Today’s Top News Headlines and Latest News at 10:30 am on 26 March 2024

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In top national news: If deteriorating air quality over the past few years has emerged as a major concern for Mumbai, its fast-depleting urban green cover has only compounded the problems. The city has witnessed the felling of at least 21,028 trees over the past six years, according to data provided by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to The Indian Express under the RTI Act. The trees were felled largely to make way for development projects such as the Metro, bullet train, coastal road, sewage treatment plant (STP) and the Goregaon-Mulund Link Road among others. The BMC data also shows that...