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The school education department on Thursday sent a proposal to the state government to declare summer vacations from May 2 to June 12. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/C9ukdAO

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Exactly two years and nine days after the Covid clampdown, Maharashtra will be free of all pandemic -related curbs, including mandatory masking and double vaccination for using public transport or entry into public spaces, from April 2, which marks Gudi Padwa, the Marathi New Year. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/DGxJuai

March ended with the city recording less than five Covid-19 deaths and the state registering fewer than 100 fatalities, the lowest-ever since the first month of the pandemic. Maharashtra, one of the worst-affected states with over 1.47 lakh Covid deaths in the past two years, had nine 'zero-death' days this month. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/lXaDzQ2

Finding a progress in the probe and the reasons cited compelling, a special NDPS court on Thursday granted the Narcotics Control Bureau's SIT (special investigation team) an additional 60 days to submit the chargesheet in the cruise ship drugs bust case. The investigating agency had moved the plea on Monday seeking an extension of 90 days as the stipulated period of 180 days was coming to an end on Thursday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/waELAMC

With the Disaster Management Act, 2005, and the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, withdrawn in Maharashtra from Saturday, penalties for Covid-inappropriate behaviour like not wearing masks or not following social distancing cannot be levied as they were being imposed under the two laws, said from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/aAELy1j

The inauguration of phase I of Metro lines 2A and 7 (Dahanukarwadi-Dahisar-Aarey) is scheduled at the hands of chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Gudi Padwa, the Maharashtrian new year’s day, on Saturday. Commercial operations, though, will commence from Sunday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/jLsRnJ9

​​The revised price of petrol in Mumbai is Rs 116.72 and diesel at Rs 100.94 from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/GC7BjKJ

Diesel price in Mumbai breached the Rs 100-mark again on Wednesday, with transporters signalling this will definitely lead to a price hike soon. Petrol rate also broke all records on Tuesday and is at an all-time high of Rs 115.88 per litre -3 paise more than its last record rate on November 3, 2021. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/XvVxMNT

A digital fingerprint and iris scanning system to aid police investigations with a database of 6.5 lakh persons with crime records will be launched by chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/7gmtWOM

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Transport Authority (MMRTA) on Wednesday proposed ‘conditional’ licensing for aggregator cabs like Uber and Ola to operate across the Mumbai region. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/PpLvBoS

The Maharashtra government has hiked the Dearness Allowance (DA) for its 17 lakh employees by 3%. The announcement came within hours of the Centre announcing a similar hike for its employees and pensioners from January 1, 2022. Dearness Allowance is paid as a means to offset the effects of inflation. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/hP3jZBv

Bombay high court on Tuesday dismissed petitions filed by nine associations including the Indian Hotel and Restaurant Association with a cost of Rs 1 lakh on each holding that the challenge by “self indulgent and self serving foreign liquor vending hotels’’ to a 15% hike in Foreign Liquor license fee lacked a “shred of merit”. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/XVmBh4R

An injured leopard was rescued in the early hours of Wednesday from Kopar village in Vasai taluka in Maharashtra's Palghar district. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/E8tKPDc

In yet another positive development on the Covid front, the city didn’t have a single patient battling for life due to the coronavirus on Tuesday.In the two years since the virus arrived, the ICUs have never been free of critical Covid-19 patients. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/P0d3ULr

Today Maharashtra, a state that is known for its progressive, cultural and noble tradition of liberal politics, will be down with shame to see how the leaders of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi government in the state conspired and filed false charges against the leaders of the opposition – the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/ulcwJnF

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The political slugfest between the Centre and the state threatens to derail Mumbai's railway projects. The Maharashtra government owes Rs 1,000 crore to the Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation (MRVC). Both state and central governments are trading charges against each other. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2RZFS6y

A resident doctor from J J Hospital allegedly speeding on the wrong-side carriageway of Kemps Corner bridge hit a 25-year-old biker, throwing him 30ft on the road below in the wee hours of Monday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/7ofiqbh

The Adjudicating Authority, appointed under Prevention of Money Laundering Act or PMLA, on Tuesday confirmed the attachment of Satara’s Jarandeshwar Sahakari Sugar Karkhana (cooperative sugar mill) worth over Rs 65 crore linked to deputy CM Ajit Pawar. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/XsUMHQe

The state home department has proposed the withdrawal of cases lodged during the pandemic against citizens, including students, under Section 188 of the Indian Penal Code for violation of curbs. The section relates to disobedience of an order promulgated by a public servant. The proposal has to be approved by the state cabinet. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/VJHbP3i

The Maharashtra government on Tuesday informed the Bombay high court that it has withdrawn an order issued on March 21 by sub-divisional officer of the coastal zone management committee to demolish parts of the Juhu residence of Union minister Narayan Rane within eight days. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/7pK2F0Y

According to the official, the FIR was registered after the police took cognisance of the incident. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/rYqync0

Harishchandra Gaikwad, president of the Pune District Principals' Association, said the government should have issued this GR by February-end. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/wtK5W7a

In a recent interview, during the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly elections, the Prime Minister of India titled Mr Nitish Kumar a true socialist leader. In UP and Bihar, the two most poverty-stricken states, almost every politician is a self-acclaimed socialist leader. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/5gtAqVn

