Mumbai: Razing of the 9-story illegal construction in Pydhonie starts.

MUMBAI: The BMC C Ward Office began demolishing an illegal nine-story building in Pydhonie on Monday. In the past, a former deputy municipal commissioner had been disqualified for failing to take an intervention.

Civic authorities said they had received a notice of eviction from the residents. However, until the moment of the demolition, they continued to relocate out of the construction, stating they had no place to go.

Yusuf Ghulam Mohammad, a ninth-floor resident, said he had bought his apartment by selling off ornaments. "I purchased it for Rs 15 lakh ... and now my wife and three kids have nowhere to go."

Civic authorities said they continued arguing that the construction was illegal. Vinayak Vispute, C Ward's Assistant Municipal Commissioner, said about 90 people reside in the construction. "We had police protection and we started demolition work. A mob of 500 had gathered at the site, but we decided to go ahead and ensure that the action would continue," Vispute said. "We also asked the residents to leave the building, as the action will continue for the next few days."

For now, the BMC has begun demolition action from the top of the building.

Mumbai: Woman arrested for the kidnapping of a minor

MUMBAI: Mankhurd police detained a 30-year-old woman for attempting to kidnap a four-year-old boy on Sunday evening.

The police said Mohammed Shaikh, a scrap dealer, was walking with his daughter close Mhada Colony when a woman came out of the crowd, grabbed the kid and attempted to run away. Shaikh pulled an alarm, and the passersby caught the woman. She was beaten before a police patrol team intervened, and she was taken into prison. The police have confined a woman for kidnapping. They said they were interrogating her if she had been engaged in prior child carrying cases in the area.

Mumbai: Pup with snipped ears, set up for sale, 3 booked.

MUMBAI: A criminal offense has been recorded against three individuals for attempting to sell a male American Bully pupa after carrying out a banned "ear-cropping procedure" on the canine.

One of the accused, Karan Parkar (26), who claims to be a snake rescuer, had sent a message to social media groups along with videos of the puppies put up for sale, said animal activist Vaishali Chawhan, who stumbled upon one of those posts.

The other two listed in the crime are Siddharth Parkar and Leon Dcosta, said Meet Ashar, Peta's chief emergency response officer.

The pupa seems to be less than two months old and underweight, Ashar said. "The eyes of the canine have been roughly cut. It also results from inflammation and infection of the skin after it has been produced to live in unhygienic circumstances."

It is illegal to carry such distressing and acutely painful mutilations on animals, Ashar said. "These activities are performed just to fulfill people's the ear-cropping surgery is performed to offer the pet a "stronger esthetic feel," said Chauhan. "It helps to get a stronger price for selling," she added.hims about how these pets should look ... it's immoral."

The ear-cropping surgery is performed to offer the pet a "stronger aesthetic feel," said Chawhan. "It helps to get a stronger price for selling," she added.

The ear-cropping surgery is performed to offer the pet a "stronger aesthetic feel," said Chawhan. "It helps to get a stronger price for selling," she added.

The puppies ' ears were hit with sheets of tape that might have been put up to avoid the flow of blood, Ashar said.

Namdeo Shinde, the senior police inspector at the Kasturba Marg Police Station, verified that the first information report had been submitted. "The provisions of the Animal Cruelty Act have been enforced," he said.

For now, Chawhan has been fostering the puppies. "The doctor's report lists suture marks on his ears with a thread used for surgery," she said. "Imagine such horrible torture on such a small pup."

Mumbai: BMC rebuild Fitzgerald Fountain, which will be installed by January 2020

About sixty years after moving from the Metro Cinema intersection, Dhobitalao, to the museum yard at the Byculla Zoo, Fitzgerald Fountain began to work again.

The Fitzgerald Fountain 40-feet colonial-era, which once stood at the Metro Cinema intersection of Mumbai's Dhobitalao, is now being rebuilt by the BMC. Removed during the peak of the Samyukta Maharashtra movement, the fountain had been in the Byculla Zoo for more than sixty years. The 18-ton fountain is being re-engineered by the BMC and is anticipated to be re-installed in its initial location by January 2020. The BMC has recovered more than 300 missing components of the fountain. 

