A healthcare worker administers a dose of Covid-19 vaccine to a beneficiary, at Gateway of India, in Mumbai. (PTI, file)Mumbai News Today Live (August 2): Mumbai on Tuesday recorded 329 new coronavirus cases, up from 164 a day ago, but no fresh death linked to the infection was registered in the metropolis, the local civic body said. With this, the overall tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 11,25,306, while the death toll remained unchanged at 19,651, said the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in a bulletin.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has declared that the state government intends to inaugurate the first phase of the project, which stretches on an area of 480 km from Shirdi to Nagpur, on August 15, said Radheshyam Mopalwar, Director General (War Room, Infrastructure Projects) and Managing Director of the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC).
Meanwhile, with the strengthening of low-level Westerlies over the west coast, the Konkan region including Mumbai is likely to get rain from August 5. For the past 15 days, the city has recorded no or very light rainfall. However, excess rain was recorded in July. From July 1, the IMD’s Santacruz observatory, which is representative of the city, has recorded 1,244.6 mm rain. The average rain for Mumbai in July was 919.9 mm.
Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut after being detained by the Enforcement Directorate in Mumbai. (Express photo by Narendra Vaskar)
The Mumbai civic body has invited bids for the concretization of 400 km of roads in the city which is estimated to cost Rs 5,806 crore. It has floated five separate tenders for upgradation and improvement of roads, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said in a release.
The civic body, which regularly receives flak for craters on the roads during the monsoon, has undertaken the project as cement concrete roads rarely develop craters, said an official.
The richest civic body in the country claimed it was a "huge step" towards making roads in the city potholes-free in the next two years. (PTI)
Mumbai on Tuesday recorded 329 new coronavirus cases, up from 164 a day ago, but no fresh death linked to the infection was registered in the metropolis, the local civic body said.
With this, the overall tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 11,25,306, while the death toll remained unchanged at 19,651, said the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in a bulletin.
This was the second time since July 16 when the financial capital has logged more than 300 COVID-19 cases in a 24-hour span. Also, the city has not reported any fresh coronavirus-linked fatality for the second day in a row. (PTI)
The Mumbai police have arrested a 29-year-old man for allegedly posing as a woman on Facebook and extorting money from a man, an official said on Tuesday.
The police on Monday arrested Sushant Talshilkar, who allegedly befriended the complainant on Facebook by posing as a woman from his housing society and exchanged obscene pictures and messaged with him, an official from Kasturba Marg police station said.
The accused then threatened to circulate the screenshots of their chats to the WhatsApp group of the housing society and demanded Rs 10,000 from the complainant, he said. (PTI)
A special court here on Tuesday examined a motorcycle that was allegedly owned by BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur and used in the September 2008 Malegaon blast.
The motorcycle and five bicycles which were damaged in the blast were brought to the court compound.
Special Judge for National Investigation Agency cases A K Lahoti and defence lawyers stepped out to inspect them. The vehicles had been brought to the court for the testimony of a forensic expert. (PTI)
Maharashtra-based farmer outfit Shetkari Sanghatana's president Anil Ghanwat on Tuesday said there is feeling among cultivators that even after 75 years of independence they have not achieved real freedom and hence they will not take part in the "Har Ghar Tiranga" initiative.
The ‘Har Ghar Tiranga' campaign has been launched by the Centre to encourage people to bring the tricolour home and to hoist it to mark the 75th year of India's independence. The idea behind the initiative, part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, is to invoke the feeling of patriotism among citizens and to promote awareness about the national flag.
Ghanwat, who was a member of the Supreme Court-appointed panel on the now-scrapped farm reform laws, said he is free as a citizen of the country, but certainly not happy as a farmer who is restricted with several rules and regulations in the agricultural sector. (PTI)
Leaders of the two factions of the Shiv Sena on Tuesday sparred over the removal of photographs of Uddhav Thackeray and Aaditya Thackeray from the offices of rebel MLAs who are backing Eknath Shinde.
Shinde supporter and MLA Sanjay Shirsat said they will not keep the photos of "those who call us traitors.” But he asserted that Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray remained a revered figure for him.
The leaders of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena, particularly his son Aaditya, have been attacking the rebels, calling them “traitors”. (PTI)
Maharashtra on Tuesday recorded 1,886 new coronavirus cases and five pandemic-related deaths, the state health department said. The state's COVID-19 case tally rose to 80,50,171, and death toll reached 1,48,110.
On Monday, the state had recorded 830 new cases and one death. It has been seen that the number of cases drops on Mondays as fewer samples are tested over the weekend.
In 24 hours till Monday evening, 18,775 coronavirus tests were conducted, while 34,083 samples were tested in last 24 hours. State capital Mumbai recorded 329 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday. Nashik district recorded 93 cases. (PTI)
A 18-year-old boy drowned while swimming in a reservoir in Vasai-Virar area of Maharashtra's Palghar district, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Monday morning, when a group of four boys from Kalina area of suburban Santacruz went for a swim in the reservoir in the neighbouring district, an official said.
The victim, Abhishekh Mandal, drowned after he ventured into the deep waters, and his friends failed to rescue him, he said. The death came to light, when the remaining boys returned home without Abhishekh and were taken to a police station, where they informed about the drowning, the official said.
During the probe, the police found that the boys had thrown the victim's mobile phone and bag, he said, adding that the matter is being probed. (PTI)
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Asked about the cabinet expansion, Shinde listed out the “pro-people” decisions taken by his government. “We have done great work in a short while. We have reduced VAT on petrol, diesel, provided relief to the farmers by resuming the scheme providing an assistance of Rs 50,000, reduced power traffic for lift irrigation and others. The cabinet expansion will happen soon too,” said Shinde. Read more
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All 15 suspected monkeypox samples from Maharashtra have tested negative for the viral disease, a senior health department official said here on Tuesday.
Eight cases of monkeypox have been reported so far in India, Union Health Minister Mansukh Madaviya said earlier in the day.
“We had sent samples of 15 suspected patients from Maharashtra for testing and the results of all of them are negative,” Dr Pradip Awate, surveillance officer of the health department, told PTI. The samples were tested at the National Institute of Virology, Pune and Kasturba Hospital in Mumbai, he added. (PTI)
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