On World Water Day, 350 volunteers, led by environmentalist Subhajit Mukherjee, removed 3,000 kg of plastic from Manori Beach. This significant cleanup, involving students and various groups, filled over 400 garbage bags. The initiative, supported by Leave India, marks the start of a year-long mission to tackle the 100 tonnes of plastic still polluting the…
Safety concerns mount as Mahim Reti Bunder Beach lacks lighting MUMBAI: Mahim social worker Syed M. Ismail has urged the BEST electricity wing and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to immediately restore and expand street lighting at Mahim’s Reti Bunder Beach, warning that poor illumination is putting public safety at risk.According to Ismail, several street lights…
Commuters faced disruptions today as Central Railway implemented a megablock on the Trans Harbour line between Thane (File Photo) MUMBAI: Commuters could be inconvenienced today due to megablock on Trans Harbour line of Central Railway.The block is being carried out on the line between Thane and Vashi/Nerul stations from 11.10 am to 4.10 pm for…
Navi Mumbai: The Palm Beach Greens Forum, a group of local residents, will organise a silent human chain protest in front of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation headquarters on Tuesday. The two-hour-long protest is being organised to save the 440 trees to be affected due to the proposed subway road underneath the Palm Beach Road…
MUMBAI : There will be no day block on the Western Railway suburban today and this will be a relief to several commuters.A block was undertaken overnight between Vasai Road and Virar from 12.15 am to 4.15 am, while a major block was also carried out at Prabhadevi station from 1.30 am to 6 am…
Two Tunnel Boring Machines for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project have arrived MUMBAI: Two Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) for the underground stretch of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project are set to arrive at Jawaharlal Nehru Port on Monday, marking a breakthrough after months of delays linked to geopolitical factors that held up consignments in China.Officials…
AIMIM’s M East ward committee chairperson Khairunnisa Akbar Hussain faced controversy after displaying her husband’s photograph in her office MUMBAI: The AIMIM, which for the first time secured a ward committee chairperson’s post in the civic polls, landed in a controversy in M East ward after chairperson Khairunnisa Akbar Hussain put up her husband’s photograph…
On the 27th day of Ramzan (March 17), the iconic Sunni Badi Masjid in Madanpura, central Mumbai, held a brief ceremony. At the conclusion of the recitation of the Quran’s final verses, the mosque felicitated a few people, including two hafizs who led the tarawih—the special night prayers during the holy month. Hafiz Jibreel and…
MUMBAI: In his book ‘Unlikely Paradise’, written during his time in prison, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut has alleged that former vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar resigned in 2025 under pressure from ED in response to his “independent political moves against the Modi govt”. The Marathi book came out in 2025 and its English version, which…
For the audience settling into their seats, ‘Wicked’ begins with the sort of theatrical flourish Broadway has perfected over decades. Music from the orchestral pit swells as a witch lifts into the air, a pink bubble floats in, a train rattles towards Oz and one scene melts into another so seamlessly that the mechanics barely…
