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BEST staffers still continue to get cash and coins of Rs 5 and Rs 10 denomination valued at Rs 15,000 as part of monthly salary. BEST panel member Sunil Ganacharya said at a committee meeting on Wednesday, demanding why cash in crores was not being deposited in bank accounts and lying at depots and BEST’s cash room at Wadala for the past two months. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3dqXxu3

Supreme Court recently stayed cutting of mangroves for construction of a vehicular overbridge at the junction of Yari Road and Lokhandwala back road in Versova, Andheri. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/39stt0b

India’s most advanced train Tejas Express, which runs between CSMT and Karmali (Goa), has developed a snag in its automatic door-closing system which was introduced for the first time ever on long-distance train coaches on Indian Railways in 2017. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2PMZSHC

Opposition corporators in BMC’s standing committee on Wednesday hit out at former municipal commissioner Praveen Pardeshi for granting a provisional Occupation Certificate (OC) to Bhandup’s Sunrise Hospital in Dreams Mall and incumbent chief Iqbal Chahal for ignoring the building proposal (BP) department’s report to review the provisional OC. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/31PlbLL

Leader of opposition Devendra Fadnavis said on Wednesday that the appointment of retired high court judge K U Chandiwal to probe former city police chief Param Bir Singh’s allegations of corruption against home minister Anil Deshmukh was “an eyewash as the appointment has not been made under the Commission of Inquiry Act.” from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/31FwENu

Maharashtra recorded over 6.6 lakh new Covid -19 cases in March, which is the highest addition of cases in a month since the pandemic began and a 400% jump from February, when 1.3 lakh cases were logged. It took the state over 3.5 months from mid-October to February to add 6.5 lakh cases. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3m93RdK

In a setback to the real estate industry as well as flat buyers, the state government on Wednesday decided not to extend the cut on stamp duty on property registrations. Ready reckoner (RR) rates, though, remain unchanged for the 2021-22 financial year. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3wjfkMH

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The state received a supply of nearly 27 lakh doses of the Covid-19 vaccine on Wednesday as it prepared to kickstart immunisation of all above 45 years from Thursday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rFX8cD

The number of children and adolescents affected in the second wave of coronavirus appears to have increased significantly compared to the first wave. Data shows that 15,500 children up to 10 years of age are among the over six lakh infected in the state in the March surge from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3cC9ONh

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Maharashtra on Wednesday reported as many as 39,544 new coronavirus cases, its second-highest single-day rise in infection tally since the pandemic began, a health official said. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3cFgoT8

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday did not renew the nursing home licence of Bhandup’s Sunrise Hospital. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rKswXu

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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is upset over the Uddhav Thackeray government not extending an invitation to Opposition leader Devendra Fadnavis for the Balasaheb Thackeray memorial bhoomipujan. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ft2wgu

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A day after Maharashtra health minister Rajesh Tope said imposing a lockdown is the last option for the state government, he warned of "stringent measures". from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3wcigKR

Final-year post-graduate medical exams of Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS), which were scheduled to commence on May 25, have now been postponed by a month following demands from resident doctors. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3wdy542

Arrested assistant police inspector Sachin Waze’s personal driver drove the explosives-laden Scorpio and parked it near industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s residence early on February 25 while Waze was at the wheel of the Innova that tailed the Scorpio, the investigation by the National Investigation Agency has revealed. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3cA6Poo

Final-year post-graduate medical exams of Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS), which were scheduled to commence on May 25, have now been postponed by a month following demands from resident doctors. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/31zseba

Arrested cop Sachin Waze’s personal driver drove the explosives-laden Scorpio and parked it near industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s residence, NIA has said. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3umjDVN

The Bombay high court on Tuesday said it would hear on Wednesday a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by former Mumbai police chief Param Bir Singh for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against state home minister Anil Deshmukh for alleged “corrupt malpractices.”​ from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3cCzQ32

The NIA told the special court on Tuesday that suspended API Sachin Waze and Vinayak Shinde, a constable convicted for the fake encounter of Chhota Rajan associate Ram Lakhan Bhaiya in 2007, were present at a conspiracy meeting to eliminate Mansukh Hiran. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2PkQtHy

BJP’s Kirit Somaiya on Tuesday lodged a formal complaint against Shiv Sena leader and state transport minister Anil Parab with the Lokayukta for alleged grabbing of public land and then illegally constructing upon it. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3dlHmyj

