The Latest Breaking News from Mumbai

MUMBAI: The Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown affected smokers in a diverse manner. While nearly a third of smokers interviewed for a national survey said they either cut down smoking or thought of quitting, fearing Covid-19 would severely affect them, another one-third increased smoking due to "loneliness" and "boredom" brought…

KOLKATA: A family from Kolkata that had travelled to Maldives earlier this month via Mumbai has alleged misbehaviour and harassment by airline ground staff prior to their departure for Malé. The family lodged a complaint with Sahar police station in Mumbai on Friday.

MUMBAI: For the first time in Maharashtra, four patients of B.A.4 sub-lineage and three cases of B.A.5 sub-lineage of the Omicron variant of coronavirus have been found, the state health department said on Saturday.

MUMBAI: A Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) bus heading from Bhusawal in Jalgaon district to Boisar plunged around 25 feet downhill at the Waghoba ghat in Palghar on Friday morning.

MUMBAI: A police inspector attached to Deonar police station was caught accepting a bribe by the anti corruption bureau on Friday.

MUMBAI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a petition on Thursday before the Bombay high court for directions to the state to transfer to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and stay the ongoing probe into an FIR registered by the state anti-corruption bureau against hotelier Jeetu Navlani.

MUMBAI: Abhimanyu Gupta, a well-known YouTuber, who allegedly committed theft and house break-ins to fund his extravagant lifestyle, was arrested by the Vinobha Bhave Nagar police in Kurla.

MUMBAI: Over a decade after he fled the country, Vipul Patel, an accused in the 2003 murder of a US based model, was extradited from Prague in Czech Republic. A police team from the Mira-Bhayander Vasai-Virar commissionerate returned with him on Friday. He will be produced before the Bombay high…

MUMBAI: City Police commissioner Sanjay Pandey has initiated an inquiry into the conduct of two police officers in the investigation into the Dharavi gang rape case. They have been accused of shoddy investigations and wrongly arresting two teenaged brothers without any concrete evidence.

MUMBAI: Two men who came on a bike threatened an employee of a jewellery shop with a knife, hurled chilli powder on his face and snatched his bag with gold worth Rs 55 lakh at VP Road, the police said. The employee was on his way to deliver the gold…

MUMBAI: The Mumbai city is now the only district in Maharashtra where fewer than 30% of the young teenagers have taken at least one shot of the Covid-19 vaccine. Mumbai is behind the state average in vaccination of children between the ages of 12 and 14 years by a considerable…