The Latest Breaking News from Mumbai

NAVI MUMBAI: MMR areas such as Sewri and Thane creek saw a record 1.33 lakh flamingos in April-May this year, say researchers from the Bombay Natural History Society and Mangrove Foundation. The figure is much higher than last year’s observation of 1.03 lakh birds here.

MUMBAI: A day after the central government cut excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 8 and Rs 6 respectively, the state government’s value added tax (VAT), which is levied on an ad valorem (according to value) basis, automatically reduced by Rs 2.08 and Rs 1.44 per litre of…

MUMBAI: By the end of 2026, as many as 220 married Navy officers will get accommodation keys to a 62-storey building to be constructed at Navy Nagar, Colaba. The high-rise will be the tallest defence building in the country, according to military engineering services (MES) for the armed forces). The…

MUMBAI: The BJP-led Centre should first bring Dawood Ibrahim from Pakistan, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said on Sunday, while reacting to the recent remarks of the special PMLA court on NCP’s Nawab Malik’s links to the 1993 serial blasts accused.

MUMBAI: The state has no plans to procure or provide booster shots for people in the 18-59 age group from its coffers at the moment. The Centre had stated that those below 60 years of age could get the booster shot at private vaccination centres. However, in more than a…

MUMBAI: Two men, employed as customer relations advisors of a subsidiary unit of an Indian multinational company, were booked for stealing the customer database and selling it to the company’s rival firm for a high commission during the Covid-19 lockdown between June 2020 and June 2021.

MUMBAI: City police chief Sanjay Pandey on Sunday reprimanded his personnel for not behaving well with citizens at police stations. The admonishment, which came during a Facebook Live session, was the result of complaints about behaviour of policemen. Pandey has banned constables from using their phones while on bandobast duty,…

MUMBAI: Quick action by the police helped stop a 15-year-old schoolboy from ending his life by drowning himself at a lake in Aarey Colony on Friday.

MUMBAI: In what is believed to be a first for a local police station, a team from the Mira Bhayander Vasai Virar commissionerate has landed in Prague in Czech Republic, to extradite one of two men accused of murdering a US-based model 19 years ago.