According to the statement issued by the BMC on Tuesday evening, a 15 per cent water cut will be in effect till the problem at the power station gets resolved.Mumbai News and Live Updates: Mumbai will face will 15 per cent water cut till further instructions. The water cut has been imposed after the 15-megawatt power station of Bhatasa dam, one of the lakes which supply water to Mumbai, has developed a technical snag. This has led to disruption in the water supply to Mumbai. According to the statement issued by the BMC on Tuesday evening, a 15 per cent water cut will be in effect till the problem at the power station gets resolved.
An Air India evacuation flight with 182 Indians who were stranded in Ukraine landed in Mumbai on Tuesday morning from Bucharest, the capital of Romania. This is the second evacuation aircraft, which has landed in Mumbai since the war broke out last Thursday.
In other news, Mumbai logged 77 fresh Covid-19 cases and no deaths on Tuesday. The total Covid-19 caseload in the city rose to 10,56,549. The city has not recorded even a single death related to Covid-19 in the last five days.
Maharashtra Director General Sanjay Pandey has been appointed the Commissioner of Mumbai Police. (Express Photo: Ganesh Shirsekar)
Mumbai logged 77 fresh Covid-19 cases and no deaths on Tuesday. The total Covid-19 caseload in the city rose to 10,56,549. The city has not recorded even a single death related to Covid-19 in the last five days.
A special court here on Tuesday denied bail to dismissed policeman Riyazuddin Kazi, who was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) for his alleged role in the Antilia bomb scare and Mansukh Hiran murder case.
Kazi's bail plea was rejected by special judge A T Wankhede. The detailed order has not been made available as yet.
Kazi, who had closely worked with accused policeman Sachin Waze, was posted with the crime intelligence unit of the Mumbai Crime Branch when the gelatin sticks-laden Scorpio car was found outside Antilia, the official residence of industrialist Mukesh Ambani.
Kazi's role came to light after Waze was arrested on March 13 last year. He is accused of destroying evidence pertaining to the case. (PTI)
A sessions court rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Neil Somaiya, son of BJP leader Kirit Somaiya, on Tuesday. Neil had approached the court last week seeking protection from arrest stating that he apprehended coercive action against him by the Mumbai Police.
On Monday, Chief Public Prosecutor Jaising Desai had submitted to the court that Neil’s plea was ‘vague’ and did not mention a specific case in which he was seeking protection. (Read More)
Among the biggest hurdles for the 182 Indian students who were repatriated from Ukraine on Tuesday morning was perhaps the freezing temperature which plunged to nearly -5 degree Celsius at the Ukraine-Romania border while they anxiously waited to cross over from Hlybots’kyi in the war-torn country to Suceava city in Romania.
“The worst part was the 34-hour wait at the Romanian border. I could not eat, drink or sleep. The temperature was -3 to -5 degrees Celsius. There was no food except the coffee and bread given by Ukrainians. There was no toilet or place to sleep. At one point, I thought of returning to my university as we were not allowed to cross the border and my health was getting affected. I saw some girls falling unconscious,” said Dinanath Rai (21) from Bihar who landed at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport around 7 am on Tuesday along with 11 others from the state.
As many as 182 Indians were brought back from Ukraine in the seventh evacuation flight under the central government’s Operation Ganga. The special Air India Express flight landed at Mumbai airport on Tuesday morning. (Read More)
The Bombay High Court will on Wednesday hear a plea by NCP leader and state cabinet minister Nawab Malik challenging his arrest in connection with a case of alleged money laundering and “active involvement in terror funding” linked to a land deal in 1999 with the sister of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
Malik was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on February 23 and was later remanded in the central agency’s custody till March 3 by a special court.
