Mumbai: A BMC health worker collects swab sample of an outstation passenger for Covid-19 test at Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj terminus in Mumbai, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. (PTI)Mumbai Live News: Maharashtra registered 36,265 fresh Covid cases on Thursday, with Mumbai recording a sharp 31.7% spike in daily cases within 24 hours. The city’s numbers include that of Dharavi, also Asia’s largest slum cluster, which recorded its highest-ever single day tally on Thursday.
As per the data provided by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), 20,181 new cases were recorded on Thursday in Mumbai, of which 17,154, or 85%, are asymptomatic while 1,170 had to be admitted to hospital.
Meanwhile, the Maharashtra health department has directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) with the city reporting 20,181 fresh cases on Thursday.
Also, amid a surge in daily Covid-19 cases in Mumbai and a day after the Union Ministry of Health cut the isolation period for patients in home isolation to seven days, the BMC on Thursday released new home isolation guidelines for asymptomatic and mild cases.
At a Covid-19 center at Vashi Exhibition Complex in Mumbai.
The Bombay High Court on Friday extended Elgaar Parishad case accused Varavara Rao’s bail till February 5. The octogenarian had been granted medical bail for six months on February 22 last year and was later allowed to extend it till January 7, 2022.
On Friday, the matter was listed before a division bench of Justices S S Shinde and N R Borkar. “You know that the third wave, experts say, may survive for 50-60 days. Front Line Workers (FLWs) and police personnel are testing positive for Covid-19. The figures were not the same as the first or second wave. Is it possible that in such a wave he (Rao) should be sent to jail? We will hear you on merits. Give us some breathing space,” Justice Shinde orally remarked.
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Mayur and Tushar Vayeda used to travel for six hours everyday from their hometown in Palghar district to reach Mumbai to study there. Belonging to the Warli tribe of Ganjad village, their travel to their college showed them the “balance that existed between a traditional and modern life in India”.
The experiences are captured in their paintings made in the distinctive Warli style which is art using white lines on a base made of cow dung. The brothers, who have received much fame around the world via exhibitions at the Setouchi Triennale in Japan and the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, will be making their debut in Mumbai at Artisans’ Centre in Kala Ghoda today.
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In a bid to bring its tax structure at par with competing states and secure its revenues, the Maharashtra government is mulling to waive the stamp duty on the import of gold and silver in the state.
While Maharashtra levies a 0.1 per cent stamp duty on gold imported by air, sources said that the import of gold has been shifting to other states, as they don’t impose stamp duty. As this arbitrage resulted in decline of gold imports within the state, sources said that the government has been losing hundreds of crores in goods and services tax (GST) on import of gold. They further said that the waiver of stamp duty on gold could increase state revenue.
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In a bid to bring its tax structure at par with competing states and secure its revenues, the Maharashtra government is mulling to waive the stamp duty on the import of gold and silver in the state.
While Maharashtra levies a 0.1 per cent stamp duty on gold imported by air, sources said that the import of gold has been shifting to other states, as they don’t impose stamp duty. As this arbitrage resulted in decline of gold imports within the state, sources said that the government has been losing hundreds of crores in goods and services tax (GST) on import of gold. They further said that the waiver of stamp duty on gold could increase state revenue.
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The Bombay High Court recently held that there is “no legally enforceable fundamental right to a public holiday and whether or not to declare a particular day as a public holiday or optional holiday is a matter of government policy.” It also observed that since there are “too many public holidays in the country, the time has come to reduce and not to increase them.”
The court made these observations while rejecting a plea seeking directions to the Administrator of Dadra and Nagar Haveli to declare August 2 as a public holiday to celebrate the Liberation Day of the Union territory. A division bench of Justice Gautam S Patel and Madhav J Jamdar was on Wednesday hearing the plea by Kishnabhai Nathubhai Ghutia who, pending hearing and final disposal of his writ petition, sought an order directing the respondent authorities to issue a notification declaring August 2 as public holiday from this year.
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A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cavalcade was stranded on a flyover in Punjab, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said that CM Uddhav Thackeray has demanded a probe into the security lapse.
“The Prime Minister belongs to the entire country. There should be no compromise on his security. The flaws found in Modi’s security during his visit to Punjab are serious. The country has lost two prime ministers due to such flaws. Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has demanded that a thorough inquiry should be conducted into the matter,” Raut tweeted.
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A 43-year-old man was arrested Thursday for allegedly murdering his live-in partner. The woman’s five-year-old daughter witnessed the incident, which took place early Thursday in Andheri (east), police said. The incident took place at 1.15 am in a room on the seventh floor of a building in Datta Sai Society in Sangharsh Nagar, Sakinaka.
The accused, Raju Nile, a TV repairer, hit his partner, Manisha Jadhav, 29, a house help, on the head with a stone mortar and then stabbed her with a knife on her nose, neck, chest and stomach, police said. Nile suspected that Jadhav was having an affair and they often fought over this issue, police said.
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A senior IPS officer from the Mumbai Police Crime Branch confirmed that a team from Mumbai had also reached Assam on Thursday morning to arrest the mastermind in the Bulli Bai app case, Neeraj Bishnoi, but they soon realised that the main accused is already in the custody of the Delhi Police. “We were less then an hour behind Delhi Police,” said the officer.
Sources in the department said that it was Bishnoi who was using the Twitter account handle @giyu44, through which he had confessed to the crime on a public platform on Wednesday and went on to threaten the Mumbai Police to stop targeting innocents or there will be Bulli Bai 2.0.
