared buried under the debris. “The bodies should not be disturbed now, they should be declared dead,” said Kishor Pol, a local resident who lost his parents to the landslide.

Narayan Rane said apart from the compensation announced by the Union and the state governments, the Centre would rehabilitate the victims under Prime Minister Awas Yojana.

In one of the worst tragedies of the rainfall lashing the state for the past three days, the village lost at least 42 people, with 39 still missing as of Saturday evening. Six of the injured are in hospital.

Taliye in Mahad taluka, where a huge landslide occurred on Thursday evening, is a village of 240 people, located 22 km from Mahad city. Around 35 houses were buried under the debris of a hillock that came crashing down on the houses.

Among the dead were eight admitted to a Covid hospital in Chiplun, Ratnagiri, who were killed when water entered the premises.

The Indian Express had reported that the family had to call off the July 18 wedding after a copy of the invitation card got circulated in several WhatsApp groups, triggering protests, messages and calls, including from “strangers”, for the ceremony to be cancelled.

According to state transport officials, around 133 buses were pressed into service starting 4am on Thursday to rescue the passengers

Intense rainfall early Sunday had left at least 32 people dead and eight others injured in separate incidents in the central and eastern parts of Mumbai.

In the tribal areas, all homes have two wooden poles fixed in the ground a metre apart, with a saree or bedsheet tied to the two poles serving as a cradle for newborn children.

In early June, Narsalay used Rs 17 lakh from his savings to purchase the vehicle. Next, he hired a driver, who is on duty from 10 am to 10 pm from Monday to Saturday.

The work on the Rs 11,000 crore six-lane project, which is expected to reduce the travel time between Thane and Borivali to 15-20 minutes, is likely to begin from March next year.

Last week, members of a family in Nashik called off a function to solemnise their 28-year-old daughter’s wedding to a Muslim man as per Hindu rituals following protests by their community. The protesters described the marriage as a case of “love jihad”.

The FDA suspects the kits were used to abort girl children in the region. Police said the FDA joint commissioner had received a tip-off Friday that abortion drugs were being bought and sold illegally without bill and prescription from a registered pharmacy, Balaji Chemist.

MSRTC has accrued losses of Rs 6,400 crore from April 2020 till May 2021 after its inter-district operations were hit by the lockdown and restrictions on movement.

The application will allow passengers to register complaints or give suggestions about services offered by rickshaws, taxis or app-based cabs.

TMC officials have said that it could be an error in the reporting system and that they are looking into the incident.

Uddhav Thackeray also expressed concern over the increasing crowd in the markets and shopping centres in the city.

The 804-metre long, 7.5-metre-wide arm is the longest of the three-direction Kalanagar junction flyover that is being constructed by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority.

"We are carrying out the world’s largest housing project - the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) under which CIDCO is building around one lakh houses in and around Navi Mumbai."

According to officials, the redeveloped Andheri station will have a concourse on the eastern side that will connect to all foot overbridges (FOBs) and integrate it with the Metro station too.

Civic officials said that NMMC's education department had received several complaints from parents who have not paid fees in these schools.

Anticipating a large gathering, the Navi Mumbai police has made massive security arrangements in the city and deployed police personnel to avoid any kind of untoward incident. Additional forces from neighbouring districts have also been brought in.

Navi Mumbai is possibly the first corporation in the state to undertake a special vaccination campaign for the homeless, officials said