It’s a birthday that 83-year-old Bandra resident Martina Pereira will cherish for a long time to come. As the retired schoolteacher lay in hospital on Sunday, a cop from Bandra police station walked up with a cake and had a little celebration with the senior citizen.
The Western Railway (WR) has lined up demolition of around 148 illegal structures that have come up on its land at Garib Nagar in Bandra (East) on February 2 and 3.The BMC had cleared around eight acres of encroachment in the same area in 2017.
On Monday, the weekend effect on the state’s Covid graph was apparent as the daily tally dropped 32% to 15,140, the lowest in 28 days. Deaths, too, dropped to 39 from 50. The number of tests in the state were lower than usual — 1.2 lakh on Sunday as against 1.7 lakh on Saturday.
The BMC has approved 17,052 claims for ex gratia for Covid victims as on January 28, almost 3% higher than the city’s official cumulative death toll of 16,581 reported as on that day. The state too is expecting the final count of approved claims to exceed its official toll by at least 10%.
After close to a month, city colleges are all set to reopen their campuses for offline classes on Tuesday. Following the recent state government directive, fully vaccinated students will be allowed in classrooms. Principals, though, do not expect many students to turn up.
A day after state NCP president Jayant Patil, Shiv Sena leader Subhash Desai and state Congress chief Nana Patole reached a consensus on joining forces for the nagar panchayat (municipal council) polls, it appears that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) banner will gain control over maximum councils in Maharashtra.
Two persons waiting at a BEST bus stop at Everard Nagar on the Eastern Express Highway near Chembur were killed when a junior college student lost control of the car he was driving and rammed into them around 8am on Monday, reports S Ahmed Ali.
Slamming Prime Minister Narendra Modi for turning India’s politics into an event, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday said that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) was the future of politics in Maharashtra and there was no room for the Sena re-uniting with the BJP again.
This year's Republic Day was special for around 100 adivasis from 24 families residing near Birla College in Kalyan, as they will now get public toilets after persuading authorities for nearly a decade. The Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation began the construction work for the toilets on January 26.
NRI Coastal police have booked two truck drivers and their employers for allegedly transporting illegally excavated sand without paying the royalty for sand mining in Panvel creek on a complaint by circle officer of Panvel tehsildar office Ganesh Telange.
In a move that has not only surprised hoteliers but patrons too, the state excise department has increased annual excise fees recovered from all bars by 15% and as much as by 70% for wine shops.
The BJP and the MVA partners continue to spar over the government decision to allow the sale of wine in supermarkets.
In a daring carjacking, three men abducted a businessman and his driver from Western Express Highway at Bandra, then dumped the businessman 20km away at Kandivli and vanished with his chauffeur and SUV.
Police arrested a man and his son after a 16-year-old girl complained she was being sexually abused by her own father and brother for the past six months.
Five people, including three women, from Mira Road in Thane district, travelling by an SUV died when the four-wheeler first hit and then jumped over a median on the Pune-Mumbai highway and crashed into a container truck travelling in the opposite corridor at 8am on Sunday at Shilatane village
Following a complaint raised on Twitter by a journalist the BMC has suspended a clerk for demanding money for issuing a death certificate and copies thereafter.
Former state home minister Anil Deshmukh allegedly used Rs 3.3 crore unaccounted money to purchase 86 acres of land in Nagpur and Navi Mumbai over a decade ago.
While state health minister Rajesh Tope on Saturday said Omicron-Covid cases in the state had dipped by almost 50% in the past fortnight, the daily tally rose by 12%. From 24,948 cases on Friday, the daily tally increased to 27,971.
Once the new BMC electoral ward limits are decided, the lottery for ward reservation too will have to take place before civic elections are held. The number of electoral wards in the city will increase from 227 to 236.
With the SEC laying out the schedule for the run-up to the BMC polls and stating that final list of ward boundaries will be published on March 2, BMC elections are set to be delayed. The term of the BMC House ends on March 8, 2022.
The BMC has organised a leprosy awareness drive, along with a door-to-door visits and surveys between January 30 and February 14 as a part of the National Leprosy Eradication Programme.
The Bombay high court has held that the Airports Authority of India (AAI) prima facie has no authority to withdraw the no objection certificates (NOCs) granted for height of a building to be constructed in the upscale Juhu Vile Parle Development Scheme (JVPD).
While daily Covid-19 detections in the state dropped under 25,000, fatalities crossed 100 on Friday, the highest toll reported since September 1. The state added 103 fatalities, a jump of over 145% over the previous day, while fresh daily cases dropped to 24,948 from 25,425 the previous day.
