Trial runs of prototype rakes for the underground Metro 3 corridor (Colaba-Bandra-Seepz) are being planned for early next year. Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday approved Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation’s test run proposal.
Andheri police station senior inspector Vijay Belge was suspended by the police department on Thursday. Sources said a raid on an orchestra bar in his jurisdiction by another police station spurred the move. The raid was on August 23 and a probe followed. Belge’s superiors recommended a transfer in their report, but the top brass reportedly decided to suspend him.
With 741mm of rainfall, Mumbai recorded its second-wettest September in four years and the wettest in two years. In September 2017, the total monthly rainfall recorded was 603.2mm, and in September 2019, 1,115.7mm.
Monthly tally of Covid-19 cases in Mumbai rose 42% from August to September, while the statewide caseload dipped 33%.Mumbai: Monthly tally of Covid-19 cases in Mumbai rose 42% from August to September, while the statewide caseload dipped 33%.
Thirty medical students from Seth GS Medical College (attached to KEM hospital), Parel have tested positive for coronavirus, one of the biggest clusters of breakthrough infections seen in public hospitals in Mumbai since vaccination started.
Health services across the state’s medical colleges will be hit on Friday as over 4,000 resident doctors go on a strike. Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD)said the state didn’t give a written assurance that their tuition fees for the period they worked for Covid patients will be waived.
A week after the CID failed to serve a bailable warrant against Param Bir Singh as they could not find him at his address, state home minister Dilip Walse Patil on Thursday said the MVA government had launched a massive search to trace the former Mumbai police chief for his alleged involvement in serious crimes. When asked if Singh had gone to London or Russia, as alleged in certain quarters, Walse Patil said he had no such information.
After over a decade, the Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP) for Greater Mumbai has finally been approved by the Union environment ministry, report Nauzer K Bharucha & Clara Lewis.
The headless and partially burnt body of a man, with its parts severed, was found at Antop Hill on Thursday. Locals who spotted a huge plastic bag lying unattended alerted the police.
Facing a stiff challenge to meet its target of property tax collections, the BMC, in the first such instance, is set to auction two helicopters that it had seized in 2020 from a private company to recover its Rs 4.1 crore dues. The BMC will soon appoint a consultant to calculate the value and then sell the helicopters.
A 19-year-old man, Rajesh Rawat, was attacked by a leopard near Film City in Goregaon around 9pm on Thursday The teenager, who had to be administered sutures on the head, has been admitted to Balasaheb Thackeray Trauma Care Centre, Jogeshwari. He had gone there to drop his friend when the attack took place.
The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) probing the terror case in which two persons were held earlier arrested 50-year-old tailor Irfan Rehmat Shaikh on Thursday on charges of conspiracy and harbouring an accused.
The CBI has summoned Maharashtra chief secretary Sitaram Kunte and state DGP Sanjay Pandey in connection with the offence it has registered against NCP leader and former state home minister Anil Deshmukh and its ongoing probe into the matter.
A man was accidentally administered an anti-rabies dose instead of a Covid vaccine at a municipal vaccination centre at Atkoneshwar Nagar in Kalwa (E).
Schools for classes 8 to 12 are all set to reopen in Mumbai from October 4, following all Covid-19 protocols. Check some photos here
As many as 23 students in Mumbai's civic-run King Edward Memorial (KEM) hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.
On Wednesday, auto rickshaw driver Kapil Gaikar, resident of Manavali area was carrying passengers from Balyani to Ambivli railway station when the rickshaw suddenly overturned.
The senior inspector of Andheri police station, Vijay Belge, was suspended by the department on Thursday. Sources said a raid on an orchestra bar in his jurisdiction by another police station spurred the move. The bar raid took place around August 23 and an enquiry followed thereafter.
Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday said a state war memorial-cum-museum will be set up in Mumbai, showcasing glorious achievements of the Indian armed forces.
The Thane collector on Tuesday said there are around 8 lakh voters in the district who have their names in the voter list but have no photograph. Therefore, proceedings are underway to scrutinise them and remove their names.
A man was administered an anti-rabies injection instead of Covid-19 vaccine at a medical centre in Maharashtra’s Thane district. Following this, a doctor and a nurse of the facility were suspended, an official said.
The Thane sessions court on Wednesday granted bail to developer Sanjay Punmiya and his aide Sunil Jain, who are co-accused in an extortion case against IPS officer Param Bir Singh and others filed on a complaint by Sharad Agarwal.
The Hotel and Restaurant Association of Western India (HRAWI), an apex body of premium restaurants and star hotels, has again made a representation to chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, chief secretary Sitaram Kunte and tourism minister Aditya Thackeray requesting extension of timings in the state.
