Mumbai News Live Updates: Uddhav Thackeray moves Delhi HC against EC order freezing Shiv Sena name, poll symbol

The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction Monday approached the Delhi high court seeking quashing of the order of Election Commission of India (ECI) freezing the party name and election symbol. The petition, filed by Thackeray, has challenged ECI's October 8 order, contending it was passed in complete violation of principles of natural justice and without granting any hearing to the parties. The petition has arrayed ECI and Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknathrao Sambhaji Shinde as parties.

Four persons have been booked in Maharashtra's Thane district for allegedly cheating a man of Rs 28 lakh after promising to get him a loan of Rs 2 crore, a police official said on Monday.

The Election Commission’s move to freeze Shiv Sena’s bow and arrow poll symbol may have caused a stir in the political circles, but NCP chief Sharad Pawar said a party symbol, as such, does not offer any benefit as it is ultimately up to people to decide whom to vote for.

ED moves SC challenging Bombay HC order granting bail to former Maharashtra minister Anil Deshmukh, who was arrested in connection with a money laundering case.

Around 60 post offices out of total 229 across Mumbai will function four hours more than their normal working hours from Monday. This means 12 hours a day from existing eight hours and will make available all services during late evening hours like the ones during day hours. The decision was announced on Sunday, the World Post Day. This service will continue on a permanent basis to make post office services closer and more accessible to citizens especially the working class and senior citizens whose visits depend upon the adult members in the house “On the occasion of World Post Day 2022, India Post Mumbai Region launches 8am to 8pm services in 60 post offices of Mumbai city and suburbs,” said a press statement.

In probably a first, the Fee Regulating Authority has slashed the annual tuition fee for MBBS at Sangli’s Prakash Institute of Medical Sciences for 2022-23 to Rs 4. 8 lakh from Rs 8. 4 lakh. Six sought-after private colleges in the state have not demanded a hike in fees, while a few others have seen an increase of Rs 50,000 to up to Rs 1. 5 lakh.

A 19-year-old man who had recently come from Kolhapur was found murdered in a swimming pool of an under-construction building in Vikhroli on October 6. His friends told police he was in a relationship with a girl and her ex-boyfriend had threatened him recently.

A total of 182 foreign nationals were booked from 2019 to 2021 for entering Maharashtra illegally with forged Indian passports and procuring help from touts to live in the country. Maharashtra tops the list of such states, accounting for over 40% of the country’s cases (448). The offence is under the Indian Passport Act, with the next state on the list being Tripura (122), followed by Tamil Nadu (46), West Bengal (17) and Karnataka (14). The data was recently released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

Two boys, aged 12 and 14, who went for a swim in a water-filled quarry in Dombivli drowned, while their four friends managed to come out by holding on to one another. Police said the quarry is deep and the minor boys could not guess the depth and drowned.