Mumbai: Even as Mumbai continued to wake up to cooler mornings with minimum temperatures staying below the 20-degree mark, the city’s air quality deteriorated sharply on Sunday. The overall air quality index (AQI) rose to 136, slipping from a ‘satisfactory’ 86 on Christmas Eve (December 24) and worsening steadily over the past few days, even…
Mumbai: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday released its third list of 15 candidates for the upcoming BMC elections. With this, the party has now announced 51 candidates. It plans to contest all 227 seats across Mumbai.On Dec 25, the party announced 36 candidates, while last week it announced 21 candidates. This is the first…
Mumbai: With harmful water hyacinth once again carpeting large swathes of the 210-hectare Powai Lake in Mumbai, environmental groups have launched a tongue-in-cheek contest—”Spot the Lake”—inviting citizens to locate the waterbody amid the dense green mat of weeds. The initiative, led by NatConnect Foundation, aims to jolt authorities and the public into recognising that interventions…
In the open-air plaza of Mumbai’s oldest museum, a long, zig-zag wall of cloth ripples in the breeze. At first glance, it looks like a giant curtain. Step closer to squint at the crimson prints on it and the cloth becomes a partition: neat plant patterns on one side and chaotic termite marks on the…
Mumbai: Central Railway, Mumbai division, announced on Friday that it will operate a megablock on its suburban sections on Dec 28 to carry out various engineering and maintenance works. On the Main line, the Matunga–Mulund fast lines will be blocked from 11.05 am to 3.45 pm.On the Harbour line, the CSMT–Chunabhatti/Bandra down harbour line will…
Mumbai: A fire broke out at City Mall on New Link Road near PVR Cinema in Andheri West on Saturday afternoon. It took almost an hour to bring it fully under control, with no injuries reported, said officials.According to the Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB), a fire call was received around 2:06pm, following which fire engines…
Mumbai: A 34-year-old caregiver accused of defrauding an 82-year-old retired IIT Bombay professor of nearly Rs 7 crore was granted bail. Nikita Vijay Naik was in judicial custody since June 2025. Additional Sessions Judge DG Dhoble observed that the continued detention of the accused would amount to “pre-trial punishment,” given that the investigation is complete…
MUMBAI: A 45-year-old woman has died from injuries suffered in a fire that broke out at a chawl in Andheri East last week, while two others remain in critical condition, civic officials said on Sunday.The fire was reported at around 7.16 am on December 21 at Vijay Nagar, Ramabai Ambedkar Nagar Chawl in Andheri East….
Chaitanya Marpakwar Mumbai: After almost a week of negotiations between the BJP and Shiv Sena for the BMC polls, Mumbai BJP chief Ameet Satam on Saturday said that the two parties finalised a 128-79 (BJP-Sena) formula, but talks on 20 more seats were still pending. Satam mentioned that a decision on these 20 seats would…
MUMBAI: Most global cities have regulations to control micro-skylines within precincts. These are conscious decisions taken to ensure that the ‘look’ of the city is managed in a controlled and planned manner, while simultaneously permitting development to take care of people’s needs. But unlike many global cities, Mumbai is perhaps the only one where the…
