No more brooms: Mumbai's air plan wants vacuum cleaners and sealed debris trucks
Environment and Climate Change Minister Pankaja Munde has announced a Clean Air Action Programme for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, with vacuum cleaning machines for roads and a mandatory full cover for debris trucks. Guidelines will be ready in 15 to 20 days.
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Maharashtra
BREAKINGNo more brooms: Mumbai's air plan wants vacuum cleaners and sealed debris trucks
Environment and Climate Change Minister Pankaja Munde has announced a Clean Air Action Programme for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, with vacuum cleaning machines for roads and a mandatory full cover for debris trucks. Guidelines will be ready in 15 to 20 days.
BREAKINGProbe the Jarange audio clip through an SIT: BJP hits out at Raut
Demanded a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to verify the authenticity of an audio clip circulating in the name of Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange and to probe the ₹500-crore allegations arising from it.
BREAKINGTankers last: Maharashtra gives Nagpur, Amravati, Konkan 4 days to file village water plans
Nagpur, Amravati and Konkan divisions must file village-wise water-scarcity plans by 25 October. Minister Gulabrao Patil says tankers should be the last resort.
Politics
BREAKINGNo more brooms: Mumbai's air plan wants vacuum cleaners and sealed debris trucks
Environment and Climate Change Minister Pankaja Munde has announced a Clean Air Action Programme for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, with vacuum cleaning machines for roads and a mandatory full cover for debris trucks. Guidelines will be ready in 15 to 20 days.
Kavitha shuts the door on BRS, launches her own party and says Telangana is ready for a woman CM
K Kavitha, daughter of former Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao, has ruled out any return to the BRS, launched a new outfit called Telangana Rashtra Sena, and said the state is ready for a woman chief minister. She accused the Revanth Reddy government of turning Telangana into an 'ATM' for the Congress.
Forensic probe ordered into Jarange audio alleging Rs 500 crore paid via Shrikant Shinde
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has ordered a forensic examination of an audio clip released by Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange. One clip purportedly claims Rs 500 crore was delivered to him through Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Shinde.
Government
BREAKINGNo more brooms: Mumbai's air plan wants vacuum cleaners and sealed debris trucks
Environment and Climate Change Minister Pankaja Munde has announced a Clean Air Action Programme for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, with vacuum cleaning machines for roads and a mandatory full cover for debris trucks. Guidelines will be ready in 15 to 20 days.
Om Prakash Mathur reaches Thiruvananthapuram, to be sworn in as Kerala Governor on Friday
Governor-designate Om Prakash Mathur arrived in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday night and will be sworn in at the Lok Bhavan auditorium at 12.15 pm on Friday. He succeeds Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, who has moved to Tamil Nadu.
NDA will form next Punjab government, Amit Shah says, hits out at Rahul Gandhi over 'vote chori'
Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday accused Congress leader Rahul Gandhi of shielding the votes of "infiltrators" and claimed the NDA would form the next government in Punjab. The same day he laid the foundation for 43 Yamuna rejuvenation projects worth Rs 8,941 crore in Delhi.
Mumbai
Threat email names Mumbai Mayor's office, Bachchan's home and Diljit concert
The Mumbai Mayor's office received a bomb threat email on Friday that also named actor Amitabh Bachchan's Juhu home and the venue of singer Diljit Dosanjh's November 27 concert. Searches found nothing suspicious, and police are investigating the email's origin.
PWD contractors' pending dues: Maharashtra calls meeting on October 28
With crores in bills pending from the public works department, the state has called a meeting of contractors' associations in Mantralaya on October 28, to be chaired by PWD minister Shivendraraje Bhosale.
Fadnavis receives Rubio at Gateway of India, presents a traditional shawl
US secretary of state Marco Rubio visited the Gateway of India in Mumbai, where chief minister Devendra Fadnavis received him and his wife. Fadnavis presented him a traditional shawl.
National
Om Prakash Mathur reaches Thiruvananthapuram, to be sworn in as Kerala Governor on Friday
Governor-designate Om Prakash Mathur arrived in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday night and will be sworn in at the Lok Bhavan auditorium at 12.15 pm on Friday. He succeeds Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, who has moved to Tamil Nadu.
Cancelled Delhi meeting has broken Ladakh's trust, says Wangchuk
Activist Sonam Wangchuk accused the Centre of keeping Ladakh 'deprived of democracy' after a home ministry meeting was called off without explanation. He said leaders may go to the UN.
Navy espionage racket busted: 18 suspects, two arrests, an AI honey trap
Andhra Pradesh's Counter Intelligence Cell has uncovered a network leaking sensitive naval information to Pakistan's ISI under 'Operation Firewall-2026'. Eighteen suspects, 13 of them naval personnel, were identified across 10 states; two have been arrested.
World
Greece passes law banning social media for children under 15
Greece's parliament passed a law banning children under 15 from social media, the first such ban in the European Union. It takes effect on January 1, 2027, and will require age verification on social networks.
Modi, Tusk set 2030 target to double India-Poland trade, push early EU FTA
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk agreed to work towards doubling bilateral trade by 2030 and pressed for early signing and implementation of the India-EU free trade agreement. They also agreed to deepen cooperation in defence, space, nuclear energy and AI.
UN calls Nepal's glacier flood a 'defining moment', pegs recovery needs at $4.8 billion
The head of UNOPS, Jorge Moreira da Silva, said the August glacier flood in Nepal was one of the deadliest climate disasters ever, with recovery needs estimated at $4.8 billion — about 10 per cent of Nepal's GDP. A $50-million flash appeal has raised only $24.5 million so far.