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NCP leader and state minister Nawab Malik on Tuesday alleged that former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh and suspended assistant police inspector Sachin Waze had planned a fake encounter to sweep the Antilia bomb scare issue under the carpet. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3peko1V

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who is on a three-day tour to Maharashtra, visited the Siddhivinayak Temple on Tuesday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rqc3eb

Over the course of the pandemic, BEST bus stops in the city have become a magnet for metal pilfering. Crooks make off with expensive metal plates from the stops under the cover of night, using gas cutters to cut out the sheets of the high-quality steel alloy. With this nightly theft taking a toll, the BEST Undertaking now plans to approach senior police officers to ensure protection of 6,000 bus stops across Mumbai. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/31fp7rW

A cement concrete road has come up right amid the mangroves behind Jankalyan Nagar in Malad West. Activists and local residents say massive cutting of mangroves has been underway at various places since early this month in Malad West, even as the BMC, police and the collector’s office refuse to act upon complaints. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3G619yi

The BJP on Tuesday filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Bureau claiming that a file on procurement of medicines and testing kits to tackle monsoonrelated ailments for Rs 53 crore was missing for eight months from Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar’s office. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3pjhZD4

Thane police arrested the wife of a Marathi actor allegedly for posing as support staff of a nationalised bank and duping a 72-year-old senior citizen of Rs 3.75 lakh. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rxe5t0

When the air quality index of Delhi measured AQI 368 on November 25, 2021, the Supreme Court of India re-imposed a ban on construction activities. Delhi’s current construction ban is the latest in a series of bans to mitigate air pollution. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3163YAn

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Maharashtra is likely to have missed nearly 10,000 cases of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infections due to a significant drop in testing in 2020-21. Activists fear it could set back significant gains achieved by the state over the years in controlling the disease. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3xH2aKr

While the fear of the highly transmissible Omicron variant triggering another Covid wave looms large, the state recorded its lowest monthly tally in 19 months. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/32NzRi5

The month of November this year has recorded 30.1 mm of rains which is the second highest in a decade. The highest rains for the month were recorded in November 2019 of 109.3 mm while all the other years have seen less than 5 mm of rains. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3d5YTuB

Model-turned-actress, Nikita Dutta, was robbed of her I-phone while she was on an evening walk on Monday. The incident occurred at around 7.30 pm hardly a few minutes after Nikita Dutta stepped out of her Bandra (W) home and was walking towards Pali Hill when two men on a motorcycle approached her and the pillion rider snatched away with the mobile worth Rs40,000. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3G1E2VJ

Reopening of physical classes for the 10.5 lakh class 1-7 school students in the city has been deferred to December 15, by which time definitive information about the Omicron variant is likely to be available, BMC said on Tuesday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3G0z7nT

Days after former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh, who faces a slew of extortion charges, appeared for questioning before the police in his official vehicle, an embarrassed Maharashtra government has ordered a probe. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3DcdMpT

More than four crore people have been fully vaccinated in Maharashtra. The milestone was reached on Tuesday with 11.59 lakh vaccinations recorded on the day. It was the second day in a row that the state had clocked more than 11 lakh vaccinations after seeing a low turnout for almost two months. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3DbcStV

On the lookout for the new Omicron variant, state health authorities have found six travellers infected with Covid within a fortnight of their return from South Africa or other high-risk countries with the strain. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3d5x6uw

The crime branch central unit team has arrested five dacoits, who were involved in the Rs 1.50 crore heist at Ambika Jewellery store in Ghansoli on November 14 in broad daylight. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3xCfS14

The municipal corporation here has stepped up precautions in the wake of Omicron and tracked seven passengers who returned from South Africa recently, officials informed. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3Dlapx7

As many as 17 new Covid positive patients have been detected at the Matoshree old age home in Sorgaon, Bhiwandi following a reverse transcription–polymerase chain reaction (RTPCR) test done at the premises Monday whose report was made available Tuesday evening, district health officials informed. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3Dl7h4l

Minister of stare for home, information and technology and senior Congress leader Satej Patil, while congratulating Parag Agrawal on being appointed as chief executive officer of Twitter Inc, has urged him to take some steps to end bullying, harassment and political trolling on Twitter. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3D9L3BU

A minor boy, who was kidnapped from the national capital five days back, has been rescued by the Delhi Police from Mumbai, an official said here on Tuesday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ro0pAQ

The reopening of classes 1-7 in Mumbai has been deferred by two weeks in the backdrop of the new Covid-19 variant Omicron. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3G43ieb

: Two police sub inspectors attached to Mira road police station were detained by the Thane anti corruption bureau (ACB) allegedly for demanding and accepting bribe of Rs 50,000. The third private person managed to flee. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rmWxje

The CID is investigating the extortion cases registered against Singh at the Marine Drive police station in south Mumbai and Kopri police station in adjoining Thane city. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3DbGUNY

