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The wait for the report is one of the most stressful parts of undergoing a Covid-19 test, especially so if you are a passenger awaiting your fate at the airport. Now flyers at the city airport have a faster option, a recently introduced express Covid-19 test that provides results in just 13 minutes. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Jy0jTE

The BMC has nearly exhausted its contingency fund after spending around Rs 1,600 crore on Covid-19 mitigation measures, and now wants Rs 450 crore more to continue its fight against the virus. To meet this need, the BMC plans to borrow money from other departments and has asked the standing committee to approve the transfer of funds. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rECZVy

A 40-year-old traffic constable was killed and a traffic warden injured in a hit-and-run incident on the Western Express Highway at Goregaon East on Tuesday. A dumper rammed into the cop’s scooter and the driver fled. He was arrested by the Vanrai police later on Tuesday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/38OR3mu

Three BJP corporators from the Airoli-based Gavte family announced that they are joining the Shiv Sena on Tuesday, sending political ripples across party lines since the municipal elections of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) are likely to take place soon in the new year. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3nZP7xV

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Maharashtra's coronavirus caseload rose to 19,25,066 on Tuesday as it recorded 3,018 new cases, a health official said here. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3hD6YIV

The city's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) on Tuesday said it has introduced a new 24X7 Covid-19 testing facility, which gives test results in flat 13 minutes at a cost of Rs 4,500. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3mSKYdL

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) has seized heroin worth Rs 1.5 crore from a consignment of baby clothes that was allegedly sent from South Africa to suburban Vikhroli here, an official said on Tuesday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ptDUWT

Mumbaikars woke up to chilly morning on Tuesday as the minimum temperature dipped to 15 degrees Celsius in the city, the lowest in the season, an IMD official said. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2WRnCef

Airlines have massively curtailed their flight operations to Dubai from Mumbai, Delhi and other Indian cities, with over forty flight cancellations by two airlines alone for the period between Monday and January 3. With Dubai being the most popular foreign destination from India, the last-minute flight cancellations by airlines made airfares shoot up, a dampener for New Year revellers. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/34R0h0i

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said that his wife Varsha Raut had sought 2-4 days’ time to appear before the ED for questioning in PMC bank fraud. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rDxN3U

A special CBI court on Monday accepted yet another closure report submitted by the investigating agency against extradited gangster, Chhota Rajan, in a 17-year-old extortion case. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/38HatKf

A 28-year-old HR manager became the first person to be duped by requests for money to pay for the RTPCR test at the airport by a man claiming to have come to meet her from a foreign country after befriending her on a marriage portal. The woman lost more than Rs 6 lakh. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2KIZdoz

Maharashtra is the state where the maximum number of cases under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act were registered in the country during 2017-2019. Of this number, 8,503, in nearly 50% of the cases minors were lured online into meeting people who then subjected them to sexual abuse or entered into sexual relationships with the promise of marriage. In law, maintaining a physical relationship with someone below the age of consent is statutory rape. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3nRrOX7

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Refusing to accept a 17-year-old girl’s affidavit saying that she had “settled the matter amicably” with her 45-year-old neighbour who is in jail for repeatedly sexually abusing her, a special Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act court recently rejected his bail plea and said that being a child she was not mature enough to understand the consequences of such a step. The court also pointed out that her parents were not present before it to support her stand. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3nVMv4l

The city police on Monday arrested Dilip Chhabria, India’s top car designer and founder of the car modification studio ‘DC Design’, in a cheating and forgery case pertaining to a multiple car registration racket. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2WRGsBL

Khalapur police have arrested a man from Uran for posing as a CBI official and abducting three Iraqi tourists on December 26, reports George Mendonca. He was part of a gang of five that had targeted the trio from Mumbai airport T2 and robbed them of Rs 90,500. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2WUXCOM

In their remand application seeking further custody of arrested former CEO of Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC), Partho Dasgupta, the Mumbai police said Arnab Goswami of Republic TV had paid Dasgupta to rig the channel’s TRPs since its launch in 2017. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2KHeaYg

A fire at a temple in Charkop that left three people dead early on Sunday has turned out to be a well-planned case of murder. Police on Monday arrested a 20-yearold resident, Bhavesh Chandurkar, and detained a 17-year-old boy. Investigators said Chandurkar did not see eyeto-eye with the temple’s president, Yuvraj Pawar (28). The trigger was an incident on Christmas, when Pawar hit Chandurkar (20) over a trivial issue. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3aQUuMe

