The total active cases in Mumbai as of Monday evening were 5,139. (Express Photo)Maharashtra on Monday reported 6,436 new coronavirus cases, out of which Mumbai logged 356 cases. With 949 patients discharged from Mumbai hospitals, the total active cases in Mumbai as of Monday evening were 5,139.
The Maharashtra Government as a mark of respect for Late Lata Mangeshkar kept a public holiday in the state on Monday and the National flag will remain half-mast for the day. As singing legend Lata Mangeshkar left for her heavenly abode on Sunday, a number of known faces from the world of politics, cricket and entertainment attended her state funeral at Shivaji Park. Among them were Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, actor Shah Rukh Khan, filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar and cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, who paid their last respects to the veteran singer.
Mangeshkar passed away in the morning due to post-Covid-19 complications. She was 92. Her condition had deteriorated on Saturday and she was put on ventilator support in a critical condition. Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray announced state funeral for Mangeshkar, who was perhaps the most revered and well-known vocalist who inspired generations of artists in the sub-continent for almost a century. The state government also announced a three-day mourning period from February 6 to 9.
With the gradual drop, the active cases which were 2,44,344 on January 29 fell to 1,44,011 on February 4.
Hitting back at Prime minister Narendra Modi for his comments that Congress was standing at Mumbai station and scaring innocent labourers into fleeing to their native states, the Maharashtra unit of the party on Monday said that on the contrary, the Centre ran away from its responsibility during the coronavirus pandemic whereas Congress facilitated the return of migrant workers.
Leading the attack, Maharashtra ministers Balasaheb Thorat and Ashok Chavan termed PM Modi's comments in Lok Sabha “unfortunate” that did not behove his post. They said the Centre was trying to hide its failures.
“By blaming the Congress, PM Modi has shown his petty thinking. The Centre should have facilitated their (migrant labourers) return but it ran away from this responsibility,” Chavan said and added that the prime minister's comments are unfortunate and baseless. (PTI)
Facing criticism over prominent Maharashtra Congress leaders and ministers not attending Lata Mangeshkar's last rites here, the party's state unit president, Nana Patole, on Monday said some of them could not make it because they were down with COVID-19 while others were out of Mumbai.
He said Mumbai Congress president Bhai Jagtap was present during the final rites of the legendary singer at the Shivaji Park in Dadar on Sunday evening.
Responding to a question over the absence of state Congress leaders at Mangeshkar's funeral, Patole said, “(Party ministers) Balasaheb Thorat, Ashok Chavan, Amit Deshmukh are infected with the coronavirus." The state Congress president said his sister's mother-in-law passed away and he had gone there to attend the funeral. (PTI)
The Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of the Mumbai police raided three places in the city and seized banned drugs including charas, mephedrone, and LSD papers worth Rs 1.21 crore, an official said on Monday, adding that five persons, including a woman peddler, were arrested.
The raids were conducted in the last two days by the Ghatkopar, Bandra and Worli units of the ANC, he said.
Charas worth Rs 75 lakh was seized and three men were arrested from suburban Ghatkopar, the official said.
The accused trio- Wasim Khan alias Wasim Peela (33), Sohail Momin alias Sohail Kanya (42) and Zuber Sheikh alias Laden (41)- are history-sheeters with multiple cases pending against them in Bhiwandi and Kalyan in the neighbouring Thane district, he said. (PTI)
An 89-year-old man allegedly slit the throats of his wife and mentally unwell daughter while they were asleep and then spent the night with the corpses in his home in Andheri in Mumbai, police said on Monday.
Purushottam Singh Gandhok killed his wife Kamaljeet Singh (81) and daughter Kamaljeet Kaur (55) in their home in Sher-E-Punjab colony on Sunday night, locked the flat from inside and spent the night there before calling another daughter on Monday morning to inform about the killings, a Meghwadi police station official said.
"He refused to open the flat when she arrived there and asked her to call police, who convinced him to unlock the door. His wife and mentally unwell unmarried daughter were lying dead in a pool of blood. The accused has said both were suffering from severe health issues for several years now and he couldn't bear to see them in pain anymore so he killed them," the official informed.
