Daily Covid-19 cases have doubled within 48 hours in both Maharashtra and Mumbai. The state reported 8,067 fresh cases on Friday as against 3,900 on Wednesday, and Mumbai saw 5,428 cases as compared to Wednesday's 2,445.
In the wake of an increase in Covid-19 cases, particularly of the Omicron variant, the Mumbai police on Friday issued an order prohibiting people from visiting beaches, open grounds, seafronts, promenades, gardens parks or similar public places between 5 pm and 5 am, starting with immediate
In 2021, Greater Mumbai recorded the highest apartment sales in a decade with total property registrations of 1.1 lakh flats. This was 70% more than in the previous year and 45% higher than the pre-pandemic year of 2019, said a report. The previous annual high was 80,746 in 2018.
The Omicron variant has been found in 55% of the Covid positive samples that were sequenced recently from the city. A fortnight ago, the variant was present in just 2% of the samples, underlining its rapid spread in the community within days.
The Archbishop of Bombay Oswald Cardinal Gracias has "asked pardon" from the community after the conviction of a Catholic priest under the Pocso Act. He said he continued to pray for both the victim and his abuser.
Rapping Mumbai police for a “shocking case of insensitivity”, the Bombay HC on Thursday directed it to “leave no stone unturned” in trying to trace a 71-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s missing for 10 months, reports Swati Deshpande.
The traffic police will set up more than 100 nakabandi check-posts across the city on December 31 to check drunk driving and other traffic violations. “A force of 56 officers and 500 constables will be deployed on the streets in the western suburbs alone on New Year’s Eve.
Twenty years ago, people laughed when I spoke of the ill effects of noise pollution. Your ideas are elitist, they said. Indians love noise. Since then, First Information Reports filed by the Police on noise pollution under the Environment Protection Act have become the second highest (after wildlife) environmental crime in Maharashtra.
Maharashtra confirmed the presence of Omicron in a 52-year-old man who recently died of heart attack in Pimpri-Chinchwad, but sto-pped short of calling him the first casualty of the variant and attributed the death to his underlying health conditions.
Churches citywide have voluntarily curbed midnight mass on New Year’s Eve, owing to the state’s new restrictions on public assembly. Some have cancelled physical services and opted to stream online.
From Friday, resident doctors from across the state will be withdrawing from all non-Covid routine duties, including emergency services, to join the nationwide protest against the delay in conduct of postgraduate medical admissions. The move is likely to hit healthcare services.
Dharmendra Yadav and Vikas Yadav, the two men arrested for Wednesday’s heist at an SBI branch in Dahisar (West), had been preparing for months by studying internet videos, said the police on Thursday.The police said Dharmendra’s father had run up debts of Rs 4.
As many as ten more bus depots were restarted, with the total number of depots now operational being 169. The MSRTC has 81 depots which are completely shut and around 68,000 staffers are still on indefinite protest.
Meghwadi police arrested a man who fled the city to Uttar Pradesh after stabbing his wife to death in broad daylight in a bylane at Jogeshwari (East) on December 22. Abdul Kalam alias Munna Shah (38) killed his wife reportedly for pestering him to give her divorce.
Nearly 76% of the payments made by consumers in the past eight months were online while revenue collection was Rs 35,453 crore during this period, top officials announced on Thursday.
The two robbers who killed a contractual employee of State Bank of India's Dahisar branch in Mumbai, were tracked down within 12 hours by the police on Thursday.
A man allegedly killed his younger brother, an employee of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) in suburban Vikhroli here over a property dispute on Thursday morning, a police official said. The deceased has been identified as 55-year-old Vijay Salvi, he said.
Amid the rise in Covid-19 cases in the city, Mumbai Police has imposed Section 144 to avoid large gatherings starting today till January 7.
The sharp rise in Covid cases in Mumbai - from 191 on December 20 to 2,445 on Wednesday - include a number of well-known personalities in the city. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MP Supriya Sule and her family as well as actor Arjun Kapoor and his siblings are among the new Covid patients.
Union minister Narayan Rane was on Wednesday served a notice by the police asking him to be present before the Kankavli cops in Sindhudurg district in order to share information on the whereabouts of his son and BJP MLA Nitesh Rane. As Rane was not at his Kankavli residence, police pasted the notice on the door of his house.
While Americans have reduced the isolation peri-od for asymptomatic Omicron patients to five days from 10, Indian experts said the step would not help here and could wo-rsen the spread of the variant.
Two masked men entered the SBI branch in Gurukul society, Dahisar (West), on Wednesday and fled with Rs 2.5 lakh after one of them fired a fatal round from a pistol at a contractual employee, Sandesh Gomane (25).
IIT-Bombay ranked second in the country among Institutes of National Importance-Technical in the Atal Rankings of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA), after IIT-Madras. The 2021 rank list was declared by the ministry of education on Wednesday. Among the aided government and deemed universities, Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) and Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) from the state figured in the top 10 ranks. College of Engineering Pune and VJTI, too, made it to the top five colleges in the country for innovation achievements.
For close to a month now, passengers undergoing rapid Covid tests at the Mumbai airport have been unknowingly opting for the costlier tests as the cheapest test priced at about a thousand rupees less is not listed on the airport websites for pre-booking.
Mankhurd police on Monday booked a Khalapur resident for driving rashly and killing his own wife on the Ghatkopar-Mankhurd link road late on Monday evening.
