The 130-year-old tunnel recently discovered at Mumbai's J J Hospital. (Express photo by Ganesh Shirsekar)Mumbai Highlights, November 04, 2022: A 130-year-old tunnel was discovered underneath the nursing complex at Mumbai’s government-run J J Hospital Friday. The tunnel is believed to be 200 m long. Dr Pallavi Saple, the dean of the hospital, said the building under which the tunnel has been discovered was once used as a medical ward to treat women and children. Now, it is being converted into a nursing college which is located in the premises of the J J hospital and Grant Medical College, Mumbai.
In other news, Darius Pandole, who survived the car accident in which industrialist Cyrus Mistry died, has told the police that his wife Dr Anahita was driving the Mercedes-Benz car in the third lane and could not merge into the second lane that turned narrow near the Surya river bridge in Maharashtra’s Palghar, an official said. The statement of Darius Pandole (60) was recorded on Tuesday by the officials of the Kasa police station in Palghar, under whose jurisdiction the accident took place on September 4.
Meanwhile, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday announced that vehicular movement on Gokhale Bridge was likely to be shut from Monday for at least two years to carry out reconstruction work of the east-west corridor of the bridge. The BMC has already written to the traffic police and requested closure of the bridge.
Within the next three to four years, Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) will have a total of 14 Metro lines spread across 300-kilometres.
Of these, two elevated Metro lines – 7 [Andheri (E)-Dahisar (E)] & 2A ( Dahisar-D N Nagar) – are in the final stage of completion and expected to be fully open to the public by December 2022 or by early next year, according to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA). Earlier, in April this year on Gudi Padwa, 20-km stretch of Metro Line 7 and 2A was opened to public use between Aarey and Dhanukarwadi and is currently drawing a daily ridership of over 25,000 on an average, as per the MMRDA. Sweety Adimulam reports
Point failure was reported in Down slow line in Mumbai central, due to which trains are running late by over half an hour in the Western Railway Line.
Central Railway trains are also running late because of a unit defect at Diva down slow line from 7.15 pm to 7.29pm.
He is a former Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) pracharak who courted controversy and hit headlines nationally during the Bhima Koregaon violence of 2018. Sambhaji Bhide triggered a row again on Wednesday following a meeting with Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde when he questioned a woman journalist for not applying bindi on her forehead. This has landed him in trouble with the Maharashtra state women’s commission that served him a notice.
Bhide is a key figure in the rightwing Hindutva political ecosystem in the state and for Shinde the symbolism of his association with the veteran leader is likely to prove useful in his efforts to boost his Hindutva credentials and expand the base of the Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena as his faction of the Shiv Sena is called. Alok Deshpande writes
A 31-year-old woman died by suicide in Andheri (east) Wednesday allegedly because her husband was having an extra-marital affair with another woman. According to her mother, her husband and mother-in-law both physically and mentally tortured the woman, leading her to die by suicide. The woman’s husband has been arrested.
The police said the woman, Kankukumari Parmar, died by suicide around 4 pm and Thursday, her husband Prashant Parmar and mother-in-law Urmila were booked for domestic violence and abetment to suicide under Sections 306, 498A and 34 of the IPC on a complaint from woman’s mother Pawnidevi Suthar, a resident of Pali in Rajasthan. The police also picked up Prashant.
The couple got married in February 2020. The police said the Parmar family had borne all the expenses made during the 13-day wedding celebration on the promise that Kankukumari’s family would later pay back 50 per cent of the total expense. Read more
Former Maharashtra Congress president and Congress legislative party leader in state legislature Balasaheb Thorat speaks to Alok Deshpande about Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, the Maharashtra leg for which will begin on November 7, and the issues that are likely to be raised during the march. Read here
Technical bids for Mumbai Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Corridor (MAHSR) Package Civil-1 (Design and Construction of BKC Station of Mumbai Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Corridor) were opened today.
