The school education department on Thursday sent a proposal to the state government to declare summer vacations from May 2 to June 12.
Exactly two years and nine days after the Covid clampdown, Maharashtra will be free of all pandemic -related curbs, including mandatory masking and double vaccination for using public transport or entry into public spaces, from April 2, which marks Gudi Padwa, the Marathi New Year.
March ended with the city recording less than five Covid-19 deaths and the state registering fewer than 100 fatalities, the lowest-ever since the first month of the pandemic. Maharashtra, one of the worst-affected states with over 1.47 lakh Covid deaths in the past two years, had nine 'zero-death' days this month.
Finding a progress in the probe and the reasons cited compelling, a special NDPS court on Thursday granted the Narcotics Control Bureau's SIT (special investigation team) an additional 60 days to submit the chargesheet in the cruise ship drugs bust case. The investigating agency had moved the plea on Monday seeking an extension of 90 days as the stipulated period of 180 days was coming to an end on Thursday.
With the Disaster Management Act, 2005, and the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, withdrawn in Maharashtra from Saturday, penalties for Covid-inappropriate behaviour like not wearing masks or not following social distancing cannot be levied as they were being imposed under the two laws, said
The inauguration of phase I of Metro lines 2A and 7 (Dahanukarwadi-Dahisar-Aarey) is scheduled at the hands of chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Gudi Padwa, the Maharashtrian new year’s day, on Saturday. Commercial operations, though, will commence from Sunday.
The revised price of petrol in Mumbai is Rs 116.72 and diesel at Rs 100.94
Diesel price in Mumbai breached the Rs 100-mark again on Wednesday, with transporters signalling this will definitely lead to a price hike soon. Petrol rate also broke all records on Tuesday and is at an all-time high of Rs 115.88 per litre -3 paise more than its last record rate on November 3, 2021.
A digital fingerprint and iris scanning system to aid police investigations with a database of 6.5 lakh persons with crime records will be launched by chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday.
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Transport Authority (MMRTA) on Wednesday proposed ‘conditional’ licensing for aggregator cabs like Uber and Ola to operate across the Mumbai region.
The Maharashtra government has hiked the Dearness Allowance (DA) for its 17 lakh employees by 3%. The announcement came within hours of the Centre announcing a similar hike for its employees and pensioners from January 1, 2022. Dearness Allowance is paid as a means to offset the effects of inflation.
Bombay high court on Tuesday dismissed petitions filed by nine associations including the Indian Hotel and Restaurant Association with a cost of Rs 1 lakh on each holding that the challenge by “self indulgent and self serving foreign liquor vending hotels’’ to a 15% hike in Foreign Liquor license fee lacked a “shred of merit”.
An injured leopard was rescued in the early hours of Wednesday from Kopar village in Vasai taluka in Maharashtra's Palghar district.
Today Maharashtra, a state that is known for its progressive, cultural and noble tradition of liberal politics, will be down with shame to see how the leaders of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi government in the state conspired and filed false charges against the leaders of the opposition – the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The political slugfest between the Centre and the state threatens to derail Mumbai's railway projects. The Maharashtra government owes Rs 1,000 crore to the Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation (MRVC). Both state and central governments are trading charges against each other.
A resident doctor from J J Hospital allegedly speeding on the wrong-side carriageway of Kemps Corner bridge hit a 25-year-old biker, throwing him 30ft on the road below in the wee hours of Monday.
The Adjudicating Authority, appointed under Prevention of Money Laundering Act or PMLA, on Tuesday confirmed the attachment of Satara’s Jarandeshwar Sahakari Sugar Karkhana (cooperative sugar mill) worth over Rs 65 crore linked to deputy CM Ajit Pawar.
The state home department has proposed the withdrawal of cases lodged during the pandemic against citizens, including students, under Section 188 of the Indian Penal Code for violation of curbs. The section relates to disobedience of an order promulgated by a public servant. The proposal has to be approved by the state cabinet.
The Maharashtra government on Tuesday informed the Bombay high court that it has withdrawn an order issued on March 21 by sub-divisional officer of the coastal zone management committee to demolish parts of the Juhu residence of Union minister Narayan Rane within eight days.
With rising summer heat and all cities and districts unlocking to nearly pre-Covid levels, the peak power demand across the state has touched a record 28,000MW, said MSEDCL officials on Monday.
