NCP leader Sharad Pawar. (File)Mumbai Coronavirus Latest Update, Mumbai Weather News Highlights: Hours after BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis claimed Uddhav Thackeray secretly nurtured ambitions to become a CM but kept talking about installing a “Shiv Sainik” on the post, NCP president Sharad Pawar Saturday said he had insisted that Thackeray become chief minister of Maharashtra after Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) was formed two years ago.
Work on the fifth and the sixth local train line between Thane and Diva railway stations is likely to be completed by January next year. In 2008, the Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation (MRVC) had planned the fifth and sixth line between Thane and Diva. The project was planned under the Mumbai Urban Transport Project-2 (MUTP-2) and the 9.9-km railway line was supposed to be built between Thane and Diva railway stations.
Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Friday said the BJP was behaving “like a jilted lover throwing acid on Maharashtra”, and called for a debate on Centre-state relations. He said the threat to Hindutva was from “neo-Hindus” who have “used Hindutva to come to power but are now adopting Britishers’ divide and rule policy”. Thackeray was speaking at the party’s annual Dussehra rally.
Meanwhile, the Malabar Hill police on Friday arrested three persons for allegedly extorting money from a south Mumbai businessman. According to the police, the three had started an account on Instagram using a woman’s name and under the pretext of making a video call, the three recorded a nude video of the 32-year-old businessman and later blackmailed him into paying them.
Also, Mumbai Friday reported 488 Covid-19 cases and 5 deaths, taking the tally to 7,50,108 and the toll to 16,177. The recovery count reached 7,26,040 after 421 people were discharged from hospitals, leaving the country’s financial capital with an active caseload of 5,379.
NCP president Sharad Pawar on Saturday said he had insisted that Uddhav Thackeray become chief minister of Maharashtra after Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) was formed two years ago, hours after BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis claimed Thackeray covertly nurtured ambitions to become a CM but kept talking about installing a "Shiv Sainik" on the post.
Speaking to reporters in Pimpri Chinchwad city in the Pune district, Pawar reiterated his allegations that the Centre was misusing various agencies to destabilise the tripartite government of Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress in Maharashtra. He said the BJP was "keeping mum" on the issue of rising prices of fuel and accused the saffron party of not lowering rates of petrol and diesel despite a fall in the international prices of crude.
"Thackeray was selected by leaders of three parties (in the MVA). The MVA was formed by the contribution of many people including me. When we held a meeting to form the MVA and to discuss the leadership of the alliance, I forced him (Uddhav Thackeray) to become the chief minister. I have seen these people since their childhood. (Shiv Sena founder) Balasaheb Thackeray and I might have political differences but we were close. --PTI
Maharashtra minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik on Saturday posted a few tweets on Fletcher Patel claiming the latter is a panch in three the NCB cases.
A truck carrying iron roads from Thane to Nashik turned to ashes after it suddenly caught fire in Kasara ghat mountain pass on Saturday morning, officials said. The driver of the truck survived as he jumped out immediately on spotting the blaze, a fire brigade official from Shahapur in Thane district said.
"As soon the truck caught fire, its driver jumped out. But the vehicle was completely gutted," he said. On being alerted, some fire brigade personnel and a team of disaster control cell went to the spot and doused the flames, he added. The mishap affected the movement of traffic on the busy Mumbai-Nashik highway for a couple of hours, before it was cleared, officials said. (PTI)
Senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday hit out at the Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray saying the Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government was the most corrupt in the history of the state with extortion being its "only agenda." The former chief minister alleged that the MVA government came to power by indulging in dishonesty, and claimed that the BJP is the number one party in the state.
He made the statements a day after Thackeray, who is also the president of the Shiv Sena, launched a no-holds-barred attack on the BJP during the Sena's annual Dussehra rally here. "Thackeray's speech reflected his frustration. You may try to defame the BJP, but the party is firmly grounded...You should remember that the BJP is the number one party in the state," Fadnavis told reporters
"You are saying that the people rejected the BJP, but in fact they rejected the NCP-Congress and promoted you (Shiv Sena). Out of the seats that we fought together (in the 2019 Assembly polls), the BJP had won nearly 70 per cent seats and the Shiv Sena had won 45 per cent seats. Hence, you indulged in dishonesty with the peoples vote and came to power," he said. (PTI)
The Income Tax (I-T) Department on Friday said it has unearthed unaccounted income worth Rs 184 crore after its searches on October 7 at premises of two real estate groups in Mumbai linked to the family of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar.
Without naming Pawar or his kin, the tax authority said the evidence gathered by it during the searches carried out at about 70 premises spread across Mumbai, Pune, Baramati, Goa and Jaipur revealed “several prima-facie unaccounted and benami transactions”. “Incriminating documents evidencing unaccounted income of about Rs 184 crore of the two groups have been found,” said the tax agency in a statement on Friday.
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A 33-year-old man was convicted under the POCSO Act for singing Bollywood songs and whistling at a minor. The court sentenced the man to a jail term of nearly four months, a term he had already served in jail before being released on bail in 2014.
According to the prosecution, on September 5, 2014, the victim, a Class VII student, was returning from school when the accused whistled, called her chikni and sang Bollywood songs. The girl ran home in fear. Her mother told the court that she had seemed nervous and on inquiring, she told her about the incident. She also said that this had happened 2-3 times. An FIR was filed at Vakola police station, and the accused was arrested.
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Around 40 godowns of wooden furniture were gutted in a major fire that broke out in a wholesale market selling these items at Bhiwandi in Maharashtra's Thane district, a civic official said on Saturday. Nobody was injured in the blaze that started around 11 pm on Friday at the Mahalaxmi Furniture market located near Kasheli toll plaza, he said.
