. The oil spill was caused after a speeding tanker overturned in the Pune-Mumbai lane of the six-lane expressway around 5:30 AM. (File)Mumbai News Live: Mumbai-bound traffic on the Mumbai-Pune expressway was disrupted on Saturday morning after an oil tanker overturned in one of the lanes causing spilling of oil on the busy highway, news agency PTI reported. The oil spill was caused after a speeding tanker overturned in the Pune-Mumbai lane of the six-lane expressway around 5:30 AM, a police official said.
A fire broke out at the green waste management facility of the Thane civic body in Kopri area in the early hours of Saturday, an official said, adding that no one was injured. The blaze erupted at the facility around 3.20 AM and was brought under control by three fire engines after an hour around 4:30 AM, according to PTI.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday slammed the BJP days after his brother-in-law found himself targeted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case seizing his assets. The ED has provisionally attached 11 residential flats of city-based Pushpak Bullion at a real estate project developed by Shree Saibaba Grihanirmiti Pvt Ltd, a company promoted by Shridhar Madhav Patankar. Patankar is the brother of Rashmi Thackeray, wife of Uddhav Thackeray. Thackrey in a statement said, “I am not afraid of the actions of defaming my family and attaching their properties. I will come with you and put me in jail. If you are so desperate for power, then put me behind the bars. I am ready for it.”
Mumbai on Friday reported 38 COVID-19 cases and one death, which took place after a gap of eight days, taking the tally to 10,57,753 and the toll to 16,694. This is the third death caused by the infection this month, the earlier ones coming on March 6 and March 16.
A municipal worker cleans a deserted area near the seafront at Marine Drive. (PTI)
A complaint has been filed against 'The Kashmir Files' director Vivek Agnihotri at a police station in Mumbai over his "Bhopali means homosexual" comment seeking registration of an FIR for defamation and other charges.
The complaint was submitted at Versova police station by journalist-cum-celebrity public relations manager Rohit Pandey through his lawyer Ali Kashif Khan Deshmukh, a police official said on Saturday.
The complainant alleged that the director of 'The Kashmir Files' insulted and disrespected his (Pandey's) native place Bhopal by "willingly, wantonly and maliciously calling Bhopalis as homosexuals" in an interview with media, the official said quoting the complaint.
The official confirmed the receipt of the written complaint. (PTI)
In Versova Koliwada, a dozen freshwater wells have fallen into neglect over the years ever since the municipal water connections had been provided. Yet, one survived. Used by the area’s Koli residents for domestic purposes, it has inadvertently doubled up as a space for conversations during chores and community gatherings. The Bhandari well, called so after the family that once owned it, was the site of a placemaking project in early 2021. Urban design firm Bombay 61 intended to emphasise the well as a social space. A mural came up on a nearby wall as a way of marking it.
Architect Jai Bhadgaonkar, 37, co-founder of Bombay 61, said, “The quality of the village had degraded because of over-densification. The nature of open spaces and built spaces had transformed.” The project was an attempt to remind Koli youths of the significance of their ancestral neighbourhood and its potential for transformation.
The mural depicts a Koli fishmonger in the foreground, with a fisherman casting a net behind. The well was painted, too. Bombay 61 commissioned Sairaj Vijay Shigwan, a final year art student at the Sir J J School of Art, to paint the mural. Shigwan studied the Kolis’ daily routines and chose a main character, that of the Koli woman. He said, “Her husband may catch the fish, but after that, it is she who cleans it, sells it, earns an income and runs a household. It is all her.” (Read More)
The Mumbai Police reunited an intellectually-challenged person, found wandering in Juhu, with his father from Chiplun, Ratnagiri. The man left his native place in search of a job and went missing. He was handed over to his father on Saturday.
Mumbai Police will provide green corridors for the movement of buses carrying players and staff for the IPL 2022 season to ensure that they reach the venues for playing and practice in time and do not get stuck in traffic.
Over 1,100 police personnel including traffic police will be deployed for the matches in Mumbai, a senior officer said on Saturday.
This year all IPL league matches are being held in two cities -- Mumbai and Pune, and the ten participating teams are staying in posh hotels in different parts of the megapolis. (PTI)
A nine-year-old boy from suburban Govandi in Mumbai was reunited with his parents a day after he ran away from them for taking him to his grandmother's house in Vasai in Palghar district against his wish, police said on Saturday.
The boy was spotted loitering at Bhiwandi road railway station in the Thane district on March 23 by the Government Railway Police (GRP). He was sent to the state-run juvenile home in Ulhasnagar.
A case of kidnapping was registered at Pelhar police station on March 22. The boy was handed over to his parents on Friday, police said. (PTI)
Union Minister for Roads, Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Friday inaugurated two national highway projects worth Rs 2334 crores in Sangli.
Mumbai-bound traffic on the Mumbai-Pune expressway was disrupted on Saturday morning after an oil tanker overturned in one of the lanes causing spilling of oil on the busy highway, a police official said.
The oil spill was caused after a speeding tanker overturned in the Pune-Mumbai lane of the six-lane expressway around 5:30 AM, the official said.
The incident occurred near the spot where the British-era Amrutanjan bridge once stood before it was pulled down two years ago. (PTI)
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is going to approach the court seeking a nonbailable warrant against Hawala operator Nandkishor Chaturvedi in the Pushpak Bullion case.
Chaturvedi had transferred Rs 30 crores in loans to a company owned by Shridhar Patankar, who is the brother-in-law of Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray. (ANI)
In Mumbai, the petrol & diesel prices per litre are at Rs 113.35 & Rs 97.55, increased by 84 paise & 85 paise respectively.
