A fire has broken out in the Prabhadevi area of Mumbai. (Representational image)Mumbai News Highlights: A small (level 1) fire was reported in the BEST electric substation opposite saamna press in Kamgar nagar in Prabhadevi. Four fire tenders were on spot. Fire was reported at 2.54 pm and extinguished at 3.13 pm, as per the information from BMC’s Disaster management department.
The Maharashtra government has sanctioned Rs 3,501 crore as compensation for farmers who suffered losses during heavy rains and floods in different parts of the state over the last three months, an official said on Saturday.
At least 19 persons died, 14 of them due to drowning, in different incidents that occurred during the immersion of Ganesh idols in parts of Maharashtra, police said on Saturday. Four members of a family were killed after they were tossed up in the air and fell off a flyover when an SUV rammed into their motorcycle in Nagpur city of Maharashtra, police said.
Eleven persons in Maharashtra’s Panvel received an electric shock after a wire from the generator machine snapped during Ganesh immersion. One of the injured was in severe condition and was admitted to the ICU on Friday evening. Panvel is a satellite city of Mumbai. Panvel municipal corporation commissioner Ganesh Deshmukh told The Indian Express that during the Ganesh immersion in Wadghar area of Panvel, a generator wire snapped and 11 persons sustained injuries.
In other news, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar on Wednesday to evolve a consensus among non-BJP parties to forge a political front keeping the 2024 elections in sight. Though the efforts are still in the preliminary stage, the message that came across is that Pawar is playing the role of a catalyst to bring individuals across parties and states to the talking table.
Large crowds bid goodbye to Lord Ganesha at Mumbai's Girghaum Chowpatty as the Ganesh festival concluded on Friday. (Express photo by Amit Chakravarty)
Lightning bolts in the sky above Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus during monsoon in Mumbai. (PTI)
Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole on Saturday said the BJP showed its own intellectual bankruptcy by making Rahul Gandhi's T-shirt an issue.
The saffron party was perturbed due to the "overwhelming" response received by Gandhi's ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra, he claimed. The BJP has been targeting the Congress leader for wearing a Burberry T-shirt reportedly costing over Rs 41,000.
"To talk about Rahul Gandhi's T-shirt shows the intellectual bankruptcy in the BJP," Patole told reporters. "What about (prime minister Narendra) Modi who wears Rs 10 lakh-suit and Rs 1.5 lakh-glasses?" he added. (PTI)
Maharashtra on Saturday reported 734 new coronavirus infections and a single pandemic-related death, a health department report said. The tally of Covid-19 cases reported in Maharashtra so far rose to 81,10,131 and death toll increased to 1,48,285.
The state witnessed a dip in daily Covid-19 cases as a day before it had reported 955 new cases and four fatalities.
On Saturday the highest 444 cases were reported from the Mumbai circle, followed by Pune circle (132), Nashik circle (45), Latur circle, (44), Kolhapur (25), Nagpur circle (21), Akola circle (18) and Aurangabad circle (5). (PTI)
Mumbai on Saturday reported 209 new cases of Covid-19 and zero pandemic-related fatality. A total of 394 people recovered from the infection leaving the number of active cases in the city at 1,900.
The daily cases witnessed a slight dip compared to Friday, when the city had reported 251 new cases and a single casualty.
Noise levels recorded in Mumbai during the last day of the 10-day Ganpati festival reached a two-year high, at 120 dB, the data shared by a city-based organisation revealed on Saturday.
As per information provided by NGO Awaaz Foundation, the highest noise level 120.2dB was recorded at Opera House in south Mumbai after midnight on Friday, the final day of immersion of Ganesh idols.
The music was stopped after a complaint was raised on Twitter to the Mumbai police, an official from the organisation said.
The second highest noise level of 118 dB was recorded at Shastri Nagar, where people played drums, metal cylinders and loudspeakers, while 106dB was recorded at Girgaon Chowpatty, where idols were immersed, he said. (PTI)
A daily-wage labourer rescued his 12-year-old daughter who was allegedly kidnapped from near her house in suburban Bandra here and taken to Uttar Pradesh, police said on Saturday. The accused identified as Shahid Khan (24) was employed in a garment manufacturing unit in Bandra and the victim's family lived in the same locality, an official said.
