Maharashtra News Live Updates: State sees 24 new Covid-19 cases, no deaths in 24 hours

A major fire broke out in a seven-storey residential building in Kalbadevi area of south Mumbai in the wee hours of Friday, but there was no report of any injury to anyone, officials said. (PTI)

Mumbai-based developer Hiranandani Group, which has diversified into the health sector, has sold its newly constructed hospital property in Thane to Telangana-based hospital chain Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) for Rs 275 crore.The 3 lakh sq ft hospital in Thane's Hiranandani Estate has been ready with an occupation certificate for over a year and is almost as big as the developer's 250-bed hospital in Powai's Hiranandani complex. Hiranandani also has a small hospital in its Ghodbunder Road project and had built the 200-bed hospital near it, which it has now sold.

Maharashtra on Thursday recorded 24 Covid-19 cases, which took the tally to 81,69,463, while the death toll stood unchanged at 1,48,553, a health official said. On Wednesday, the state had recorded 23 cases and one fatality, he pointed out.The recovery count increased by 36 in the last 24 hours to touch 80,20,753, leaving the state with an active caseload of 157, he said.

Om Prakash Kanojia, accused of raping and murdering an 18-year-old student at a girl's hostel in south Mumbai Tuesday, had shinned up a drainage pipe in a duct at the back of the building to the first floor, climbed in through a gap and taken the stairs to the fourth floor where the girl was alone, said investigators.With the glare on security, about one-and-a-half dozen girls still staying in the hostel, mostly because of remaining exams, were shifted to another hostel in south Mumbai. Some of them also left for home. Most had left earlier as vacations had started and the building was going into redevelopment.

Sameer Wankhede, a former Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) officer under probe for extortion and bribery, told the Bombay high court that a special enquiry team (SET) sought to give a clean chit to Aryan Khan, son of actor Shah Rukh Khan, by "suppressing" information and evidence in the October 2021 Coredelia drug bust case.

Manoj Sane (56), who allegedly strangled his 34-year-old live-in-partner Saraswati Vaidya in their rented flat in Mira Road on Sunday, purchased a chainsaw worth Rs 4,000 the same day and got down to slicing the body, which he then pressure-cooked and roasted on the gas stove.Police have recovered the victim's legs and have collected two bags of cooked body parts.