He was arrested for murder and further probe into the incident was underway, he added. (PTI)
Maharashtra reported 6,436 fresh Covid-19 cases, out of which Mumbai logged 356 cases. With 949 patients discharged from the hospitals, the total active cases as of Monday evening were 5,139.
Seven people who had allegedly barged into the office of an 'angadiya' (traditional courier) in Mulund in Mumbai and looted Rs 70 lakh at gunpoint earlier this month were arrested on Monday from different parts of the country, a police official said.
The incident had taken place on February 1, after which multiple teams were formed to crack the case, leading to the arrest of Nilesh Bhagwan Surve (24), Nilesh Mangesh Chavhan (34), Manoj Ganpat Kalan (32), Vasiullah Kitabullah Chowdhary (43), Dilip Shivshankar Singh (23), Ratnesh alias Gagan Anilkumar Singh (25) and mastermind Bipinkumar Rajendraprasad Singh alias Monu (34), he said.
"They were nabbed from different parts of the country, including Uttar Pradesh (UP). We have recovered Rs 37 lakh cash, four pistols, two country-made pistols, 27 live cartridges, two magazines and three cars, including the one used in the crime," official said.
"The probe first zeroed in on the driver of the car in Navi Mumbai. He told us the name of his associates. Monu is the main accused as he provided the weapons, vehicle etc. After carrying out the dacoity, the accused were changing the number plate of the car and also their own clothes," he said. (PTI)
In a letter addressed to Pune Police Commissioner Amitabh Gupta, senior BJP leader Kirit Somaiya has alleged that Shiv Sena workers attacked him with an intention to kill at the premises of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Saturday.
Somaiya has demanded stringent action against those responsible for the attack. He has also asked Gupta to take steps against PMC security officials for not ensuring adequate security arrangements.
The former BJP MP said that Shiv Sena workers pelted stones and attacked him with lathis. “I request Pune Police to use stringent sections of the IPC against the perpetrators,” he said.
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A day after singing legend Lata Mangeshkar was cremated at the iconic Shivaji Park in Mumbai, BJP MLA Ram Kadam on Monday demanded her memorial at the site.
The demand assumes significance as the park is also the site where Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray was cremated in 2012. His memorial was built at the site despite opposition from civic groups.
Mangeshkar (92) died in a hospital here on Sunday morning after multi-organ failure. She was cremated at the Shivaji Park in the evening with full state honours.
Kadam, who is an MLA from Mumbai, in a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said, "On behalf of Mangeshkar's crores of admirers and music lovers, I humbly request you to build a memorial at the same place at Shivaji Park where she was cosigned to flames." Asked about the demand, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut, whose party heads the coalition government in Maharashtra and also controls the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, told reporters that the country has to think about a memorial of a great personality like Lata Mangeshkar. (PTI)
The Maharashtra Government as a mark of respect for Late Lata Mangeshkar kept a public holiday in the state on Monday and the National flag will remain half mast for the day.
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The acting Chief Secretary Debashish Chakrabarty is retiring on February 28 and his extension looks unlikely in view of the strained relationship between the state and the Centre. Additional Chief Secretary (home) Manukumar Srivastava of 1986 batch, Additional Chief Secretary, general administration department Sujata Saunik and her husband and additional chief secretary of PWD and finance department Manoj Saunik of 1987 batch are strong contenders for the top post. If the state selects Manoj Saunik, then he will supersede his wife. Two more officers – Ashwani Kumar (1987) and Jayashree Mukherjee (1986) — too are in the reckoning for the top job.
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Students appearing for elementary and intermediate drawing exams and their teachers demand it be held offline.
Exams of practical nature like this cannot be in online mode which may put students at disadvantage in showing their actual talent, the students claimed. The exam was not held last year considering the limitations. The exam was shifted to online mode this year due to the increasing number of Covid cases. However, apart from dates, nothing else is finalised yet regarding these exams.
“Information on details such as how the exam will be held online, registration process, evaluation methods among all are still unclear. Worried students and parents are approaching schools with their confusion but we too have no answers,” said Pandurang Kengra from Mumbai School Principal’s Association.
