Month: July 2022

A banyan crashed on a building in Parel on Thursday. Some windows and parapets broke and a bike was crushed MUMBAI: June ended on a rainy note-for the first time this monsoon-with consistent showers. In the 12 hours ended 8.30pm on Thursday, the Indian Meteorological Department’s Colaba and Santacruz observatories recorded rainfall in triple digits-163mm […]

Mumbai: On Thursday, the city witnessed two more incidents of buildings collapsing, taking the total number of such incidents to three in just four days. While no casualty was reported from Thursday’s incident, several lives got saved by a mere stroke of luck. The first incident was reported from the densely populated Badam Wadi neighbourhood […]

MUMBAI: Senior IPS officer Vivek Phansalkar on Thursday took charge as the new police commissioner of Mumbai and said maintaining law and order in the metropolis and detection of crime will be his top priorities. Phansalkar succeeded Sanjay Pandey, who has retired from the police service. The 1989-batch IPS officer’s appointment to the top post […]

MUMBAI: Hours after Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray stepped down as CM, his MLA son Aaditya Thackeray said they were betrayed by their own people with “monster ambitions”. He, however, added that the party’s doors were open to those who were “brainwashed and forced to leave”. “The traitors took advantage of us when my father […]

In addition, there is a move to impose prohibitory orders under section 144 in the city to prevent large gatherings MUMBAI: Almost 10,000 police personnel, along with a few companies of the State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) and Riot Control Police Force, will be deployed in Mumbai to maintain law and order on Thursday when […]