Mumbai Local train and bus services were affected on Friday due to heavy downpours since early morning. Public transport was slowed down due to waterlogging on some roads and railway tracks. According to commuters, the suburban trains are running at least 15 to 20 minutes late, reported PTI. As per the PTI report, water has…
Known for speaking out and expressing his views in public, Naseeruddin Shah`s journey from mainstream Bollywood cinema `Hum Paanch` in 1980 to the brilliant Bollywood thriller `The Tashkent Files` in 2019 has been worth cherishing. As Naseeruddin Shah celebrates his 74th birthday, here`s a treat of titles starring the award-winning actor for fans to rejoice…
Get ready for an adrenaline rush as Zee Studios and Roy Kapur Films are all set to light up Valentine`s Day with their high-octane action thriller `Deva,` starring none other than Shahid Kapoor. Shahid Kapoor `Deva` release date Directed by acclaimed Malayalam filmmaker Rosshan Andrrews, and produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur `Deva` promises an action-packed…
Legendary actor Dharmendra recently paid a visit to the sets of `Laughter Chefs Unlimited Entertainment` and spent some quality time with the team of the TV show. Singer Rahul Vaidya on Thursday took to Instagram and dropped a heartwarming video with Dharmendra. In the clip, he can be seen crooning veteran star`s iconic track `Yeh…
Global actor Priyanka Chopra, who celebrated her 42nd birthday on Wednesday, received a special wish from `jiju” Raghav Chadha. Taking to Instagram, Parineeti Chopra`s husband and Aam Aadmi Party leader shared a family picture featuring himself, Parineeti, Nick Jonas, Priyanka, their daughter Malti Marie, Priyanka`s mother Madhu Chopra and Priyanka`s brother Siddharth. Sharing the photo,…
Congress will hold a key meeting today in Mumbai to plan for the forthcoming Maharashtra assembly elections. Senior state leaders will attend the session, which will be headed by General Secretary (Organisation) KC Venugopal and AICC Incharge of Maharashtra Ramesh Chenithalla. In the most recent parliamentary elections, Congress emerged as the state`s largest party, with…
A highly intoxicated civil engineer lost control of his vehicle in Vasai, starting by colliding into a parked motorcycle. His speeding car then swerved into the opposite lane, crashing through a security wall of a house before killing a sleeping stray dog in the process. This sequence of events unfolded in mere seconds on the…
After Delhi and Hyderabad, a dating scam active in Mumbai has come to light. According to sources, women befriend men and take them to specific pubs and bar restaurants, forcing them to pay for expensive food and drinks. When it is time to pay the bill, the women leave on some pretext. The pub staff…
Mumbai has been seeing intermittent moderate to heavy rainfall since Monday. On Friday, the rains lashed parts of the city which had a cascading effect on the city`s transportation with commuters on the Western and Central Railway stating that trains are not running on time. Some commuters claimed that the trains on Central Railway`s Main…
Celebrity stylist Sshura Khan, who is married to actor-producer Arbaaz Khan, frequently makes news online for her affectionate photos with Arbaaz on Instagram. However, her latest post is not about Arbaaz but his stepmother, the legendary actress Helen. Arbaaz Khan`s wife Sshura practices Pilates with Helen On July 18, Sshura Khan shared a new photo…
A gym member was assaulted by his trainer with a heavy wooden mudgar (mace) in Navghar, Mulund, after confronting him about staring at him. The victim suffered severe head injuries and is currently hospitalised. According to police, the complainant, 20-year-old Yugesh Vilas Shinde, lives in Mulund with his parents and brother. His father is a…
A section of an unused commercial structure under the Andheri flyover, a portion of which fell recently, has prompted action from the BMC. The corporation is in the final stages of awarding a Rs 90 crore contract for major repairs to the bridge. However, it has come to light that a private builder is responsible…
The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has successfully tested the instrument landing system (ILS) and radar systems at the DB Patil International Airport in Navi Mumbai. As part of this, an aircraft, operated by AAI, took off and landed at the airport for the first time. The runway testing phase of the airport has also…
