Maharashtra News Live Updates: Thane's daily Covid-19 case count crosses 1,000-mark after several months; 2 more die

A 65-year-old businesswoman from Malabar Hill, a 78-year-old financial advisor from Cuffe Parade and a BEST staffer from Ghatkopar are among the latest to fall prey to cyber fraudsters who on the pretext of pending electricity bills duped them of nearly Rs 2 lakh, Rs 1.1 lakh and Rs 47,000, respectively.

Amid Uddhav Thackeray camp efforts to defuse the ongoing political crisis in Maharashtra, a Shiv Sena functionary from the state went to Guwahati in Assam to appeal to rebel leader Eknath Shinde to return to Matoshree.Maharashtra political crisis has entered the fourth day with more MLAs joining Eknath Shinde camp. READ MORE

An 18-year-old boy from Kalwa suffered injuries after falling off a moving train between Kalwa and Thane stations, Thursday morning, the railway police informed. The victim, a labourer, was headed towards Dadar and was standing on the footboard with his friends when he lost grip and hit a signal pole 200m from Kalwa station.

After a gap of several months, the single-day Covid-19 infection count in Thane district of Maharashtra has once again crossed the 1,000-mark with the addition of 1,089 cases, an official said on Friday.These cases were reported on Thursday, which took the overall tally in the district to 7,22,804.As the virus claimed the lives of two persons during the day, the death toll in the district went up to 11,902, the official said, adding that the mortality rate is 1.67 per cent. (PTI )

Shiv Sena has given a lot to its MLAs. They should return to 'Matoshree', he says. (ANI)

A play park which is being carved out for specially abled children at Keshavji Baliram Hedgewar garden in JVPD, Juhu, has run into trouble. The BMC which last month granted permissions to an NGO to use a designated space for specific installations in the garden has stopped work temporary following complaints received by a group of locals.The project to install play apparatus for special kids was coordinated by NGO Inner Wheel Club of Bombay Airport.

Bhoiwada police have booked a cop for raping a woman multiple times after making false promises of marrying her. The accused had developed an intimate relationship with the victim under the pretext of helping her file a complaint against her husband. Accused police inspector S Jadhav who is currently posted in Nagpur, has been booked for rape and cheating and an FIR has been registered under relevent IPC sections for the same.

Mumbai witnessed a sharp jump in new Covid-19 cases at 2,479 on Thursday, up by 831 from a day ago and the highest daily count since January 23, while one more patient succumbed to the infection, the city civic body said. (PTI)

Even as the state and the city saw an increase in Covid infections, the daily test positive rate dropped from 20% on Wednesday to 12% on Thursday. A city civic official said that the weekly trends should be considered to determine Covid surge. The official said, “If at the end of the week, we have a lower tally than last week’s caseload, it can be said that the present surge is plateauing. ” The lone death in the state on Thursday occurred in Mumbai when a 42-year-old kidney failure patient passed away due to Covid-related complications. Since June 14, the city has recorded a death every day.

A magistrate’s court in Mumbai has granted bail to Bollywood choreographer Ganesh Acharya in a sexual harassment case. Acharya appeared in court on Thursday following which the relief was granted. He was not arrested in the case. In February 2020, a First Information Report (FIR) was registered against the choreographer for allegedly sexually harassing and intimidating a woman , the police had earlier said. The FIR, registered at Amboli police station, also named two women, Jayashree Kelkar and Preeti Lad Pujari who are accused of abusing the woman. The case will come u p for hearing on December 12.

With a rise in students dropping out of formal education during the two years of pandemic-induced shutdown of schools, the state has planned to look for such children and bring them back to learning. A ‘Mission Zero Dropout’ will be undertaken by the state school education department from July 5 to 20 to identify dropouts, migrant children and those not attending schools regularly.

A day after CM Uddhav Thackeray’s emotional appeal to try and stem the revolt in the Shiv Sena, rebel leader Eknath Shinde shared a strongly-worded letter written by Aurangabad MLA Sanjay Shirsat which said that Thackeray was unavailable and flanked by a coterie that cut off access to him. The letter also alleged Thackeray that had stopped Sena MLAs from accompanying environment minister Aaditya Thackeray to Ayodhya and that it was Sena MLAs who persuaded Shinde to revolt.