The accused had allegedly asked the girl to accompany him for some shopping on September 4, but instead took her to Kurla, from where he boarded a bus to Surat with her and later reached Delhi by train, he said.
The girl had given some excuse to her mother before stepping out of the house, and when she did not return, her parents lodged a police complaint and a case of kidnapping was registered, he said. The girl's father, who is a daily-wage labourer, enquired with neighbours and people in the locality and zeroed in on the accused with the help of the police, the official said.
After finding out that he hailed from Aitroli village near Aligarh, the victim's father contacted the family of the accused and managed to rescue her with the help of local police and villagers, he added. (PTI)
A 55-year-old man was killed after a car driven by a policeman ran over him in south Mumbai, police said on Saturday.
The police constable who drove the car was arrested on Friday for the offence registered against him at Tardeo police station, an official said.
The accident took place around 8.46 pm on Thursday near Mahalaxmi race course, where Vakil Salim Ansari was mowed down by the speeding car while crossing the road, he said.
The accused policeman has been booked under sections 304 (A) (causing death by negligence) and 279 (rash driving) of the Indian Penal Code, he added. (PTI)
Fadnavis said, “The state has witnessed how our government (2014-2019) had taken a quick decision to ensure a death sentence (for Yakub Memon). We showed the courage to get the Supreme Court opened at night to fast track the matter. The court ordered death by hanging to the convict which was immediately executed. Those guilty were punished. We never compromised on national interests.” (Read More)
More than 38,000 idols of Lord Ganesh were immersed in various water bodies across Mumbai till Saturday morning following the conclusion of the 10-day festival a day ago, while immersion processions are still on at some places in the city, an official said.
The idols were immersed in the Arabian sea off Girgaon Chowpatty (beach) in south Mumbai, in artificial ponds and some other water bodies. While Girgaon Chowpatty is one of the major spots for immersion of popular Ganesh idols like Lalbaugcha Raja, Ganesh Gully and others, idols are also immersed at other beaches across the city, including Shivaji Park, Bandra, Juhu and Malad. The immersion processions had begun on Friday morning.
As many as 38,214 Ganesh idols were immersed in the metropolis till 9 am on Saturday. Of these, 31,259 were household idols, 6,647 'sarvajanik' (those installed in public pandals), while 308 idols were of Goddess Gauri, a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) official said.
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The Maharashtra government has has sanctioned Rs 3,501 crore as compensation for farmers who suffered losses during heavy rains and floods in different parts of the state over the last three months, an official said on Saturday.
As per a government order issued on Thursday, a compensation of Rs 13,600 per hectare will be given for loss of non-irrigated crops, Rs 27,000 per hectare for irrigated crops and Rs 36,000 per hectare for perennial crops.
Farmers suffered crop losses due to floods and heavy rains witnessed in parts of the state between June and August this year, it stated. (PTI)
Thunderstorms accompanied by lightning & light-to-moderate spells of rain with gusty winds reaching 30-40kmph very likely to occur at isolated places in Mumbai, Raigad, Thane, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Pune, Satara, & Osmanabad, during the next 3-4 hours according to IMD Mumbai. (ANI)
The BJP and Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena on Saturday shared a picture and video of each other's leaders with a `relative' of 1993 Mumbai blasts convict Yakub Memon.
BJP MLA Atul Bhatkhalkar circulated a video claiming that it showed one Rauf Memon, Yakub's relative, attending a meeting with Sena leader and former Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar.
Uddhav Thackeray's aide Harshal Pradhan hit back by sharing a photograph purportedly showing the same Rauf Memon with BJP's Devendra Fadnavis and Chandrakant Patil.
Earlier this week, the BJP had claimed that Yakub Memon's grave was beautified when the coalition government led by Uddhav Thackeray was in power in Maharashtra, a charge rejected by the Shiv Sena. (PTI)
A small (level 1) fire was reported in the BEST electric substation opposite saamna press in Kamgar nagar in Prabhadevi. Four fire tenders were on spot. Fire was reported at 2.54 pm and extinguished at 3.13 pm, as per the information from BMC's Disaster management department.
A power supply sub-station of Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking caught fire in the Prabhadevi area of Mumbai on Saturday, a civic official said.
No one was injured in the fire which broke out around 2:50 pm at the sub-station located in Nagate building opposite Saamana Press, the official said, adding that it was doused within 30 minutes. At least four fire engines were rushed to the spot. (PTI)
Four members of a family, including two minor brothers, were killed after they were tossed up in the air and fell off a flyover when a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) rammed into their motorcycle in Nagpur city of Maharashtra, police said.