Following four bidders have submitted their bids
1. Larsen & Toubro Limited
2. J. Kumar Infraprojects Limited
3. Afcons Infrastructure Limited
4. MEIL-HCC Joint Venture
Financial bids will be opened for technically qualified bidders, once the technical evaluation is completed.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale Bridge at Andheri is closed from both sides for all types of vehicles and pedestrians from November 7 ( 00.01 hrs) till further orders. The order was issued by Nitin Pawar, DCP traffic police (western suburbs)
In view of this prohibitory order, people can use the following alternative routes:
1. Khar Subway, Khar
2. Milan Subway flyover Bridge, Santacruz
3. Captain Gore flyover Bridge ( Parle Bridge ), Vileparle
4. Andheri Subway, Andheri
5. Balasaheb Thackrey flyover Bridge, Jogeshwari
6. Mrunaltai Gore flyover Bridge, Goregaon, Mumbai.
Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) clarified on Friday evening, that right-wing leader Sudhir Suri, who was shot dead in Amritsar earlier in the day, was not a part of Shiv Sena, and has no relation with Shiv Sena. A Shiv Sena leader said, "This is not related to us."
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In response to closure of Mumbai's Gokhale Bridge, Mumbai Metro One issued a statement on Friday saying that it was prepared to accommodate additional commuters.
"We anticipate the ridership to increase by around 20,000 per day. We also keep a train on standby and will introduce services, if come across any increase in footfalls at the stations. We had successfully accommodated additional commuters when the bridge was closed in July 2018," a spokesperson for MMOPL said.
(Express photos by Ganesh Shirsekar)
The tunnel discovered under the nursing complex of Mumbai's J J Hospital is 200 m long.
A 130-year-old tunnel was discovered at the government-run J J Hospital in Mumbai
"For BJP hindutva and Nationalism is not an agenda for elections. Patriotism and Nationalism is the identity of every party worker and we will never compromise on this. In Mumbai and Maharashtra the young party supporters and successfully working with full vigour. There are many young people in the state between the age group of 18 and 25 who will be first time voters and they hold the key to the bright future of this state," said Tejasvi Surya while talking to media today.
"As a student of politics, if one has studied India's political history one will know even before independence, from the time of the establishment of congress in India in 1885, the Congress has always tried to destabilize India, and break India. The objective of Bharat Jodo is not to unite India. Because there is no need to unite India which is already a united harmonious nation. But the objective of Bharat Jodo is to one more time attempt a political revival and resurrection of a repeated failed political leader: Rahul Gandhi," said Tejasvi Surya while talking to media in Mumbai today.
'The Bharat Jodo Yatra happened in Karnatak as well for 20 days, and I can give you a first hand account when I say it failed, it is a 100% failure. And there will be no impact of this in Maharashtra either,' said Tejasvi Surya while talking to media today in Mumbai.
Ahead of the arrival of Congress's 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' in Maharashtra, several senior party leaders in the state have been practising brisk walking and doing exercises to keep pace with Rahul Gandhi during the public outreach programme.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra is scheduled to arrive at Deglur in Nanded district of Maharashtra from neighbouring Telangana around 7 pm on November 7.
Former state chief minister Ashok Chavan said he and other leaders have been practising brisk walk and exercising to match Gandhi's steps, while state Congress president Nana Patole said he has been doing warm up exercises and push-ups to keep himself fit for the yatra. (PTI)
Tejasvi Surya member of lokh sabha, RSS swayamsevak, lawyer and president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha in Mumbai to attend various events on Friday.
A Maharashtra-based forensic medicine professor who has been fighting for a ban on 'two-finger'/virginity test for 12 years has hailed the Supreme Court ruling prohibiting the practice in sexual assault cases and said it should be extended to matters of marital dispute too.
Dr Indrajit Khandekar, working at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (MGIMS) in Sevagram near here, had been fighting since 2010 for a ban on "virginity test" claiming it had no scientific basis.
In 2018, he had submitted a report to the Medical Council of India (MCI) seeking removal of "virginity test" from the medical curriculum. Dr Khandekar, in his report, had highlighted the unscientific basis of the practice, reasons for seeking its removal from the syllabus and how it violates human rights and leads to gender discrimination. (PTI)
Darius Pandole, who survived the car accident in which industrialist Cyrus Mistry died, has told the police that his wife Dr Anahita was driving the Mercedes-Benz car in the third lane and could not merge into the second lane that turned narrow near the Surya river bridge in Maharashtra's Palghar, an official said.
The statement of Darius Pandole (60) was recorded on Tuesday by the officials of the Kasa police station in Palghar, under whose jurisdiction the accident took place on September 4. Read more
Due to technical problems, all up & down fast suburban locals are running late by 15-20 minutes due to a point failure at Goregaon. 6 locals were cancelled and at least 70 were delayed. Six long-distance trains were also delayed by approx 30 mins: Western Railway