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The BMC is all set to restore and beautify historic canons from the British era which are paved inside Ghatkopar’s Lions Children Park. The BMC recently approved plans to restore the two canons that have been lying at the park for several decades. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3w9nXJt

The body of an unidentified woman in her mid-20s was found stuffed in a bag on a road near Nalasopara railway station in Palghar district on Monday, police said. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3wb8etB

A Nigerian national was held in Kharghar in Navi Mumbai allegedly with 200 grams of mephedrone worth Rs 20 lakh in the illicit market, a Narcotics Control Bureau official said on Monday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3sDQKny

A family of four were charred to death and three others sustained injuries in a fire that broke out in their shop-cum-home in a village in Mokhada taluka of Palghar district in the wee hours of Monday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ryHsYt

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Alarmed at Maharashtra recording its highest single-day tally of 40,414 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, CM Uddhav Thackeray went into a huddle with the state task force and asked chief secretary Sitaram Kunte to immediately draw up a strategy for the “last resort” of a lockdown. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3u3naYJ

Maharashtra is fit for imposing a fresh lockdown in its containment zones with the Covid-19 positivity rate, total confirmed cases per 100 tests, doubling almost every fortnight since January from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3cwIEHK

(This story originally appeared in MumbaiMirror on March 29, 2021) from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3fjBEzH

People flying out of Mumbai must continue paying development fees (DF) — Rs 120 for domestic and Rs 720 for international destinations — till March 31, 2022. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3cxmxR6

State home minister Anil Deshmukh said on Sunday that inquiry by a retired high court judge into the allegations by former Mumbai commissioner of police Param Bir Singh would bring out the truth. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/31tvdlu

Maharashtra on Sunday reported 40,414 fresh coronavirus positive cases, the highest rise so far in a single day, taking its tally beyond 27 lakh to 27,13,875, the state health department said. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/31sWqEU

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The BMC, police and railways collected around Rs 39 lakh in fines from 19,262 people found without a face mask in the city on Friday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3flJkBi

State Congress general secretary Sachin Sawant on Saturday asked the National Investigation Agency to probe the “disappearance” of the digital video recorder from the Mumbai police commissioner’s office. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rvsSkk

In a rare conviction under the Food Safety and Standards Act, a 34-year-old Malad based shopkeeper was sentenced to six months imprisonment and fined Rs 50,000 after gutkha worth Rs 341 was recovered from his store despite a ban on its storage and sale. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3fmD2Bw

The three labourers suspected to have died after inhaling toxic fumes while trying to enter a chemical tank at Vadol MIDC in Ambernath have been identified as Harshad, Bindesh and Dinesh, all from Mau in UP. They had come to the city for work. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/31sneow

Twenty-two years after five people were accused of being involved in Rs 4.72 crore customs duty evasion under the Duty Entitlement Pass Book (DEPB) scheme, a special CBI court this week found them guilty. DEFB is an export incentive scheme. Key accused Snehalata Jaiswal, was sentenced to three years imprisonment and fined Rs 3.80 crore. KMP Syntex Pvt Ltd, the firm where Snehalata was a director, was separately fined Rs 3 lakh. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3cvU4vj

(This story originally appeared in Mumbai Mirror on March 28, 2021) from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3cvOxoy

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With Covid-19 cases surging in the state, the Maharashtra government on Saturday issued details of the new restrictions it was imposing: prohibiting gatherings of more than five people in public places from 8pm to 7am from Saturday midnight across the state and putting public places like gardens, beaches and seafronts out of bounds between 8pm to 7 am. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3w15EGx

The Bhandup police registered an offence under Indian Penal Code Section 304 (culpable homicide) against six persons as the blaze at Dreams Mall in Bhandup that killed nine persons was extinguished after 40 hours by fire brigade. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3csNd5G

At a review meeting conducted by the Centre on Saturday, officials from 25 districts in the state that account for 60% of the Covid-19 cases over the past week in the country were directed to isolate as many asymptomatic patients as possible in institutional facilities. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2O5vGas

For the first time this season, maximum temperature touched 40.9 degrees Celsius on Saturday. Apart from being the highest for the season, it was the third highest recorded for March in a decade. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/31rv2XS

