At least 40,000 doses of Covid vaccine in the state were most likely tossed into the bin on Monday as they crossed the expiry date.
In a surprising move, the state government on Monday appointed senior IPS officer Sanjay Pandey as Mumbai’s new police commissioner just days after he was shunted out as the state’s acting director general of police.
The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Faraz Malik, son of minister Nawab Malik , for questioning in a money laundering case.
February drew to a close with the city’s daily Covid tally of 73 on Monday not only being one of the lowest in the last 23 months of the pandemic, but the month’s total caseload of 9,882 staying well short of the psychological milestone of 10,000 cases.
The ED has attached NCP Maharashtra junior minister Prajakt Tanpure’s 4.6 acre non-agriculture land worth Rs 7.
After the HC said Sanjay Pandey was a blue-eyed boy of the government and should never have been considered for the post of DGP , Pandey, in a social media post, had said unfounded remarks attacking his integrity were made during the legal discourse, making it untenable for him to continue
Actor Shabana Azmi has tweeted to app-based cab Ola about how her 21-year-old niece had a “horrific experience”. She demanded action against the driver who, she claimed, made the youngster get down halfway before her destination late night because he was getting late.
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Covid-19 mortality in the city declined by 72% in February compared to January when the third wave had arrived and peaked. The city witnessed less than 100 deaths (68) in the month -- one of the lowest monthly averages seen in the pandemic -- against January’s 247 fatalities.
The state on Sunday reported only two Covid-19 deaths over a period of 24hours, making it the lowest daily tally to be seen after the early days of the pandemic in March 2020.
The island city, from Colaba to Mahim, and parts of the suburbs suffered a power outage for up to one and a half hours on Sunday morning.
Union minister Narayan Rane and his MLA son Nitesh have been booked for allegedly making defamatory and derogatory statements about the death of Disha Salian (28), talent manager of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
Former Indian cricketer Vinod Kambli (50) was arrested on Sunday for drunk driving. He had crashed into another ex-Indian cricketer’s wife’s car parked on the building premises and then brushed onto the compound wall of a residential building in Bandra (West) before he was intercepted by a police patrolling van near Lilavati Hospital.
However, on Sunday he went alone and after he didn’t return for long. His panicked family alerted us and the municipal rescue teams,” informed Sulabha Patil, senior inspector at the Chitalsar Manpada police station.
The investigation wing of the Directorate General of Income-Tax, Mumbai, seized Rs 2 crore cash, mainly from the premises of Shiv Sena corporator and BMC standing committee chairman Yashwant Jadhav's family and his close associate businessman Bimal Agrawal during the search that commenced on Friday.
For the first time since the March 2020 lockdown, the BMC has permitted all educational institutions from pre-primary to Class 12 to go fully offline from March 2. Only students with comorbidities and chronic diseases will need parental consent to attend physical schools and colleges.
All ward level Covid care centres have been directed to shut down. Now, the BMC has decided to have just one Covid care centre operational per zone. The BMC has divided the city into seven zones, with 3 to 4 wards under each.
The Directorate General of Income Tax (investigation), Mumbai, on Friday searched 33 premises, 5 of them belonging to Shiv Sena corporator and BMC standing committee chairperson Yashwant Jadhav and his MLA wife Yamini Jadhav and the rest belonging to five allegedly influential civic
A week after two cops were arrested for allegedly trying to extort money from angadias or traditional couriers, the advocate of the third accused, inspector Om Vangaate, told an additional sessions court that while the complainant had named the zonal DCP, his client has been made a
The state's active Covid caseload dropped below 10,000 for the first time this year, even as the daily tally dipped under 1,000 for the second time this week.
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Maharashtra reported 1,182 Covid cases, including 119 in Mumbai, on Thursday. The toll in the state fell to 19, including one death in Mumbai.
The Goawala Building compound, a three-acre sprawl off the busy LBS Marg in Kurla, is at the heart of the money laundering case involving NCP minister Nawab Malik.
Senior state cabinet minister Nawab Malik is not cooperating in the investigation during his custodial interrogation related to the Kurla land transaction, and soon the Enforcement Directorate (ED) will summon his son Faraz for questioning, said sources.
