'Predictions are that numbers will continue to rise till May end and maybe in the first half of June will be our peak.'
An First Information Report has been registered against a senior Indian Police Service officer of Maharashtra after a model accused him of rape, police said on Thursday.
He will meet Uddhav Thackeray at his home and address Gujaratis all over the city.
Mumbai police chargesheets billionaire-builder Chandru Raheja for cheating, breach of trust; Rahejas call it pressure tactic, say Wadia plea was thrown out by Supreme Court
Single mother Gauri Sawant hopes to change the way people view transgenders in India.
Chefs in Mumbai are unleashing their creativity to woo gourmets with global vegetarian fare. Mini Ribeiro picks her 10 favourite restaurants.
'The bonhomie that once characterised the Shiv Sena and BJP was clearly missing this time. Is there a deeper divide than what was apparent?'
Senior Maharashtra Indian Police Service officer Sunil Paraskar, accused of raping and molesting a model-turned-actress, has declined to undergo a polygraph test while the victim expressed readiness to face the scientific examination.
One teenager died in police firing last May. Another teenager is paralysed waist down. Both families have been ignored by the political establishment, including the AIMIM.
Seven coaches of a suburban train travelling from Mumbai's Andheri to Churchgate station, have derailed between Andheri and Vile Parle. Details awaited.
Acid attack survivor Lalita ties the knot with Rahul Kumar at a dream wedding.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf explains why the Bollywood legend will remain an eternal part of his life.
Incessant rains apparently caused cracks in the bridge, resulting in its collapse, an official said.
Mumbai received 231.4 mm rain in the last 24 hours, while Thane received 229.81 mm.
Real estate developers are banking high on ultra-luxury projects.
While some criticise the government, others, despite the inconvenience, hail demonetisation as revolutionary.
The company was looking to raise around Rs 1,800 crore for a stake sale of 10 per cent.
Coming out in support of police action in the 'moral policing' episode at Madh Island in Mumbai, residents of the area on Thursday threatened to 'gherao' the residence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis if senior police officers who led the raids were transferred.
'We will never really lose him because in death, his spirit, trapped in a frail body, has been set free and will surround us like the air we breathe.'
Property worth Rs 144 crore, which includes 25 flats and a shopping mall, has been attached in connection with the disproportionate assets case against the alleged associates of former Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda.
In a show of strength, Bharatiya Janata Party bulldozed the opposition - the Nationalist Congress Party, Congress and estranged ally Shiv Sena -- to wrest power in the state.
'I have seen so many cows roaming the streets of Mumbai. When people from foreign countries see cows roaming on our streets, it is not good.'
'I cannot say I like watching porn, or that I like to party, or that I enjoy my drink and, worse still, that I like Rahul Gandhi.'
Zomato's Users Choice Awards features the best restaurants in Mumbai.
Rediff readers share their experience about taxis and autorickshaws in India.
India's Next Top Model winner Danielle Canute shares her winning story with Rediff.com contributor Rajul Hegde.
Jumbo King is profitable from the beginning and is growing upwards of 35 per cent annually.
The Indian navy suffered yet another mishap on Friday with gas leakage in an under-construction warship in the Mazagaon Docks here, claiming the life of a Commander and hospitalisation of two dockyard employees.
Life in Mumbai was on Wednesday slowly coming back on tracks as rains subsided and hundreds of stranded commuters headed home with the partial resumption of suburban train services.
Rediff.com's Prasanna D Zore spoke with vegetable vendors, fruit sellers, those selling clothes in shops and streets, and a retired school teacher.
The least the leaders who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi could have done was to highlight the plight of the Muslim riot victims, but they happily chose to ignore it, so privileged they must have felt to be in the presence of the prime minister, the most powerful man in the country, says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
The judiciary has started going beyond the technicalities of the agreements and awarding compensation to buyers.
Families, torn apart by the Malvani hooch tragedy, where 104 people lost their lives confront a dark and hopeless future.
Mini Ribeiro tells us where to go salad hopping.
What happened to us should not happen to anyone else in future. A strong message has to be sent by our judicial system that such acts will not be dealt with lightly," said one of the victim's father.
HDFC, the pioneer, ICICI, the game-changer, and SBI, the original teaser, turned the market on its head.
'My mother has one complaint -- I die in all of my films. She has told me to stop dying now.'
What happens when two twenty-something Delhi boys become crorepatis overnight?
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