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Rashmi Thackeray, wife of CM Uddhav Thackeray, who had tested positive for Covid on March 23, was admitted to H N Reliance Hospital in south Mumbai on Tuesday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3m5n7ZH

Following all-round concerns over the impact of yet another lockdown on the working classes and businesses in the state, the Maharashtra government said on Tuesday a “complete” shutdown is not in the offing, although some restrictions will have to be imposed to break the chain of the Covid-19 infection. Public health minister Rajesh Tope, too, said a complete lockdown would be unaffordable for the state. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3m5avBI

With requirement for oxygen surging, the state’s health department has directed manufacturers to divert 80% of their stocks for medical use and keep the rest for industrial purposes. Daily demand for medical oxygen in Maharashtra has touched 700 metric tonnes (MT). During the first Covid peak in September 2020, daily requirement was around 500 MT. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3udEaf3

The BMC wants to flush out the coronavirus by conducting the maximum number of tests per day and isolating positive persons, municipal commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal said on Tuesday after receiving the first dose of the Covid vaccine at the BKC jumbo facility. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2PJP4KB

Maharashtra on Tuesday reported 27,918 fresh coronavirus positive cases, two days after recording the highest 40,414 infections in a day, taking the tally to 27,73,436, the state health department said. With 139 patients succumbing to the Covid-19 infection, the toll in the state mounted to 54,422, it said. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2QSDltJ

After concerns were expressed by various sections of the society on the impact of yet another lockdown on the working class and the businesses in the state, the Maharashtra government has said that a 'complete' lockdown is not in the offing, however some restrictions will have to be imposed to break the infection chain. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2QRwLDL

The Mumbai civic chief on Tuesday participated at a meeting at the Bombay high court to discuss possible measures, including hybrid court hearing, given the resurgence of cases. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3dnM6Ds

With the demand for oxygen surging in March, Maharashtra's public health department has directed oxygen manufacturers to divert 80% of their stocks for medical use and retain the rest for industrial purposes. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2O4ynZE

At least two people were injured in a major fire that broke out at a cloth market in Goregaon (West) in Mumbai on Tuesday morning. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rvjAF6

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A fire broke out at seven clothes stores in Goregaon West of Mumbai on Tuesday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2PaOC8l

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said on Monday he had “warned a few leaders” of the MVA against reinstating Sachin Waze in the police force and that he had told them “it could create problems for the MVA government considering Waze’s behaviour and style of functioning”, reports Sujit Mahamulkar from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/39oYaDk

Sitting at home in Matoshree, chief minister Uddhav Thackeray does not understand the adverse impact of a lockdown on citizens. It is not the solution and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will oppose it by taking to the streets if it is imposed under the garb of controlling Covid-19 cases, BJP’s state unit chief Chandrakant Patil said on Monday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3m5aVYX

The Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust (SSST), Shirdi, has reduced the daily temple visiting hours for devotees, with immediate effect, as the state government has imposed fresh restrictions in the wake of a surge in Covid-19 cases. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3sDYiX6

(This story originally appeared in Mumbai Mirror on March 30, 2021) from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3sBcFf0

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Demand for single beds and preference for private facilities are the cause for “shortage” in hospitals during the second Covid-19 wave in cities such as Mumbai. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3df4PkJ

With the second Covid wave gathering momentum, the BMC chief on Monday empowered ward-level officers to take control of beds in private hospitals in their respective areas for managing Covid caseloads in the city. He said they could take help of police personnel, if necessary, to facilitate this process and prevent private facilities from skirting the centralised bed allocation system. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3cy8YB6

Vehicles and number plates appear to be inextricably intertwined with the case of explosives found near industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s residence and the subsequent murder of businessman Mansukh Hiran, report Mohammed Akhef & Mateen Hafeez. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/31viyyh

Owing to a surge in Covid-19 cases in Mumbai, the city civic body will place the order for procuring 1.5 lakh injections of antiviral drug Remdesivir and other medical equipment to avoid any potential shortage of medicines at hospitals, a senior official said on Monday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3sA6AiL

Four members of a family, including two women, a teenage girl and a boy were charred to death when a fire gutted their house in the Mokhada area of Palghar on Sunday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3sx2B6M