With the Congress announcing a second candidate, contest is likely for nine seats of Maharashtra legislative council for which chief minister Uddhav Thackeray is among those in the fray.

The postal department will release a special cover dedicated to the migrant workers of Mumbai in the Bicentennial Hall of General Post Office (GPO), Fort, May 13. In fact five migrants from different sectors of the labour force will unveil the tribute.

A 27-year-old man attacked three policemen with a chopper near Marine Drive early on Saturday.Karan Pradip Nayar, a resident of Silver Oaks Estate near Breach Candy, was arrested.

After taking charge as municipal commissioner amid the Covid-19 pandemic, IAS officer Iqbal Singh Chahal on Saturday hit the ground, visiting BYL Nair Hospital in Mumbai Central and later proceeding to Dharavi, where he took stock of the increasing patients in Asia's largest slum pocket.

Staring at a requirement of at least 1,200 critical-care beds in the city in the next dozen days, the BMC is racing against time to ramp up its strength in the tertiary and peripheral hospitals. From the current count of nearly 500 ICU and 3,000 oxygen-support beds, the plan is to increase the numbers to between 4,700 and 5,000.

The proposal to allow free travel by ST buses was cleared by chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday. When asked about the delay, transport minister Anil Parab said, "There were some concerns raised by districts in green zone about outbound migrants from red zone areas.

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.

Many people trapped after a ground-plus-two-storey chawl structure collapsed at Dipjyoti Chawl of Lalji Pada in Kandivali West early on Sunday.

(This story originally appeared in MumbaiMirror on May 10, 2020)

Fed up of waiting to be accommodated on trains or buses for their home states, a fresh sea of migrant labourers took to the Eastern Express Highway (EEH) on Saturday in a bid to cover the arduous journey on foot. Some labourers said they had no roof over their heads in Mumbai and would sometimes go to bed on the pavement on an empty stomach. The groups comprised daily wagers, masons, carpenters and restaurant staffers.

The central government headed by Narendra Modi is committed to protect the rights of SCs and STs, he said

The spread of the coronavirus has halted all tennis events since mid-March and will not resume until July 13 at the earliest

From PPEs to ventilators to face shields, manufacturers have invested money to ramp up production and deliver during this crisis

How Lucknow's City Montessori Schools managed to offer comprehensive online education to its 57,000 students during the Covid-19 crisis

If a 198-country survey conducted by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre is to be believed, India ranks only below civil war-torn Iraq in terms of 'social hostility and religious discrimination'.

Today is the last day of the first decade of the second millennium. It started with a bug, remember?

The legal brains hired by Rathore to defend him in the courts are as responsible as Rathore himself for implicating Ruchika's brother in false cases.

Chance found me, three years ago, at the end of a brilliant summer day in Leeds, seated at dinner next to a distinguished gentleman, vice-chair of a venerable UK bank.

Don't dismiss it as a loony idea, this business of naming a moon crater after the King Khan.

Last week Delhi disappeared. Just like that. Disappeared. Whatever could have happened to it? It was an enigma that had the whole country wondering.

In the battleground called climate change, there's often a thin line dividing advocacy from real science.

The Shiv Sena-sangh parivar spat about who has the right to live and work in Mumbai with the Sena claiming that the city be reserved exclusively for Marathi manoos and the RSS and the BJP counter-claiming that the metropolis should be home to any Indian who chooses to make it home has taken a curious turn.

There are many Indias today, all of them struggling to be heard at the same time. Some argue. Others shout, scream, rant.

As if launching a belligerent campaign against north Indians working in Mumbai were not enough, the Shiv Sena, even while lifting the ban on the screening of Shah Rukh Khan's My Name Is Khan, has called the star a traitor because of his statement that Pakistani players should have been included in the IPL a view shared by millions of cricket fans, in Maharashtra and elsewhere in India.

With consciousness we have created very beautiful concepts, and one of them is the idea of relationships.

I'd long wondered how -- despite its famously accommodative spirit -- Goa managed to fit in all those non-Goans who were buying up property there as though not only were there no tomorrow but very little left of even today.

A little over a month ago, when Google made defiant noises of shutting down its office in China, the stand-off was phrased with great fanfare as the new clash of civilisations.

Migrant flamingos and migrated family fly into Mumbai every winter.

World Cup yet to take off

Fear of virus is overshadowing government appeals to businesses to resume operations

In a rare finding, an Indian grey wolf (Canis lupus pallipes) was documented for the first time in Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary in Chamarajanagara district. The wild animal was documented by Sanjay Gubbi of Nature Conservation Foundation, and his team, while camera trapping for studying leopards.

South Western Railway, along with the state government, is likely to operate the first train to West Bengal to ferry migrant workers on Sunday.

If you thought Zoom meetings only mean business and living under lockdown means missing out on all the fun, meet some Bengalureans who are making the most of both.

Child rescue team stopped the wedding of a minor girl from Arkalgud village after a whistle-blower dialled the child helpline.

A group of parents have written to the Goa Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education as well as to chief minister Pramod Sawant, expressing their anxiety over the decision to conduct the board exams during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The coronavirus scare seems to have kept criminals at bay with the police registering on an average three first information report (FIRs) per day across 25 police stations instead of an average of over seven FIRs last year.

Actress Jessica Biel has revealed that she cold-shoulders the glitzy celebrity lifestyle.

Any reason is good enough to party.

The actor-host-singer is now going to be a ramp model.

Independence day might still be around the corner but that surely doesn’t mean the celebrations cannot begin.