The Navi Mumbai Metro Line 1 has received final permission to begin commercial operations, following a 12-year wait and a cost of INR3,063.63 crore ($410m). The line runs between Belapur and Pendhar and features 11 stations, with a car depot for maintenance at Taloja. The first phase of the project was initiated in May 2011, but was delayed by a cancelled contract and engineering issues. Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation has been appointed to complete work on the line and will also operate and maintain it for 10 years at a cost of INR885 crore plus taxes.

Police in Mumbai have arrested a 45-year-old man for illegal dabba trading, a form of share trading outside authorised stock exchanges used primarily to avoid tax payments. Jatin Suresh Mehta, a Kandivali West resident, is alleged to have caused a revenue loss of INR1.95 crore ($291,000) over four months. The police found that Mehta had made share transactions worth INR4,672 crore and that he had no licence or permission to trade shares. The police have seized INR50,000 in cash, five mobile phones, a laptop and other electronic equipment from his office.

Due to the lack of showers, temperatures have also remained higher than usual for this time of year. On Thursday, the city’s maximum temperature stood at 34.3 degrees Celsius, three degrees above normal. The minimum temperature was 28.4 degrees Celsius, two degrees more than normal

S C Gupta, chairman and MD of MRVC said the prototype rake would be launched after two years, and thereafter, the rakes would be rolled out for a period of five years. At present, there are 275 rakes in the suburban train network of Mumbai, which includes 14 AC rakes

A software engineer was cheated out of ?1.98 lakh by cyber frauds posing as executives of an international courier company who claimed drugs were found in her parcel. The fraudsters later posed as cops and asked her to transfer money to their accounts on various pretexts.

Project Mumbai, a non-profit organisation has taken the initiative to spread awareness about Men’s mental health in the month of June and July. They aim to make Mumbai and Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) a better place and ensuring social transformation through initiatives of scale.

Chargesheet stated that trio of Paul, a Malad-based baker, and his associates, framed Pereira by planting drugs and handed them over while leaving for Sharjah.

The Wednesday’s meeting assumes significance as it was held in the backdrop of Sirsa rally of Amit Shah on June 18 and earlier Haryana BJP in-charge Biplab Kumar Deb holding meetings with Independent MLAs which had triggered a fresh debate over the fate of the Manohar Lal Khattar-led BJP-JJP coalition government.

The reports from mandis from northern districts of the state reveal that in the absence of government agencies, private buyers are buying maize crop at ₹900 to ₹1,400 a quintal against the MSP of ₹1,962 fixed for the 2022-23. Maize growers in Haryana suffer huge losses as they have to sell their produce to private buyers around 50% below the minimum support price (MSP) fixed by the Centre.