Total active cases in the city is at 18,040. (Express Photo by Amit Chakravarty)Mumbai Live News and Updates: Mumbai on Thursday recorded 1,384 new Covid-19 infections along with a recovery rate of 96 per cent. A total of 10,04,384 recovery cases were reported. Total active cases in the city is at 18,040
Lata Mangeshkar, 92, has shown signs of improvement but remains to be in the ICU, a doctor at the Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai said on Thursday. The singer has been in the hospital for the last 19 days after she contracted Covid-19.
“Lata didi continues to be in the ICU at Breach Candy Hospital, Mumbai under treatment. She has been given a TRIAL of extubation (off the invasive Ventilator) this morning,” a statement on the social media account of the singer also said.
Meanwhile, the death toll in the fire at Grant Road’s Sachinam Heights rose to eight after a-35-year-old Madhuri Chopadekar died on Thursday. BMC officials said Chopadekar was admitted in critical condition as she had received 50 per cent burn injuries. Before this, Manish Singh, a security guard from the building who saved many residents from the fire, was declared dead on Monday.
As many as 30 out of 139 posts of nagar panchayat head in Maharashtra would be reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST), the state government announced on Thursday.
Elections to these 139 nagar panchayats (civic bodies of smaller towns) were held recently. Of them 109 civic bodies can select their heads from the open category while 17 and 13 bodies will have their heads selected from SC and ST categories, respectively.
In the open category, 55 posts are reserved for women. In the civic bodies where the post is reserved for SC and ST candidates, the quota for women is nine (SC) and eight (ST). (PTI)
Bollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui has built a mansion in Mumbai. The mansion took three years to complete with the structure of the house inspired by his old home in his village.
Nawazuddin even turned interior designer for the house and was quite involved in the process. The Sacred Games actor has named the house Nawab in his father’s memory. Read more
The Supreme Court Thursday directed Maharashtra Police to not to arrest BJP MLA Nitesh Rane for 10 days in an attempt-to-murder case registered in Sindhudurg district.
Disposing of the pre-arrest bail plea of Rane, son of Union Minister Narayan Rane, a bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana asked him to surrender before the trial court in the meanwhile, and seek regular bail in the matter.
"The SLP (special leave petition) is disposed of with a direction to the petitioner (Nitesh Rane) to surrender before the trial court and obtain a regular bail and for a period of 10 days, he is protected from arrest," ordered the bench which also comprised Justices A S Bopanna and Hima Kohli. (PTI)
Total active cases in the city is at 18,040
A man from neighbouring Mumbai was arrested for alleged possession of pangolin scalp worth Rs 12 lakh, police said on Thursday.
Based on a tip-off, the police laid a trap and intercepted Kiran Dhanawade (31) in Wagle Estate area of Maharashtra's Thane city on Wednesday, senior inspector Vikas Godhke of crime unit-5 said.
The accused, who is a resident of Ghatkopar, had 5.5 kg of pangolin scalp, worth Rs 12 lakh, in his possession and had come to Thane to sell the substance, he said. (PTI)
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NCP spokesman Nawab Malik said that 28 Congress corporators as well as the Mayor of Malegaon have joined Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). He claims that this happened in the presence of deputy CM Ajit Pawar and state NCP president Jayant Patil.
The crossover took place in Thursday as per NCP resources.
According to PTI, "The NCP already has 20 corporators in the 84-member civic body. The Shiv Sena has 13 members in the MMC, the BJP 9, the AIMIM 7, the JD(S) 6 and one Independent."
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) stated that Urban planners will be approached to tranform Mumbai.
The Bombay High Court on Thursday sought to know from the Maharashtra government if the tribal population in the state can be provided employment under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (MNREGA).
A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice M S Karnik was hearing a bunch of public interest litigations filed in 2007 highlighting high numbers of deaths among children, pregnant women and lactating mothers due to malnutrition in Melghat region of the state.
Advocate General Ashutosh Kumbhakoni, appearing for the state, on Thursday informed the court that while the government welfare schemes were available to the tribal population in Melghat region, the same was not available when they migrate to other regions after the monsoon season. (PTI)
Amid the BJP's opposition to the alleged move of "naming" a renovated garden here after Tipu Sultan, the Maharashtra Congress on Thursday claimed that even President Ram Nath Kovind had praised the 18th century Mysore ruler in the Karnataka Assembly in 2017.
The BJP had on Wednesday held protests, alleging that the renovated garden has been named after Tipu Sultan. It objected to the name, claiming that Sultan had persecuted Hindus and hence his name was unacceptable for a public facility. However, Maharashtra minister Aslam Shaikh who inaugurated new facilities at the garden in suburban Malvani, had said that it always bore the name of Tipu Sultan, and that there was no fresh nomenclature.
Countering BJP's allegations, Maharashtra Congress general secretary Sachin Sawant said, "President Ram Nath Kovind, while addressing the Karnataka assembly in 2017, had mentioned the works of Tipu Sultan. Has BJP forgotten it completely? It is BJP's deformed politics to bring religion to portray historical figures and to spew venom of hatred and polarisation." (PTI)
A 28-year-old self-styled godman has been arrested for allegedly cheating a woman of Rs 32 lakh to "drive away evil spirits", in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Thursday.
The police apprehended Baban Baburao Patil from Jalgaon district of north Maharashtra last week, he said. The accused has been booked under sections 420 (cheating) and 406 (criminal breach of trust) of the IPC and The Maharashtra Prevention and Eradication of Human Sacrifice and other Inhuman, Evil and Aghori Practices and Black Magic Act, 2013, said the official from Ramnagar police station in Dombivili.
