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Bandra Reclamation decked up for NY celebrations

Mumbai's Bandra Reclamation area has been decorated with lightings for New Year celebrations. State tourism minister Aditya Thackeray tweeted a video and invited everyone to see the decoration during festivities. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3ep1bpj

BMC hires kin of man who died by suicide

The BMC on Saturday appointed Kalpesh Parmar, brother of conservancy worker Ramesh Parmar, who died by suicide on Thursday after the BMC failed to pay him for close to two years. The BMC’s Solid Waste Management department issued an order of appointment for Kalpesh as a safai kamgar in the BMC’s P-South Ward where Ramesh was employed. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3FtmEsZ

Mumbai: Man kills wife after she asks for divorce

A 38-year-old woman was murdered by her husband on a busy street in Jogeshwari recently, after she asked him for a divorce, said the police. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3sA4VNc

Mumbai: Nigerian held with cocaine worth Rs 33L

A 47-year-old Nigerian national has been arrested allegedly with cocaine worth Rs33 lakh in an operation carried out by the Mumbai crime branch’s anti-narcotics cell, an official said on Saturday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3Fw7djM

Mumbai: 20 from Tanzania, Dubai, UK found Covid +ve

About 20 passengers who landed in Mumbai on early Saturday morning flights were found positive for Covid after tests at the airport. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3yWJDui

Phone-tap ‘leak’: Info sought from Fadnavis in Mumbai

Since specific contents of the reports were leaked, the state home department had entrusted the probe to the cyber cell of Mumbai police. In fact, the cell had registered an offence against unknown persons after Fadnavis’ press conference in Nagpur. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3Jg9Kkw

Maha: Omicron tally 108 with 20 new cases; 54 discharged

Mumbai’s Omicron tally is the highest in the state at 46, which includes 24 people who were picked up at the international airport during screening or during surveillance of foreign returnees from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3el1JMW

Cop suspended for assaulting hotel cashier in Santa Cruz

A departmental inquiry has been initiated against Patil based on the non-cognizable offence (NC) under section 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code that has been filed against him with Vakola police station. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3Jha56z

Mumbai: Conservancy worker ends life after two yrs without pay

The safai kamgar, Ramesh Parmar (27), had consumed poison on Tuesday at the office since he was under financial pressure, according to his uncle Pitambar. Ramesh was admitted to HBT Trauma Hospital in Jogeshwari, and later to Parel’s KEM Hospital, where he was declared dead late on Thursday. He is survived by his brother and mother. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3mwqvhy

Covid doubling rate surges in SoBo, western suburbs

The doubling time here has dropped from 1,424 days on November 12 to 699 now. Doubling rate, which represents the number of days it takes for Covid-19 cases to double, is an indicator of how quickly cases are increasing; lower the doubling rate, faster the cases multiply. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3pojBwQ

Pathlab in Dadar sealed after 12 staffers test Covid positive

​​Contact tracing revealed that 12 of his contacts, all colleagues at the pathlab, were also Covid-19 positive. The lab is located on Dadar’s Shankar Ghanekar Marg. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3mwqoTa

Newborn found dumped in garbage bin in Bhiwandi

A new-born baby girl was found dumped in a garbage bin near a court in Bhiwandi town of Thane district in the wee hours of Friday, police said. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3JjseAS

Honking menace: Need for enforcement drive

On a visit to the JJ Flyover Junction last week, noise pollution from honking measured 95.3 dB. The sound was continuous and deafening. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3yTZVUL

Maha Omicron tally up by 23 in highest single-day rise

The state recorded its highest single-day rise in Omicron cases on Thursday, with genetic sequencing of the samples of 23 people — including five from Mumbai — showing the new highly transmissible variant. The previous single-day highest tally was 11 on December 21. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3qm5qYl

LED indicators must for Kaali-Peelis by mid-2022

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Transport Authority (MMRTA) have made it compulsory for all Kaali Peeli taxis to have rooftop indicators in six months and the deadline is set for June 30, 2022. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3poeUTF

BEST plans SOS button, CCTV for women’s safety

With New Year just a few days away, the BEST on Thursday announced a slew of measures being undertaken to ensure safe travel for women commuters in 2022. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3sBBavv

Live: Mumbai reports 5 new Omicron cases in 24 hrs

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22 trees cut in Parel for Tata Memorial hosp

Huge trees were cut in Parel on Wednesday morning, leading to locals coming out on streets and questioning the authorities. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3H6sbWV

Cop returns owner's wallet with Rs 8,500

In an act of honesty, a 32-year-old police constable attached to Kalamboli traffic unit returned a wallet, which had Rs 8,500 cash, to its owner. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3H1gAZc

Meet 23-yr-old woman fighter pilot from Thane

Roshni Iyer, a 23-year-old Thane resident, has made her city proud on being commissioned as a fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3po77W5