A good number of people when asked what their aim in life is, will say “I want to be happy”. The pursuit of happiness leads us through different paths; religion, meditation, yoga, social work, helping others, cultivating relationships, and so on. There are thousands of self-help books that claim to show you how to attain a state of happiness; clearly they don’t work because each year, more and more such books keep getting published.
On April 2, Metro services on the Dahanukarwadi-Dahisar-Aarey stretch of 2A and 7 lines (Phase I) will finally open to the public. The day assumes significance as it is Gudi Padwa, when people of the state celebrate the Maharashtrian New Year.
A 22-year-old youth who molested a woman who was traveling with him in a share auto in Jogeshwari in 2019 has been convicted and sentenced to 6 months rigorous imprisonment. While the accused claimed that he had touched the woman by mistake while removing his phone from his pocket, the court found his actions to be intentional.
Animal activists in Borivli broke down a newly built wall to rescue a pack of dogs that were trapped in a confined space and struggling to breathe. Finally, a gap was made, and some of the smaller dogs could be seen wriggling out in a video recording.
In a case of road rage, a kabaddi player, Ram Ganesh Singh (32), who had represented Maharashtra at the sport at the sub-junior level, lost his life after he was stabbed during his attempt to halt an altercation between his nephew and a biker in Prabhadevi last week.
With the Omicron-Covid surge in several parts of Europe and Asia, more Indians are now in favour of taking the third booster shot of the Covid vaccine, according to a national survey.
Shivaji Nagar police have arrested four persons including a lodge owner, manager, a pimp, and a minor boy for allegedly running a prostitution racket involving minor girls from poor families in Govandi and Shivaji Nagar slums in eastern suburbs.
In a recent interview, during the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly elections, the Prime Minister of India titled Mr Nitish Kumar a true socialist leader. In UP and Bihar, the two most poverty-stricken states, almost every politician is a self-acclaimed socialist leader.
The state government on Sunday evening invoked stringent sections of MESMA (Maharashtra Essential Services Maintenance Act) as unions representing over 80,000 workers of power companies, MSEDCL, MAHAGENCO and MAHATRANSCO, threatened to go on two day strike.
The city is just 34,000 doses shy of immunizing its entire adult population with two shots of the Covid-19 vaccine. It will be the first among the major metros to reach the milestone since the national drive started 15 months ago. Mumbai has an estimated adult population of 92.
Police have every right to inquire with people who are out at night, said the Bombay high court while refusing to quash a first information report against a man who was among an allegedly drunken group that sped away.
In a case of road rage, a diamond trader from Goregaon (west) was grabbed by the collar and dragged by a motorist who drove his SUV, while holding him precariously over a tiff on a road blocked by traffic in Vile Parle. The SUV driver has been booked but no arrest has been made yet.
Even as final exams commence at some of the city's autonomous colleges in the offline mode, Mumbai University has asked them to give some concessions to students. These colleges are holding offline exams after a gap of two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The city traffic police, which is coming up with the ‘Sunday Street’ program, has increased the time from three hours to four hours.
The Covid epidemic in Mumbai is at its lowest ebb, with only 23 patients in hospitals with the viral infection at the moment, according to the BMC’s Covid dashboard.
The shortage of drugs in KEM Hospital, Parel, is not acute or perennial, said senior BMC officials on Saturday. However, steps are being taken to improve the stocks and increase the local purchase capacity, they added.
Yashwant Jadhav, Shiv Sena corporator in the BMC House that recently ended its term and chairperson of the civic body’s powerful standing committee, paid around Rs 10 crore in cash to acquire tenancy rights in his residential building.
A 52-year-old Nepean Sea Road businessman was recently convicted and sentenced to six months’ simple imprisonment for abusing an ICU doctor by calling her a “bloody bitch” and “scoundrel”, and alleging that she was “sleeping with the management”.
For six months, Kalbadevi resident Dimple Choksi wasn't herself. She would speak gibberish, laugh inappropriately, keep rotating in an anti-clockwise manner instead of walking straight and had pulled out most of the hair from her crown.
Covid deaths in the state in March have fallen by a staggering 90% against 737 casualties reported in February. The slide is 95% if compared with the third wave peak of January, when 1,524 deaths were seen.
Residential consumers of Tata Power can expect up to a 4% drop in electricity bills and those of MSEDCL up to 2% dip when power tariff is revised from April 1, according to the multi-year tariff plan of the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC).
The Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) on Friday granted approval to commence commercial operations on Phase I of Metro 2A and Metro 7 corridors that promise to significantly reduce congestion on the roads and suburban trains in the western suburbs.
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