Mumbai
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Maharashtra Draft Voter Roll Out August 24: How to Check and Fix Your Name
Maharashtra’s draft electoral roll drops August 24 with over 2 crore names potentially missing. Here’s the one-month window to check and correct yours.
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Mumbai’s BEST Workers Begin Hunger Strike Over Years-Old Pay Dues
BEST workers in Mumbai began an indefinite hunger strike over unpaid dues, unresolved wage pacts, and a long-sought merger of BEST’s budget with the BMC’s.
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Mumbai’s Water Supply Strained as Thane Pipeline Repair Drags Into Third Day
A leak in the 3,000-mm Mumbai-III pipeline at Thane’s Teen Haath Naka has BMC repair crews working into a third day, with eastern suburbs facing pressure drops.
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Mumbai’s BMC Shuts Vaitarna Pipeline for 24 Hours, Hitting BKC and Bandra
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.
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BMC Cancels Second Mayor Bungalow Tender After Backlash
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.
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Mumbai’s BMC Dangles Tax Rebates to Get Waste Sorted at Source
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.
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Supreme Court Halts Bandra-Worli Cluster Redevelopment Till August 13
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.
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Mumbai’s Century Mills Redevelopment Clears Rs 1,351-Crore Bid
BMC has picked a Rs 1,351-crore bid to redevelop Lower Parel’s Century Mills workers’ colony, moving 650 families closer to permanent homes after two decades.
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Mumbai’s Global Liveability Ranking Slips Behind Delhi in 2026 EIU Index
Mumbai ranks 121st of 173 cities in the EIU’s 2026 Global Liveability Index, a notch behind Delhi. Culture, environment and healthcare scores pull the city down.
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Mumbai’s Rain Surplus Masks a Reservoir Deficit, BMC Keeps Water Cut in Place
Mumbai has crossed its July rainfall average, but its seven lakes sit near half-full, well below last year’s levels, keeping BMC’s 10% water cut in force.
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Mumbai’s OC Amnesty Scheme Clears Civic Hurdle for 19,000 Buildings
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.
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Mankhurd Chawl Collapse Kills Six, Renews Mumbai’s Monsoon Building Risk
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.
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Mumbai Manhole Death Exposes Civic Accountability Gap in Monsoon
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.
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Mumbai Local Train Murder Puts Passenger Safety Under the Spotlight
A 22-year-old stabbed dead over a train door argument on June 23 has forced a hard reckoning on Mumbai’s suburban rail network and its chronic security gaps.
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BEST Strike Ends After Three Days: What Mumbai’s Bus Crisis Reveals
Mumbai’s BEST bus strike stranded 25 lakh daily commuters for three days before unions called it off June 21 — but a small interim hike leaves the bigger structural crisis…