Neighbours of influencer Aanvi Kamdar, the travel influencer who died after falling into a gorge while shooting a video near the Kumbhe waterfalls in Mangaon, Raigad on Wednesday, told mid-day they were shocked by her untimely passing. Kamdar resided at Parshwanath Gardens on Bhau Daji Road in Matunga East. A neighbour said, “The bereaved family…
The state Urban Development Department (UDD) has sought assistance from the home department after the Navi Mumbai police failed to provide security for the demolition of nine-year-old religious structures. These structures illegally occupied a dangerous 2.3 lakh square feet on the landslide-prone Belapur Hill. This action follows directives from the Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission…
The Mumbai police have arrested six members of a phishing gang including a woman deputy manager of Yes Bank. The gang members were given different responsibilities including collecting identification documents from people for opening of bank accounts. The deputy manager facilitated the opening of the bank account without conducting verification, while others swindled elderly citizens…
The Pune ACB has received a complaint seeking an open inquiry against Dilip Khedkar, a retired government officer and father of controversial IAS probationer Puja Khedkar, in connection with alleged disproportionate assets, a senior official said. As there is already an inquiry underway by the Anti-Corruption Bureau`s Nashik division against him into the alleged disproportionate…
An accused on bail in the Cordelia cruise drug case has emerged as the kingpin behind the mephedrone (MD) supply in Navi Mumbai and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), region. The Anti-Narcotic Cell (ANC) of the Navi Mumbai Crime Branch found him to be involved after arresting two men with one kilogram of MD. They…
In the run-up to the Assembly polls in October this year, the Congress high command will seek Maharashtra leaders’ feedback on Friday. The meeting is crucial in view of the MVA partners’, especially the Shiv Sena (UBT)’s, demand for the highest share of 288 seats. The meeting at Garware Club will be attended by the…
Shinde Sena is preparing to contest 17 out of 36 Assembly seats in Mumbai, without seeking any seat that the BJP and NCP had contested or won in 2019. CM Eknath Shinde met his party leaders on Thursday to decide a roadmap for the Assembly elections. Sources said the party is preparing to contest 100-125…
Shiv Sena (UBT) has decided to contest 25 out of 36 Assembly seats in Mumbai. In the 2019 Assembly election, the undivided Shiv Sena contested 19 constituencies and won 14. On Wednesday, UBT party chief Uddhav Thackeray held a meeting with the party’s senior leaders. During the meeting, they discussed the Assembly elections and the…
Ravindra Shisve, the railway commissioner of police, and his predecessor, Quaiser Khalid, are blaming each other for granting permission for the 120×140-foot illegal hoarding that collapsed on May 13, killing 17. Their accusatory statements to the Crime Branch are part of the 3,299-page charge sheet submitted to the court earlier this month. mid-day has examined…
Anand Tiwari admits that in the days leading to a film’s release, he usually becomes a ball of nerves. “I’ve done everything I could, and now it belongs to the audience,” he says of Bad Newz, starring Vicky Kaushal, Triptii Dimri and Ammy Virk. For his first big-screen offering, the director has created a comedy…
Locked and loaded Despite the day-long rain, a couple manages to balance heavy luggage on their two-wheeler on Lalbaug flyover. An evening in Paris Raghu Dixit It will be a Parisian July for singer Raghu Dixit as his band, The Raghu Dixit Project has been invited to perform at The India House ahead of the…
An abstract painter Ravindra Pabrekar, 65, approached Matunga police and registered an FIR after his name was used for selling someone else’s paintings on a website. The Matunga police registered an FIR against International Creative Art Center (ICAC) and www.worldarthub.comwebsite director Ravindra Mardia and painter Ahmed Miqdad. Pabrekar claimed that the alleged accused put up…
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to give R500 crore to the Mumbai Metropolitan Development Authority (MMRDA) in two phases. The BMC has already paid Rs 2,000 crore to the MMRDA. The state government’s Urban Development (UD) department ordered the BMC on March 15, to pay a total of Rs 4,960 crore for the…