The accident took place in Sakkardara area of the city around 9 pm on Friday.
The driver of the SUV, Ganesh Adhav, was later arrested by the police, an official said.
“Adhav was driving his vehicle at a great speed. When he reached the flyover, the SUV rammed into three motorcycles coming from the opposite direction,” the official of Sakkardara police station said.
“Due to the impact, four members of a family who were going on one of the motorcycles got tossed up in the air and fell on the road below from the flyover. They were rushed to a hospital, where doctors declared them brought dead,” he said. (PTI)
At least 19 persons died, 14 of them due to drowning, in different incidents that occurred during the immersion of Ganesh idols in parts of Maharashtra, police said on Saturday.
The 10-day Ganesh festival, which had started on August 31, ended on Friday. In Wardha district three persons drowned at Sawangi, while another one drowned at Devli, an official said. Two persons drowned in a pond in Yavatmal district when they went for immersion of idols, he said.
In Ahmednagar district, two persons died of drowning in separate incidents at Supa and Belvandi, he said, adding that two others died in Jalgaon district of north Maharashtra.
One each died in Pune's rural part, Dhule, Satara and Solapur city, he said. Four persons died in a road accident at Sakkardara area of Nagpur city during Ganesh immersion, he said.
In Thane, a 55-year-old woman was killed and four others injured after a tree collapsed on a Ganesh pandal in Kolbad area amid rains. The incident occurred on Friday night, a civic official said. (PTI)
The heritage tour to Raj Bhawan at Malabar Hills will resume from October 1. The heritage tour which is open for citizens to visit Raj Bhawan was closed during monsoon from June to September.
A more than 150-year-old architectural spectacle of a ‘pyau’ (water fountain) in the form of two towers, each 20 feet in height, and a fountain in between, is likely to be opened for public this November after completion of the restoration work by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
Almost 30% of the structure, which stands adjacent to Azad Maidan on a footpath opposite Metro Cinema, was buried following successive construction activities of road and footpath. (Read More)
Four members of a family, including two minor brothers, were killed after they were tossed up in the air and fell off a flyover when a Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) rammed into their motorcycle in Nagpur city of Maharashtra, police said.
The accident took place in Sakkardara area of the city around 9 pm on Friday.
The driver of the SUV, Ganesh Adhav, was later arrested by the police, an official said.
"Adhav was driving his vehicle at a great speed. When he reached the flyover, the SUV rammed into three motorcycles coming from the opposite direction," the official of Sakkardara police station said.
"Due to the impact, four members of a family who were going on one of the motorcycles got tossed up in the air and fell on the road below from the flyover. They were rushed to a hospital, where doctors declared them brought dead," he said.
The deceased were identified as Vinod Khapekar (45), his mother Laxmibai (65), and his two sons aged five and eleven years, he said, adding that two others were injured in the incident and are being treated. PTI
A few families contacted an officer at MHB colony police station in Mumbai’s Borivali (West) expressing willingness to adopt a newborn girl who was found abandoned near a dustbin in the locality on Wednesday night, said the officer who had posted about the development on social media.
Around 9.30 pm on Wednesday, the police control room received a call on the emergency number 100 informing them about the baby, the officer said. A passerby in IC Colony had heard the infant crying and spotted her lying next to a dustbin. Soon, the Nirbhaya team, comprising women police personnel, rushed to the spot in their van and took the girl to Shatabdi Hospital, the police said, adding that the baby was stable with no injuries. Read more.
Gold biscuits worth over Rs 61 lakh were seized at Pune International Airport, the customs officials said Friday. The biscuits, weighing over 1,166 grams, were hidden under a seat in a flight that arrived from Dubai.
“On rummaging of Spicejet flight SG-52 which arrived at Pune International Airport from Dubai in the early hours on September 9, the Customs officers recovered a pouch containing 10 gold biscuits, wrapped by black colour plastic sheet. Biscuits are of 999.0 purity and weighed 1166.40 grams, valued at Rs 61.7 lakh. The pouch was found concealed under a passenger seat, and the gold was seized under the Customs Act, 1962. Further investigation is under progress,” Pune Customs said in a statement. Read more.