A healthworker conducts Covid-19 testing of a passenger at Bandra Terminal in Mumbai. (PTI)Mumbai News Live: Mumbai logged 50 fresh Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) tweeted. While 60 patients recovered from the infection, the city has 324 active cases at present. Meanwhile, the BMC will administer Covid-19 vaccine to children in the age group of 12-14 years at 12 dedicated vaccination centres starting Wednesday. The drive will be conducted at the dedicated centres from 12 pm onwards for two days, following which it will be extended to all civic and state-run facilities.
The Bombay High Court refused interim release to NCP leader & state minister Nawab Malik, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for alleged money laundering and “active involvement in terror funding” in connection with a 1999 land deal with don Dawood Ibrahim’s sister.
With a total of 16,39,172 students, the Maharashtra Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination kicked-off Tuesday after a year’s gap following a massive spike in the number of Covid-19 cases in the state. According to officials, examinees were given an additional 10 minutes to read the question paper. While the students were expected to be seated by 10 am, half-an-hour before the start time, they were given the question paper at 10.20 am.
Maharashtra on Tuesday reported 207 new coronavirus infections and four pandemic-related deaths, the state health department said. It took the tally of COVID-19 cases in the state to 78,71,566, and death toll to 1,43,757.
The number of recovered cases increased to 77,21,510 after 290 patients were discharged from hospital or recovered at home. There are 2,295 active cases in the state now.
Mumbai logged 50 fresh Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, BMC data said. While 60 patients recovered from the infection, the city has 324 active cases at present.
Congress leaders met Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday to discuss the strategy and alliance details for the Kolhapur North bypoll scheduled for April 12, a senior MVA functionary said.
He said the discussion was to prevail upon Thackeray, also the Shiv Sena chief, to stick to the alliance formula that the party having an elected representative in a particular area will contest the next election from there.
The bypoll is necessitated due to the death of Congress MLA Chandrakant Jadhav, who, incidentally, had defeated the Sena's Rajesh Kshirsagar in the 2019 Assembly polls.
As per sources, the Sena wants to put up its candidate for the Kolhapur North bypoll while the Congress is keen on retaining the seat for itself. (PTI)
The Maharashtra government has decided to increase the number of casual leaves (CLs) of police officials from 12 to 20 (in a year), Minister of State for Home Shambhuraj Desai told the Legislative Council on Tuesday.
The government has also decided not to assign night duty to a police official a day before his or her weekly off.
This decision to increase the number of CLs has been taken to offer some comfort to the police personnel whose duty hours are long and hectic. (PTI)
In the wake of severe heat wave conditions in Mumbai and neighbouring districts, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has appealed to citizens to stay safe and hydrated and avoid going out in the afternoon.
A person suffering from a heat stroke should immediately be taken to hospital, it said, and asked people to increase the intake of water and other healthy fluids.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an 'orange alert' (severe heat wave conditions in some parts) for Tuesday and a 'yellow alert' (heat wave conditions in isolated parts) for Wednesday. (PTI)
A region or locality is considered to be under the influence of heatwave if the maximum temperature reaches or exceeds 40 degrees Celsius in the plains, or 30 degrees Celsius in hilly regions. Over the coastal regions, the threshold for the maximum temperature is 37 degrees.
When the maximum temperature departure ranges between 4.5 and 6 degrees, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) declares heatwave. For instance, if the normal temperature of a locality should be 40 degrees, and the actual recorded temperature is 45 degrees, the locality is under heatwave.
Likewise, severe heatwave is declared when the recorded maximum temperature of a locality departure from normal is over 6.4 degrees. Read more
Superstar Shah Rukh Khan on Tuesday teased the launch of his OTT platform, leading to congratulatory messages from friends and collaborators from the industry.
Shah Rukh took to Twitter and shared an announcement poster, which read "SRK+, coming soon". Shah Rukh and his production banner Red Chillies Entertainment, however, are yet to confirm if SRK+ is indeed his new OTT app.
The 56-year-old actor, who has been away from the big screen since his last release "Zero" in 2018, captioned the post "Kuch kuch hone wala hai, OTT ki duniya mein (Something is going to happen in the world of OTT". (PTI)
Mumbai police have registered an FIR against BJP MLC Pravin Darekar in connection with an alleged bank scam case, an official said on Tuesday.The FIR against leader of opposition in the state Legislative Council was registered on Monday under various IPC sections, including 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust), 120-b (criminal conspiracy) following a complaint by Aam Aadmi Party functionary Dhananjay Shinde.
The complainant alleged that Darekar posed as a labourer, which was later found wrong. He was the Mumbai Bank chairman from 2011 to 2021 and allegedly indulged in various financial irregularities, he said. Read more
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday refused to direct release of NCP leader and state minister Nawab Malik, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for alleged money laundering and “active involvement in terror funding” in connection with a 1999 land deal with don Dawood Ibrahim’s sister.
'As certain debatable issues are raised, they require to be heard at length. Considering the grounds assigned by us we are not inclined to allow the prayers in the interim application. Interim Applications rejected,' the court noted. The bench said that once Malik's lawyers move his plea for final hearing, it will accordingly fix the date for the same. Omkar Gokhale reports
The Central Railway is all set to invite fresh tenders for the redevelopment of iconic Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) as it has a received a nod from the Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee (MHCC) recently.
After the requisite approval from the MHCC, the documents will be sent to Public Private Partnership Approval Committee (PPPAC) after which a fresh Request For Quotation (RFP) cum Request For Proposal (RFP) will be invited, said an official. The railways had earlier planned to redevelop the CSMT on a Public Private Partnership model but it was dropped in favour of the hybrid annuity model which is a mix of Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) and Build Operate and Transfer (BOT) models wherein the station would be leased out to developer for 27 years. Read more
In the Mumbai division, a total of 3,73,840 students will sit for the examination.