The complainant, who is a resident of Kalwa, has alleged that the accused had promised to drive away evil spirits in her family and had demanded money from her from time to time since December 2019, he said. (PTI)
Amid a controversy around the naming of a garden in a sports complex in Mumbai's Malad after Tipu Sultan, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut said he does not need to learn history from the BJP.
ANI quoted the Sena MP as saying, "BJP thinks that only they have history's knowledge. Everyone's sitting down to write new history. These historians are here to change history. We know about Tipu Sultan, don't need to learn from the BJP."
Raut further said, "State government is capable of making decisions. Don't write new history. You can continue trying to change history in Delhi, but you won't succeed."
A court in Maharashtra's Thane has sentenced a 25-year-old woman from Bangladesh to two years and five months in prison for illegal stay in the country.
District and additional sessions judge A S Pandharikar convicted Rimi Mohammad Ramjan Siddar, a resident of Nodal district of Bangladesh, on charges under relevant sections of the Indian Passport Act and Foreigners Act.
The woman was sentenced to two years and five months in prison and fined Rs 14,000. (PTI)
The Mumbai unit of the Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) arrested an accountant for allegedly issuing bogus bills of more than Rs 1,000 crore and allegedly committing Input Tax Credit (ITC) fraud of Rs 181 crore.
The tax authority found that Mumbai-based Nithilan Enterprises run by a 27-year-old GST accountant issued the bogus bills and availed and passed off fake ITC without movement of any goods.
“It is suspected that he (accountant) is a part of a bigger network which lures innocent people to obtain GST registrations and then steals the identity. This stolen identity is used for generating, availing and passing on of fake ITCs without actual supply or receipt of goods or services. All efforts are being made to identify and nab the kingpin and other members and beneficiaries of this network,” said the GST department in a statement.
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The death toll in the fire at Grant Road's Sachinam Heights has increased to eight after a-35-year-old Madhuri Chopadekar died on Thursday.
BMC officials said Madhuri was admitted in critical condition as she had received 50 per cent burn injuries. Earlier, Manish Singh, a security guard from the building who had saved many residents from the fire was declared dead on Monday.
What led to the BJP protest in Malwani?
The present controversy is over a playground located in the Muslim-dominated area of Malwani in the Western Suburb of Malad. The ground is popularly known as the Tipu Sultan Ground by locals, and in December last year, Shaikh, who represents Malwani constituency, decided to refurbish and add facilities to the ground through the area development fund granted to MLAs. Work on the project was completed and Shaikh had decided to hold a function on Wednesday stating that the complex was ready for use. The BJP, however, stated the programme was meant to rename the complex after Tipu Sultan and a large number of BJP and right-wing workers turned up in Malwani to oppose the alleged move.
“We will not allow the ground to be named after a man who is responsible for the deaths of a large number of Hindus,” Leader of Opposition Devendra Fadnavis said.
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An FIR has been registered against Google CEO Sundar Pichai, five others at the MIDC police station following a court order. The FIR was registered based on a complaint by director-producer Suneel Darshan in a ‘copyright infringement’ case.
Darshan claimed that though he did not give anyone the film rights of his 2017 movie, Ek Haseena Thi Ek Deewana Tha, the same has been uploaded to Google-owned YouTube. He added that several people were earning money by uploading the film on the video-sharing platform, though the movie was his intellectual property.
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With the plateauing of the pandemic curve in the third wave, the test positivity rate (TPR) — the number of positive cases detected when compared to the total tests conducted — in Mumbai dropped to 4.3 per cent on Wednesday. This is a sharp fall from 28.9 per cent TPR reported 19 days back on January 7.
On January 7, out of the 72,442 tests conducted, 20,971 samples had returned positive. But after hitting its pandemic peak around January 10, the daily cases gradually started declining. On January 11, out of the 62,097 tests conducted, 11,647 were detected with Covid-19 with a TPR of 18.7 per cent.
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Two FIRs have been registered by police at the Malwani police station for unlawful assembly, rioting, wrongful restraint and violating Covid-19 guidelines against 64 people from Bajrang Dal and BJP including Member of Parliament Gopal Shetty, MLA and businessman Mangal Prabhat Lodha, MLA Atul Bhatkalkar and BJP corporators.
The incident took place around 4 pm and again at 4.30 pm at Charkop junction in Kandivali (west). The first protest was by Bajrang Dal and second one by BJP. A senior police official said, "They punctured tyres of two BEST buses. They did a rasta roko causing inconvenience to the general public on Charkop junction. All of them were detained and taken to Charkop police station. All of them were served notice and allowed to leave. As protest took place twice, two FIRs were registered. No one was hurt in the incident. The law and order problem was restored within 10 to 15 minutes." (ENS)
A total of 13,346 people died in road crashes in Maharashtra in 2021, an increase of four per cent (558 deaths) compared to the pre-pandemic year 2019, when 12,788 people had died. Like every year for over a decade, the maximum number of deaths were reported from Pune rural, Nashik rural and Ahmednagar, transport officials said. The silver lining, however, is that the number of crashes and deaths are steadily decreasing on the Mumbai-Pune expressway and the ideas may be replicated in other parts of the state.
Transport Commissioner Avinash Dhakne told indianexpress.com, “Speeding is the biggest menace. It is to be blamed for the accident in Wardha on Monday (January 24) in which seven MBBS students died. To deal with speeding, 196 interceptor vehicles have been given to the traffic police and another 76 are with us. If more such vehicles are required, we will try to provide them. Moreover, for the first time in Maharashtra, the Mumbai-Pune expressway will get an Intelligent Traffic Management System (ITMS), which will have electronic surveillance. We intend to replicate this in other places in the state too.” Read more