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Nagpur civic body has ordered every zone to clear 2 km of encroached footpath daily after its earlier 100-day drive failed to hold. Here's what changed.

A landslide has cancelled about 30 daily Pune-Mumbai trains. MSRTC is adding 200 bus trips a day while crews repair the damaged ghat-section lines.

BMC's Standing Committee has cleared an amnesty scheme to grant occupancy certificates to nearly 19,000 Mumbai buildings, affecting close to a lakh families.

Maharashtra has barred energy drink sales within 500 metres of schools after MLAs raised alarm, but the FDA's plan relies on inspectors and labs the state hasn't scaled up.

A Shiv Sena corporator's arrest after doctors were assaulted at a Dombivli hospital has reopened a familiar question: what happens when local politicians treat hospitals as their turf.

NMC's Standing Committee is weighing a 10% property tax rise and doubled sewerage and fire levies, weeks after promising no new taxes in its budget.

A bridge built for Nashik's 2027 Simhastha Kumbh at Pimpalgaon Bahula was washed away in heavy rain, raising early questions about infrastructure quality.

Four tremors up to magnitude 4.6 shook Hingoli, Nanded and Parbhani before dawn, reviving memories of 1993 in a region long rated minimal seismic risk.

Highway Safety Patrol staff allegedly posed as narcotics officers to extort four Lonavala-bound tourists on the Pune-Mumbai Expressway. Here's what the case exposes.

A landslide in Ratnagiri's Khed taluka buried homes and trapped residents this week, the latest sign of how this year's heavy monsoon is straining hill villages statewide.

Khadakwasla dam raced from 62% to 94% capacity in a day, forcing controlled water releases into the Mutha and a fresh alert for riverside Pune residents.

The first two phases of the Airoli-Katai elevated corridor are set to open this month, promising major relief for commuters between Thane, Navi Mumbai and Kalyan-Dombivli.

A freshly resurfaced Mundhwa stretch in Pune caved in within four days, trapping a truck and reviving old questions about civic contractor accountability.

A chawl collapse in Mankhurd killed six people as Mumbai's monsoon batters old, dilapidated housing stock again. Here's what it means for residents.

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar finally got extra water from Jayakwadi after 20 years, but a pump house fault has paused supply just over a week in.

A Rs 9-crore pump-and-sump system helped Nagpur's most flood-prone railway underpass stay dry through its first real monsoon test, ending a decades-old problem.

A commuter's death in an open Kurla-Sakinaka manhole during Mumbai's red-alert rains has triggered suspensions and a probe — and revived a decades-old safety question.

Pune faces major road closures from July 8-18 as lakhs join the Ashadhi Wari to Pandharpur. Here's the diversion schedule and what it means for commuters.

Maharashtra has put its new RTI Rules 2026 on hold after a Pune Airport transparency row and Anna Hazare's hunger-strike threat. Here's what changed and what it means.

Thane district went from a historic June rainfall deficit to a red alert deluge within days, exposing both a dam storage crisis and a scramble in civic flood response.