The state has 60.63 lakh adolescents in the age group of 15-18 years who will be eligible to get the Covid-19 shot, while the number of senior citizens with comorbidities qualifying for a booster dose is projected to be 29.09 lakh. These population estimates were shared by the Centre with the Maharashtra government on Tuesday in order to begin preparations for the expansion of the drive.
Deputy CM Ajit Pawar said on Tuesday, “We decided to defer the (speaker’s) poll to give due respect to the Governor’s views and ensure there are no legal or constitutional hurdles,” said . He added that an MVA delegation would meet the Governor once again to resolve queries and misunderstandings. “Even the Lok Sabha follows open voting for the Speaker’s poll,” he pointed out.
Air quality in Mumbai and Pune has plunged to the ‘poor’ and ‘moderate’ categories, with both particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5) crossing their maximum permissible limits in the two cities. The data was released by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology’s (IITM) System of Air Quality Forecasting and Research (SAFAR).
Maharashtra reported a 75-day high in new Covid infections with 2,172 cases on Tuesday. Mumbai, which is largely driving the surge, saw its highest daily detection (1,333) in seven months. The silver lining was the low count of Covid fatalities-22 in the state and one in Mumbai. The state also didn't detect any new Omicron infections on Tuesday, thereby restricting the cumulative tally of the new variant to 167.
It's boom time for electric vehicles in Mumbai and Maharashtra. While the state saw a phenomenal 153% rise in new e-vehicle registrations in the first nine months of the financial year 2021-2022, the city recorded a growth of 112% in the same period, the latest transport statistics show.
A police constable was killed after a local train ran over him at Sion railway station on Tuesday. Government Railway Police (GRP) will probe whether it was an accident or a suicide.
Poor pedestrian infrastructure, like unclear zeb-ra crossings, inadequate subways/ foot over-bridges, and encroached or missing footpaths, resulted in more than 5,100 road crashes and 2,214 fatalities in Maharashtra last year. The data, released by the state traffic police, is particularly relevant when pedestrians and motorcyclists are the most at-risk road users. Experts have called for prioritizing action that protects these vulnerable road users.
The number of new private cars, including SUVs, registered in Mumbai in 2021 saw a 13% jump over the pre-Covid time (2019), the latest statistics of the state transport department on Monday showed.
IIT-Bombay’s class of 1996 pledged Rs 17 crore towards the institute’s legacy project during the Alumni Day event. The funds will be utilised for supporting some of the start-up incubations at the institute’s Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and students’ tech clubs to facilitate their participation in global competitions.
A vacation bench of Bombay high court on Monday permitted a 12-year- old girl to undergo termination of an almost 23-week pregnancy caused allegedly by her rape.
An ex-navy man and a house painter have been felicitated by Khandeshwar police for their courageous act of chasing and catching a robber who had snatched the gold chain of a 70-year-old woman on the street in New Panvel on December 25 morning. The other painter could not come to the police station for his felicitation due to a prior commitment.
A 48-year-old woman sarpanch of a village in Mahad taluka of Raigad was found brutally murdered; her naked body was dumped in the bushes near Beloshi village road at around 1.30pm on Monday.
The principal of a college in Maharashtra's Thane district has been booked for rash driving and negligence causing death of a pedestrian in Ulhasnagar.
This week, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) will file a chargesheet against former state home minister Anil Deshmukh in the money-laundering case it is investigating against him. The agency had arrested Deshmukh in the case on November 2. He is presently in judicial custody.
A delegation from the MVA government met governor B S Koshyari on Sunday to seek his approval for the election to the post of the assembly speaker on Tuesday. The governor has sought more information before granting his assent and the episode could well become another flashpoint between the state government and governor Koshyari.
Actor Salman Khan was bitten on the hand by a snake at his farmhouse in Panvel in the early hours of Sunday. He was rushed to MGM Hospital, Kamothe, by his bodyguards, where he was treated and discharged after six hours of observation. The snake was reportedly non-venomous. Khan went to his farmhouse for the holiday season and also to celebrate his birthday, which falls on December 27.
The Indian hand was not missed before Nasa’s $10bn James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s largest and most powerful, sped away into the sky on an Ariane 5 rocket from the European spaceport of Kourou in French Guiana on Saturday.
When 12-year-old William D’Souza (name changed) started playing games on his cell phone three years back, his south Mumbai family never imagined they would need police help to tackle his addict-like behavior.
A magnitude 3.9 earthquake hit Maharashtra's Palghar district on Sunday morning. There was no report of any casualty or property damage so far, district disaster cell chief Vivekanand Kadam said.
Mumbai's Bandra Reclamation area has been decorated with lightings for New Year celebrations. State tourism minister Aditya Thackeray tweeted a video and invited everyone to see the decoration during festivities.
A 38-year-old woman was murdered by her husband on a busy street in Jogeshwari recently, after she asked him for a divorce, said the police.
The BMC on Saturday appointed Kalpesh Parmar, brother of conservancy worker Ramesh Parmar, who died by suicide on Thursday after the BMC failed to pay him for close to two years. The BMC’s Solid Waste Management department issued an order of appointment for Kalpesh as a safai kamgar in the BMC’s P-South Ward where Ramesh was employed.from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines, Coronavirus News, BMC Elections 2022 Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/1...
