A BMC health worker collects swab sample of an outstation passenger for Covid-19 test, at Dadar railway station in Mumbai Jan 15, 2022. (PTI)Mumbai on Monday recorded 73 new Covid-19 cases, taking its tally to over 10,56,472, while the death toll remained unchanged at 16,691. Maharashtra on the other hand had 407 new cases, and 4 fatalities. The Omicron tally in Maharashtra stands at 4,629, of which 4,456 patients have recovered.
An Air India evacuation flight bringing the second batch of Indians staying in Ukraine from Romania will land in Mumbai on Tuesday morning. The flight which took off from Chhatrapati Shivaji airport on Monday will tentatively arrive around 6 am tomorrow. Union Minister Narayan Rane will receive the returnees.
Meanwhile, no deaths or injuries were reported after a level- 2 fire broke out Monday at a building in NG Royal Park area of Kanjurmarg in Mumbai. The blaze was confined to the ninth and tenth floor of the building and has now been extinguished. Around 10 fire tenders were rushed to the spot for rescue operations.
Mumbai on Monday reported 73 COVID-19 cases, taking its tally to 10,56,472, while the death toll remained unchanged at 16,691, a civic official said. He said 66 of the 73 cases recorded during the day were asymptomatic.
The recovery of 95 people took the number of people discharged so far to 10,36,086, which is 98 per cent of the caseload, leaving the city with 815 active cases, he added. With 12,014 samples being examined in the last 24 hours, the number of tests in the metropolis went up to 1,61,83,906, the official said.
Maharashtra on Monday reported 407 fresh COVID-19 cases and four fatalities due to the infection, taking the tally to 78,65,707 and the toll to 1,43,701, an official said. On Sunday, the state had recorded 782 cases and two fatalities.
The Omicron tally in Maharashtra now stands at 4,629, of which 4,456 patients have already been discharged, he added. "Until now, 9,382 samples have been sent for genome sequencing. Of these, results of 8,333 patients have been received, while 1,049 results are awaited," he informed.
The Maharashtra government on Monday appointed Manukumar Srivastava as chief secretary of the state as Debashish Chakrabarty retired. Srivastava is the senior most officer in the state.
Srivastava will retire in April 2023 and is presently the additional chief secretary of the home department. He was to chief secretary after S J Kunte retired on November 30, but the state government decided to make Debashish Chakrabarty the chief secretary who had a short tenure of just three months.
An Air India evacuation flight bringing the second batch of Indians staying in Ukraine from Romania will land in Mumbai on Tuesday morning. The flight which took off from Chhatrapati Shivaji airport on Monday will tentatively arrive around 6 am tomorrow. Union Minister Narayan Rane will receive the returnees.
Vice Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh on Monday inaugurated the Dock Master’s Complex (DMC) at Naval Dockyard in Mumbai. The DMC is at the centre for control of operations of the Aircraft Carrier Dock (ACD) with SCADA (Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition System) controls.
Rajya Sabha MP Sambhajiraje Chhatrapati, a descendent of Maratha warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj on Monday ended his fast on the demand for reservation for the Maratha community. This comes after he got assurance from the state governement on his charter of demanded related to Maratha reservation and other welfare schemes.
The home minister Dilip Walse Patil, urban department minister Eknath Shinde and medical education minister Amit Deshmukh offered the juice to Sambhajiraje.
A 5-year-old boy died and three people were injured after a portion of a balcony of a shopping centre collapsed in Kurla West area of Mumbai on Monday afternoon, an official said.
The incident took place on Ram Manohar Lohia Marg at a ground-plus one structure, he said. "A portion of a balcony fell on a canteen below. Afan Khan (5) was declare dead on arrival at a nearby hospital, while Rafique Sheikh (46), Irfan Khan (33) and Mohammad Zikran (6) are undergoing treatment," he said.
The Bombay High Court on Monday deferred for a week the hearing on a contempt plea filed by Dhyandev Wankhede against Maharashtra cabinet minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik. Dhyandev, father of former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director Sameer Wankhede, has claimed that despite giving an undertaking to the court in December, Malik has continued to defame his family and made contentious remarks.
A division bench comprising Justice SJ Kathawalla and Justice MN Jadhav said that Malik has been arrested in the Enforcement Directorate (ED) case and, therefore, it would not make sense to take a decision whether to punish him or not for contempt of court on Monday.
