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Navi Mumbai: The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation’s (NMMC) Property Tax Department received an unprecedented response from citizens in its property tax collection campaign for the financial year 2026-27, collecting Rs 434.02 crore in the first quarter from April to June 2026, a record in the corporation’s history, said the civic officials. Technology-based administrative work played…

Mumbai is experiencing relentless heavy rainfall, with the city receiving a significant portion of its average July rainfall in just four days MUMBAI: Heavy rain continued lashing the Mumbai region Saturday with the city receiving nearly 80% of its average July rainfall in just 4 days. Since July 1, the IMD’s Santacruz observatory has recorded…

Padmini Kolhapure returns to the stage as a vocalist for Hema Malini’s Diamond Jubilee Concert, celebrating a six-decade cinematic legacy. Reflecting on her own 50-year acting career, Kolhapure emphasizes music’s personal significance and the irreplaceable magic of live performance. Padmini Kolhapure is set to return to the stage as a vocalist at Hema Malini’s Diamond…

Navi Mumbai: The Navi Mumbai crime branch Unit 1 arrested two men accused of a house-break theft at a locked apartment in Bonkode on June 7, where they decamped with gold ornaments worth Rs 15 lakh along with Rs 40,000 cash stolen from the neighbouring apartment. The arrested duo are both habitual offenders.ACP (crime) Prerana…

Mumbai: The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a health alert against three skin-lightening creams, including one allegedly manufactured in Pakistan, after laboratory tests found they contained mercury and lead far above the permissible limits, making them unsafe for use.An FDA release, issued on Saturday evening, ordered an immediate stop to the use,…

Mumbai: The delayed, fiercely-debated and much-litigated elections to the Asiatic Society of Mumbai, one of the city’s premier institutions of research and scholarship, finally took place on Saturday with former BJP Rajya Sabha member Vinay Sahasrabuddhe of the ‘Asiatic Tomorrow’ panel voted in as president and his group sweeping all the other 18 posts. The…

Mumbai: The daily commute is tiring for most Mumbaikars as they negotiate crowds, delays and traffic snarls. But incidents over the last fortnight — an open manhole claiming a life, a schoolboy killed by a falling tree, a commuter stabbed on local trains, passengers electrocuted in waterlogged streets and fatal road accidents — have added…

Visitors tread through light at an immersive installation in Second Nature Outside, Mumbai’s monsoon is doing what it does best… turning the city into an immersive installation of its own. Inside somewhere, visitors wander through forests of digital flowers, chase bubbles that pop into light, and find their own shadows swallowed and multiplied by the…

Navi Mumbai: The patrolling team of APMC police station foiled a dacoity attempt by a five-member gang that was spotted suspiciously roaming on two bikes on the Turbhe village service road parallel to the Sion-Panvel Highway earlier this week.While three men on one bike escaped when the police team intercepted their way, police succeeded in…

Navi Mumbai: Three separate FIRs of power theft were registered at APMC police station earlier this week against a landlord who has rented his three houses in a building in Kopri village in Sector 26A, Vashi, and his three tenants.The FIRs were lodged by MSEDCL’s assistant engineer (recovery squad), Jayesh Gaikar (25), on behalf of…