Visitors watch waves crash against the Marine Drive promenade under dark monsoon skies Photograph by SL Shanth Kumar/TNN MUMBAI: “Bro yeh har saal ka hai, Andheri subway shut hi hoga,” Mumbaikars barely flinch when the season’s first spell of heavy rain arrives. Social media fills up with memes about flooded roads, stranded commuters and delayed…
Tree uprooted near Dadar flower market, traffic restored after clearance MUMBAI: A tree fell on the road near Meenatai Thackeray Flower Market in Dadar (West) in the early hours of Saturday. The incident was reported around 2.31 am.The Mumbai Fire Brigade, police, and the BMC’s Garden Department were mobilised to the spot to clear the…
Navi Mumbai: A 41-year-old man working as a postal assistant was arrested by Vashi GRP for allegedly stalking and secretly video recording a 30-year-old woman colleague on his mobile phone when she was seated with a male friend while travelling in the general compartment of a CSMT-Panvel-bound train on June 30. Kiran Undre, senior inspector…
The family accused the crime branch of evasion and lethargy Mumbai: The family of the late NCP politician Baba Siddique, who was shot dead in Oct 2024, moved a special court on Friday seeking directions to Mumbai police to take custody of alleged gangster Anmol Bishnoi, an accused in the case who was deported from…
Navi Mumbai: The Dehrang dam owned by the Panvel City Municipal Corporation (PCMC) started overflowing from Thursday morning.The dam, supplying 16 million litres of water per day (MLD) to the Panvel township, gave major relief to the residents. Excessive rainfall in the dam catchment area located below the foothills of Matheran led to its overflow.Meanwhile,…
Navi Mumbai: After the falling of around a hundred trees in the last 3-4 days with the advent of monsoon, tree-pruning work continued on a war footing on a daily basis through the garden department of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation, as dangerous trees were inspected and the removal of such trees remained in progress….
Orchids International School in Sion was declared illegal last month over lack of OC and govt recognition Mumbai: A month after being declared unauthorised by the education department, Orchids International School in Sion has resumed physical classes under a new name—The Institute of Learning and Education—leaving more than 400 students caught in a legal and…
Delay is also affecting the supply of medicines, medical devices, surgical consumables and to government hospitals Mumbai: The All Food and Drug Licence Holders Foundation (AFDLHF) has warned that medical suppliers across the state will be on an indefinite hunger strike outside the Maharashtra Medical Goods Procurement Authority on Monday to protest long-overdue payments.In a…
Mumbai: A desalination plant at Manori, which can supply 200 million litres per day (MLD) of water, is expected to be ready in four years, said industries minister Uday Samant in the assembly on Friday. Once it is ready, 1,000 litres of water is expected to cost around Rs 35, that is, 17p per litre,…
The wet spell continued on Friday with over 100mm rainfall lashing many parts of Mumbai Mumbai: Even as the wet spell continued on Friday with over 100mm rainfall lashing many parts of the city, India Meteorological Department (IMD) sounded this monsoon’s first ‘red’ alert warning for the weekend across the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), forecasting…
