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City recorded highest 24-hour rainfall in May since 2021, Colaba breaks 117-year-old record

MUMBAI, May 28 -- A day after the India Meteorological Department declared the onset of the monsoon, the city received the highest one-day rainfall in May since 2021, when the extremely severe cycloni... Read More


Mithi desilting stuck midway as 2 contractors held, 1 blacklisted

MUMBAI, May 28 -- This year, a little over half the desilting work on the Mithi River will be complete, leaving areas along its banks vulnerable to flooding during the monsoon. Desilting the highly po... Read More


State toll rises to 8; CM assures compensation

Mumbai, May 28 -- Maharashtra has witnessed a trail of destruction over the past three days as relentless rainfall claimed eight lives and wreaked havoc across several districts. The deaths were repor... Read More


HC raps Pune college for rusticating student over Op Sindoor post

MUMBAI, May 28 -- The Bombay high court on Tuesday directed the state government to immediately release the 19-year-old engineering student from Pune who was arrested for allegedly posting objectionab... Read More


State to contact British govt for restoration of Savarkar's degree

MUMBAI, May 28 -- In a significant move to honour the legacy of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, the state government has announced that it will initiate formal efforts to restore his barrister degree, which... Read More


Shah meets CM, dy CMs during curtailed visit

Mumbai, May 28 -- Union home minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah held meetings with chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and deputy chief ministers Eknath Shinde and Ajit Pawar before curtailing his ... Read More


Duo handed life terms for murder after 8 years

THANE, May 28 -- Eight years after two men fatally stabbed a house owner and seriously injured his wife during a house burglary attempt in Bhiwandi, a special MCOCA court on Tuesday sentenced them to ... Read More


Bogus accounts, transfers used to conceal culprits

MUMBAI, May 28 -- A multi-state money laundering investigation by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) into a crime syndicate that allegedly extorted Rs.1.15 crore from a victim by placing him under digit... Read More


Karjat farmhouse leased for goat farming busted as drug factory

MUMBAI, May 28 -- The RCF police on Monday busted a drug manufacturing factory at a farmhouse in Karjat, which was leased by at least four people on the pretext of goat farming, officers said. Followi... Read More


15-yr-old 1st in city to get latest heart valve

MUMBAI, May 28 -- A 15-year-old Mumbai boy with a congenital heart defect is the city's first to receive the Harmony Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve-a cutting-edge valve-replacement procedure, where an ... Read More