His law firm Rashmikant and Partners filed a habeas corpus petition in the high court seeking to produce Malik before the court and claiming that his arrest was “illegal”, was done due to “political vendetta” and without following due process under the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC). (Read More)
Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari’s remarks that Samarth Ramdas was the ‘guru’ of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, who is revered by all the communities across the state, has stirred controversy in the state. The descendants of Shivaji Maharaj, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the Congress, the Shiv Sena and other organizations have condemned Koshyari’s remarks and sought his removal from the post of Governor.
The Indian Express explains how the controversy has erupted and why various political parties and organizations have objected to Koshyari’s remarks on Shivaji Maharaj. (Read More)
The police have initiated a search to nab the unidentified killers of a 29-year-old man, whose partially burnt body was found in the Antop Hill area on Monday.
The police said that the deceased, identified as Abdul Salam Munawar Ali Sayyed, was first called to a godown near Sector 1 and then murdered.
“The post-mortem report suggests that Sayyed succumbed to a head injury. The assailants may have tried to destroy evidence by setting his body ablaze. The murder took place late on Sunday night. The body was sent to the Sion hospital,” a police officer said. (Read More)
The Mumbai Metro Line 1 (Versova–Andheri–Ghatkopar corridor) has achieved a ridership of 70 crore commuters within seven years and two months of operational days, said officials. Metro Line 1, Mumbai’s first metro route, was inaugurated on June 8, 2014, by former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan.
According to a metro official, despite the impact of Covid-19 and the service remaining non-operation for 211 days, Mumbai Metro Line 1 has remained the preferred mode of transport for the people in the city. It added one million commuters from 20 October 29 to 28 February 2022, said the official.
The Mumbai Metro Line 1 is currently running around 280 trips on weekdays with a frequency of one service per 4.5 minutes during peak hours and 8-11 minutes during non-peak hours. Read more here
The Mumbai Division of the Central Railway has ferried 3,13,664 passengers and transported 44,779 parcel/goods packages between January 2021 and January 2022 with a total of 16 services on weekdays and 20 services on weekends between Aman Lodge and Matheran.
Matheran is the nearest and the most popular tourist destination for the citizens of Mumbai.
According to officials, “these services are in addition to providing a comfortable journey to tourists and help in affordable and quick transportation of materials at the nature-friendly hill stations”. Full report here
A 24-year-old woman, who dressed in men’s clothes to commit thefts in the western suburbs of Mumbai, has been arrested by the police in Sahar, officials have said. The officials said the complainant, a driver, tried to stop her from stealing a car along with her aides but the accused put a blade in her mouth and threatened to harm herself.
The incident took place on February 23 around 5.30 am near Miraj Hotel on the Andheri-Kurla Road, they added.
The accused, Puja Londe, is a resident of Chakala. Londe along with her aides was checking parked vehicles on the footpath they could steal. The driver, who was sleeping in his car, spotted Londe and her aides and tried to raise an alarm. Read more here
A 35-year-old house help and his accomplice have been arrested by Vile Parle police for allegedly stealing gold and diamond jewellery worth Rs 40.5 lakh from a 73-year-old doctor’s house in the western suburbs.
The arrested house help, Ganesh Tavde, has been stealing one item at a time for the past three months, police said. The case was registered on Friday when the doctor, R Bhat, the complainant in the case, realised that valuables were missing from his bag in his cupboard, police said. Read more here
The Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) has approved an outlay of Rs 18,404.63 crore in the budget estimates for the financial year 2022-23. Nearly a third of the budget, Rs 6,250 crore, has been earmarked for Metro projects in the MMR. The MMRDA has allotted Rs 3,270 crore for the under-construction Mumbai Trans Harbour Link, Rs 600 for the Worli Sewri Connector project and Rs 380 crore for concretisation of Eastern and Western Express Highway. It has earmarked Rs 955 crore for the regional water development resources including Surya Water project.
The budget was presented by the MMRDA Commissioner S V R Srinivas at the 152nd meeting of the authority held under the chairmanship of Eknath Shinde, Minister,Urban Development. Vallabh Ozarkar reports