The Home Department Monday appointed former acting DGP Sanjay Pandey as the police commissioner of Mumbai. Pandey will take over from Hemant Nagrale, who will now head the Maharashtra State Security Corporation. Pandey was removed as the acting DGP after a court case and was sent back to his original post of managing director of state security corporation. (With Yogesh Naik)
Three people were injured after a part of balcony collapsed in Kurla West area of Mumbai on Monday. The building is located near Vinoba Bhave police station in Kurla and the collapse took place at around 2:40 this afternoon.
All the injured have been currently admitted in Rajwada Hospital.
After fire fighting operations on Monday, the level- 2 fire at a building in NG Royal Park area of Kanjurmarg in Mumbai has now been extinguished. No injuries or deaths were reported due to the incident.
A level- 2 fire broke out on Monday at the NG Royal Park area of Kanjurmarg in Mumbai. The blaze was confined to the ninth and tenth floor of the building. Around 10 fire tenders are present at the spot and operations are underway.
Madhavi Puri Buch has been appointed the new SEBI chief.
She was earlier a whole-time member (WTM) at the SEBI. She is the first woman to head the market regulator.
Arrested NCP leader and Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik's son Faraz has been summoned by Enforcement Directorate. His daughter Nilofer Malik Khan told The Indian Express that they received the summons at 11.30 am. The ED has asked for a document from the year 2000.
Faraz will not be visiting the ED office today and the family's lawyers will take a call, Malik Khan said.
Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) protested in Mumbai University’s Kalina campus on Monday morning against the amendments made to the Maharashtra Public Universities Act 2016, by the Maharashtra State Government.
Apart from holding placards, posters and shouting slogans, the protesters were ringing bells saying that they are waking up the sleeping government which has put autonomy of universities in jeopardy with political interference.
Today’s protest is part of ABVP’s month-long initiative under which several activities are held in colleges and universities across Maharashtra. The organisation is also holding signature drives everywhere, garnering more students' support against the amendments.
The Maharashtra legislative assembly in December, last year passed the Maharashtra Public Universities Act (Amendment) Bill which gives more power to higher and technical education minister with regards to the state-run universities. This is being opposed by the BJP which claims that this will lead to political interference in running of varsities, by undermining the role of Governor.
A 47-year-old farmer from Maharashtra's Palghar district was allegedly asked to call during office hours when he sought help from the national cybercrime reporting helpline after falling for an alleged financial fraud.
The national cybercrime reporting portal, however, states that the helpline is available 24x7.
An FIR was registered with the Pelhar police on February 26 based on the complaint of the man who allegedly lost Rs 1.24 lakh from his account. Read more
Sanket Patil, hailing from Dombivli in Maharashtra, was excited after getting admission in a Ukraine-based university for a medical course, but his happiness was short-lived as the east European country faced an attack by Russia minutes after he stepped into the educational institution's hostel on February 24.
The 23-year-old student is now confined to the hostel there and is staring at an uncertain future. His family back home is worried about his safety and is praying for his return soon.
Gokul Patil is now worried about his son's safe return. "There is no one there to take care of him. I am worried about his safety. After getting into the hostel, he called us and said all is well, but then the war began," he said. (PTI)
The Supreme Court is likely to hear Maharashtra government's plea to recall the 27 per cent reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in local bodies. The hearing will come amid upcoming local body polls in the state.
As per the SC directions given in January, the state's backward class commission had given an interim report on February 6, recommending up to 27 per cent OBC quota in local bodies. The state government has submitted the report on February 7 in the SC for a hearing scheduled to take place on February 8.
With 103 new infections on Sunday, Mumbai has recorded a slight increase in its daily case load in the last 24 hours. On Saturday, the city reported 89 new cases, the lowest single-day tally since Covid-19 cases were detected in the city in April 2020. Also, for the eighth time in February, the city reported zero Covid-19 deaths.
The test positivity rate — the number of positive cases out of the total tests conducted — stood at 0.56 per cent in Mumbai with 18,367 tests. Read more
From residents of apartment complexes who had to climb several flights of stairs in the absence of functional elevators to local train passengers who were seen walking on tracks, several residents of Mumbai faced inconvenience as parts of the city witnessed an hour-long power cut.
“I had gone out to buy groceries and when I came back, the lifts were down because of the power outage. After waiting for half an hour without any update on electricity resumption, I had to take the staircase to the 16th floor,” said Vidhi Bansal, a Worli resident. Read more