'The fire broke out at one of the furniture godowns, which quickly spread to the adjoining storerooms. Around 40 of these units were completely destroyed in the incident,' chief of Thane Municipal Corporation's Regional Disaster Management Cell (RDMC) Santosh Kadam said.
On being informed, the fire brigade personnel from Thane and Bhiwandi, a team of the RDMC and fire engines rushed to the place, he said. 'The fire was brought under control by 4.45 am today,' Kadam said, adding that the cause of the fire was being probed. (PTI)
In a bid to set up a Climate Change Cell, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will take help from cities in Germany and the United States of America (USA) that have already taken steps to fight climate change. The civic body is in the process of preparing Mumbai’s first Climate Action Plan.
Officials from the Environment Department said that New York and Seattle in the US, and Berlin in Germany will help the BMC in setting up the Climate Cell Department, which will be crucial for executing Mumbai Climate Action Plan’s (MCAP)’s mitigation and adaptation measures.
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A two-degree Celsius rise in day temperature was recorded in the city in the last 24 hours. A day after the withdrawal of the southwest monsoon over Mumbai, a rise in maximum temperature was recorded on Friday. The maximum temperature recorded at India Meteorological Department (IMD) Santacruz observatory was 36.4 degrees Celsius — 3 degrees above normal. Mumbai’s minimum temperature on Friday stood at 24.4 degrees Celsius. High relative humidity was also recorded at 79 per cent on Friday morning.
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A special court on Thursday rejected an application seeking to cancel a look-out circular (LOC) issued against the former chief financial officer of a firm linked to fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi. Ravi Gupta, who was named as an accused in the Punjab National Bank (PNB) ‘fraud’ case, had sought to cancel the LOC against him, stating that it was preventing him from travelling abroad for his work.
Gupta said that he had cooperated with the CBI probe and had appeared before the agency 31 times. He pointed out that he had neither been arrested in connection with the case nor charge-sheeted. Gupta said he was shocked to learn of the LOC and had requested CBI to cancel it, but it was not done.
The coal crisis has abated in Maharashtra and there is no danger of load shedding, Sanjay Khandare, Chairman and Managing Director of MAHAGENCO, has told The Indian Express. Khandare said the state had begun getting more coal in October than the previous month. He said the crisis was caused by an increase in demand for local coal after prices of imported coal skyrocketed, which caused a shortage in supply.
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The recent decision of the Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), that it will not handle any container cargo originating from Iran, may have put the relationship between India and Iran under further strain but the nature of the relationship between the two countries was very different in the past.
In the present times, their shared history, economic linkages, bilateral trade and cultural ties dating back to centuries is underwritten in the form of Mumbai’s Moghul Masjid — the oldest Shia Iranian mosque in the city. A vibrant mixture of art and craftsmanship, the Moghul Masjid with its intricate geometric designs, blue mosaic tiles, dazzling stained glasses and thick Persian rugs is one of the few remaining vestiges of the 19th Century Shia Iranian influence on Mumbai city.
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A 44-year-old woman working as a nurse in a civic hospital fell prey to cyber-fraud when a man impersonating as an executive from Cred, a fintech company, tricked her into installing an application used to get remote access of a mobile phone and stole her banking details which were used to transfer Rs 2.46 lakh from her bank account.
The woman registered an FIR with the Dindoshi police station in Malad (east) on October 15. The woman said that while checking her bank account earlier this month, she realised that some more money has been debited form her account. She was using Cred app to make payments. She searched for their helpline number on internet and ended up getting a fraudster’s number.
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Mumbai Friday reported 488 Covid-19 cases and 5 deaths, taking the tally to 7,50,108 and the toll to 16,177. The recovery count reached 7,26,040 after 421 people were discharged from hospitals, leaving the country’s financial capital with an active caseload of 5,379.
The Amboli police on Friday arrested a man who had hit and snatched the mangalsutra of a 74-year-old woman in Andheri (West). Till September this year, 108 incidents of chain snatching were reported and 77 were detected. Last year, during this period, 92 cases were reported and 57 people arrested.
The incident took place at around 4 pm when Padma Iyengar was heading towards Azad Nagar market with her husband. The couple had reached the Shahaji Raje Sports Complex footpath on JP road when the accused, Aziz Dawood (48) hit her and snatched her mangalsutra. The couple rushed to the police station and lodged a case.
Saamana, the Shiv Sena mouthpiece, has come down heavily on the Union government for the coal shortage in the country. Dubbing the Union government “East India Company”, an editorial said it can go to any level for the benefit of a select few industrialists. The sharp attack comes ahead of Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray’s address to Shiv Sainiks in the party’s annual Dussehra rally Friday evening. He is also expected to sound the poll bugle for the upcoming BMC polls.
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After RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat expressed concern over the rising consumption of narcotics in the society, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Friday hit out at the Centre saying that although Prime Minister Narendra Modi had earlier asserted that demonetisation would curb the drug menace, it was still present in the country. Raut also asked who the Sangh supremo would hold responsible for the prevailing drug situation. The Sena leader said that Bhagwat’s remarks show he has admitted that something was wrong with the assurances given by the Union government and their implementation.
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Maharashtra Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Friday said the BJP was behaving “like a jilted lover throwing acid on Maharashtra”, and called for a debate on Centre-state relations. He said the threat to Hindutva was from “neo-Hindus” who have “used Hindutva to come to power but are now adopting Britishers’ divide and rule policy”. Thackeray was speaking at the party’s annual Dussehra rally.
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