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Amid a surge in daily Covid-19 cases in Mumbai and a day after the Union Ministry of Health cut the isolation period for patients in home isolation to seven days, the BMC on Thursday released new home isolation guidelines for asymptomatic and mild cases. The civic body released seven eligibility points for home isolation. “The guidelines apply to Covid-19 patients who have been clinically assessed and assigned as mild/asymptomatic cases,” it said.
The circular referred to asymptomatic patients as laboratory-confirmed cases, who are not experiencing any symptoms and have oxygen saturation at room air of more than 93 per cent. Clinically assigned mild cases have been referred to as patients with upper respiratory tract symptoms with or without fever, without shortness of breath and having oxygen saturation at room air of more than 93 per cent.
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A member of BJP’s social media cell in Maharashtra was detained for questioning by Mumbai Police Crime Branch’s Cyber Cell Thursday for his alleged controversial tweet on Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s wife Rashmi Thackeray.
The man, identified as Jiten Gajaria, had on January 4 posted a photo of Rashmi with the caption “Marathi Rabri Devi”. The caption was connected to the health issues of the CM implying his wife will take over his post like Rabri Devi had taken over in Bihar when her husband Lalu Prasad was forced to resign over the fodder scam.
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The last passenger of the Cordelia luxury cruise ship was allowed to disembark on Thursday morning. In all, 205 passengers from the cruise have tested positive for Covid-19. On Tuesday evening, 66 infected passengers onboard the ship had reached Mumbai from Goa. Of the remaining 1,827 onboard, 139 more passengers and crew tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday. BMC officials said most patients were asymptomatic and allowed home quarantine.
Of the 139 who tested positive on Wednesday, 63 were crew members, nine from Mumbai and 67 from outside the city. After the ship anchored at Mumbai port, the BMC began testing all onboard, which continued till 5.30 am Wednesday. While 41 who had tested positive on Tuesday were shifted to various hotel and civic-run quarantine facilities by Wednesday morning, the remaining were on board till late Wednesday.
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The Maharashtra health department has directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to ramp up testing for Covid-19, with the city reporting 20,181 fresh cases on Thursday.
“If Mumbai is getting 20,181 positive cases, then they should be conducting 2 lakh tests. The positivity rate must be around 10 per cent of tests conducted. But they are conducting only about 65,000 tests per day. We have told them that the number of tests must be increased immediately,’’ said a senior officer of the state health department.
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Maharashtra registered 36,265 fresh Covid cases on Thursday, with Mumbai recording a sharp 31.7% spike in daily cases within 24 hours. The city’s numbers include that of Dharavi, also Asia’s largest slum cluster, which recorded its highest-ever single day tally on Thursday.
On Wednesday, Mumbai registered 15,014 cases, which rose to 19,780 on Thursday, its highest single-day surge. The public health department anticipates a “ferocious spike” in the third wave in Mumbai by the middle of January.
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A member of BJP’s social media cell in Maharashtra was detained for questioning by Mumbai Police Crime Branch’s Cyber Cell Thursday for his alleged controversial tweet on Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s wife Rashmi Thackeray.
The man, identified as Jiten Gajaria, had on January 4 posted a photo of Rashmi with the caption “Marathi Rabri Devi”. The caption was connected to the health issues of the CM implying his wife will take over his post like Rabri Devi had taken over in Bihar when her husband Lalu Prasad was forced to resign over the fodder scam.
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The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) has started demolishing one of the 42 buildings at the Bombay Development Directorate (BDD) chawl cluster at Naigaon in Dadar to start the redevelopment project. “The work of demolition of building No. 5B started on Tuesday and the construction of a new building on the site will begin soon once the demolition is completed,” Maharashtra Housing Minister Jitendra Awhad, who was present during the demolition, said.
The minister added that this is the largest and most ambitious redevelopment project undertaken by the government of Maharashtra and the work would be completed soon.
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Mumbai reported 20,181 new Covid cases and four death on Thursday. As reported by ANI, the active cases stand at 79,260.
A member of BJP’s social media cell in Maharashtra was detained for questioning by Mumbai Police Crime Branch’s Cyber Cell Thursday for his alleged controversial tweet on Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s wife Rashmi Thackeray.
The man, identified as Jiten Gajaria, had on January 4 posted a photo of Rashmi with the caption “Marathi Rabri Devi”. The caption was connected to the health issues of the CM implying his wife will take over his post like Rabri Devi had taken over in Bihar when her husband Lalu Prasad was forced to resign over the fodder scam.
Another tweet by Gajaria, a Mumbai resident with 18.9 K followers on the site, which too is possibly under the scanner was on Ajit Pawar.
A special court here accepted a plea made by two men admitting their guilt for joining the terror outfit ISIS in 2015 and convicted them on charges under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA). Special NIA judge A T Wankhede on Wednesday said he would hear the accused on the quantum of punishment on January 7.
Mohsin Sayyed (32) and Rizwan Ahmed (25) had approached the special court last month seeking to plead guilty in the case. On Wednesday, the court explained to the accused the charges they face and the punishment that can be imposed on them if convicted.
Under the UAPA and provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the duo can face a minimum sentence of three years and a maximum of life imprisonment. The accused informed the court that they were aware of this and were voluntarily seeking to plead guilty. The court then accepted their pleas and convicted them under the relevant sections of the UAPA and IPC. (PTI)