Former chairman of Tata Sons Cyrus Mistry. (File)Mumbai News Live Updates: Cyrus Mistry’s funeral was held at the Worli crematorium in Mumbai on Tuesday. Palghar police in Maharashtra have obtained the CCTV footage of the Mercedes car in which former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry was travelling to Mumbai, shortly before it crashed, killing him and his friend, an official said. The footage shows the car passing through the Dapchari check post in Palghar district at 2.21 pm on Sunday, he said. The car hit a road divider on a bridge over the Surya river on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway at around 3 pm, killing Mistry (54) and his friend Jahangir Pandole, who were on the back seats.
The preliminary autopsy of Mistry revealed that he sustained severe head trauma and multiple fractures in chest, head region, thigh and neck, in the accident near Mumbai on Sunday. This caused multiple injuries to vital organs, leading to his death. Along with viscera, his blood samples have been preserved for further analysis. Jehangir Pandole, who was seated on the back seat of the vehicle along with Mistry, also died after sustaining similar injuries.
The wrecked car in which businessman Cyrus Mistry was travelling with three others when it met with an accident on Sunday afternoon. (PTI) Meanwhile, the highest noise levels during the immersion on the fifth day of the Ganesh festival were recorded at 115.6dB at the Babulnath Temple Corner, which is a few hundred meters from the Girgaum Chowpaty. The same was recorded at 112.1dB in Bandra, according to information from Sumaira Abdulali, from Awaaz foundation, a non-governmental not-for-profit organisation.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah with Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis and others, in Mumbai on Monday.
MNS chief Raj Thackeray visits Maharashtra CM Eknath Shindes house for Ganapati. This follows Raj Thackeray meeting Deputy CM Fadnavis ahead of BMC polls and talks circulating of Amit Shah meeting Raj Thackeray as he visits Mumbai to discuss alliance for upcoming BMC polls.
Union minister Ramdas Athawale on Tuesday said the "real" Shiv Sena is the faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and only it has the "moral right" to hold the party's annual Dussehra rally in Mumbai's Shivaji Park.
Mumbai's civic body has said it had received applications from the Uddhav Thackeray and Shinde-led factions of the Shiv Sena to "book" the sprawling Shivaji Park for the party's Dussehra rally in October. The rally, arguably the most important event in the Shiv Sena's political calendar, has been taking place at Shivaji Park for several decades, but has two claimants this time due to a split in the Sena following a rebellion by Shinde in June.
Speaking to reporters in Pune, Athawale said the Shinde faction has the support of two-thirds of the Shiv Sena's elected representatives and workers, and expressed the hope the ruling camp will get decisions in its favour from the Election Commission and court in matters pending before them over the party symbol and other issues. (PTI)
Seventh day Ganpati immersion in progress at a pond in Navi Mumbai on Tuesday. Ganeshotsav is being celebrated with pomp in Maharashtra after a gap of two years.
Express photo by Amit Chakravarty
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said the Baramati constituency, the pocket borough of NCP president Sharad Pawar, falls under the Bharatiya Janata Party's "Mission Maharashtra".
He also said the Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and the BJP will jointly contest the upcoming elections to the Mumbai civic body.
Speaking to reporters at Nagpur airport, Fadnavis said, "The BJP has (formulated) Mission India and Mission Maharashtra. As Baramati is in Maharashtra, it obviously comes under Mission Maharashtra," he said.
Fadnavis was replying to a query on Maharashtra BJP president Chandrashekar Bawankule's visit to the Baramati constituency.
Bawankule has said the BJP and Shinde-led Shiv Sena combine will win the Baramati constituency, currently represented by NCP's Supriya Sule, in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections along with 45 of the total 48 constituencies in the state. (PTI)
The Supreme Court Tuesday took note of the Eknath Shinde faction's claim about the Uddhav Thackeray camp stalling the proceedings before the poll panel where the former's application staking claim over the Shiv Sena and its symbol is pending, and said it will consider listing its plea before a constitution bench.
The Election Commission is seized of a plea by the faction led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde seeking it be declared the real Shiv Sena and granted the party's bow and arrow poll symbol.
