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A hillside collapse in Ghatkopar's Ashok Nagar killed at least six people. The BMC had flagged this exact slope, Tekdi No. 3, as landslide-prone.

PCMC has fixed 1,609 of 2,164 reported potholes, but temporary patches and relentless rain keep the backlog refilling across the twin township.

Maharashtra's FDA has banned chips, chocolates and fried snacks in and around every school in the state, with FSSAI licensing now compulsory for canteens.

Only 426 of Nagpur's 3,669 new buildings have occupancy certificates. Union minister Nitin Gadkari has now set a four-month clock on the rest.

BMC shuts a 2,400-mm Vaitarna pipeline for repairs on August 11-12, cutting water to BKC, Bandra Terminus and parts of H-East and K-South wards.

Maharashtra has cleared a new Thane-Diva metro corridor through Kalwa and Mumbra, linking to the bullet train and easing crowded suburban trains.

Five confirmed pothole deaths in Nashik have triggered Shiv Sena and Congress protests demanding officials' resignations, amid a dispute over the real toll.

Pune corporators want new construction paused in Dhanori until roads, water and drainage catch up after nearly three decades of civic neglect.

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar's Rs 2,740-crore AMRUT water project is 82% complete, but two sources cite different completion dates for residents.

BMC scrapped a Rs 2.9-crore tender for the Mayor's Byculla residence area, just four months after a Rs 2.4-crore renovation, following opposition criticism.

Nagpur's Rs 1,047-crore cement road drive has left roads sitting higher than drains, trapping rainwater in homes and shops even as Phase V nears launch.

Vasai police seized 2 kg of whale-derived ambergris worth over Rs 2 crore and arrested four men from four different districts, pointing to a trafficking network wider than one city.

BMC is offering housing societies up to 15% property tax rebate to process wet waste on-site, but only 13% of eligible properties have taken it up so far.

Four deaths on pothole-ridden Nashik roads have triggered fines, a minister's ultimatum and a citizens' march on NMC set for August 7.

MSIDC has approval to redevelop Nagpur Central Jail's 118-acre Wardha Road site into a business district once the jail relocates to Chincholi.

BNCMC flagged 1,790 unsafe buildings months before Kohinoor fell. A Bhiwandi civic body demolished a fraction of them. Here's why the gap persists.

A Bhiwandi building flagged unsafe in 2020 collapsed during illegal repair work, killing at least nine. CM Fadnavis has ordered an FIR.

Nashik's Kumbh authority is building an AI system to track crowd density in real time, aiming to prevent the crush that has marred past Kumbh melas.

The Supreme Court has frozen work orders on MHADA's 132-acre Bandra-Worli cluster redevelopment, giving ten housing societies a two-week reprieve to press their case.

The Bombay High Court's Nagpur bench has ordered NMC to justify its flood control claims after the same low-lying areas went under water again this week.