While HSC offline exams begin from March 4, the language papers scheduled on March 5 and 7 have been postponed by a month to April 5 and 7, respectively, due to technical reasons, the state education board said on Thursday. The exam timings and centres remain the same.
BJP functionary Mohit Kamboj was on Thursday booked under the Arms Act for violating Covid rules after he brandished a sword in front of party workers in Santacruz West on Wednesday after NCP minister Nawab Malik was arrested by the ED.
The entire Maha Vikas Aghadi cabinet led by deputy CM Ajit Pawar on Thursday staged a protest near the Mahatma Gandhi statue adjacent to Mantralaya against the arrest of NCP spokesperson and minister Nawab Malik under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
The Bombay high court on Wednesday upheld the state rule that shops and establishments must have signboards in the Marathi language in Devanagri script, calling it reasonable.“No other language or script is prohibited or banned.
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The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday arrested NCP leader and Maharashtra minority development minister Nawab Malik in a money laundering case linked to international terrorist Dawood Ibrahim. He is the second minister of the Sena-led coalition to go behind bars after Anil Deshmukh.
With the decline in the third Covid wave in the city, the BMC has stopped mass testing at railway stations and other public places such as beaches. This is reflected in the drop in the number of daily Covid-19 tests — from 70,000 in early January to around 20,000 in the last few days.
In a relief to superstar Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan, who challenged a notice received from the BMC about taking part of their Prateeksha bungalow land in Juhu for a road extension work, the Bombay high court on Wednesday allowed them to make an additional representation to the municipal corporation within two weeks.
For the fifth time in February, Mumbai recorded zero Covid deaths on Wednesday. The daily tally of cases, however, rose to 168 as compared to 135 on Tuesday and 96 on Monday.
Considering a marked drop in Covid-19 cases and with board exams going offline, educational institutions want to return to full-time physical classes and have requested the state to scrap the parental consent clause that has seen many opting for virtual classrooms. Medical experts, too, say it is safe for children to return to "real classrooms".
Scores of families in Siddharth colony in Chembur face power cuts for defaulting on electricity bills for 16 years – their outstandings are estimated at Rs 99 crore – but among the worst hit is a 35-year-old brain hemorrhage patient on ventilator whose family depends on a generator running
Chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday inaugurated the Patra chawl redevelopment project, which had been stalled for over a decade, impacting 672 tenants. NCP chief Sharad Pawar, deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and housing minister Jitendra Awhad were also present at the ceremony.
A day after reporting record low cases and fatalities, the state and the city reported an increase in Covid-19 daily detections and deaths on Tuesday. The state reported 1,080 cases and 47 deaths, a jump from the 800-odd cases and four deaths reported on Monday.
A Powai resident, employed as a manager with a multinational company, became the latest victim of online flat rent fraud, losing Rs50,000 when a person, posing as an Indian Army jawan, got in touch with his father in Baroda to enquire about a flat advertised on a housing portal for rent.
The police have registered a case against the managing director of S Kumar Gold and Diamonds, Shreekumar Pillai, and are searching for him for cheating investors by not returning their investments running into crores of rupees along with interest on the date of maturity.
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A team of BMC officials, along with a strong police posse, on Monday returned to Union minister Narayan Rane’s Juhu bungalow, Adish, to carry out an inspection for alleged irregularities. Rane was at his residence all through the inspection which lasted around two hours.
Mumbai's daily caseload dropped below 100 as 96 Mumbaikars were registered as Covid-positive on Monday—the lowest since April 17, 2020, when the city had reported 77 cases.
Drama unfolded when a team of ED officials from Delhi landed at the Indiabulls Housing Finance company office at Prabhadevi in Mumbai and another company's office in Pune to undertake a search in a money laundering case. Indiabulls officials in Mumbai cited a Delhi high court order imposing a stay on any ED action. But the ED eventually searched the premises when the Indiabulls team failed to produce the court order.
Teachers in the city will participate in the two-days state-level strike by government, semi-government staff on February 23 and 24.
Local residents, sports administrators and MNS have opposed the BMC’s plan to construct a gravel-based ‘mud track’ in the middle of Dadar’s Shivaji Park. Residents have said the BMC is planning to lay a mud track on the iconic playground with stone gravel, which will disperse all over the ground once the top surface gets eroded with wear and tear.from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines, Coronavirus News, BMC Elections 2022 Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/1...
