Mid-Day Top News at this hour: Chaos all around as Mumbai faces wettest May day in 107 years; BMC into action after mid-day reports and more

Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty tumbled in early trade on Tuesday, after two days of rally, dragged lower by IT stocks and weak Asian market trends. The 30-share BSE benchmark gauge Sensex dropped 460.38 points to 81,716.07 in early trade. The NSE Nifty declined 162.05 points to 24,839.10. Later, the BSE benchmark traded 627.86 points lower at 81,548.59, and the Nifty quoted 178 points down at 24,807.95.

Mumbai rains: Chaos all around as Mumbai faces wettest May day in 107 years; what to expect next?

Mumbai woke up to chaos on Monday as the southwest monsoon arrived 16 days early, bringing the city’s wettest May day in 107 years. With over 295 mm of rainfall recorded at Colaba, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) had upgraded its warning to a red alert on Monday, signalling more intense rain was on the way. For today and tomorrow, IMD has issued a yellow alert (moderate rainfall, be cautious in low-lying areas and carry an umbrella). Read more.

BMC into action after mid-day reports; several city roads are still in limbo

In the wake of a mid-day report drawing attention to unfinished cement concrete (CC) roadwork that was supposed to be completed by May 31, and the date to complete pouring of cement for concreting was May 20; the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has completed the work on the road in Andheri that was specifically mentioned in the story. However, at other locations visited by mid-day, the work seemed far from complete. Read more.

IPL 2025: RCB all set to take on LSG to seal Qualifier 1 spot

The path to the Playoffs is clearly cut out for Royal Challengers Bangalore. If they defeat Lucknow Super Giants in the last league match of the IPL here at the Ekana Stadium on Tuesday, they will play the Qualifier 1 on Thursday, and if they lose, it will be the Eliminator on Friday. Read more.

War 2: Hrithik Roshan and Jr NTR to shoot epic dance-off in June after delay due to injury

War 2’s teaser gave us a peek into the face-off between Hrithik Roshan’s R&AW agent Kabir Dhaliwal and Jr NTR’s antagonist. As much as the fans loved the teaser, many had a question — ‘How about a glimpse of the two superstars’ dance-off?’ It turns out that the shoot of the much talked about dance-off, which was scheduled for the first week of March (I spy a dance war, March 4), had to be cancelled. Now, mid-day has learnt that director Ayan Mukerji is gearing up to film it in the last week of June. Read more.

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