Mumbai News Live: Union Home Minister Amit Shah. (File)Mumbai, Maharashtra News Today Live Updates, September 04, 2022: The state BJP is gearing up for Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s two-day visit to Mumbai beginning Sunday, mostly to hold political meetings and also to go for Ganesh darshan at Lalbaugcha Raja in Parel. A senior BJP leader said that by visiting Fadnavis, Shah wants to send a message that the deputy chief minister’s leadership in Maharashtra is uncompromised.
The traffic police in Mumbai issued a notification informing commuters and motorists that traffic regulations will be in force in south Mumbai, western suburbs and some parts in central Mumbai on September 4 (Sunday) and 5 (Monday) on account of the Shah’s visit. They said restrictions on traffic movement will be in force in areas like Sahar in Andheri (East), Bandra (East), Worli Sea Link in western suburbs and Haji Ali, Kemps Corner, Malabar Hill and Babulnath in south Mumbai Sunday, from 9 pm to 10.30 pm.
In other news, localised thundershowers on Sunday lashed western suburbs of Mumbai, as the city witnessed rains after a gap of nearly three weeks. According to officials of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), such localised rain due to intense heat is a common phenomenon during this time. “On Sunday morning, rains lashed only the western suburbs, that too north of Bandra till Borivali. The showers were intense in some pockets. Colaba in south Mumbai and the eastern suburbs hardly received any showers compared to the western suburbs. Such type of localised showers are not part of the southwest monsoon rains,” an IMD official said.
A total of 34,122 idols were immersed in Mumbai on Thursday till 9 pm, the first day of immersion in the Ganesh festival. (Express photo by Amit Chakravarty)
A two-year-old girl bitten by a snake died after she allegedly could not get timely treatment in a remote village in Maharashtra's Thane district.
The girl from Vaitarna Pada of Shahapur was bitten by a snake in the early hours of Saturday and was rushed to the Temba health centre, a kilometre from her house, it was stated.
The toddler was however referred to Khardi rural hospital, and from Khardi, she was sent to Shahapur sub-district hospital. Two hours were lost in the process and the child died. (PTI)
At least 166 Ganesh idols were immersed at beaches and artificial ponds across Mumbai on the fifth day of the Ganpati festival on Sunday, an official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. As many as 160 household Ganesh idols and six Hartalika idols were immersed till afternoon, he said.
Of these, 45 household idols and five Hartalika idols were immersed in the artificial ponds built for the purpose in different parts of the city, the official said. (PTI)
On the night of September 13, 1947, a group of 40 Marathi-speaking residents of Karachi boarded a Mumbai-bound boat, not knowing what future holds for them in India, a nation basking in freedom from the British rule, but also coming to terms with horrific violence of the Partition.
As the residents, all women and kids accompanied by a male passenger, left the Clifton harbour in the Pakistani port city with just meagre savings, they were aware life is going to be anything but easy in Bombay (now Mumbai), but their hearts and minds were filled with new-found hope and optimism.
After travelling for two days and battling hardships during the sea journey, they reached Mumbai, where they subsequently built their lives brick by brick with hard work and tenacity, and became an integral part of their adopted city.
This inspiring story has been documented in a hand-written note by Nalini Sahasrabuddhe, one of the travellers on the boat that left for Mumbai just a month after India attained freedom from the British Raj. (PTI)
The Ganesh festival sees households and `Mandals' or groups installing idols of the lord at home and in pandals across Maharashtra, but decades ago Agroli village pioneered a different approach which is now emulated by many other villages.
Way back in 1961, communist leader Bhau Sakharam Patil proposed the 'One Village One Ganpati' policy during the Ganesh festival in Agroli, now part of Navi Mumbai region. Each family need not install its own idol but there should be one common Ganesh idol for the village which would save on expenditure, comrade Patil suggested in the aftermath of a flu epidemic in the area.
This year 593 villages in Satara have installed a common Ganesh idol. As many as 200 villages in Sangli, 300 villages in Solapur and 400 villages in Pune district have also implemented this policy. In Marathwada range comprising Aurangabad rural, Jalna, Beed and Osmanabad districts, a total of 1,351 villages have installed common Ganesh idols during the festival. In Nanded range, which consists of districts of Nanded, Parbhani, Hingoli and Latur, 1,405 villages have implemented the policy of single Ganesh idol. In the five districts of Nashik range, 1,750 villages have implemented the concept. (PTI)
Maharashtra, home to seven of the nine vulture species in India, marked International Vulture Awareness Day, celebrated on the first Saturday of September annually, with a slew of initiatives to boost numbers and ensure conservation.
Experts zeroed in on diclofenac, a veterinary drug used for pain management in livestock, as the main cause of the near wipe-out of vultures, who were eating such carrion and then suffering kidney failure almost within 24 hours. In view of this threat to vultures that brought them close to extinction, diclofenac was banned for veterinary use in India and Nepal in 2006 and in Bangladesh in 2010.
Maharashtra Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Wildlife) and Chief Wildlife Warden Sunil Limaye said Konkan, western Maharashtra and Vidarbha regions in the state still have the requisite habitat needed to act as a long-term breeding areas for the white-rumped, Indian and Egyptian vultures, which are resident in the state. (PTI)
A 10-feet-long python fighting for its life due to multiple fractures and wounds will undergo plastic surgery soon which could be a breakthrough in treating the critically injured endangered wildlife, officials said.
The Indian rock python was rescued by the Resqink Association for Wildlife Welfare (RAWW) and the Forest Department in August.
The reptile has been under observation and treatment by a team of veterinarians and animal rescuers for more than three weeks, a Forest department official said over the weekend.
The python has been in critical condition due to multiple fractures and open wounds from day one of its rescue. However, with tremendous efforts and care it has been responding to the treatment, he said. (PTI)
The Shiv Sena claimed the credit for the restriction-free celebration of the ongoing Ganesh festival goes to party chief Uddhav Thackeray.
Thackeray fought the COVID-19 pandemic for two years with strict restrictions (when he had served as the CM of Maharashtra) and created awareness among people about the safety protocols, an article in the Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana' said.
"The credit for the restriction-free festival celebration goes to Uddhav Thackeray. This hasn't happened because of the Shinde-Fadnavis regime," said the 'Rokhthok' column, published under the byline of Kadaknath Mumbaikar in the Marathi daily. (PTI)
A group of activists staged a demonstration to oppose the construction of a Metro car shed in Mumbai's Aarey Colony and shouted slogans against the Maharashtra government's decision to go ahead with the project.
The protestors carried banners with messages like "save Aarey forest", and raised slogans on the need to fight against handing over the area to builders. They said Aarey is a forest comprising wildlife and adivasis (tribals) and appealed to stop the destruction of the forest in the name Metro car shed.
Environmentalists have warned that not only leopards, but many other animals and birds face the threat of losing their habitat and lives. (PTI)
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