The 130-year-old tunnel recently discovered at Mumbai's J J Hospital. (Express photo by Ganesh Shirsekar)Mumbai Live Updates, 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.
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."
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.
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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
A voting turnout of 31.74 per cent was recorded in Andheri East Assembly bypoll. The counting of votes will be conducted on November 6.
Shiv Sena's Rutuja Latke is expected to comfortably win Andheri East Assembly constituency in Mumbai after the BJP withdrew from the contest which is the first after the recent split in the Shiv Sena following a rebellion by Eknath Shinde, who replaced Thackeray as the Maharashtra chief minister. The NCP and Congress have supported her candidature.
The by-election was necessitated due to the death of Latke's husband and Shiv Sena MLA Ramesh Latke in May.
The Maharashtra government has appointed two professional agencies including TCS for carrying out recruitment in its various departments to avoid "frauds", deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said.
TCS and the Union government agency IBPS which carries out large-scale recruitment for public sector banks and Railways have been nominated to carry out the next round of recruitment for state government jobs, Fadnavis said.
“The government will announce recruitment for at 8,500 posts in the next week, which will be followed by recruitment for 18,500 posts in the police department. In one year, we will start recruitment process for 75,000 posts,” he added.
The Uddhav Thackeray-led faction of the Shiv Sena slammed the Eknath Shinde-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Maharashtra for what it claimed handing over only 2,000 recruitment letters at an event here and said under the current dispensation, there is a “flood” of announcements, but “drought” when it comes to their implementation.
Addressing a press conference, Lok Sabha MP Arvind Sawant, a spokesperson for the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), said major projects were “taken away” to Gujarat keeping in mind the next month's Assembly polls in the adjoining state ruled by the BJP. This, he alleged, clearly implies that the Centre was behind Vedanta-Foxconn and Tata-Airbus projects choosing Gujarat over Maharashtra.
“It was announced (by the state government) that 75,000 recruitment letters will be handed over to job aspirants. However, in reality, only 2,000 appointment letters were handed over (at an event in Mumbai). There is a flood of announcements, but drought when it comes to implementation (under Shinde govt),” said the Member of Parliament from South Mumbai. (PTI)
The Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party appointed its vice president Chitra Wagh as the head of the state unit's 'mahila morcha'. She succeeds Uma Khapre who was elected to the Maharashtra Legislative Council.
Incidentally, Wagh was chief of the Nationalist Congress Party's state women's wing before she joined the BJP in July 2019, some months before the Assembly polls. (PTI)
Bollywood fame Janhvi Kapoor, daughter of late veteran actor Sri Devi has bought a Rs 65 crore bungalow (duplex) apartment at Bandra Pali hill.
The sprawling property is spread on 8,669 square feet and carpet area is 6421 square feet. as per the documents accessed via Indextap.com, which is a real estate portal helps in selling, buying and other real estate transactions.
The said property registration was done on October 12, 2022 and buyer Janhvi paid Rs 3.90 crore as stamp duty and registration fees.
The seller of the duplex apartment is Kintu Kishor Bajaj. The newly bought property is situated on the first and second floor of Kubelisque Building, Pali Hill, Bandra West.
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has revised the design of a new underpass to provide signal free connectivity between Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport Mumbai and the Western Express Highway.
The MMRDA has claimed that the revision in design will do away with the need of land acquisition which was necessary during the old design. "With the change in design no land acquisition will be required. Previously land acquisition was needed which would have cost Rs.301 cr,” SVR Srinivas IAS Metropolitan Commissioner, MMRDA said.
As per the revised design, a new 2-Lane stretch will be constructed which will be partly on stilt and a part of it will be as a box underpass. This will be done by raising the existing Western Express Highway by 2.5 metres. This is proposed for the traffic emerging from International Airport T2 and plying towards Dahisar side (North side).
As per the latest genome sequencing of BMC, all the 234 samples detected with Omicron. Out of which, 36 samples detected with the sub variant XBB and 33 with XBB.1.