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The state excise department’s flying squad from Mumbai on Sunday intercepted a truck in Kalamboli on the Sion-Panvel highway and seized a huge consignment of liquor worth over Rs 1 crore and prohibited for sale in Maharashtra.

As Class XII students of the Council for the Indian School Certificate (CISCE) take their first term board exams from Monday, examiners too will have to evaluate the papers the same day and upload the marks. Students will start writing the 90-minute multiple choice questions (MCQs) at 2 pm in their respective schools. External examiners have to report to allotted schools by 3 pm. After students leave, the question paper cum answer booklets will be handed over to the examiner/s who will correct it. Read more here

A 49-year-old woman was arrested in Ambernath in Thane district of Maharashtra for allegedly possessing cannabis worth Rs 1 lakh, police said on Monday. The woman was nabbed on a tip-off on Saturday and 5 kg ganja was seized from her possession, an official said. (PTI)

With the addition of 98 fresh coronavirus positive cases, the infection count in Thane district of Maharashtra mounted to 5,68,454, an official said on Monday. The Covid-19 death toll remained unchanged at 11,572 as no fresh fatality was reported in the district. The mortality rate in the Thane district now stands at 2.03 per cent. (PTI)

An inquiry has been initiated against two sub-inspectors of Mokhada police station, Ganesh Targe and Mangesh Munde, accused of extorting around Rs 2 lakh from a tribal farmer transporting a bull. Read full story here

Deaths in hit-andrun cases, in which pedestrians and two-wheeler riders are mainly the victims, comprise over 30% of road accident fatalities in the country, according to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). In Mumbai, of 1,681 road accident deaths between 2017 and 2020, over 17.5% were hit-and-run deaths. This proportion for Maharashtra during the same period was much higher, at over 23%. Read more here

In an interim order that comes as a relief to bar owners, the Bombay high court has stayed a December 2019 notification issued by the Mumbai police commissioner that hiked annual premise licence fees for bars with orchestra permits. The increase in this category was from Rs 2,000 to Rs 2 lakh, and the notification was with retrospective effect from January 1, 2018. Read more here

Even as cases in the state and city continued to drop, active cases in the state fell below 10,000 on Sunday. In Mumbai, too, active cases have come down to an all-time low. The state reported 845 cases and 17 deaths, taking the total cases to 66.29 lakh and deaths to1,40,739. Read the full story here

Water supply continued to remain affected in parts of H-West ward, which covers Bandra, Khar and Santacruz, for the second consecutive day. Supply is expected to be affected on Monday too as the leakage in the 1,800mm Tansa east water main line at Mahim Creek has not been arrested completely, said officials. Read more here

The crime branch of Mumbai police arrested a Nigerian national in suburban Wadala early on Sunday and recovered from him MD drug and cocaine collectively worth over Rs five crore, which he was found carrying in ladies' handbags, an official said. The accused was nabbed from Chembur-Sewri road, he said. (PTI)