"Our tests have been a success. Water flowed out of four heads of fountains and two heads of lions, "said a BMC official with joy. "We think the water from the lion's heads of Fitzgerald Fountain was probably used by passersby as a pyau to quench their thirst, but we can't check this because there are no formal papers." "During the British period, pyaus were discovered along metro routes — one used to operate close Metro Cinema — because piped water facilities were otherwise not accessible in government areas. 

Now, the structure has been fitted from inside with four galvanized iron pipes, which have been connected to the fountain’s spouts.

In order to ensure the circulation of the same water — which must be changed periodically — a suction pump-cum-tank system will be installed on-site. The 40-ft fountain would require about 800 liters of water to work, the official said.

The lack of original fountain documents has long been a challenge in the restoration of the fountain. The plumbing part has been the greatest task.

On Monday afternoon, TOI toured the Bhau Daji Lad Museum in the Byculla Zoo, where the renovation of the fountain started last September. Sculptor Deepak Paunikar, who also collaborated on the reconstruction of the Khada Parsi monument in Byculla, said, "Until now, much of the job on the fountain worried elements other than the most fundamental — plumbing. Work on this aspect was started only a fortnight ago. We had no references as to how the water engineering system worked in the past. When the fountain was brought to the museum premises decades ago after being dismantled, it was without water pipes. We, therefore, had to use our own judgment to ensure that the fountain was once again put into operation.

Another interruption occurs in Mumbai monorail, maintenance job performed out

On the morning of September 23, the Mumbai Monorail had another collapse.

The monorail train suddenly stopped in Chembur between Vashi Naka and Mysore Colony. All the rail passengers were rescued using a ladder by the representatives of the fire brigade. No one in the harmed in the rescue operation. The job of the Metropolitan Development Authority of Mumbai was repaired later. The crash was caused by a snag in the monorail rake's power supply.

Thane: Confiscated ' Ancient ' statues, 3 arrested

THANE: Thane's criminal branch detained three people and seized from them two "antique" deity statues. The police said they were planning to sell the Rs 5 crore statues. Police said the accused was suspected of being part of a racket trafficking the antiques.

Sandeep Bagul, the assistant inspector, said he had a tip-off that some people were searching for statue buyers. On Saturday at Saralpool Gokuldhaba in Alibaug, an SUV in which the three were traveling was waylaid. A search of the SUV yielded a statue of Vishnu with 12 faces and weighing 8.7 kg and another of goddess Laxmi weighing 6.8 kg, Bagul said.

Two of the accused who are small-time hoteliers told the police that an old structure had been demolished, called ' Wada ' in local parlance, and found the statues during their excavation.

Police said the statues appear to be a mixture of brass, gold, silver, bronze. "They were sent to India's Archaeological Survey to check whether they are ancient statues," an officer said.

Rich gas mixed with CNG, causing automobiles to a shuddering stop

Drivers complain about stoppages and poor mileage; MGL says they're receiving heavier gas, but they can't sustain it.

The NGOC explosion on 3 September in Uranium resulted in poor-quality synthetic organic gas (CNG) being provided throughout the town, with taxi and autorickshaw drivers blamed high condensate gas for sudden engine stoppages and bad mileage. Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL), which is the sole distributor of CNG throughout the city, has agreed to receive heavier or ' rich gas ' at its Wadala facility since the fire and has stated that it can not change its composition and supply whatever it receives. 

Rakesh Verma, a Goregaon East autorickshaw driver, said the taxi and auto engine nozzles are very small and are designed for lean gas. "With the current CNG quality, the over-ring in the nozzle breaks, again and again, releasing blackish discharge that we've never seen before," he said, adding that his CNG cylinder had to be cleaned once a year earlier, but now he has to clean it every week.

Another autorickshaw driver, Mithlesh Upadhya, said he had at least four times in the past three weeks taken his vehicle to the repair workshop. "When the engine repeatedly stopped, my car's wiring was also damaged, affecting its horn, light, and ignition," he said.