Due to heavy rain and a flood-like situation in some districts in the state, nearly 30,000 students have been unable to appear for MHT-CET in PCM (physics, chemistry, mathematics) group in two days
Special NIA court judge A T Wankhede on Wednesday rejected dismissed assistant police inspector Sachin Waze’s application to send him to ‘house custody’ for post-op care following his open-heart surgery. The court ordered he be kept in the special hospital cell of the Taloja prison in Navi Mumbai but continued to allow him home food.
Daily Covid cases in the city shot up by 131 cases in one day to breach the 500-mark and stand at 525 on Wednesday, the highest in 14 days. The city recorded six deaths.
The state government will soon convert the sprawling 14.5-acre Worli Dairy land into a marine research centre, a world-class aquarium and an exhibition centre.
As Cyclone Gulab swept through the state and had the worst-ever impact on the drought-prone Marathwada and Vidarbha regions, standing crops on an estimated 11 lakh hectare of land were completely washed away.
After 18 months of the pandemic-driven shutdown, schools and junior colleges in Mumbai can welcome back to their physical classrooms students of Classes 8 to 12 from October 4.
After much back and forth the BMC has decided to retender the 30-plus road work tenders which had been recently red-flagged after contractors bid 30% below the actual cost of Rs 1,200-crore. In an additional bonanza for corporators ahead of the BMC elections in February 2022, the municipality will also float tenders for another Rs 650-crore road works and Rs 350-crore road repair works in Mhada layouts.
A transition to clean energy is critical for Indian cities, including Mumbai, to reduce air pollution, improve residents’ health and deliver climate targets aligned to Paris Agreements. “(It is also critical) for creating jobs,” said Shruti Narayan, regional director (South & West Asia) of C40, a network that has released a report on pollution by coal.
The Mumbai BJP’s ‘Marathi katta’ campaign, to be flagged off on Friday, aims at making a dent into Shiv Sena’s Marathi votebank and contest its claim of representing regional aspirations in the run-up to the February 2022 BMC elections.
Two men fired at least two rounds at the offical vehicle of a Mira-Bhayander Municipal Corporation (MB-MC) official in Borivli (E) on Wednesday evening, but he escaped without any bullet injury. The accused escaped on a motorcycle.
Mumbai on Wednesday reported 527 new cases of Covid-19 and six deaths.
Two unknown assailants fired at a Mira Bhayander Municipal Corporation (MBMC) officer in Borivali east on Wednesday evening, but he escaped without any injury.
At least 17 tourists stranded at Pandavkada waterfall in Navi Mumbai amid heavy rains were rescued, while hundreds of people residing in low-lying areas in Thane and Palghar districts of Maharashtra were evacuated, officials said on Wednesday.
A special National Investigation Agency (NIA) court judge A T Wankhede on Wednesday rejected an application filed by dismissed assistant police inspector Sachin Waze to send him to ‘house custody’ on health grounds citing post-op care following his “open heart surgery".
The twin cities of Kalyan and Dombivli in Maharashtra's Thane district reported 96 fresh cases of coronavirus on Wednesday.
An unidentified person made a threat call to the Mumbai police's traffic control room and claimed that the lives of 19 people at the city international airport were in danger, an official said on Wednesday.
A pregnant woman allegedly died at a civic maternity home on MG Road in Mulund as there was no doctor to treat her on Monday evening. BJP MLA from Mulund, Mihir Kotecha, filed a complaint with Mulund Police, seeking an FIR for negligence against the hospital and urged BMC to conduct a probe.
The archbishop of Bombay, Oswald Cardinal Gracias, issued a circular to parish priests on Tuesday, instructing them to reintroduce SOPs of 2020 once churches reopen for worship on October 7.
The BMC has spent Rs 7,000 crore on desilting works and stormwater drain (SWD) projects in a decade, showed the civic body’s data in reply to a Right to Information (RTI) application. The data further showed that of the Rs 7,000 crore, Rs 1,000 crore has been spent on desilting nullahs and Mithi river.
Most city schools are not keen on reopening next month as that’s when first semester exams will be held online.
Contractors have beaten the BMC’s garden department yet again. Despite losing deposits over low bids in the previously scrapped tenders for the maintenance of more than 200 parks and gardens in the city, contractors have again placed bids around 40% below estimates in the fresh tenders.
In a setback to the wife and two daughters of Yes Bank founder Rana Kapoor, the Bombay high court on Tuesday refused them bail in an alleged corruption and cheating case of over Rs 600 crore registered last year by the CBI.
Covid cases in Maharashtra rose marginally on Tuesday (2,844) as compared to the previous day (2,432), but the overall graph has been moving downwards since September 1 when 4,456 patients tested positive.
The ED questioned state transport minister Anil Parab for around eight hours on Tuesday in a money laundering case it is investigating against former state home minister Anil Deshmukh.from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines, Coronavirus News, BMC Elections 2022 Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/1...
