Mumbai News Live Updates: NCP seeks action against Shinde faction leader for sharing 'morphed' photo of Supriya Sule sitting on CM chair

A 24-year-old woman was allegedly strangled to death by her live-in partner, who was nabbed while transporting the body in an ambulance in Bhiwandi town of Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Saturday. The police have arrested Saddam Sharif Sayyed (30), a resident of Kalyan, for allegedly killing his girlfriend Kavita Ramappa Madar (24). (PTI)

The Nationalist Congress Party on Saturday accused the spokesperson of the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena faction of sharing a "morphed" photo of Baramati MP Supriya Sule sitting on the chief minister's chair, and urged the Mumbai police to take action. Incidentally, the NCP had on Friday accused Lok Sabha member Shrikant Shinde, son of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, of sitting in a chair meant for his father, although the parliamentarian from Kalyan had claimed that the picture had been taken at the office at their private residence. (PTI)

Environmentalist and member of the Bombay high court-appointed mangroves protection panel, D Stalin, has written an urgent complaint to the Raigad district collector and other state authorities about the "shocking" destruction of mangroves spread over 20 acres area in Dhutum, Uran taluka, for creating a parking bay.The green activist has demanded that the state government restore this eco-sensitive CRZ land to its original condition.

The ports and mines minister Dada Bhuse of Shiv Sena's rebel faction on Friday challenged Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray to remove the photo of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and contest the election as the latter is continuosly teasing the Eknath Shinde group for using Bal Thackeray's photo.

Parts of Mumbai witnessed heavy rains on Saturday morning, but the public transport services in the city remained unaffected and no major waterlogging was reported, civic officials said.The city and its eastern and western suburbs received heavy showers between 7am and 8am. But the rainfall stopped after that in most of these places. READ MORE

Maharashtra continued to see a steady decline in the neonatal, infant and under-five mortality rates and has fared among six to 11 states that have achieved targets set under the UN's sustainable development goals (SDGs) to bring down child deaths, as per the Sample Registration System (SRS), 2020, data released on Thursday. An urban-rural divide, though, is seen in the figures.

Work on a 21km tunnel for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train corridor is expected to begin next year. A third of it will be under the Thane creek, making it the country’s longest undersea tunnel. Tenders for the work were floated on Friday

The Pen police in Raigad foiled a robbery attempt at a Bank of India ATM machine in Kamarli village by nabbing one of the two robbers, who had brought gelatin sticks and a detonator to blow up the cash vault of the ATM kiosk and decamp with the money.The robbers had also brought a jammer device to block the transmission of the ATM machine's security breach alarm,but it did not function and the alert message was received by the bank manager, who in turn alerted the Pen police. The incident occurred on September 22 at around 3am.

The ongoing genome sequencing surveillance of the Covid-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus across the state revealed that the BA. 2. 75 subvariant has become the dominant strain.“Earlier Omicron’s BA. 5 variant was the dominant one, but it seems to be reducing,” said state surveillance officer DrPradip Awate.In the first fortnight of September, genome sequencing done in the seven designated labs showed BA. 2. 75 subvariant in 486 patients. Its tally has thus increased to 1,161 so far, with Pune (512), Mumbai (393) and Nagpur (154) having the most cases. The state tally for cases ofBA. 4 and BA. 5 stand at 369 in comparison, according to data distributed by the state public health department on Thursday. A week back, the BMC released genome sequencing data to show that Omicron subvariant BA. 2. 75 was mutating further into subtypes BA. 2. 75. 1 and BA. 2. 75. 2.

Even as the wet spell is likely to continue into the last week of September, the city has already recorded 38% excess rainfall for the month, touching 529mm compared to the month’s normal average rainfall of 383. 5mm.Also, with a cloud cover over the past few days, Mumbaikars have been experiencing pleasant weather conditions as there is not much difference in the day (maximum) and night (minimum) temperatures. On Thursday, the maximum temperature recorded was around 25. 1 degrees Celsius and the minimum, 22. 4 degrees.

The Bombay HC on Friday allowed the Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena’s two applications made on August 22 and 26 for holding the Dussehra rally at Shivaji Park on October 5 and for preparations from October 2 to 6 by following conditions laid down in a January 20, 2016 GR. It said Sena will maintain law and order while holding the ‘Dussehra Melawa’. If the petitioners are found responsible for law and order situation or violation of conditions, “the same would be the ground while considering the application, if any, that would be made by the petitioners in future”, the judges said. The BMC has been directed to grant permission to Sena by 11am on September 26. The Shivaji Park police station is at liberty to take a video recording of the function at the cost of Sena, the court said.