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Bhiwandi: Godown collapses, 7 feared trapped

At least seven people are feared trapped after a ground plus one storied godown collapsed in Harihar compound situated in Bhiwandi area of Maharashtra on Monday morning. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3oA2xjJ

Local train services resume for all in Mumbai

After being suspended for almost ten months since the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown last year, the local train services in Mumbai have been resumed for the public on Monday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3j36xYS

Insta friend steals cash, gold from Colaba home

Making friends with a teenager on social media a chartered accountant’s family very dearly. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3jcgmE4

84-yr-old man stabs wife to death, torches body

An 84-year old man, whose son is a former corporator of KDMC, has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his wife at their bungalow in Dombivli on Sunday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3pFc6PC

In pandemic, PhD, M Phil candidates in MU drop

In what could be yet another adverse impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of candidates completing their PhD and MPhil from Mumbai University has dropped drastically this year by 66%—from 413 last year to 140. In 2018, it was 332. In fact, the numbers have not gone below 250 in the last few years (see box). from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3r69gDK

Occupancy boost: Cinema halls await Maha nod

The Centre on Sunday announced that cinema halls and theatres will be permitted to operate at 100% capacity from February 1. However, filmmakers and multiplex owners in the city are awaiting a similar notification from the state government to restore normalcy to the trade, given that Mumbai is the heart of India’s film industry. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ag2PqU

47% commuters yet to claim cells lost in BEST

Nearly 47% commuters are yet to claim their mobile phones left behind in the BEST buses in 2020, especially while travelling during the Covid pandemic. The statistics released by BEST show that in 2020, BEST employees recovered a total 798 mobile phones from the buses. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2L7fzrp

1L new passengers to take Mumbai locals today

Over a lakh new commuters are likely to travel by local trains on Monday with services commencing for general passengers during non-peak hours. ​​​In another boost for citizens, the railways decided to offer an extension of season pass for days lost due to the lockdown last year. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3r7ziGH

Mumbai local trains resume for all: Dos & don'ts

(This story originally appeared in Mumbai Mirror on February 1, 2021) from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rdyPmv

Local train service resumes for all in Mumbai

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Mum: Wrong-side drivers will have to park in jail

Been driving rashly or on the wrong side of the street in the past month? Mumbai Traffic Police will track you down and could visit your home to book you. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3oAykB2

Mumbai CSMT- Hyd train derails while departing

(This story originally appeared in Mumbai Mirror on February 1, 2021) from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/39wD9qS

Last Covid care centre for cops shuts as cases dip

Mumbai police which was among the hardest hit by Covid-19 has shut down the last dedicated Covid care centre (CCC) at Kalina after a steady decline in case count and fatalities among the force. There were a total of four dedicated CCCs for the police. City police will be among the frontline workers to get vaccinated after healthcare workers. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rcxRGO

'In 12 months, 60% Mum homes sold below Rs 1cr'

Luxury flats priced at Rs 5 crore and above comprised a meagre 3% of the total apartment sales in Greater Mumbai in the last year. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3anhKj0

Minor's sexual assault: Father of 5 gets 10-yr RI

A special Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act court on Friday convicted and sentenced a 58-year-old man to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for undressing a five-year-old boy in his neighbourhood, touching his private parts and masturbating on him in 2018. Sentencing the father of five, the court observed that any manipulation of a child’s body part to cause penetration is an offence in itself. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3csDQn5

Full capacity: Mum multiplexes await state order

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Mumbai: 798 mobiles left behind in buses in 2020

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Maharashtra reports 2,585 new Covid-19 cases

As many as 2,585 new Covid-19 cases were reported in Maharashtra on Sunday, taking the total number of cases in the state to 20,26,399, said the Maharashtra health department. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3aoi3tS

Mumbai: Nana Patole inaugurates KH Ajmera Chowk

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Mosque ensures safer takeoffs

Ansar Masjid reduces height of minaret following objections that it protruded onto the glide paths of airports. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3oyuJn5

BMC to rope in pvt hosps for Covid vaccination

BMC plans to designate private hospitals as Covid-19 vaccination centres in the next phases of the programme. It has begun data collection from hospitals, and is conducting surveys to gauge infrastructure and staff they can provide. But officials said BMC will follow central and state government guidelines before designating them as vaccination centres. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/36svlUZ

Security guard killed in Mumbai; 1 accused held

A 50-year-old security guard has been killed at a construction site in Mumbai allegedly by three fellow guards, including one whom the victim had got removed from his job, a police official said on Sunday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ayyap5

Thane: 400 held for using tinted glass on vehicles

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Mountbatten auction to have Indian artefacts

An Indian diamond bracelet once owned by Queen Victoria and a pair of bejewelled elephants from 1946 Jaipur are among an assortment of 350 antiques belonging to the late Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten daughter of Britain’s last Viceroy of India Louis Mountbatten that will be sold at Sotheby’s London on March 24. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3raD0iC

BMC can vaccinate 50k daily 'with double shifts'

BMC additional commissioner Suresh Kakani said on Saturday that the civic health machinery can run 250 units and operate double shifts as well. "We have enough trained vaccinators to operate 250 vaccinating units that can carry out 25,000 vaccinations a day," he said. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rboAz5

Demanding money from wife not harassment: HC

Demanding money from wife is a “vague term” and can’t be a harassment as per IPC’s Section 498A, the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court has ruled while acquitting a man who was accused of abetting wife’s suicide nine years after their marriage. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/36rohrH