Mumbai students seeking admissions to central universities are in a fix as the delay in the Combined University Entrance Test (CUET) results continues. Faced with the uncertainty of awaiting results or securing spots in state or private universities, many students have chosen the latter. Students are now taking chances and hoping to get a transfer…
Andheri subway was closed for the ninth time this month on Friday due to waterlogging, which has been occurring even amid moderate rainfall. Though the Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) uses the holding tank method to keep the Milan subway in Santacruz and Hindmata in Parel relatively flood-free, the high cost and insufficient results have been…
Despite the global disruption caused by a recent CrowdStrike update, which led to widespread outages and critical system crashes known as the ‘blue screen of death’ (BSOD), services in Mumbai have largely remained unaffected. The update, which has impacted Windows systems worldwide—including major airlines and sectors—has not disrupted key operations in Mumbai. CrowdStrike`s recent update has…
A worker at an SRA construction site in Malad lost his life in a mudslide amid rainfall on Friday. According to the Mumbai Fire Brigade, the incident occurred at the SRA building construction site behind Samudra Bar on the Western Express Highway, Pratap Nagar in Malad East. A section of the excavated area collapsed due…
After Delhi and Hyderabad, a dating scam active in Mumbai has come to light. According to sources, women befriend men and take them to specific pubs and bar restaurants, forcing them to pay for expensive food and drinks. When it is time to pay the bill, the women leave on some pretext. The pub staff…
Pop idols continue to be on sale in the city and its outskirts which is in violation of the norms set by the apex court. While the demand for POP idols from retail buyers is gradually slowing down due to environmental awareness, its sale has not gone down well with nature lovers. Despite clear directives…
A highly intoxicated civil engineer lost control of his vehicle in Vasai, starting by colliding into a parked motorcycle. His speeding car then swerved into the opposite lane, crashing through a security wall of a house before killing a sleeping stray dog in the process. This sequence of events unfolded in mere seconds on the…
When in love… We love that Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal don’t shy away from public display of affection as she turns up for the première of his latest film. We also spotted Sara Ali Khan tag along with Karan Johar, who is producing the comedy Dolling up! Neha Dhupia trades her loose outfits…
The state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rank doesn’t want seat sharing for the Assembly elections to be delayed like the Lok Sabha polls. The party leaders want the party to contest a maximum number of seats—not less than its 2019 numbers. These are some takeaways from the party’s two-day deliberations in which the state election…
Notwithstanding its MVA partners’ demands for more seats, Congress has decided to keep calm and wants that the seats be picked only on merit. Buoyed by an excellent show in the state’s Lok Sabha polls, the party feels that it will be getting a good number of Assembly seats to fight and win. Likewise, Congress…
Pirouettes for pyaar Allegations of non-payment of dues levied against Diljit Dosanjh were refuted in no time after the artiste was accused of not providing monetary compensation to the dancers who recently performed on his tour. The team of dancers responded in praise of Dosanjh, and alluded to the fact that the LA-based choreographer who…
An alleged scam concerning Minimum Support Price (MSP) to the tune of Rs 2,000 crore has been unearthed by a farmers’ association from Dhule in northern Maharashtra. The farmers’ association in their petition has claimed to have found major discrepancies in the MSP fixed by the Central authorities and those offered by APMC traders to…
Tishaa Kumar, daughter of former actor and T-Series producer Krishan Kumar and Tanya Singh, has died at the age of 21 after a prolonged battle with cancer. She was being treated in Germany. A source shared, “Tishaa was diagnosed with cancer and she was undergoing treatment for it for about three years. The family flew…
Controversial IAS probationer Puja Khedkar faces dismissal from the elite civil services as the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has found that she fraudulently availed attempts beyond the permissible limit under the examination rules by faking her identity by way of changing her name as well as that of her father and mother, her photograph/signature,…