Mumbai Autorickshaw Men's Union Head Thampie Kurien said the union received thousands of complaints, after which he approached the chief transport secretary Ashish Kumar Singh and the transport commissioner Shekhar Chenna, urging them to convene a meeting with MGL to rectify the CNG quality issue. "If they don't pay attention to our request, with our frustrations, we'll have to approach the court," Kurien said.

Mumbai: 24-year-old detained in a hotel for MBA rape

MUMBAI: Sahil Arora, a computer science graduate from Delhi who allegedly assaulted an MBA seeking work four days ago at a Juhu hotel, has been detained.

The 24-year-old, who had turned off his mobile phone, was detained in Lokhandwala on Sunday when he turned it on again. The phone used to record a sexual assault on a 28-year-old female was sent to a forensic laboratory. He was charged with rape and criminal intimidation and was placed under police custody until September 30.

Arora, employed by the Dubai company in Delhi, moved to Delhi after the crime. He turned on his mobile when he came to meet his buddy in Andheri (south) on Sunday and was caught up, said Senior Inspector Pandrinath Warhol. The police unit, under the supervision of DCP (area IX) Paramjit Singh Dahiya, gathered hotel room booking details, CCTV footage, and staff statements.

RBI brings PMC Bank based in Mumbai under the direction

The Reserve Bank of India has set boundaries on the amount that can be withdrawn from the urban cooperative bank by the depositors.

The Reserve Bank of India has put Mumbai-based Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank (PMC Bank) under the direction for six months from the closure of business of the Bank on 23 September 2019.

Depositors shall be permitted to withdraw a sum not exceeding 1,000 of the total balance in any savings bank account or current account or any other deposit account, whatever the name referred to, subject to the conditions set out in the RBI Directions.

Without prior written permission from the Reserve Bank, the Urban Co-operative Bank will also be unable to grant or renew any loans and advances, make any investments, incur any liability, including the lending of money and the acceptance of new deposits, disburse or agree to disburse any funds Whether or not to fulfill its liabilities and commitments, enter into any agreement or agreement and sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its properties or property, except as reported in the RBI Direction dated 23 September 2019.

In a declaration, the central bank said that the problem of directions should not, per se, be interpreted as the cancelation of a bank permit by the Reserve Bank. The bank will proceed to conduct a limited banking business until further notices/instructions have been given. The Reserve Bank may suggest changes to these directions, based on the conditions.

The RBI stated that the instructions were imposed in the exercise of the powers conferred on it by Section 35A(1) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949, read in conjunction with Section 56 of that Act.

As at the end of March 2019, PMC Bank had deposits and advances aggregating 11,617 crores and 8,383 crores, respectively.

The Bank is a multi-state urban cooperative bank with operations in the states of Maharashtra, Delhi, Karnataka, Goa, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh. It's got 137 offices.

Mumbai is afraid of losing homes and lives amid rising seas level

MUMBAI: Huge swathes of the shorelines of Mumbai have already been wasted to rising seas level. Shanty residents are now afraid of their houses and critics to say that India's biggest metropolis — like other world mega-cities — is not doing enough to keep down the seas level.

During the monsoon, near-daily storms routinely flood Dharavi, one of the largest slums in Asia, and home to some of the most susceptible seaside town residents.

"The scenario has been growing worse every year, with our homes kneeling deep in the water," said 38-year-old Venkatesh Nadar, who spent his full lives in the shanty village. Nadar said the officials have not told him what might occur to his home as the sea level rises, or if they are doing anything to support his family move around.

"It is deadly and dangerous for the future of our children and prevents every person living here at the mercy of God," he said.

If the disastrous UN forecast that the ocean could increase by one meter (three meters) in the millennium to 2100 as a result of global warming is accurate, one scholarly study indicates that a third of Mumbai could be impacted.

Even a 20-centimeter (eight-inch) increase would more than double the frequency of floods in tropical areas such as the Mumbai coast, according to a 2017 report by US experts.

Hundreds have died and billions of USD of damage induced by hurricanes over the last two decades — and a flood alone left 500 dead in 2005.