Readers send us photographs of the Tricolour for Independence Day.
'They wanted the city to be a great business hub. They didn't like the fact that taxes collected in Bombay would go outside the city.'
The Maharashtra legislative council on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution to rename seven stations on the Mumbai local train network.
Payal Kapadia's understanding of what it means to be a woman is as poignant as her authentic portrait of Mumbai's hoi polloi, observes Sukanya Verma.
The victory parade of the T20 World Cup winning Indian team finally commenced after a delay of more than two hours in Mumbai on Thursday.
Mumbai's historic tryst with the Lord of Wisdom began at the Keshavji Naik Chawl in 1893.
The 35-year-old security guard who was the prime suspect in the rape and murder of an 18-year-old girl student of a government hostel in south Mumbai, was not officially appointed but was a laundry man who died by suicide after the crime, the police said on Wednesday.
Readers tell us how they are celebrating the Tiranga this 75th Independence Day.
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Afsar Dayatar/Rediff.com captured these images as the City That Never Sleeps took to the trains with gusto.
Three blasts rocked Mumbai's crowded Zaveri Bazar, Charni Road and Dadar areas on Wednesday evening. Rediff.com's Abhishek Mande managed to get the first shots of the blast at Dadar.
Here's looking at the two Mumbai houses the late superstar inhabited in his lifetime.
The police has arrested Jahnvi Gadkar, 35, a high court lawyer, who appeared to be in an inebriated condition at the time of the accident.
A iron cross beam that gave away below the Charni road bridge caused a huge scare and delayed traffic on Mumbai Western railway line on Friday morning. The iron cross beam which supported the foot over bridge dangled precariously above the track over the Churchgate-Borivili fast line.
The actress shoots for her new film, A Mighty Heart.
According to BMC data, G-South (Haji Ali to Worli), E (JJ Hospital to Chinchpokali), L (Chunabhatti to Pawai), K West (Vile Parle West to Oshiwara), FN (Dadar East to Chunabhatti), G North (Worli to Dharavi), D (Charni Road to Haji Ali) and KE (Santacruz to Jogeshwari East) wards have 2,360 coronavirus cases or nearly 63 per cent of the total count in Mumbai city till April 22.
An American national was attacked and robbed of her mobile phone in the ladies' compartment of a local train in Mumbai on Sunday.
4 luxury SUVs and documents indicating 'benami' assets of Rs 300 crore have been recovered during income tax raids.
'I could see the silhouettes of three men on the sixth floor.' 'I pointed them out to the NSG personnel standing beside me and suggested they take them out.' 'They did not have the clearance to fire.'
The promptness with which the railways renames stations, that is missing when it comes to providing commuters with basic facilities, says Neeta Kolhatkar.
'When we talk about social distancing, it almost impossible to maintain this in slums.' 'So we had to talk to the people about cleanliness.' 'It was a task because everybody uses public toilets. So our volunteers targeted those spots to spread awareness.'
'It is surprising Mumbaikars take it all in their stride, but it has nothing to do with the crappy spirit of Mumbai that television channels extol every time a tragedy hits us, but all to do with the compulsion of stepping out to earn one's daily roti and dal,' says N Suresh.
The Indian Meteorological Department, meanwhile, warned of intense spell of 30 to 50 mm rainfall per hour with strong winds in Mumbai and suburban areas.
Seven coaches of a suburban train travelling from Mumbai's Andheri to Churchgate station, have derailed between Andheri and Vile Parle. Details awaited.
Eight days after an American woman was allegedly attacked and robbed inside a moving suburban train, Railway Police on Monday claimed to have cracked the case, with the arrest of a drug addict from Masjid Bunder in south Mumbai.
Girgaum, once a thriving neighbourhood of Maharashtrians in south Mumbai, who loved their seafood and meat, has slowly been taken over by vegetarians, forcing eateries serving non-vegetarian food to shut down, says Neeta Kolhatkar
'My mother has one complaint -- I die in all of my films. She has told me to stop dying now.'
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