Almost a year after thousands joined in a protest at the Gateway of India against the brutal attack on Delhi’s JNU students by a masked mob, Colaba police recently submitted a C summary report before the Esplanade court stating that the allegations against Mehak Mirza Prabhu (37) who was holding a ‘Free Kashmir’ placard were not found true. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Kyz4ZH

In a long-drawn legal battle with a builder, around 800 buyers, who booked flats in an affordable housing scheme in Virar in 1986, finally started receiving refund cheques totalling Rs 24 crore. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2KIDT2v

Mumbai's Covid-19 tally rose to 2,91,471 on Monday with the addition of 557 new cases, while the death toll increased to 11,088 after 12 more patients succumbed to the infection, the city civic body said. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/34Nbj76

A three-month-old puppy was found brutally killed in Dahisar by beheading it. Animal activists backed by Mumbai Animal Association (MAA) have lodged an FIR against unknown persons at Dahisar police station. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3pv7mvs

Maharashtra's Covid-19 tally rose to 19,22,048 on Monday with the addition of 2,498 new cases, while 50 fresh deaths pushed the toll to 49,305, the state health department said. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/38GbrX1

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Gutkha worth Rs 80.22 lakh was seized from two tempos near the RTO check post in Dapchari area of Palghar district and two people were arrested, police said on Monday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3nUKvJj

The death toll in the December 6 cylinder blast-fire incident in Mumbai's Lalbaug area reached 10 after a 45-year-old woman succumbed to injuries, a civic official said on Monday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3mVL1pa

Mumbai's most popular sexpert Dr Mahinder Watsa died here on Monday at 96, his family said. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3aNjUug

A total of 11 out of about 2,200 passengers who returned to Mumbai from the United Kingdom since November 25 have been found coronavirus positive, the civic body officials said on Monday.​ from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3pxazLh

An administrator par excellence, Sharad Pawar quietly wrote to chief minister Uddhav Thackeray to express concern over a large number of vacant posts in the bureaucracy. While several bureaucrats have been holding additional charge of key departments, several officers were kept waiting for long. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/38xSvJO

In an apparent swipe at the Centre, Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh on Monday said whoever speaks against policies or leaders of the BJP is facing action by the Central agencies, a day after it came to light that the ED had summoned Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut's wife in the PMC Bank money laundering case on December 29. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2WQPUFu

Three more Mumbaikars who returned home from the UK between November 25 and December 21 have tested positive for Covid-19. With this, six out of the 1,765 UK returnees tested in Mumbai are positive so far, said BMC additional commissioner Suresh Kakani. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/38GU5cu

Sixteen-year-old Mohammed Aiman Koli, who made a world record in Rubik's Cube solutions with feet last year, has entered the Guinness World Records. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2KItuE3

Eight drones and over 40,000 cops will monitor city roads, beaches and all other important spots and vital installations on New Year’s Eve. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/34NROvb

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A 30-year-old mobile thief died hours after he was allegedly tied to a pole and thrashed by six people inside Muktanand Park in Santacruz (west) from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2KG0NHF

A 16-year-old girl is believed to have drowned while trying to rescue her mother and four-year-old sister from drowning in a water-filled quarry in Dombivli on Sunday. Till Sunday night, a rescue team was unable to find her. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3aKYeid

Mumbai-Dubai and Delhi-Dubai have now emerged among the busiest international routes in the pandemic world. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3mUValY

Five flyers who landed in Mumbai from the UK on December 21 and 22 and were placed in 'hotel quarantine', have tested positive for Covid-19. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3aN8KFC

The Covid-19 tally in Maharashtra rose to 19,19,550 on Sunday with the addition of 3,314 fresh infections, the state health department said. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3nSunZ1

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Six people were arrested on Sunday in Mumbai's Santa Cruz area for allegedly beating to death a man they suspected was a mobile thief, police said. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3hi3knu

The Maharashtra government will fill up 12,000 posts of police constables and orders to recruit 5,295 of them will be issued soon, state home minister Anil Deshmukh said here on Sunday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3hmuFVu

“Electronic courts are here to stay, and I don’t see how we are going to get rid of it,” said justice Gautam Patel extolling the virtues of the virtual court proceedings on Saturday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2WKn0XL

Two persons were killed and one is critical following a fire at the Sai Baba Temple at Charkop in Kandivli in the early hours of Sunday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/38Hf0MN

A 21-year-old scrap vendor fell from the 14th floor of an under-construction building in Malad (W) on Friday night and died. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3o4pPP6

On Saturday, the fifth day since the BMC began quarantining flyers arriving from Europe, West Asia and South Africa, the BMC sent 762 passengers into compulsory institutional quarantine. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3mNucNn