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Now, Virar commuters face bullying in Dahanu local
Edit The Times of India 21 Oct 2016
MUMBAI. Virar commuters, known for their unruly behaviour towards their counterparts from Borivli, got a taste of their own medicine on Wednesday night, when commuters of a Dahanu-bound train objected to their alighting at Virar ... The commuters were forced to travel up to Vaitarna station before they could alight. The RPF arrested 14 men, all residents of Palghar, and fined them Rs 1,000-2,000 ... The arrested men were released by 1am....
Dahanu bound male commuters booked and fined for nuisance inside train.
Edit The Times of India 20 Oct 2016
What followed was chain-pulling and screams from the commuters. The police arrested 15 men headed to Vaitarna, Safale and Palghar ... Stay updated on the go with Times of India News App. Click here to download it for your device. RELATED ... Recommended By Colombia ....
Government ignores proposal for water flow
Edit The Times of India 06 Oct 2016
The state cabinet did not seem to be interested in the Marathwada Development Board recommendation of diversion of water from Upper Vaitarna dam into Godavari basin by gravity and lift irrigation. Shankar Nagare, expert member of Marathwada Development Board, said the Godavari basin could have easily received nearly 12 TMC water from Upper Vaitarna dam with minimum expenditure of only around Rs 20 crore....
Thanks to good rains lakes near Mumbai get 99 pc filled
Edit The Times of India 26 Sep 2016
Mumbai's water supply comes from seven reservoirs - Modak Sagar, Tansa Lake, Vihar Lake, Tulsi Lake, Upper Vaitarna, Bhatsa and Middle Vaitarna. The Bhatsa and Upper Vaitarna come under state government's control while the others are maintained by the BMC. The official said Bhatsa and Upper Vaitarna reservoirs have reached full supply level (FSL) for the first time ... We always need to be judicious to save the water," he said ... APM GK RCJ....
Developments take heavy toll on forts
Edit Deccan Herald 24 Sep 2016
Once impregnable by military standards, a majority of the forts in Mumbai, the commercial capital of the country, are in ruins. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), which comprises parts of coastal districts of Thane, Palghar and Raigad, has close to three dozen small, medium and big forts ... The creeks of Dahanu, Mahim and Dharamtar and rivers like Ulhas, Vaitarna, Tansa, Kundalika and Mithi had contributed for establishment of forts ... ....
Overnight rain disrupts life in city
Edit The Hindu 23 Sep 2016
Overnight rain disrupted normal life in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai and Thane with water logging, delayed suburban train services, and traffic snarls reported across the city on Thursday. Heavy rain lashed the Island City and the suburbs with Colaba observatory recording 145.8 m.m ... Road, and LBS Marg ... at Tulsi. While four of the lakes had touched the overflow mark, Upper Vaitrna, Bhatsa and Middle Vaitarna are close to their full capacity ... ....
Malnutrition situation alarming in Palghar
Edit Deccan Herald 18 Sep 2016
Lives lost. Tribals blame govt apathy ... With the Vaitarna, Tansa and Ulhas rivers flowing in the district and through the slopes of the Sahyadri ranges, one can never imagine that there could be malnutrition deaths here, that too in the district that adjoins the commercial capital of India ... The adivasi community had been neglected over the years, they told this DH correspondent ... Their son Sagar, aged two, had died of malnutrition ... ....
This Bhandup complex is source of safe drinking water to the city
Edit The Times of India 14 Sep 2016
Mumbai. This 365-acre forest complex in Bhandup is flanked by the Borivli National Park and Yeoor Hills. Entry here is restricted and the place is crawling with security guards. Inside, around 450 people work round-the-clock in shifts ... Every day, three to four tonnes of chlorine is used to treat water ... The furthest point from where the city's water is transported is from the Upper Vaitarna dam in Nashik district, situated 180km away....
Record 18 deaths on Mumbai railway tracks on Sept 1
Edit The Times of India 03 Sep 2016
Mumbai. Thursday was a black day for the city's lifeline with 18 commuters being killed, the highest number of rail deaths the city has witnessed in a single day in recent times. Sixteen others were injured. Over 2,000 commuters have lost their lives in railway accidents between January and August this year ... A majority of deaths on Thursday were reported at the Vasai GRP outpost, which comprises Mira Road to Vaitarna stations ... RELATED....
18 deaths on Mumbai railway tracks on September 1, record this year
Edit The Times of India 03 Sep 2016
Mumbai. Thursday was a black day for the city's lifeline with 18 commuters being killed, the highest number of rail deaths the city has witnessed in a single day in recent times. Sixteen others were injured. Over 2,000 commuters have lost their lives in railway accidents between January and August this year ... A majority of deaths on Thursday were reported at the Vasai GRP outpost, which comprises Mira Road to Vaitarna stations ... RELATED....
Why Sagar Wagh, 2, died of malnutrition in Mumbai’s backyard
Edit The Hindu 03 Sep 2016
Last week, while Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was getting ready to re-name the Middle Vaitarna Dam a main source of water supply to Mumbai, little Sagar Wagh was breathing his last in a government hospital in Nashik. Sagar, 2, who weighed only 4.6 kg, died of malnutrition on the morning of August 28. He is one of the 7,000-odd children suffering from malnutrition in Palghar ... “It is a big racket ... Later, he developed TB ... Mr ... Mr ... Mr....
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