Shiv Sena has so far expressed concerns over car shed for the city's planned metro network, the bullet train and the West Coast refinery projects
Thackeray clarified that he had not stayed the work of the Mumbai metro rail project itself
Government-to-government negotiations were held on Wednesday and it was decided that 25 concrete projects would be carried out between the two countries
The top court asked the BMC to submit a status report on the activities proposed in the Aarey forest area
As many as 55,000 buyers have been affected by stalled projects in Mumbai Metropolitan Region and are awaiting completion of these projects
BMC tells SC it is not going to cut any more trees, top court seeks status report on plantation and transplantation
A bench of justices Arun Mishra and Deepak Gupta sought a status report with pictures on plantation, transplantation and felling of trees in Aarey colony area of BMC
The villagers said do not want to lose their land to make way for a car shed as it is their only source of livelihood
Activists hope Aarey case changes norms at a time of global climate protests
With Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru and some other cities building metro networks to overcome choked roads, trains and buses, more than Rs 1 trillion was invested in metro rail projects in 2018-19
Normalcy has returned to the area where movement of people and transport has resumed
MMRCL tells apex court it had already felled the trees needed to be cut for the metro car shed project, SC asks it to maintain status quo
The corporation is executing 33.5-km long Colaba-Speez Metro 3 and has alreay cut as much as 2,141 trees in the disputed site
On Sunday, the court received a letter by the students' group against the axing of trees in the Aarey forest, decided to pursue it as PIL and constituted a "special bench" to hear the matter
The court has asked the Union Environment ministry to be a party in the matter
However, the protesters are unlikely to walk out of the Thane jail on Sunday pending completion of the legal procedure and other formalities
Most of the shops, restaurants and roadside stalls remained closed in the area in view of the imposition of Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), banning unlawful assembly, since Saturday
The police on Saturday imposed section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code in Aarey, restricting movements and gathering of groups, and cordoned off the area
Protests broke out in Aarey Colony in north Mumbai on Friday night after MMRC started cutting trees for construction of a car shed for Mumbai Metro's phase III
Actor Urmila Matondkar said what was happening at Aarey was 'truly incomprehensible'