A special infrastructure block between Thane and Diva for cut and connection works and commissioning of new RRI building in Diva in connection with Thane-Diva 5th and 6th lines will be operated by MRVC in coordination with Central Railway as under. On 5th line and 6th line between Thane and Diva from 00.00 hrs of 5.2.2022 (Friday/Saturday midnight ) to 00.00 hrs of 7.2.2022 (Monday/Tuesday midnight) 72 hours.
The Maharashtra government announced a public holiday as well as one-day mourning on Monday as a mark of respect to melody queen Lata Mangeshkar, who died in a hospital in Mumbai. The chief minister's office (CMO) gave information about the one-day mourning and public holiday in a statement issued on Sunday.
Mumbai on Sunday reported 536 Covid-19 cases, which took the tally in the metropolis to 10,51,373, while three deaths put the toll at 16,661, a civic official said. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, in a statement, informed that 82 per cent of the cases detected during the day were asymptomatic. The civic body's data showed that the number of tests carried out here had reached 1,55,49,418 after 38,082 samples were examined during the day.
Maharashtra on Sunday reported 9,666 new coronavirus positive cases, taking the state's infection tally to 78,03,700, while the death of 66 persons took the toll to 1,43,074, the health department said. A total of 25,175 patients were discharged during the day, which raised the recovery count to 75,38,611, it said. There are 1,18,076 active cases in the state now.
Mumbai police on Sunday deployed over 2,700 of its personnel across three places in Mumbai linked to legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar - the hospital, where she breathed her last, her Pedder Road residence and the Shivaji Park ground, where she was cremated in the evening.
Mangeshkar died in Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai on Sunday morning at the age of 92. "As the news of her death broke out, people started gathering outside the the hospital. In order to control the crowd, a number of constables were deputed there," a police official said.
For more than seven decades now, the name Lata Mangeshkar has been synonymous with extraordinary talent and artistic excellence. Even though she slowed down about two decades ago, after a highly successful and prolific career, few Indian artistes can dream of ever matching her achievements, star power, or mass appeal. Such is her impact on Indian music that Mangeshkar can not only be unequivocally called an exceptional vocalist but also one of the greatest Indians of all time.
The 1929-born singer was around 20 years old when she swung into popular consciousness in 1949 with the outstanding success of “Aayega Aanewala” in Mahal. However, at the time, there was an unfair practice of characters in the movies, on whom a song was picturised, to be credited for songs instead of the original playback singer. In this case, it was Madhubala’s character in Mahal, named Kamini. The song created a frenzy and All India Radio (AIR) was flooded with calls to know the singer’s name. Read more
Legendary singer and Bharat Ratna recipient Lata Mangeshkar passed away on Sunday in Mumbai. Known as the ‘Nightingale of India’, she has left behind a treasure trove of songs vocalised in her mellifluous voice, sung across a career that lasted for over 70 years. Lata, considered one of the greatest Indian playback singers, will live on through her melodies. Her solos and immortal duets with Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar and Mukesh, along with a legion of other prominent Indian singers, are among Hindi cinemas most memorable songs.
Here are some of the lesser-known facts about the Nightingale of India. Read more
Late singer Lata Mangeshkar once recalled how her first meeting with actor Dilip Kumar compelled her to improve her Urdu diction. It was an innocent remark that the actor had made during their first meeting, in 1947, that made her introspect, and ultimately resulted in some timeless numbers such as “Pyaar Kiya Toh Darna Kya” from the classic film Mughal-e-Azam, starring Kumar.
She recalled the story in Kumar’s 2014 autobiography The Substance and the Shadow. Mangeshkar was introduced to Kumar by composer Anil Biswas aboard a local train. When the actor asked where she is from, Biswas told him her full name. Read more
After delighting us with her unmatched silver-toned voice for nearly three-quarters of a century, veteran singer Lata Mangeshkar, often referred to as the Nightingale of India, passed away on Sunday. She was 92 and was battling complications arising out of Covid-19 and pneumonia.
Apart from her towering talent and a peerless command over her craft, Lata was also known for her kindness and humility. In public appearances and media interactions, she came across as a warm, wonderful person who never allowed her immense national and international fame to get to her head. Read more