Government college buildings in Maharashtra to be audited for first timeThe structural fitness of government college buildings in the state will be audited for the first time.The state plans a safety check on ca...
Foot-over bridge connecting Elphinstone & Parel stations becomes operationalWork on the 6-metre-wide FOB was initiated on September 29 last year, the day on which a stampede at Elphinstone Road FOB staircase killed ...
Railway Minister hospitalised in Mumbai; stableBefore hospitalisation, Goyal visited suburban Elphinstone Road and Currey Road stations to take stock of ongoing construction of the Foot ...
Army to help build foot overbridge at Elphinstone stationFadnavis, who accompanied Defence minister Sitharaman and Railway Minister Goyal, said the Army will also help in building foot overbridges...
High level panel to probe delay in tendering process of Elphinstone rail foot overbridgeFormer Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu had approved the proposal for a new bridge in April 2015. However, tender is yet to be awarded.
Western Railway probe blames heavy rain for Mumbai stampedeAccording to the report, the stampede was caused by heavy rains which forced people outside at the ticket counters to rush to the already j...
Elphinstone Stampede: High Court pulls up activists for closing eyes to problemOn September 29, a stampede on the stairwell of a narrow foot over bridge (FOB) at the station left 23 dead and over 30 injured.
Mumbai's Elphinstone bridge widening didn’t need any clearanceAfter the accident, Prabhu issued a statement claiming that he during his tenure had sanctioned a wider foot-overbridge (FOB) at Elphinston...
In the wake of Mumbai stampede, Railways announces measures to improve passenger safetyRailways has also decided to delegate financial and administration powers to field units by October 2017 to reduce red tape and push develo...
Death toll in Elphinstone stampede in Mumbai rises to 23The dean of the hospital, Avinash Supe, said the deceased was identified as Satyendrakumar Kanojia who was in his late forties.
Mumbai netizens question bullet train, slam station renaming spreeInflamed hashtags such as #priorities and #22slainbystate lampooned the state for renaming Elphinstone station as 'Prabhadevi' and going fo...
22 crushed to death in Mumbai station stampede; Rail minister orders probeA desperate attempt to avoid a sudden burst of heavy rains forced people to crowd together in a narrow, decades-old bridge leading to the d...
Government priorities skewed, say ally & Opposition after Mumbai stampedeHundreds of Shiv Sena activists shouted slogans against Goyal and Maharashtra Education Minister Vinod Tawde near the KEM Hospital when the...
Papa you go ahead, I will come: last words of one stampede victimSuddenly it started raining, and the crowd on the bridge swelled. Father was propelled forward by pressing bodies, while his daughter was s...
Now, Mumbai's Elphinstone Road station renamed as PrabhadeviThe station, which was named after Lord Elphinstone, the Governor of Bombay Presidency from 1853 to 1860, has now been renamed in honour of...
Where to find rentals below Rs 20,000 in South MumbaiLocalities in Elphinstone which could be targeted include areas around Satyam Co-op Housing Society, places close to the Elphinstone railwa...
- FIBA promises BFI help to find professional league sponsor
The International Basketball Federation promised to help Basketball Federation of India in finding a "good" sponsor for it's proposed inaug...