The state has covered half its estimated adolescent population with a single dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in the past 25 days. Since the drive targeting the population between 15-17 years started on January 3, a total of 30.9lakh doses has been administered to this group. The state’s coverage is below the national average of 59% though.
Even as Maharashtra recorded 103 deaths on Friday, officials said the state seems to be witnessing a peak of sorts in Covid mortality. The death toll has surged almost 10-15 days since the peak in cases during the third wave.
Former state home minister Anil Deshmukh used to prepare an "unofficial list" of police officers for favourable postings that he would hand over to the additional chief secretary (ACS home) and the Mumbai police commissioner for implementation, said the Enforcement Directorate (ED) chargesheet filed against Deshmukh, his sons Hrishikesh and Salil, and 9 others recently.
An FIR has been filed against 18 persons, including five former municipal commissioners of the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC), 11 town planning department officers, and a builder and an architect for allegedly allowing development of a 23-stored building in violation of rules.
A furniture godown was gutted in a major fire at Kasheli in Bhiwandi tehsil of Maharashtra's Thane district.
Jain is one of the directors of Jain Vinayak Impex and Jai Vinayak Metal with office in Kalbadevi.
A special NDPS court on Thursday rejected the bail application filed by Anuj Keshwani, one of the co-accused along with Rhea Chakrabarty, girlfriend of late Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
A 28-year-old self-styled godman has been arrested for allegedly cheating a woman of Rs 32 lakh to "drive away evil spirits", in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Thursday.
The Supreme Court on Thursday granted 10-day protection from arrest to Maharashtra BJP MLA Nitesh Rane in an attempt-to-murder case registered in Sindhudurg district.
One person was killed and five others injured after a car ran into a food stall at Chinchani beach in Palghar district on Wednesday evening.
With the addition of 1,496 coronavirus positive cases, the infection count in Thane district went up to 6,97,637, while the death of seven patients pushed the toll to 11,743, an official said on Thursday.
The Maharashtra government has so far received 2.2 lakh applications from family members of deceased Covid-19 patients for ex gratia payment of Rs 50,000 each. As on Tuesday morning. though, Covid deaths recorded in the state totalled 1,42,151.
The state added a steep 86 deaths, the highest in 110 days since October 6 (90), on Tuesday. So far in the third Covid wave, the state had reported a maximum of 53 deaths on January 18. A day after a drop in cases, the state also recorded a rise in daily detection to 33,914 cases on Tuesday.
Three days after the blaze in a high rise building at Tardeo killed seven, the Mumbai Fire Brigade said that they were in the process of issuing a notice to the housing society for lack of fire safety measure On Saturday, when the fire erupted firemen who reached the site to douse the flames
Elaborate security arrangements have been made in Mumbai in view of the 73rd Republic Day celebrations on Wednesday, police said on Tuesday.
The two injured refused hospitalisations as per information received by the civic disaster management authorities.
The latest round of genome sequencing has found that Omicron is the dominant strain in the city. In the eighth round of sequencing, a total of 373 samples were sequenced at the laboratory in Kasturba Hospital. Of these, 280 samples belonged to Mumbai residents.
Over a crore of beneficiaries are yet to take their second dose of Covid vaccines in the state, prompting the health department to tell the local administrations to convince these people to take it at the earliest.
A 58-year-old man was duped of Rs 16 lakh by the online fraudsters who posed as personnel working with his mobile service provider and asked him for his debit card details under the pretext of KYC (Know Your Customer) verification. The complainant is a retired resident of Waghbil area.
Metropolitan Magistrate of the 16th Court at Ballard Pier has discharged actress Shilpa Shetty from a criminal case filed against her in 2007 in Alwar, Rajasthan for alleged offence of obscenity following an event where she allegedly was hugged and kissed by Hollywood actor Richard Gere in
Continuing with its declining graph, Mumbai’s daily Covid cases on Monday dipped to 1,857 — almost a tenth of the caseload a fortnight ago and the lowest so far this year. The state also reported a 30% drop in cases in the last 24 hours while adding 28,286 cases on Monday.
The Bombay high court on Monday grilled the state and questioned how on November 1 last year could then state chief secretary Sitaram Kunte sign as selection committee member on three names recommended for the post of Maharashtra Director General of Police and a week later write to UPSC saying the panel had erred in its decision-making and seek consideration of Sanjay Pandey's name.
Central Mumbai led the revival in property sales in 2021, Thane had the highest stamp duty collection in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) , while the western suburbs brought in the highest sales value of Rs 49,000 crore, found an industry study released on Monday.from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines, Coronavirus News, BMC Elections 2022 Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/1...
