1. Versova Beach Clean-up Suspended; Afroz Shah Alleges Abuse By Goons
The Versova beach clean-up every Sunday, one of the biggest citizen initiatives the world has seen and which has been applauded by the United Nations and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been suspended by its spearhead Afroz Shah.
Shah, a lawyer who started the cleanup in October 2015 and who has rid the 2.7-km beach of five million kg of waste, put out a tweet on Sunday afternoon saying the drive was suspended after 109 weeks. He blamed "abuse by goons" and "administrative lethargy", and posted: "Week 109 clean-up. Volunteers abused by goons for picking up garbage.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
2. ‘Home-Made’ Plane To Fly High
An aircraft that was assembled on the terrace of a Charkop building may soon be zipping across the skies. Amol Yadav, a 41- year-old senior commander with Jet Airways, who spent six years building the six-seater aircraft, has finally got the certificate of registration from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). Further tests are scheduled over the next 10 days before he gets the permit to fly.
Mumbai Mirror had first reported on Yadav’s efforts in February 2016, ‘Plane put together on a Charkop terrace features in Make in India.’
Source: Mumbai Mirror
3. At Rs 500 Per Kg, This Is Mumbai’s Costliest Murgi
Its meat is black, and it’s costlier than mutton. The famous Kadaknath breed of chicken from Madhya Pradesh, which till a few years ago was in the danger of being extinct, is now available at very select places on Mumbai’s outskirts.
The Kadaknath chicken, whose organs including the beak are jet black, is priced between Rs 500 and Rs 600 per kg, which is costlier than mutton (around Rs 450 per kg), and way more expensive than desi chicken (Rs 260 per kg) and broiler (Rs 140 per kg). A single egg of the Kadaknath costs around Rs 30.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
4. Batti Full: These Vips Are In No Mood To Give Up Red Beacons
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given it up. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis doesn’t use it, and neither does any of his ministers. The Government of India has very clear views on it, which Finance Minister Arun Jaitley conveyed in the Parliament in April, when he said, “From May 1, no person in the country will be able to put a red light on their vehicles.”
None of this has, however, come in the way of a few VIPs in the city using the red beacon, for long a symbol of power and position. One of them is Maharashtra’s top-most cop – Director General of Police Satish Mathur – who on Sunday told this newspaper that it can go ahead with the story about him not giving up his red beacon.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
5. Neptune Ordered To Give Home Buyers Flats In Other Wings
In a first ruling on a complaint filed by an association of home buyers, Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRERA) has directed Neptune Ventures and Developers Private Limited, which failed to give promised possession of flats in B wing of Neptune Eleve project in Kanjurmarg in 2014, to shift the flat buyers to flats in C and D wing, which are likely to be completed earlier. So far, the Maha- RERA had given orders on individual complaints only.
The Neptune 100 Above Buyers’ Welfare Association, set up by 53 home buyers who had booked apartments in Neptune Eleve’s B wing in Kanjurmarg in suburban Mumbai, had filed a complaint with MahaRERA that despite paying 10 to 30 per cent of the flat cost between 2010 and 2012, the developer had entered into registered agreements and had failed to give possession promised in 2014.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
6. Two Carpenters Held For Killing Associate In Kherwadi
Kherwadi police have arrested two carpenters for beating their associate to death in a tiff over preparing a drawer on Wednesday night.
The deceased, identified as Sudhir Pawar, 25, was living with his elder brother in Sant Dnyaneshwar Nagar in Bandra East and was working as a carpenter with the accused -- Chotelal Sahini, 40 and Rakesh Sahini, 25. He had brought some carpentry orders for both Chotelal and Rakesh, but they were already running behind deadline.
Source: Mid-day
7. Mumbai: Rs 235 Crore Goregaon Flyover Is Now A Bedroom
In a city experiencing a space crunch, finding parking space is next to impossible, but autorickshaw drivers have surprisingly found a cozy stretch on a flyover to rest and sleep on.
Over the last few months, the Mrinal Gore flyover at Goregaon has become a makeshift bedroom for autorickshaw drivers. They park their vehicles on a stretch of the flyover at night, and sleep there at night. The BMC, which had constructed the 1.2-km-long flyover connecting SV Road to Western Express Highway last year, had been planning to extend the flyover further to connect it with the Link Road. For this, it had built another arm beside the main flyover, which is yet to be opened to traffic. This is the stretch drivers are using to rest.
Source: Mid-day
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