As 73,000 workers continue to remain defiant for the 33rd day of the strike. MSRTC suspended 1,088 more employees on Monday, taking the total number of staffers suspended to 7,585. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/31bN7wf

Covid-19 testing has been ramped up in Mumbai amid the rising fear of the new Omicron variant. Have a look: from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3E6zmxq

In a hard-hitting judgment, the Supreme Court on Monday said that mere change of regime cannot lead to mindless cancellation of public contracts entered into by the previous regime by parroting the specious grounds of public interest, loss to public exchequer and irregularities. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3o4T5ru

In a consent order, Maharashtra cabinet minister Nawab Malik and Dnyandev Wankhede agreed that the NCP spokersperson would stop his tweets and public statements against Wankhede, his son, Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) zonal director Sameer Wankhede, and his family till a single judge decides an interim plea against the allegedly defamatory posts. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3FZZsTb

The BMC standing committee on Monday cleared a Rs15-crore tender for maintenance of the penguin enclosure at Byculla zoo for three years. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3EjjXJW

In a detailed order rejecting the bail pleas of police inspector Nandkumar Gopale (51) and assistant police inspector Asha Korke (49), a magistrate’s court said that prima facie, the allegations clearly disclosed that while Gopale demanded Rs 50 lakh from builder Shyam Sunder Agarwal, it was paid to and accepted by Korake. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3FYDK22

Three youths died in a fatal mishap on the Taloja MIDC road, behind Deepak Fertilizers company on Monday afternoon. The trio,riding triple seat on a bike, were knocked down by a chemical tanker. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3o3ob2T

IPS officer Param Bir Singh appeared at the CID office in Belapur on Monday from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3lnHNNl

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With the BMC failing to take over a part of land for road-widening from actor Amitabh Bachchan’s Prateeksha bungalow in Juhu despite asking city survey officials in July this year to demarcate the portion, the Congress has complained to the Maharashtra Lokayukta about the civic inaction. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3llKM8X

: In a relief to a 95-year-old who wanted his daughter to leave his Altamount Road house in south Mumbai and let him live in peace, Bombay high court granted his wish. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ln6bi2

The state cabinet on Monday urged chief minister Uddhav Thackeray to speak to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on increasing restrictions on passengers arriving from “at-risk” countries where the Omicron variant has been detected. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3I4sItI

It will take another five to seven days to know if the Omicron variant is present in Mumbai as the BMC prepares for its sixth genome sequencing exercise. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3G2LJev

Even as samples of the Covid-positive marine navy engineer, who recently returned from South Africa, was submitted for genome sequencing to check for the Omicron variant, eight of his family members and close relatives tested negative for the viral infection, said officials from the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) on Monday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3o6P46a

The state and city reported a 19-month low in daily Covid detections on Monday. Maharashtra reported 536 Covid cases — lowest since April 27, 2020 — and 21 deaths. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/32y3CTN

Physical schools will reopen for all classes in the state from Wednesday, even as the state began taking measures to tackle the new Omicron variant. Schools and parents are treading cautiously. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3FYLbpT

Home minister Dilip Walse Patil has asked Mumbai police commissioner Hemant Nagrale to conduct a probe into a closed-door meeting that took place between ex-city police chief Param Bir Singh and dismissed police officer Sachin Waze in a room adjoining Justice K U Chandiwal commission's courtroom on Monday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rnnhQO

Palghar: The body of an unidentified woman was found floating in the Arabian Sea waters near an under-construction jetty at Virar in Palghar district, the police said on Sunday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ld41Sf

US-based IT firm, Cohesity, and first-time recruiter Glean, are likely to make the coveted US offers on day one of the placement season at IIT Bombay. Cohesity is expected to offer the highest package of Rs 1.46 crore, followed by Glean, that has a package of Rs 1.12 crore on offer. These packages include incentives and stock options. The annual placement season will kick off virtually at all major IITs on December 1. Students are expecting this year’s placements to start on a good note. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/32HAf1z

The BEST undertaking will from Monday insist on passengers showing proof of double vaccination before boarding buses. A senior official said the management has instructed all conductors, ground staff and bus ticket examiners to ensure that only fully vaccinated passengers who have completed 14 days after second dose board the AC and non-AC buses. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rkKRxA

Investigations into the rape and murder of a 24-year-old woman in Kurla on November 23 have revealed that the two arrested accused had hammered her on the head and stabbed her 25 to 26 times before fleeing from the spot. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ljNw6R

A magistrate’s court on Monday granted bail to NCP leader and state cabinet minister Nawab Malik in a defamation case filed by BJP functionary, Mohit Bharatiya. The bail was granted on a personal bond of Rs 15,000. The matter will come up for hearing on December 30. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3o1bMwk

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Controversial former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh has now gained first-hand experience of a common man upon visiting a police station as an accused in a series of extortion cases, as well as offences registered under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3D1SivY

Former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh has appeared before the commission probing corruption allegations against former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3o3XGtW