The state government on Sunday evening invoked stringent sections of MESMA (Maharashtra Essential Services Maintenance Act) as unions representing over 80,000 workers of power companies, MSEDCL, MAHAGENCO and MAHATRANSCO, threatened to go on two day strike. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/87yNbz2

Police have every right to inquire with people who are out at night, said the Bombay high court while refusing to quash a first information report against a man who was among an allegedly drunken group that sped away. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/0ldeN5g

In a case of road rage, a diamond trader from Goregaon (west) was grabbed by the collar and dragged by a motorist who drove his SUV, while holding him precariously over a tiff on a road blocked by traffic in Vile Parle. The SUV driver has been booked but no arrest has been made yet. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/PGTD0Ss

Even as final exams commence at some of the city's autonomous colleges in the offline mode, Mumbai University has asked them to give some concessions to students. These colleges are holding offline exams after a gap of two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/pZ4Utal

The Covid epidemic in Mumbai is at its lowest ebb, with only 23 patients in hospitals with the viral infection at the moment, according to the BMC’s Covid dashboard. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ZRkQDF

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The shortage of drugs in KEM Hospital, Parel, is not acute or perennial, said senior BMC officials on Saturday. However, steps are being taken to improve the stocks and increase the local purchase capacity, they added. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/WP801fr

Yashwant Jadhav, Shiv Sena corporator in the BMC House that recently ended its term and chairperson of the civic body’s powerful standing committee, paid around Rs 10 crore in cash to acquire tenancy rights in his residential building. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/VJsqDxz

A 52-year-old Nepean Sea Road businessman was recently convicted and sentenced to six months’ simple imprisonment for abusing an ICU doctor by calling her a “bloody bitch” and “scoundrel”, and alleging that she was “sleeping with the management”. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/5hn9PLO

For six months, Kalbadevi resident Dimple Choksi wasn't herself. She would speak gibberish, laugh inappropriately, keep rotating in an anti-clockwise manner instead of walking straight and had pulled out most of the hair from her crown. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/q9MICVS

The city witnessed an overall drop of around 30 megawatts (MW) of electricity between 8.30pm and 9.30pm in view of the Earth Hour observed by the citizens on Saturday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/rmM6G50

Covid deaths in the state in March have fallen by a staggering 90% against 737 casualties reported in February. The slide is 95% if compared with the third wave peak of January, when 1,524 deaths were seen. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/g0JQ2mS

Residential consumers of Tata Power can expect up to a 4% drop in electricity bills and those of MSEDCL up to 2% dip when power tariff is revised from April 1, according to the multi-year tariff plan of the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC). from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/mQVrM81

The Commissioner of Metro Rail Safety (CMRS) on Friday granted approval to commence commercial operations on Phase I of Metro 2A and Metro 7 corridors that promise to significantly reduce congestion on the roads and suburban trains in the western suburbs. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/ubqdXn1

Unable to bear the constant torture that his mother faced at the hands of his alcoholic father, a college-going boy allegedly murdered him at their Kandivli East home on Thursday. The 16-year-old later surrendered before the Samta Nagar police. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/Y9elVpH

The Enforcement Directorate on Friday attached two flats in Thane and a parcel of land in Mira Road, collectively worth Rs 11.4 crore, of Shiv Sena MLA Pratap Sarnaik in the National Spot Exchange Limited (NSEL) money laundering case. The ED is investigating Sarnaik along with sons Vihang and Purvesh and their company, Vihang Group, in the case. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/5MJysZe

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After no increase on Thursday, petrol and diesel prices will be hiked by 84 paise and 85 paise, respectively in the city on Friday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/Fl8jUOS

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The nineteenth witness turned hostile in the 2008 Malegaon blast case after he denied the contents of the statement. The witness,a former army personnel, who in the statement attributed to him in the chargesheet had claimed to have met several accused, did not identify any of them except Lt Col Prasad Purohit, who he said was his former neighbour. The witness claimed he was pressured by the probe agency to give a statement. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/qJa36XQ

Not only is the tuberculosis graph among the city’s children rising over the last three years, the percentage of teenage girls in the patient pool has now begun outstripping the number of boys, according to TB data released by the BMC public health department on Thursday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/lRZtCEP

A special CBI court on Thursday directed the transfer of jailed DHFL promoter, Dheeraj Wadhawan, from a private hospital where he has been admitted for the last 15 months, to the state-run JJ Hospital. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/1mO5SwR

Over three weeks after a 32-year-old man was found dead on the railway tracks between Mulund and Nahur on February 27, the GRP have registered a case of abetment of suicide against his wife and in-laws. Satish Ghodke, the deceased, was a mechanical engineer and lived in Pune with his wife and minor son. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/y7pe6uH

A 38-year-old man was killed after a granite slab collapsed on him while he was standing in the compound of a Dahisar society chatting with a friend. Dahisar police are investigating from the slab came from. A case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder has been registered. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/6FZxDc9

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is stepping up action against a key figure in the money laundering case linked to chief minister Uddhav Thackeray’s brother-in-law Shridhar Patankar. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/hf0MY5r