Mid Day Mumbai

Roads turned into rivers? Check. Areas turned swimming pools? Check. Trains slowed or stopped? Check. Flights delayed? Check. Boats out? Check. This was the Maximum City on Tuesday, as rains lashed relentlessly all through the previous night and day.

A police head constable has been suspended for accepting bribe from two motorcyclists who violated traffic rules and were caught at a naka bandi.

Egyptian national Eman Abdulati, 37, who won the hearts of Mumbaikars with her resolve to fight obesity, is no more. Abdulati passed away at 4.35 am on Monday at Burjeel Hospital in Abu Dhabi, following medical complications. She had arrived in Mumbai in February this year and lost 330 kg under the supervision of a team of Mumbai doctors. In a cont...

Dawood's brother Iqbal Kaskar has admitted before Thane police interrogators that Dawood has called him four times in the past few years. These calls were made mainly during the year 2011, when an attack was attempted on Kaskar by a rival gang.

Taking serious note of rumours about a 'cyclone that would hit Mumbai' on Wednesday and other issues related to the rain, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has written to the Mumbai Police, asking them to find the culprits behind them.

The body of the unidentified 10-year-old boy, was wrapped in a saree and the suitcase was open, when a local resident saw it near the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus and informed the police.

23-year-old rail enthusiast spots loose fishplate at Kurla station, alerts officials.

A day after spontaneously taking a train to CST, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu decided to take a local into nostalgia. The minister travelled in the local between Khar and Vile Parle, the same route he used to take years ago during his college days. This time though, instead of interacting with commuters inside the coach, he stood rather close to ...

After fighting for his country in the 1971 Indo-Pak war, a 61-year-old retired Army man had hardly imagined that all these years later, he would have the fight of his life in his own backyard.

When a druggie molested her on a crowded Kandivli station platform, college student Pradnya Mandhare decided not to let it go, and dragged him all by herself to the GRP chowkie, while a crowd of 50 just stood and stared.

If you are planning to purchase an SUV, think again. An RTI query filed by MiD DAY has revealed that four-wheelers like Tavera, Scorpio, Bolero and Innova top the list of the most popular vehicles preferred among the city's car thieves.

Two years after 24-year-old Keenan Santos and 29-year-old Reuben Fernandes died protecting their friends from molesters, MiD DAY visited the families of the bravehearts, who recalled the day that changed their lives forever. They told this paper that they hoped the judicial process would speed up and deliver a verdict soon.

Nearly a month after Sunita Naik and her ageing Pomeranian Sashi found a new home with Vile Parle couple George and Christine Misquitta, the 65-year-old former editor has returned to the footpath outside the gurdwara where MiD DAY had found her.

The miserably familiar theme of police indifference in cases of domestic abuse emerged yet again, a day after MiD DAY broke the horrifying story of a teenager who was bitten, beaten and stripped by her abusive, alcoholic father.

Help for the down-and-out former editor Sunita Naik began pouring barely hours after Sunday MiD DAY reported on the hard times the 65-year-old has fallen on.

Roads turned into rivers? Check. Areas turned swimming pools? Check. Trains slowed or stopped? Check. Flights delayed? Check. Boats out? Check. This was the Maximum City on Tuesday, as rains lashed relentlessly all through the previous night and day.

A police head constable has been suspended for accepting bribe from two motorcyclists who violated traffic rules and were caught at a naka bandi.

Egyptian national Eman Abdulati, 37, who won the hearts of Mumbaikars with her resolve to fight obesity, is no more. Abdulati passed away at 4.35 am on Monday at Burjeel Hospital in Abu Dhabi, following medical complications. She had arrived in Mumbai in February this year and lost 330 kg under the supervision of a team of Mumbai doctors. In a cont...

Dawood's brother Iqbal Kaskar has admitted before Thane police interrogators that Dawood has called him four times in the past few years. These calls were made mainly during the year 2011, when an attack was attempted on Kaskar by a rival gang.

Taking serious note of rumours about a 'cyclone that would hit Mumbai' on Wednesday and other issues related to the rain, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has written to the Mumbai Police, asking them to find the culprits behind them.

The body of the unidentified 10-year-old boy, was wrapped in a saree and the suitcase was open, when a local resident saw it near the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus and informed the police.

23-year-old rail enthusiast spots loose fishplate at Kurla station, alerts officials.

A day after spontaneously taking a train to CST, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu decided to take a local into nostalgia. The minister travelled in the local between Khar and Vile Parle, the same route he used to take years ago during his college days. This time though, instead of interacting with commuters inside the coach, he stood rather close to ...

After fighting for his country in the 1971 Indo-Pak war, a 61-year-old retired Army man had hardly imagined that all these years later, he would have the fight of his life in his own backyard.

When a druggie molested her on a crowded Kandivli station platform, college student Pradnya Mandhare decided not to let it go, and dragged him all by herself to the GRP chowkie, while a crowd of 50 just stood and stared.

If you are planning to purchase an SUV, think again. An RTI query filed by MiD DAY has revealed that four-wheelers like Tavera, Scorpio, Bolero and Innova top the list of the most popular vehicles preferred among the city's car thieves.

Two years after 24-year-old Keenan Santos and 29-year-old Reuben Fernandes died protecting their friends from molesters, MiD DAY visited the families of the bravehearts, who recalled the day that changed their lives forever. They told this paper that they hoped the judicial process would speed up and deliver a verdict soon.

Nearly a month after Sunita Naik and her ageing Pomeranian Sashi found a new home with Vile Parle couple George and Christine Misquitta, the 65-year-old former editor has returned to the footpath outside the gurdwara where MiD DAY had found her.

The miserably familiar theme of police indifference in cases of domestic abuse emerged yet again, a day after MiD DAY broke the horrifying story of a teenager who was bitten, beaten and stripped by her abusive, alcoholic father.

Help for the down-and-out former editor Sunita Naik began pouring barely hours after Sunday MiD DAY reported on the hard times the 65-year-old has fallen on.