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Mumbai faces severe disruption as heavy rains and strong winds prompt authorities to advise private offices to enable work-from-home. MUMBAI: With heavy rain lashing Mumbai and the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issuing a red alert for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, the Maharashtra State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) on Monday advised private companies to allow employees…

Delta run by Jaydev Mody owns casinos in Goa and Sikkim and is described as the only publicly listed companies in the regulated casino gaming field. MUMBAI: Bombay high court intervened in a gaming and hospitality company Delta Corp’s challenge to an April action by Meta Platforms Inc of suspending eight of its official IG…

Maharashtra’s IT Minister Ashish Shelar has received urgent calls from leading drone manufacturers to update the Unmanned Systems Policy-2026 (Representative image enhanced with AI) MUMBAI: Weeks after state govt unveiled its automated systems policy to regulate the use, research and manufacturing of drones, robotics and autonomous vehicles, leading drone makers have criticised the policy, warning…

BMC said it received 423 complaints related to fallen trees or branches and 29 complaints of wall or house collapses across Mumbai. MUMBAI: Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday chaired a high-level review meeting at the Disaster Control Room in Mantralaya to assess the flood and landslide situation after incessant rain battered several parts…

Three Dubai-owned vessels, previously implicated in a fuel theft and smuggling racket, are in distress off Mumbai’s coast MUMBAI: An unmanned Nicaragua-flagged merchant tanker, MT Al Jafzia, ran aground near Manori Island on Sunday after its anchor chain snapped amid rough weather, while two other anchored vessels drifted closer to the coast, officials said.The other…

Considering the wind impact, Mumbai has been placed under a ‘red’ alert. MUMBAI: Mumbai Mayor Ritu Tawde on Sunday said all Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) schools will remain closed till Tuesday and that the closure could be extended by another day or two amid relentless rainfall in the city.According to news agency ANI, Tawde said…

Heavy rainfall has caused significant disruptions on the Pune-Mumbai Expressway and the old highway, leading to traffic suspension. PUNE/MUMBAI: Traffic on both the Pune-Mumbai Expressway and the old Pune-Mumbai highway was suspended on Monday after incessant rain triggered flooding, waterlogging and a landslide, severely disrupting connectivity between the two cities.Authorities urged commuters to avoid all…

Maharashtra’s Raigad district experienced severe waterlogging on the Mumbai-Goa highway due to heavy rainfall, causing traffic to halt for hours and stranding thousands. MUMBAI: Heavy rain brought traffic on the Mumbai-Goa Highway to a crawl after severe waterlogging inundated key stretches in Maharashtra’s Raigad district, leaving thousands of commuters stranded and triggering hours-long traffic snarls,…

Navi Mumbai: The state govt has formally notified to hand over 22,334 sq m plot to the Matheran Hill Station Municipal Council free of cost for developing a parking lot.A multilayer parking lot can be developed to accommodate more cars of the tourists, easing their inconvenience. The plot is located close to Dasturi Naka. The…

The city witnessed triple-digit rains in the last five days, with July 4-5 recording the highest rainfall so far since the monsoon’s arrival. MUMBAI: As persistent showers broke a five-decade-old record in the island city amid unusually strong winds across Mumbai, a tragedy struck Mankhurd late Sunday when a four-storey structure collapsed onto an adjoining…