Mumbai News Live Updates: Technical snag disrupts local train services on Western line

Darius Pandole, one of the two survivors of the September 4 crash in which his brother Jehangir and former Tata Sons chairman Cyrus Mistry died, told Kasa police that his wife, gynaecologist Dr Anahita, was driving the Mercedes Benz in the third lane and could not merge into the second lane that turned narrow near Surya river bridge at Charoti in Dahanu taluka of Palghar district, where the accident took place.

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. (PTI)

Amid global concern of rising Covid reinfections due to newer Omicron subvariants, the latest Covid genetic sequencing report in Mumbai found two highly infectious subvariants XBB and XBB. 1 in the city for the first time as well as a patient who has had Covid not once or twice, but four times in the last 31 months.XBB and XBB. 1 were found in almost 30% of the 234 cases analysed at the BMCrun Kasturba lab this time around; one of the XBB cases is a 62-year-old doctor from Delhi identified as Dr Veena Aggarwal.

As per Thursday, order, vehicular movement on BA Road in Matunga will be affected till November 5 from 11pm to 6am, amid footover bridge construction by BMC. During this period, traffic diversion for north-bound traffic on Dr B A Road shall be diverted by taking left from Sion hospital to Road 18 Jain SocietySwami Vallabhdas Road to Road24-3 Deshpande Chowk and via Sion Junction on BA Road. South-bound traffic shall be diverted by taking left turn before 50m to Shivneri signal and via Tamil Sangam Road 30Ram Milan Shukla Road and on BA Road.

A 76-year-old woman ended up losing Rs 1. 3 lakh after an unidentified man exchanged her ATM card at a kiosk and withdrew the money.The police said that the woman is a resident of Diva and lives alone. A couple of weeks ago, when she visited an ATM of a private bank, she requested the accused to help her withdraw Rs 5,000. He did the same, and told the woman to enter her pincode.

Only 31. 7% of voters turned up to cast their ballot for the Andheri East assembly bypoll on Thursday, making the turnout much lower than the 53. 8% seen during the 2019 assembly polls. Though the BJP’s Murji Patel had withdrawn his candidature last month after a section of political leaders called for an unopposed by-election in view of the nomination given to the deceased MLA Ramesh Latke’s wife Rutuja Latke by the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), there are a total of 7 candidates in the fray. The bypoll was necessitated due to Ramesh Latke’s death in May this year.

The BMC, in a sudden move, has proposed the closure of the east-west Gopal Krishna Gokhale bridge in Andheri for 2 years from Monday for repair and reconstruction, reports Richa Pinto. Meanwhile, it has come to light that CAG, in its report to the civic chief a few months ago, had pointed out the BMC had awarded the work of providing temporary support from the base to the bridge in 2019 to a contractor without inviting tenders. The move came after a portion of the bridge crashed in 2018 and it was felt necessary to support the superstructure as a precautionary step.