The top court, while referring to a five-judge constitution bench several questions related to defection, merger and disqualification arising out of the recent Maharashtra political crisis had on August 23 directed the Election Commission not to pass any order on the Shinde faction's plea. (PTI)
Doctors at a hospital in Mumbai are trying to stabilise the vital parameters of Anahita Pandole and her husband Darius Pandole, injured two days back in a car accident in which former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry was killed.
It is a common procedure before operating on any patient, said a medical officer from Sir H N Reliance Foundation Hospital where the couple is currently admitted.
"Both of them are in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) since being brought here in an ambulance by road (on Monday). Once their vitals stabilise, a team of doctors will take a decision to operate,” he said.(PTI)
BJP President Chandrashekhar Bavankule recently claimed that BJP will win Baramati Loksabha constituency in 2024 to which Mahesh Tapase, Chief Spokesperson of the NCP has saying replied that this claim of Bavankule will never see the light of the day.
Leaders of the BJP are known to make rhetoric statements to grab media attention and hence this statement of Chandrashekhar Bawankule should not be taken seriously said Mahesh Tapase.
Mr Bawankule should enlighten us as to how many BJP MPs from Maharashtra have repeatedly been accorded the Sansad Ratna honour for their parliamentary performance as Supriya Sule asked Mahesh Tapase.
'Marol Cha Morya' is a unique Ganpati idol inspired by late Lata Mangeshkar at Shivgarjana Tarun Mitra Mandal in Marol Andheri East.
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Their work is appreciable.
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Dr Anahita Pandole, who is currently undergoing treatment at Sir H N Reliance Hospital in Mumbai after she was severely injured in a road accident, has made improvements and doctors will decide the next steps once she is off external support systems, said an official Tuesday.
The official at the hospital said the doctors treating Anahita Pandole, a gynaecologist, are planning to reduce medication and oxygen support to check her self-sustainability. Read more here
Former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry was cremated at the Worli crematorium in Central Mumbai Tuesday noon. Mistry died in a car crash in Maharashtra’s Palghar district Sunday afternoon while returning from Ahmedabad.
Apart from Mistry’s family members and friends, hundreds of employees of his Shapoorji Pallonji Group attended the funeral, including several people who had come from abroad. Read more here
NCP MP Supriya Sule paid her last respects to former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry at the Worli crematorium today. "He was a very good friend, he was a very good husband and a fine father. He will always be in our hearts. We often discuss the issue of road safety in Parliament. I urge people to wear seat belts and not take it lightly," she said.
Cyrus Mistry was cremated at Mumbai's Worli crematorium on Tuesday morning.
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray is scheduled to visit Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde at CM's official residence Varsha at 6.30 pm on Tuesday for Ganesh Darshan. The visit is planned on a day when CM has called all ruling alliance MLAs for Ganesh darshan and dinner.
The highest noise levels during the immersion on the fifth day of the Ganesh festival were recorded at 115.6dB at the Babulnath Temple Corner, which is a few hundred meters from the Girgaum Chowpaty.
The same was recorded at 112.1dB in Bandra, according to information from Sumaira Abdulali, from Awaaz foundation, a non-governmental not-for-profit organisation working for noise and environment advocacy, education and awareness. Read more
Even as Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde accompanied Union Home Minister Amit Shah during his visit to Lalbaugcha Raja, the CM’s inclusion in the visit was made at the last moment to ensure that it does not remain an ‘only BJP’ show.
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The preliminary autopsy of former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry revealed that he sustained severe head trauma and multiple fractures in chest, head region, thigh and neck, in the accident near Mumbai on Sunday. This caused multiple injuries to vital organs, leading to his death. Along with viscera, his blood samples have been preserved for further analysis.
Jehangir Pandole, who was seated on the back seat of the vehicle along with Mistry, also died after sustaining similar injuries. Read more
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Civic officials said that only small household idols were immersed in this lake so far and idols from community pandals were diverted to Dadar and Mahim Chowpatty for immersions. Read more