Amid rising coronavirus in the twin city of Kalyan-Dombivli in the Thane district of Maharashtra on Saturday, social distancing norms were violated. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3u0pSy4

For the first time this season maximum temperatures recorded in Mumbai were seen touching 40.9 degree Celsius on Saturday. Apart from being the highest maximum temperature for the season it was also the third highest recorded for the month of March over the last one decade. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3swX3sI

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Fifty-six young women, who had gone missing in separate incidents in Maharashtra's Raigad district in 2020, have been reunited with their families, police said on Saturday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ssmNqj

A fire erupted on the hills of the famous Jivdani temple in Virar (east) on Friday night. No casualties were reported. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/31oMQ5S

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut sought action against IPS officer Rashmi Shukla, accused by the MVA of misusing permission given for phone-tapping. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3st70aN

The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its order on social activist Gautam Navalakha's plea for grant of default bail in the Elgar Parishad case. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rsC6hs

BMC’s M-west ward office on Friday registered an FIR against Hotel Manas Residency, Chembur, a quarantine centre for international passengers arriving from the Middle East. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/31nT5qt

Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition by Priyanka Singh, sister of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput, against a recent refusal by Bombay high court to quash an FIR lodged by Rhea Chakraborty accusing her of getting ‘bogus medical prescription’ via telemedicine. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3coRYNw

The handkerchief, a crucial piece of evidence, finds no mention in Mansukh Hiran’s post-mortem report, alleged BJP MLA from Bandra West Ashish Shelar. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3csWVoC

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For the third straight day, the state (36,902) and the city (5,515) recorded new peaks of daily Covid-19 cases on Friday. Active cases in the state have shot up to 2,82,451 — closer to the state government’s projection of over 3 lakh in the first week of April. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3stIUwD

A hospital inside Dreams Mall was first proposed in 2014, but the plan was stalled. Eventually, it began operating on a provisional Occupation Certificate (OC) granted in May 2020 during the pandemic, even though the building which housed it had got notices for construction irregularities and fire safety violations. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rmSjVr

The blaze which led to the deaths of nine patients at Sunrise Hospital in Bhandup’s Dreams Mall may have spread from the first floor of the mall, said a fire brigade official. Fire-fighting operations went on the entire night. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3tXAzRZ

The Supreme Court on Friday reserved its judgement on a batch of pleas challenging the Maharashtra law to grant reservation for Marathas in jobs and educational institutions and also whether the apex court's landmark 1992 Indra Sawhney verdict (called the Mandal judgement), putting a 50% cap on quota, requires re-consideration by a larger bench. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/39iGVUq

With the second Covid-19 wave rising higher and several festivals, including Holi, round the corner, the Maharashtra government on Friday announced statewide night curfew from Sunday. Curbs on shop timings are also likely. An official said a detailed notification is expected on Saturday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3fi83GF

​​​Special judge Rekha Pandhare on Thursday found the accused guilty of offences committed under section 376(2) (rape) of the IPC and provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/39ifsSC

Smart thinking by a woman cop — who made a commuter call from her mobile — helped in nabbing a thief. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/31mBa3G

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The police on Friday arrested a man for allegedly killing his relative and trying to dispose of the body in Maharashtra's Palghar district, an official said. The police have arrested Pintukumar Tarunkumar Singh, a native of Bihar, and are on the lookout for two more accused involved in the crime, the official said. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/31iyjbM

The hospital owned by Ms Privilege Health Care was given temporary permission to run as a Covid hospital in May last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The provisional OC was given on May 6, 2020 but according to the provisional OC, it was meant to treat only health and frontline workers. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2P1H9s8

CBI arrested a superintendent of Central GST, Amit Dalal, along with two CAs and one more person in corruption case and recovered Rs 12 lakh bribe amount from them. The CBI also recovered Rs 30 lakh during search at their premises. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/39h3xVe

The fire at Sunrise Hospital housed in Bhandup’s Dreams Mall is the second fire at a Covid-19 hospital in the Bhandup-Mulund belt in six months. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3d2NDig