People wait in a queue for taxis outside Dadar railway station on the second day of the BEST strike (R, Photo credit: PTI) MUMBAI: Bus services continued to be badly affected across Mumbai on Sunday as the strike by employees of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking entered its third day.However, the BEST…
Mumbai woke up to a delightful change on Sunday as light showers swept across the city, easing the oppressive heat and humidity (Representative image) MUMBAI: Mumbai saw light rainfall across different parts of the city on Sunday morning.Between 6am and 7am, rain recorded in Ghatkopar was 24 mm, Chembur 20 mm, Mankhurd 16 mm, Worli…
Bollywood producer Rhea Kapoor (Image Credits: Instagram) MUMBAI: Police have registered an FIR after a make-up artist, part of Bollywood producer Rhea Kapoor’s team, complained that rented gold jewellery that she was carrying from India to the US for Kapoor to wear at the Met Gala was stolen en route. The gold jewellery was worth…
Mumbai: Sahar Police have registered an FIR after a make-up artist, part of Bollywood producer Rhea Kapoor’s team, complained that rented gold jewellery that she was carrying from India to the US for Kapoor to wear at the Met Gala was stolen en route. The gold jewellery was worth Rs 1.3 crore, police said.The 41-year-old…
MUMBAI: A total of 22.8 lakh students from across India, who were issued hall tickets for NEET (UG) 2026 re-exam, will take the medical entrance test on Sunday.Data from the National Testing Agency shows that 81% of the candidates are in the age-group of 17 to 20, 17% are between the ages of 21 and…
Mumbai: Even before the monsoon has arrived, Mumbai is witnessing an uptick in viral infections, with doctors reporting a simultaneous rise in Covid-19, H1N1 (formerly swine flu), other influenza A viruses and the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).City doctors said Covid has made a quiet comeback over the past week after H1N1 dominated clinics for nearly…
Mumbai: A retired Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) scientist has allegedly been duped of Rs 1.3 crore in a sophisticated online stock trading fraud scheme operated through a WhatsApp group. The fraudsters showed him virtual profits of several crores, and when he tried to withdraw, was informed that his account was blocked, and he was…
Mumbai: The BMC planned to complete acquisition of the land for the permanent right of way of the Mumbai Coastal Road (North) project between Versova and Bhayander within the next three months.The civic body has to acquire about 58 hectares and already acquired about 82 hectares of land for the project. The chief minister recently…
Mumbai: The state forest department’s mangrove cell has submitted a formal report to the taluka level administration that three illegal structures have come up within the eco sensitive mangrove buffer zone at Charkop, close to the proposed coastal road exit. The report, which was submitted on June 11 this year, also confirms mangrove destruction at…
Seven years later, the trial is yet to start Mumbai: “Mumma, where is Papa?,” seven-year-old Preesha often asks her mother. For Preesha, her father, Shailesh Mishra, is a figure stitched together from photographs and videos. She was just seven months old when Shailesh, a financial advisor, was killed in a road crash caused by an…
