The Latest Breaking News from Mumbai

MUMBAI: Veteran Marathi actor Pradeep Patwardhan, known for his performance in films such as Chashme Bahaddar, Ek Shodh and Mee Shivajiraje Bhosale Boltoy, died Tuesday morning following a heart attack, actor Vijay Patkar confirmed. Patwardhan (65) breathed his last at his residence in Girgaon.

MUMBAI: The expanded Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis ministry is to hold its first cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Among the various issues on the cabinet agenda is the nod for the Rs 10,000 crore escalation in cost for the underground Metro Line 3 project.

MUMBAI: The Bombay high court has directed residents of three buildings in Jogeshwari (West) to vacate them by September 3. These structures figure in the BMC's 2022-23 list of C-1 category of dangerous and dilapidated buildings.

MUMBAI: Five more Central jails in Maharashtra have been identified by the prison department for housing transgender inmates. At present, transgender persons apprehended from any part of the state are brought to three prisons - Thane, Yeravada and Nashik - and are kept in cells separate from male and female…

MUMBAI: Five persons, including two commuters, were injured after a BEST driver lost control of the bus and it hit a few parked vehicles before ramming into a tree at Dindoshi in Goregaon East on Tuesday. Prime facie, sources said that the brakes of the bus had reportedly failed, but…

MUMBAI: Eighteen months after the Crime Branch busted a gang selling newborn babies, a civil court has allowed the "adoptive parents" to be appointed legal guardians of six minors "rescued" by police. The six couples had told the court they accepted the children without adoption procedures and brought them home…

MUMBAI: The first triple-digit rainfall of the month was recorded in the city on Tuesday. In the 24 hours ending at 8.30am on Tuesday, the rainfall recorded was 124mm. Of this, more than 100mm was recorded in the six hours between 2.30am and 8.30am.

MUMBAI: Nearly five hours after four BPO employees and their driver had a miraculous escape when their car fell into an overflowing Mogra nullah at Andheri subway, the car, a commercial vehicle, was pulled out of the drain by police around 9am, BMC's K-West ward officials said.

MUMBAI: There is only one minister in the cabinet from Mumbai-BJP MLA and developer Mangal Prabhat Lodha. None from Shinde's group from the city were included. This, despite the BMC elections being scheduled soon. In the previous MVA government, there were seven ministers from the city, including then CM Uddhav…

MUMBAI: The inclusion of three politicians embroiled in controversies-Shiv Sena's Sanjay Rathod and Abdul Sattar and BJP's Vijaykumar Gavit -in the cabinet sparked a row, with not only Congress but BJP functionaries also protesting the induction of Rathod in particular. Rathod, MLA from Digras in Yavatmal who had served as…

MUMBAI: Forty days after the Shinde-Fadnavis government was formed in Maharashtra, it finally expanded its cabinet by inducting 18 ministers: nine each from the BJP and the Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena. Cabinet portfolios are yet to be announced.