Soon, BEST app will help ease travellers’ woes

The app will alert BEST bus commuters about waterlogging, ongoing agitation, traffic jams owing to protest and road accidents.

3 cars collide, 8 injured as heavy rains lash city

The weather observatory in Santacruz recorded 58mm rainfall in the same period.

Mr Rao said that not a single word has been said on the merger of the BEST budget with that of the Brihan-mumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).

The BEST administration also plans to add more bus stops on long routes for hybrid buses.

The administration does not have any plan on how it will clear the dues of retired employees.

The tribunal, while deciding the petition, relied upon the case’s police FIR and panchanama.

The BEST has around 3, 500 buses in its fleet and keeps at least two devices for each bus as a back up.

Around nine unions of the BEST formed an action committee, which has been holding talks with the administration.

The incident took place on Thursday at the house of one of the accused in Dwarlipada of Ambernath.

A provisional claim of Rs 4.85 crore has been slapped on the restaurant owner as the BEST suspects the theft was going on for last 10 years.