As the Muslim month of Moharram begins this week (June 26 or 27, depending on the sighting of the new moon), the pulsating Pala Galli aka Hazrat Abbas Street in Dongri prepares to be draped in black. Rooftops, shopfronts, windowsills and sabeels (water fountains) will be adorned with black flags and banners, signalling the sacred…
MUMBAI: Could this be the typical Mumbaikar instinct to rush to catch a just-missed local train? A 25-year-old man from Kalamboli who darted across the city airport after missing his flight was arrested on Thursday for entering the apron — the area where planes are parked, hoping to board the flight he had just missed.Security…
Promptly responding to the alert received at 12:41 pm, Mumbai Fire Brigade personnel, along with police and other emergency services, were dispatched to the scene behind R City Mall on LBS road. MUMBAI: A fire broke out on the fourth floor of a 15-storey residential tower in Ghatkopar (West) on Sunday afternoon. The Mumbai Fire…
Mumbai: A day after being appointed as a director on the Mumbai District Central Co-operative Bank (MDCCB), former Shiv Sena (UBT) corporator Tejasvee Ghosalkar said on Saturday that politics and the cooperative sector were two different things. Ghosalkar stated that it would be wrong to view her appointment through a political lens. She said that…
MUMBAI: There is a megablock on Central Railway’s Matunga-Mulund slow lines from 11.05 am to 3.55 pm today. The Up slow line services departing Thane from 11.07 am to 3.51 pm will be diverted onto the Up fast line at Mulund, between Mulund and Matunga stations. They will halt at Mulund, Bhandup, Vikhroli, Ghatkopar, Kurla,…
Mumbai: Even as Bombay high court permitted a woman to terminate her over 25-week pregnancy, her estranged partner offered to be with her during the “entire ordeal” and bear the expenses.“He immediately offered to deposit an amount of Rs 1 lakh in the account of the petitioner for medical and legal expenses to be incurred…
Mumbai Observing that the act of the accused and his continued course of conduct created a situation that left the victim with no choice, a sessions court last week sentenced a 30-year-old man to four years of rigorous imprisonment for abetting the suicide of his former lover, a married woman with children, in 2020. The…
Mumbai: Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) was appointed as the nodal agency to plan and develop a Multimodal Transport Hub (MMTH) as part of Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP). This move was formalised through a govt resolution issued on June 18, following a high-level meeting chaired by the chief minister on Apr 21.The proposed hub…
These weather details have been sourced from AQI.in, providing residents with comprehensive information for planning their daily activities and week ahead.Mumbai is experiencing moderate rainfall on June 22, 2025, with temperatures ranging between 27.7°C and 29.6°C, accompanied by high humidity levels of 75% and wind gusts up to 29.9 km/h. The city faces a 97%…
Mumbai: Three years after splitting P-North Ward into two, BMC is still struggling to find an office for the newly carved P-East ward. With BMC elections around the corner, BJP has demanded that BMC acquire a plot of land in Malad (east) to construct a new office for P-East ward. In 2023, the state govt…