A fire broke out in a godown in Kanaya Nagar, Thane around 3:20 am this morning. No casualty or injury has been reported, according to Thane Municipal Corporation. Efforts to douse the fire are underway.
Three people were arrested in two cases of alleged Goods and Services Tax irregularities in Thane area of Maharashtra, an official said on Friday. In the first case, two people were held for availing and utilising fake Input Tax Credit to the tune of Rs 100.63 crore and passing on ITC of Rs 75.36 crore to non-existent entities through their firm which was being operated by misusing the identity of a rickshaw driver, he said.
The two, who were produced before court on Thursday, were remanded in judicial custody for 14 days. In the second case, a man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly being involved in ITC and GST irregularities of Rs 7.55 crore, he said. (PTI)
Financial Express CFO Awards were held in Four Seasons, Mumbai on Friday. The function hosted Union Minister Piyush Goyal, as the Chief Guest. Sanjiv Mehta, Chairman and Managing Director of Hindustan Unilever Limited was also present for the 'Leadership Talk'.
Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Assembly Devendra Fadnavis on Friday claimed that the BJP succeeded in putting the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition government in the state on the backfoot by exposing its corruption. Speaking to reporters after the conclusion of the Budget session of the state legislature, he said the BJP relentlessly pursued corruption in the government.
'The government's failure has been completely exposed and it is on the backfoot now,' he claimed. The former chief minister also said that he welcomed the Shiv Sena-led government's announcement to suspend the drive to disconnect power supply of farmers who have failed to pay power bill arrears. (PTI)
Mumbai on Friday reported 38 COVID-19 cases and one death, which took place after a gap of eight days, taking the tally here to 10,57,753 and the toll to 16,694, a civic official said. This is the third death caused by the infection this month, the earlier ones coming on March 6 and March 16, he pointed out.
Incidentally, the city had reported 54 cases on Thursday, though the addition to the tally has been below the 100-mark since March 2 this year. The recovery count increased by 47 to touch 10,37,926, which is 98 per cent of the caseload, leaving the country's financial capital with an active tally of 248, he said. (PTI)
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday lashed out at the BJP for seeking state minister Nawab Malik's resignation over alleged links with gangster Dawood Ibrahim, and reminded the saffron party that it once shared power with the PDP which had 'backed' terror convict Afzal Guru.
Speaking in the Assembly on the last day of Budget Session, Thackeray also said he was “surprised” that central probe agencies did not realise all these years that “Dawood Ibrahim's agent” Malik was roaming freely.
Malik, a senior NCP leader, was arrested earlier this month in a money laundering case over a land deal allegedly involving Ibrahim's aide. Thackeray also dared the BJP to storm into the fugitive gangster's home and kill him instead of levelling “baseless” allegations against leaders of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition of the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress in the state. (PTI)
The Comptroller and Auditor General has pulled up the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in Maharashtra for its delay in implementing the centrally sponsored Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) in the state.
The state government tabled the CAG report in the Assembly and Legislative Council on Friday. The report states, “The implementation of RUSA was fraught with delays and ineffective monitoring. As against total grants (Centre and state) of Rs 376.97 crore, the government could spend only Rs 283.07 crore leaving an unspent balance of Rs 93.90 crore.” (Read more)
The Mumbai Port Trust was rechristened as the Mumbai Port Authority, according to a press release issued on Friday. A press note issued by the port sad that after the enactment of the Major Port Authorities Act, 2021, the name was changed. Accordingly changes were affected on January 31, 2022, the day of the constitution of the authority. The board of trustees will be now called as the Board of Mumbai Port Authority.
The Port Trust was set up in 1873 and is one of the oldest government bodies since the British Raj. Mumbai has a natural harbour and was chosen to ship cotton to England. The city grew of because of the port which is the biggest landlord of Mumbai. (Yogesh Naik )
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday slammed the BJP days after his brother-in-law found himself targeted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) with the agency with a money laundering case seizing his assests. Thackrey in a statement said, "I am not afraid of the actions of defaming my family and attaching their properties. I will come with you and put me in jail. If you are so desperate for power, then put me behind the bars. I am ready for it." (ENS)
A 16-year-old speech-impaired boy was allegedly sexually abused and strangled to death by a man in Maharashtra's Pune city, police said on Friday. The police have arrested a 21-year-old man, who allegedly killed the boy and dumped his body in a gunny bag in Kothrud area on Thursday evening, an official said.
"We have arrested a man who lives in a dwelling next to the victim's house in Kothrud," senior inspector Mahendra Jagtap of Kothrud police station said. The accused has been arrested under sections 302 (murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence), 364 (kidnapping) and relevant provisions of the Protection for Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, he said.
The accused first sexually abused the boy and strangled him to death, before dumping the body in a gunny bag, the official added. (PTI)
Nearly 60,000 cases of tuberculosis (TB) were reported in Mumbai in 2021, compared to over 43,000 people diagnosed with the disease in the city in 2020, an official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said on Friday.
As per the data shared by the civic body, though the number of TB cases had risen to 59,052 in 2021 from 43,246 in 2020, the figure is slightly less when compared to 60440 cases reported in 2019 before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Of the total TB patients, 3 per cent are drug sensitive and 14 per cent drug resistant in Mumbai. Annually, around 4,000 to 5,000 drug resistant patients are found in Mumbai, which is 58 per cent of the total TB patients found in Maharashtra, the civic data stated. (PTI)