Mumbai Coronavirus Cases News Live Updates: While subdued rainfall activity is expected over Konkan during the week, rain or thundershowers are very likely over parts of Madhya Maharashtra and Marathwada, the IMD forecast stated. (Express Photo)Mumbai News Today Live (Julu 27): Shiv Sena president and former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday said the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance experiment led by him was not wrong and people had welcomed it. In an interview to Shiv Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, Thackeray said he wants not just local body polls due in Maharashtra, but also the Assembly elections and claimed the Sena will have its own CM once again for which he will tour the state to rejuvenate the party cadre.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday wished his former CM Uddhav Thackeray on the latter’s 62nd birthday. Shinde in his message refrained from referring to Thackeray as the Shiv Sena president. Last month, Shinde had along with 39 other Shiv Sena MLAs and 10 independents revolted against the party leadership, leading to the collapse of the Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government.
Mumbai on Tuesday witnessed the first dry day for the month, as only 2.3 mm of rain was recorded in the 24 hours ending 8.30 am. Weather officials are expecting the dry weather or break-weather phase to continue till the first week of August. While subdued rainfall activity is expected over Konkan during the week, rain or thundershowers are very likely over parts of Madhya Maharashtra and Marathwada, the IMD forecast stated.
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change had notified the Plastic Waste Management Amendment Rules, 2021, on 12 August, 2021. (File)
Shiv Sena president and former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday said the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance experiment led by him was not wrong and people had welcomed it.
In the second part of his interview to Shiv Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana', Thackeray said he wants not just local body polls due in Maharashtra, but also the Assembly elections and claimed the Sena will have its own CM once again for which he will tour the state to rejuvenate the party cadre.
The BJP is giving everything to those who have come from other parties - from the post of chief minister (Sena rebel Eknath Shinde) to leader of opposition (which is currently held by NCP's Ajit PAwar), said Thackeray, who turned 62 on Wednesday.
"Delhi wants to instigate a Shiv Sena versus Shiv Sena fight and divide the Marathi-speaking people. If the present rulers fear the opposition, it is their inefficiency. In a democracy, no party is a permanent winner," he said.
The Shiv Sena had parted ways with the BJP after the 2019 Maharashtra Assembly polls over the issue of sharing the chief ministerial post. The Sena later tied-up with the NCP and Congress as part of the MVA to form government led by Thackeray. ---PTI
Local train services on the Harbour Line in Mumbai were disrupted on Wednesday due to a rail fracture near Govandi station, a Central railway official said.
The suburban services on the down (Panvel-bound) line were halted for about 40 minutes due to a rail crack near Govandi station, he said. The Harbour Line provides rail connectivity from south Mumbai to Navi Mumbai and Panvel in adjoining Raigad district.
Services on the Harbour Line had also been affected on Tuesday after a local train derailed at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) in south Mumbai.
On Wednesday, a rail fracture was detected at 7.50 am and the traffic on the line was restored at 8.30 am, Central Railway's chief public relations officer Shivaji Sutar said. The local train services, considered as the lifeline of Mumbai, were disrupted on the Harbour Line during the morning rush hours.
According to some commuters, crowds in the local trains and on stations swelled as trains were running late by over 30 minutes. Nearly 40 lakh commuters travel daily on the Central Railway routes, including 10 lakh on the Harbour Line. ---PTI
Youth Congress workers were detained after they staged a 'rail roko' protest at a station here on Wednesday against Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's questioning by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), police said.
A group of 10-15 Mumbai Youth Congress workers stopped a Gujarat-bound express train around 10.15 am on platform no. 6 of the Borivali station, officials of the Government Railway Police (GRP) said.
The protesters shouted slogans against the Enforcement Directorate and the Narendra Modi-led central government, as Sonia Gandhi appeared before the ED in Delhi on Wednesday for the third round of questioning in a money laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaper.
The GRP Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel removed the protesters from the tracks within a few minutes and the train departed for its onward journey, the officials said. ---PTI
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday greeted his predecessor Uddhav Thackeray on the latter's 62nd birthday.
The CM in his message refrained from referring to Thackeray as the Shiv Sena president.
Last month, Shinde had along with 39 other Shiv Sena MLAs and 10 independents revolted against the party leadership, leading to the collapse of the Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government.
On Wednesday, Shinde tweeted: "Greetings to former chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on his birthday. I pray for his healthy and long life." Recently, 12 out of the 19 Shiv Sena Lok Sabha members also extended support to the Shinde camp.
Shinde recently formed a national executive of his faction, claiming it to be the real Shiv Sena.
The Thackeray-led Sena and the Shinde group are locked in a legal battle over pleas seeking disqualification of 16 rebel legislators and also over claim for the party's symbol with the Election Commission of India. ---PTI
Mumbai on Tuesday recorded 263 fresh Covid-19 cases, the BMC said. Currently, the city has 1805 active cases.
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea by a man challenging an order by a Pune sessions judge, who had refused his prayer to be discharged from a rape and cheating case registered against him by a Marathi actor.
The bench held that prima facie, a case was made out, based on the FIR, to proceed against the petitioner and the same warranted a trial against him. Read more
NEARLY A month after taking charge as the Mumbai Police commissioner, Vivek Phansalkar, on Tuesday addressed his first crime conference, during which he directed senior police officers to take action against motorists driving on the wrong side of the road under the Motor Vehicles (MV) Act, said officers.
Phansalkar also instructed the police to act promptly on cases of crime against women and to ensure that law and order situation of the city remains under control. Read more
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As many as 93 new cases of coronavirus have been detected in Maharashtra's Thane district, taking the tally to 7,33,636, a health official said on Wednesday.
With the addition of the latest cases on Tuesday, the district currently has 895 active COVID-19 cases, he said. No death was reported on Tuesday and the toll in the district stood at 11,927. The recovery count has reached 7,21,474, the official added. ---PTI
TWO PERSONS who are allegedly part of an international gold smuggling ring, have been arrested for kidnapping a 47-year-old man from Mumbai.
Police said the man was kidnapped soon after he landed in the city from Dubai, as they could not extract ‘two chemical-coated gold tablets’ that was hidden inside his stomach by the arrested person’s accomplices in Dubai. Read more
MUMBAI ON Tuesday witnessed the first dry day for the month, as only 2.3 mm of rain was recorded in the 24 hours ending 8.30 am. As per the Indian Meteorological Department’s (IMD) classification, rainfall above 2.5 mm is categorised as light rainfall. Since July 1, the city has recorded heavy to moderate rainfall continuously.
Weather officials are expecting the dry weather or break-weather phase to continue till the first week of August. While subdued rainfall activity is expected over Konkan during the week, rain or thundershowers are very likely over parts of Madhya Maharashtra and Marathwada, the IMD forecast stated. Read more
A petition has been filed in the Bombay High Court (HC) against police officer Daya Nayak, seeking an investigation against him by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by a retired judge of HC to investigate the “false” narcotics case registered against the petitioners.
The three petitioners claimed that Nayak had wrongfully implicated them in a narcotics case in 2019. The petitioners claimed that while Nayak was posted at Amboli police station, he had demanded money from one accused apprehended with sandalwood, after which the petitioner, who was told about the same, had reported it to the Anti-Corruption Bureau. Read more
hief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday announced a ban on the production and use of plastic-coated and laminated goods in Maharashtra.
On March 23, 2018, the Maharashtra government had imposed a ban on the manufacturing, use, sale, distribution and storage of plastic material such as one-time-use bags, spoons, plates, PET and PETE bottles, and thermocol items. The government had then given three months’ time for disposal of the existing stock.