For the second consecutive year, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan skipped paying tribute to Lal Bahadur Shastri at his memorial on his birthday commemoration.

Even as there is a pressing need to improve the basic infrastructure in public schools to facilitate student learning, an RTI query has revealed that the municipal schools are running short of staff,

Cable thefts have been taking place regularly in different service areas of MTNL Mumbai.

The death toll in the Mumbra building collapse has risen to three, with two more dead bodies being removed from the rubble during rescue operations on Saturday midnight.

Mumbra saw another of its buildings collapse when the five-storeyed Banoo Apartments building came crashing down at 8 am on Saturday. One person was killed, one rescued and two remained trapped under the debris.

The collapse of the Banoo Apartments building could have led to a much larger loss of life had it not been for Aslam Ansari’s family, especially his 8-year-old daughter, Asma. The first floor residents of the building woke up the rest of the residents of the building before the collapse after Asma alerted her own family.

The state government will have a proper roadmap for redeveloping all legal and illegal buildings in Thane districts, especially those in Mumbra, in the next three months, according to Thane’s guardian minister, Ganesh Naik.

The Kharghar post office, which was opened in 2005 to serve a population of 26,000, is now serving more than two lakh people but with the same strength of employees who have to work amidst the crumbling infrastructure of the post office. Eighteen postal employees are working in the 526 square feet space.

The commissioner for disabilities has passed strict orders to curb the menace of non-bonafide passengers who travel in handicapped coaches and cause inconvenience to disabled passengers.

The festive season could see an upsurge in buying of residential units as property prices in the second quarter of this year have gone down in comparison to the first quarter.