Mumbai: The Veterinary Health Department of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation has started cremation grounds for small animals and birds at Deonar Abattoir and Mahalaxmi. The High Court had directed the start of cremation grounds for small animals. Following these directions, both the facilities have been completed and made available for use from April 1, 2026. Due to this, separate incinerator crematorium facilities have been made available in the city, eastern and western suburbs of Mumbai, which will help the local people, said Additional Municipal Commissioner (City) Dr. Ashwini Joshi. According to the instructions of Municipal Commissioner Ashwini Bhide. Additional Municipal Commissioner (City) Dr. Ashwini Joshi, various steps are being taken by the Mumbai Municipal Administration regarding stray and domestic dogs in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. In this context, crematoriums have been arranged for the scientific and eco-friendly cremation of small dead animals.

Additional Municipal Commissioner (City) Dr. Ashwani Joshi said that from April 1, 2026, cremation work has been started in the premises of Deonar Animal Hospital in Mahalaxmi and Animal Hospital managed by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and Tata Trust. Of these, animals or birds weighing up to 500 kg can be cremated in the crematorium in Deonar. This crematorium runs on clean and eco-friendly PNG fuel. Animals or birds weighing up to 50 kg can be cremated in the crematorium in Mahalaxmi. This crematorium is completely electricity-based. Meanwhile, the crematorium in Malad has been functioning since 2023. Due to this, a separate cremation system has now been created in all three parts of the Mumbai region, namely the city, eastern and western suburbs. The Veterinary Health Department of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation has made online facilities available through the crematorium and animal related website https://vhd.mcgm.gov.in. However, by registering at the link https://vhd.mcgm.gov.in/incineration-booking, the last rites of the deceased animal can be performed at the selected crematorium at the selected time. Dr. Kalimpasha Pathan, Head of the Veterinary Health Department on behalf of the Municipal Corporation administration, said that for more information or assistance, contact the helpline number 7564976649.

Mumbai: An important meeting was held today with Returning Officer (RO) Ramdas Dagde, Election Commission officers and BLOs regarding the voter mapping process in Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar assembly constituency. The issues faced by the public during the mapping were discussed in detail in the meeting.

Key points of the meeting:
Shortage of BLOs: 300 BLOs are required in the area, but only 180 are available. Since most of them are teachers, the number of active BLOs is around 80.

Slow pace: Due to shortage of staff, only 22% of the mapping has been completed so far, people are forced to make rounds to the RO office. Abu Asim Azmi Foundation and Samajwadi Party administration are extending full cooperation. The list of BLA (Booth Level Agent) from each ward is being submitted to the Election Commission to assist the BLO. Issues related to issuing receipts after mapping, double names in other states and old records before 2002 were also discussed. In this regard, the public has been appealed to participate in this mapping. All the residents of the area are appealed to keep the necessary documents of their entire family ready so that no one’s name is deleted from the voter list.

Mumbai: The investigation into the Nashik TCS case has now been joined by other investigative agencies including the NIA and ATS. Several important conclusions have been made in this case, so the Nashik police have invited the investigative agencies to join the investigation. The police have registered 9 FIRs in the Mumbai Nashik TCS religious conversion sexual harassment case, in which 9 accused have been named. These accused are accused of abusing their position and authority to harass women at the workplace and also agitating the religious sentiments of the employees. In this case, cases have been registered in Nashik police stations under sections including sexual harassment, hurting religious sentiments, harassment at work and other sections. All the accused have been found to be related to each other, including 2 women and the rest are men.

Nashik Police Commissioner Sandeep Karnik claims that the police have registered a case and started investigation in this matter, along with which several accused have been arrested, along with Nida Khan being a key accused in this matter. In the investigation so far, the police have found that TCS employees had made allegations including religious conversion, sexual harassment, harassment of women at their workplace, hurting religious sentiments, and conspiring to form a group.

In this case, the police are now trying to find out why these accused formed a group to carry out religious conversions and other matters and who is behind it. There are suspicions that their company has also received foreign funding. In such a situation, the National Security Agency NIA and ATS have also entered this investigation. Nashik Police Commissioner Sandeep Karnik has sent letters to the investigating agencies and requested them to join the investigation. Along with this, these agencies can also investigate matters ranging from foreign funding to terror funding. After this Nashik case, politics has also started on it and political leaders have also started giving it a new word, corporate jihad, which is why this matter has now become very sensitive. In this case, the families of the accused have denied the serious allegations and have said that the issue of religious conversion and corporate jihad is limited only to the media, while there is no such issue in this case.