Mumbai news live updates: Nawab Malik hints at another 'expose' against Sameer Wankhede on Sunday

High value property registrations this October have helped the department of registration and stamps achieve this year’s highest revenue collection of Rs 3,129 crore— also beating the Rs 2,234 crore mopped up during the same month in a pre-pandemic 2019. Read more

The BJP has distanced itself from NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede. Addressing a press conference at Bandra on Tuesday, BJP MLA Ashish Shelar said it is not the party’s job to give Wankhede a character certificate. “We support NCB in its action against drugs ...Action must be initiated against those in possession of drugs like charas, ganja or even herbal tobacco irrespective of the quantity and the person involved,” he said. Read more

Most of the red flags at Maharashtra’s first statewide bandh were literal. Stones remained largely unthrown and buses unburnt in the city on the Wednesday of August 12, 1964. The 24-hour token strike saw droves of mill workers marching with flags and posters towards the Collectors’ office amid pouring rain, even as middle-class office-goers shouted anti-price-rise slogans outside their respective workplaces. Read more

A 35-year-old man has been arrested for setting ablaze his six-month pregnant wife over a domestic quarrel, in which she lost the baby. Read more

The BEST undertaking, which has 3,278 buses on the roads now, witnessed a rise in daily ridership close to 28 lakh, an official said on Tuesday. BEST spokesperson Manoj Varade said, “We are deploying 136 special buses this Saturday for Bhaubeej. It will cater to the rush on that day.” Maximum buses will be from Wadala, Sion, Mumbai Central, Worli and Dharavi depots.

Expressing anguish that around 85 tribals in Thane district are being denied supplies under the public distribution system (PDS) for want of linking of their Aadhaar cards with the system, while “the fortunate” await Diwali in joyous anticipation, Bombay high court directed Murbad tehsildar and other authorities to distribute foodgrains to them by November 4. Read more

The railway police staff from Thane ensured a Nashik resident could celebrate his festival as they promptly retrieved his bag full of Diwali goodies left behind in a local train on Monday evening. Read more

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Tuesday claimed that IPS officer Param Bir Singh had not absconded, but was made to “move out of the country”, with the Centre’s help. The BJP has hit back, with party leader Ashish Shelar alleging that the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) may have helped Singh flee and could be “preparing ground for him to seek political asylum” in a western country. Read more

With the addition of 131 new cases of coronavirus, the infection count in Maharashtra's Thane district has gone up to 5,66,130, while six more fatalities pushed the death toll to 11,529, an official said on Wednesday.

Tribal students, belonging to small farming families from remote villages of Gadchiroli and Melghat in Maharashtra, have cleared the recently conducted National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) 2021 and are soon expected to start undergraduate degree courses in medicine.

Despite making a hefty budgetary provision, the state government has decided to go slow on procuring monoclonal antibodies. The antibody cocktail drug has been found effective in prevention of severe symptoms that could lead to hospitalisation and death in Covid-19 patients. Read more

Day 2 of resumption of daily local train tickets saw their sales touch nearly 3 lakh at the booking counters of both Western and Central railways. The number of tickets sold totalled over 2.8 lakh on Monday, 30% more than on Sunday, officials said.

The income tax department has provisionally attached properties worth over Rs 1,000 crore allegedly belonging to Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and his close relatives under the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act. Read more

Ahead of BMC elections next year, there was a hue and cry at the civic standing committee meeting on Tuesday over water shortage. Corporators said lakes were full but no one knows where the water is going. Read more

A few hours after the post-midnight arrest of former state home minister Anil Deshmukh (72), the Enforcement Directorate produced him before a special holiday court on Tuesday, stating he was the key person in the Rs 100 crore money laundering case and the agency needed to investigate a “foreign angle” in the case apart from establishing the money trail. Read more