Maharashtra News Live Updates: Officials to prepare action plan for water distribution in Thane

Directorate of Revenue Intelligence arrested two Nigerians, including a woman, who smuggled 3kg of cocaine, hiding it inside their bodies. Both were promised a consideration of $2,000 for carrying the drugs were Rs30 crore.

Wives and mothers make the biggest living organ donor pool, according to an analysis carried out by a city hospital. A gender-wise analysis of the 1,000 transplants conducted at Global Hospital, Parel, with a living donor so far showed that 68% of the donations-or seven out of 10-were made by women.

The Mumbai Traffic Police booked 73 motorists on Holi (Rangpanchmi) on Tuesday for drunk driving. Of this, 65 were motorcyclists and eight drove four wheelers.

The IMD’s Santacruz observatory recorded a maximum temperature of 39.3C Monday—the highest in any part of the country that day. The high temperatures were followed by rain, thunder and lightning activity at night which continued till early Tuesday, bringing down the day’s maximum temperature to 35.8C. While Monday’s dust storm delayed flight arrivals, locals in parts of MMR, like Gorai, also reported hail, which, experts said, could be the first hail activity recorded in Mumbai region in 17 years.