BEST not keen on new services on freeway

Mumbai residents will have to pay more for power from this year as the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) Undertaking, which supplies electricity to central and south Mumbai, sent a tariff hike proposal to the state power regulator on ...

Following the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) bus accident on Saturday with a dumper, which injured 19 people, the body has decided to enlist drivers involved in minor collisions in a 21-day refresher training course. Instructions to this ...

MUMBAI: In an attempt to improve the connectivity between the international airport and the rest of the city, the Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking, along with airport authorities, are contemplating a dedicated

CONNECTKaro sustainable transport and urban planning in India conference. Sessions included Bus Karo Plus Activities for 2012 and Plans for 2013, Bus Rapid Transit Stories from 2013 (in partnership with Asia BRT Association), and more. 15th and ...

After weekend's heavy downpour, SoBo locals dialled the helpline but it kept ringing; even BEST committee members could not get the control room to answer their SOS Mumbai Shashank Rao ...

It has almost become a habit for Sharad Rao (in pic) and his legions to threaten strikes, and then call them off at the eleventh hour. By Rao's own admission, it is just another tactic of unions to get their work done.Lakhs of people held their ...

Shankar Bhoir, a security guard at Mumbai's ill-fated Altaf Manzil building recollects his horror Even as his employers mourn, Shankar Bhoir, 50, sits with a dazed look at the KB Bhabha Hospital in Mumbai’s suburban Bandra. Only hours ago, he was sitting with his back to Altaf building where he works as a security guard and was jolted as portions of it came down on him. It felt like it was raining stones he said and before he knew it, he was under the rubble. His survival instincts kicked ...

A proposal to connect these roads was moved by the then Congress corporator Rajendra Prasad Chaube in April 2011. Good news for Dahisar residents. The document on a proposal that could help ease their traffic woes in the area has finally been ...

An RTI query revealed that the undertaking receives Rs 10 and Rs 100 notes that amount to about Rs 25.46 lakh and Rs 2.26 crore respectively every day, but little in change; officials say that conductors are given sufficient change before shifts ...