Mumbai news live: The 16 missing individuals after rescue. (Photo: Coast Guard)Mumbai News Live Updates (August 27): The Indian Coast Guard successfully coordinated the rescue of 16 personnel including three missing Indian nationals in foreign waters off of Malaysia’s coast on Friday, August 26.
Late Thursday evening, the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) in Mumbai received a message about three missing Indian nationals from Guyana flagged tanker MT Vora off Malaysian Coast. MRCC then coordinated the rescue operation in collaboration with SAR coordinating agencies of Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia.
The boat was then located by Malaysian authorities off Malaysia’s coast on Friday. The boat had run out of fuel for the passage. The 16 personnel including the three missing Indian nationals were rescued and taken to Malaysia for further investigation/formalities. The operation involved co-ordination with three countries in the Indo-Pacific region.
Generally cloudy sky with light rain is likely in Mumbai and suburbs today.
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Days after businessman Raj Kundra filed a discharge application in connection with alleged creation and uploading of pornographic films on mobile applications, actor Gehana Vasisth has also filed a plea for discharge from the case.
In her plea, Vasisth has said that she is a director who makes ‘erotic movies’ which are ‘very well permissible in India’. “The applicant further states that for publication on the internet, there is no censorship in India for OTT platforms,” her plea said.
It further states that the case against her is without any substantial proof. Read more
A 46-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly stealing Rs 17.35 lakh cash from the collection manager of Bank of Bahrain & Kuwait in Mumbai.
The police said that accused Naresh Yadav, a driver who worked with the bank, was debt-ridden and held a grudge against his employers, as he was still a contractual employee despite working with the bank for over nine years.
“The bank provides door-to-door service of depositing and withdrawing cash for its bank account holders. When an account holder wants to deposit or withdraw money, the person has to call the bank, following which, a bank executive arrives to handover or collect the money,” said an officer.
On August 18, Jitendra Singh, the complainant and a bank executive, stepped out for similar work and was using the car provided by the bank. Yadav was driving the car. Sagar Rajput reports
Every year, the 22-feet-high Ganesh idol in Mumbai’s Ganesh Galli adorns a new look.
Just next to the Lalbaugcha Raja is the Lalbaug Sarvajanik Utsav Mandal (Mumbaicha Raja), popularly known as Ganesh Galli mandal in central Mumbai, which was established in 1928 and is said to have popularised the culture of having gigantic glorious idols of Ganesha in Maharashtra.
This year as the mandal celebrates Ganesh Chaturthi festival for the 95th time, their idol will be in the form of ‘Vishwakarma Avatar’, who is known as the creator of the universe and devotees will get to see a fascinating replica of Kashi Vishwanath temple of Varanasi from next week on Wednesday when the 10-day festival begins.
The mandal says it lives by its slogan “Bhavyatechi parampara, sanskruti che jopasna (Tradition of magnificence, conservation of culture)”, and every year surprises the devotees with a new artistic set and idol reflective of the Hindu culture. Jayprakash S Naidu reports
A fighter plane setting off from an aircraft carrier, a submarine moving under the ocean, a fleet of warships cutting through the sea waves, and a contingent of Navy personnel marching through the streets are just some of the wall paintings that are bound to catch your attention as you go zooming past the Colaba area of South Mumbai.
The Indian Navy, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and an NGO named My Dream Colaba joined hands to present the public with 30 beautiful paintings painted on as many panels of a wall on Shahid Bhagat Singh Road near INS Shikra in Colaba.
Apart from the Navy, a few heritage structures like the Gateway of India have also been included. Jayprakash S Naidu reports
In a first this Ganesh Chaturthi, lifeguards who are voluntarily involved in the immersion of deities can get an insurance cover of Rs 5 lakh at a premium of Rs 60 per person. The public sector firm Oriental Insurance Company, which is the major insurance provider to Govindas in Dahi Handis, rolled out the scheme a week ahead of the festival.
“This is for the time that an insurance firm is providing insurance to volunteer lifeguards in the state. We have kept the premium at a rate of only Rs 60 so that even people from a low economic background can afford it,” said Sachin Khanvilkar, manager of Oriental, Mumbai City Divisional Office.
Two mandals from Khar Danda and Bhandup have already approached the company to claim insurance for 50 such volunteers. Rupsa Chakraborty report
With the intention to digitise patients’ records across all the 270 hospitals under National Cancer Grid (NCG) — the network of cancer hospitals that comes under Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) — the TMC has tied up with NGO KOITA Foundation to establish a centre for digital oncology. This will help create a data bank of patients across the country, which will help in medical researches and policy making.
While signing an MoU with the NGO, Dr RA Badwe, director of Tata Memorial Centre, said that digitisation of the patients’ records starting from their prescriptions and radiology reports would not only make the treatment process paperless, but will provide them the data bank to do national research. “It will be a mine of information,” he said.
Dr C S Pramesh, convener of NCG, said that as per a study, only 40 per cent of the patients maintain digital medical records. Read more here
A week after the Mumbai Traffic Police WhatsApp number received threats about another “26/11-like” attack in the city, the same WhatsApp number on Friday received a message from an unidentified person advising India to avoid a “Somalia-type attack”. The message sent from a Somalia-based number did not issue any threat. Terror group Al-Shabaab had recently attacked the Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital.
A Crime Branch officer said, “While the number is registered in Somalia, we are trying to find out the message was sent from where. It is possible that someone from another country sent the text.” Read more here
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In a first-of-its kind initiative, over 1,000 Indians have adopted nearly 7,000 patients suffering from Tuberculosis (TB) in India to provide vocational, diagnostic and nutritional support for faster recovery. Maharashtra tops the chart with the most number of adoptions across the country.
Under the TB elimination programme, the Centre has initiated a new voluntary programme – Ni-kshay Mitra – that calls for people to adopt TB patients and take care of their nutritional diet. Although it is officially yet to be launched across the nation, the registration of keen benefactors had started from the last week of July on the portal of Ni-kshay Mitra.
Data collected by The Indian Express shows that as of August 24, 1,125 individuals and NGOs, among others, have registered online and adopted 6,975 TB patients in India. Among them, 30 per cent of the adoptions have been recorded in Maharashtra – the highest in India.
In all, 345 people have adopted 2,597 TB patients in the state. Pune has reported the most number of adoptions, followed by Mumbai. Rupsa Chakraborty reports
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