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Swachh Survekshan Awards 2023: Indore, Surat ‘cleanest cities’ in India

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Indore and Surat were declared the joint cleanest cities of India as part of the Swachh Survekshan Awards presented by President Draupadi Murmu on Thursday.

This was the seventh time that Indore won the accolade of the cleanest city in India.

Navi Mumbai which came third in last year’s awards, retained its position.

Saswad in Maharashtra got the cleanest city award for urban centres with less than 1 lakh population. Patan in Chattisgarh and Lonavla in Maharashtra were the second and third cleanest cities in this category. Varanasi and Prayagraj were adjudged cleanest Ganga Towns.

MHOW Cantonment Board in Madhya Pradesh was given the award for cleanest cantonment town.

Union minister of housing and urban affairs Hardeep Singh Puri and secretary Manoj Joshi were present in the dais when the cities were awarded.

Swachh Survekshan, conducted by the union ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA) under the Swachh Bharat Urban Mission since 2016, is the world’s largest urban sanitation and cleanliness survey.

The exercise acts as a competition among towns and cities to improve their cleanliness, waste management service delivery to citizens.

Officials at the MoHUA said that the primary goal of Swachh Survekshan was to encourage large-scale citizen participation and create awareness amongst all sections of society about the importance of working together towards making towns and cities better places to reside in.

This year, which is the eighth year of the survey a total of 3,000 assessors conducted the assessment of more than 4,500 cities across 46 indicators.

Some of these indicators include segregated door-to-door waste collection, zero waste events, disabled-friendly toilets, improved plastic waste management.

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Osama Bin Laden is reborn in Owaisi! Nitesh Rane once again strongly criticizes AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi

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Mumbai: Maharashtra Minister Nitesh Rane once again criticized All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi, who had earlier called him equal to Osama bin Laden, but now he said that Osama bin Laden has been reborn in Asaduddin Owaisi, and that is why he has such ideas. There is no place for those who reflect such ideas in India. He showed venom in the case of Nida Khan and said that AIMIM had supported Nida Khan, but now as the facts have been exposed, AIMIM has also been exposed. Nitesh Rane, while describing India as a Hindu nation, said that this is a country of gods and goddesses. If someone does not accept Vande Mataram, then he should take his beard and round cap and go to his father’s Pakistan because they will not be tolerated in India. He said that could these people support India while living in Pakistan? Only these people do such things while living in India. Even after comparing Owaisi to Osama bin Laden, Nitesh Rane is sticking to his stance, and Rane has even declared AIMIM a terrorist organization.

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Instead of increasing parking fees by 40%, BMC should focus on affordable parking and traffic discipline, Raees Sheikh writes to Mumbai Municipal Commissioner

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Mumbai: As the Mumbai Municipal Corporation prepares to hike parking fees by 40 per cent, Samajwadi Party MLA from Bhiwandi East Raees Sheikh has written to Municipal Commissioner Ashwini Bhide, requesting him to review the current parking policy before increasing the fees and revive the defunct Mumbai Parking Authority (MPA). MLA Sheikh has demanded in the letter that the municipality should focus on improving traffic discipline and affordable parking instead of considering parking as a source of revenue generation. In his letter to the commissioner, MLA Raees Sheikh said that before making any changes in parking fees, a comprehensive review of the current parking policy and its implementation should be conducted. Citizens are facing many challenges due to inadequate parking infrastructure, uncontrolled parking on roads, lack of proper enforcement and irregularity of organized parking spaces. Before increasing parking fees, attention should be paid to making parking facilities affordable, transparent and accessible to the common citizen. MLA Raees Sheikh said that increasing fees without proper improvements in infrastructure and management can put unnecessary financial burden on residents, middle-class families, office workers and small traders. Stressing the need for strict enforcement of ‘no parking’ rules in the city, Raees Sheikh explained that traffic congestion due to illegal parking on roads, footpaths and squares is adding to the inconvenience of both pedestrians and motorists. Instead of just increasing parking fees, strict enforcement with better planning and digital monitoring system will help improve traffic discipline. The inefficient Mumbai Parking Authority should be revived so that parking management in the city is handled through a dedicated and accountable mechanism. MLA Raees Sheikh, in a letter to Commissioner Ashwini Bhide, suggested that a special authority could undertake scientific planning, formulate uniform parking policies, coordinate with the traffic police and transport departments and ensure a long-term solution to the growing number of vehicles in Mumbai.

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Major operation by Kandivali ANC unit, heroin worth Rs 4 crore seized, 2 accused arrested

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Mumbai: The Kandivali unit of the Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) has arrested two accused in a major drug bust near Yari Road in Versova area of ​​Andheri West.

During the raid, 765 grams of heroin, estimated to be worth around Rs 4 crore in the international market, was recovered from the accused.

The arrested accused are Arman Ayub Malik (32), a resident of Dehradun, Uttarakhand
▪️ Danish Bhoora Ali (23), a resident of Haridwar, Uttarakhand. Both the accused were arrested on May 10, 2026 at around 3 am. In this case, a case under Sections 8(a), 21(a) and 29 of the NDPS Act, 1985 has been registered under FIR No. 50/2026.

According to police officials, investigations are also underway against other people involved in this drug racket. This operation was carried out by a police team of Kandivali ANC Unit led by Mumbai Police Commissioner Mr. Devan Bharti, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Mr. Lakshmi Gautam, Additional Commissioner of Police Shailesh ANC and Senior Police Inspector Shashi Kant Jagdale of Kandivali Unit.

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