Transport min seeks learner's licence at Thane RTO

The Thane Regional Transport Office (RTO) had a surprise visitor on Friday. Transport Minister Anil Parab applied to get a learner's driving license without informing officials that he was the minister. Surprisingly, while Parab reached out to an agent and submitted his form, no one asked him for a bribe. However, many officials were missing from the office and Parab has now asked for a report on late comers from Transport Commissioner Avinash Dhakne. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3r0GTqq

Palghar likely to get its own 25-acre prison

The state prison department has identified around 25 acres to construct a jail in Palghar district. With a population of over 29 lakhs, the district was carved out in August 2014 but does not have a jail. Accused and convicts from the district are generally lodged in Thane central prison and Taloja central jail in Navi Mumbai from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/39ypn7h

Lockdown: BMC bags award for food distribution

BMC was awarded a nutrition award at RISE World Summit 2021 for its programme of distributing food kits to the needy during Covid-19 lockdown last year. Officials said BMC won nutrition awards for fighting the hunger pandemic. It also won the award in the open category for the best public-private partnership (PPP) model of its Milkar initiative. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Mbu2TP

Global Scrabble contest: Teens in quarter-finals

Perhaps it's the constant dance of such mystifying words in his ten-year-old head that's keeping Delhi boy Madhav Kamath resolutely monosyllabic these days. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3owRlEn

These bungalows still hold fort in Bandra

Luxury residential towers on narrow plots in Bandra (west), which command some of the highest home prices in the city, replaced charming old bungalows built mostly at the turn of the last century. But some have survived the onslaught. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Yusxm3

Should women be paid a salary for household work?

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Maha: Magnitude-3.2 earthquake hits Hingoli

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Mum: Fertility clinic papers come to widow's aid

Medical documents from a fertility clinic that showed that she and her husband had been trying to conceive have helped a 29-year-old woman get Rs 36.8 lakh as compensation for her husband’s 2018 death in an accident on a ship he was working on. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3afCLMI

Mumbai Metro services for 2 more hrs from Mon

With suburban train services reopening for the general public from February 1, Metro services will also have extended operational hours from Monday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3r6kpUX

Pvt hosps in Mum may be roped in for inoculation

Many private hospitals have expressed interest in becoming Covid-19 vaccination centres, additional municipal commissioner (health) Suresh Kakani said here on Saturday, but BMC has to check if they have the facilities and staff required. Data on the staff and facilities at the hospitals will be ready by February 15, he added. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3coZ7xV

Don't identify rape survivor even indirectly: HC

Bombay high court’s Aurangabad bench has issued additional guidelines to restrain print and electronic media as well as people using social media such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter and the internet from publishing information that could “directly or indirectly” disclose a rape survivor’s identity. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3oysgcg

Withdraw FIRs against journos: Mumbai Press Club

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Mumbai: NSG carries out mock drill at CSMT

National Security Guard (NSG) commandos carried out a mock drill at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) Railway Station on platform No 18 around on January 29. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3amhAsp

Driver of car with Sena logo points gun at truck

On Friday night, a car driver was seen pointing a gun at a truck while overtaking it on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway. But what caught the people's attention was that the said car was branded with a Shiv Sena logo at the back. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/36qRkvP

Thane: RPF personnel saves man's life

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BMC's food distribution effort during wins award

The BMC was on Saturday awarded the nutrition award at the RISE World Summit 2021 for its programme for distributing ‘food kits’ to the needy during the Covid-19 lockdown last year. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/39wJbru

Mumbai: Low pressure water supply on Feb 2-3

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First group of 15 take heritage walk at BMC HQ

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Thane: Kin of deceased cops join police force

A 29-year-old computer engineer, whose father, an assistant sub inspector, died due to Covid-19 while on duty, got an appointment order to join the Thane city police force as Amaldar or an entrant to the police department—along with 73 other kin of slain policemen. Among the 74 deceased policemen, 34 due to Covid-19, said an officer. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2MEFZks

Don't disclose identities of rape survivors: HC

The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court issued additional guidelines to restrain print and electronic media as well as “people using social media such as WhatsApp, Facebook, internet, Twitter etc’’ from publishing information that could “directly or indirectly" disclose identity of a rape or child sexual assault survivor. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/36rcmtZ

Mumbai Metro extends operational hrs from Feb 1

With the opening of suburban trains from February 1, the metro services will be available from 6.50am at Versova and 7.15am at Ghatkopar from Monday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3pBqlVC

10 months on, general public can board locals

Local trains in the city will be open for the general public from Monday, February 1, but only during non-peak hours. After CM Uddhav Thackeray on Friday asked both Central and Western Railway to operate suburban local trains for all with a few restrictions, the order issued by chief secretary Sanjay Kumar said the general public can take locals in three time slots: from the first service till 7 am, from 12 noon to 4 pm and from 9 pm till the last train. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3tbAIBK

'New academic yr for ICSE, ISC to remain same'

The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has clarified that while the ICSE and ISC examination schedules are not yet declared, the next academic session would start like every year. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2YqXDuC

Mundhe, ex-partner seek mediation to end dispute

State cabinet minister Dhananjay Munde and the woman with whom he admitted to having had an extra-marital relationship and fathering two children have told Bombay high court they have decided to go for mediation to resolve their dispute. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/39vMyPg