Maha govt seeks death for 2 killer sisters

The Maharashtra government's stand is that despite the delay in deciding the mercy petition of Renuka Shinde and Seema Gavit, capital punishment for the sisters on death row since 2006 was justified considering the gravity of their crimes, clarified public prosecutor Aruna Pai on Wednesday before the Bombay high court. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3pnXyGk

Cops reunite youth with parents after 5 years

A Khandeshwar Police team has reunited a 23-year-old man, who had run away from his Panvel home five years ago, with his parents from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3eg3cEf

LIVE: 'No objection to CM's absence in assembly'

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Enjoy unlimited BEST bus rides on monthly pass

Thackeray urged BEST to go for a hydrogen fuel cell bus, like the one designed in Pune that provides a range of 450km utilising 30kg of hydrogen. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3mrzUqS

Red sanders smuggler held after questioning

The ED is based on a Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) 2015 case where it had arrested Hegde along with Badshah for smuggling red sanders worth crores. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3FrdbCQ

Film producer held in Rs 13.7 cr cheating case

Parag Sanghvi is one of the partners in a construction firm with Jitendra Jain, who is director of Kamla Landmarc. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3H35Dq3

Omicron: Doctors feel milder third wave likely

The Rt value or the effective reproduction value of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has risen in a few states, including Maharashtra. An Rt value of 1 means one patient can spread the disease to one other person. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/33D81W3

SSC, HSC students to get 30 mins more for exams

As students are struggling to return to their normal writing speed in the pandemic, the Maharashtra State Board of Education has decided to give extra time for SSC and HSC theory exams. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/32oOKau

Day after drop, Maharashtra adds 800 Covid cases

A day after reporting a drop in Covid-19 cases and deaths, the state added over 800 cases and 14 deaths on Tuesday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3EixEYU

Take approval for gatherings of over 200, orders BMC

Ahead of Christmas and New Year festivities under the Omicron cloud, the BMC ordered that prior approval from the local disaster management authority is mandatory for any gathering, even in an open space, for 200 or more until further orders. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3EkT1Zw

Covid cluster in IIT-Bombay hostel, 220 contacts tested

A cluster of Covid cases has been detected at an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Bombay Hostel, taking the total number of Covid cases currently on the campus up to 16. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3qfC3XI

11-year-old schoolboy dies in Malad lift mishap

Atharva Sharma, an 11-year-old school-going boy, was killed after getting trapped in an elevator that was being repaired at a Malad housing society on Monday evening, reports Nitasha Natu. The youngster tried to enter the lift when it started to move upwards. Police said the lift repairman, Vivek Pandey, had failed to warn residents that the lift was under repair. He has been arrested. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3qfh8E4

Mumbai: Mentally ill raped, family files case

The family of a mentally challenged woman has lodged a police complaint that she has been raped. But due to her condition, the woman is unable to say when or where the incident occurred. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3Ed6TFr

October bandh: HC seeks replies of Maha govt

Bombay high court on Monday directed the state and the political parties to file replies to a PIL filed by former police chief and other citizens against, what they term “state sponsored” bandh called recently in Maharashtra. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3H0yI5y

Boy gets trapped in elevator at Malad society, dies

An 11-year-old boy was killed after getting trapped in an elevator that was under repair at a Malad housing society on Monday evening. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3sq5N6Y

Thane: Nigerian among 5 held with drugs worth over Rs 21L

Police have arrested five people, including a Nigerian national and a woman, and seized mephedrone, a banned drug, worth Rs 21.80 lakh from their possession in different raids here in Maharashtra, an official said on Tuesday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3Ef2GB6

Jewellery thefts in trains: 2 women held by Thane cops

Two women from Gulbarga in neighbouring Karnataka have been arrested for allegedly stealing jewellery from passengers of long-distance trains, police in Thane in Maharashtra said on Tuesday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/32nBgeW

Was never into production, distribution of porn: Raj Kundra

Businessman Raj Kundra, who was arrested in a pornography case earlier this year and later granted bail, on Monday claimed he has never been involved in the production and distribution of pornographic content in his life. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/32a39rk

Fadnavis directing govt agencies to target me: Nawab

NCP spokesperson and skill development minister Nawab Malik on Monday targeted leader of opposition Devendra Fadnavis, saying the former CM was directing Central agencies to act against him. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3Fibbww

‘The super rubbish of superfoods’

A few months ago, a cousin living abroad messaged asking for an Indian diet plan. I told her she didn’t need one, but she anyway found an Indian site that apparently ‘reverses’ diseases with food (that itself should have been a big red flag) and then sent me an exotic, expensive diet plan that she had been prescribed, full of items like chia, quinoa, kale and other new age, yoga asana-like meme foods. Seriously! from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3yPgf9k

BMC panel clears Rs 1.8k crore road repair proposal

Amid much uproar, the Shiv Sena-led civic standing committee on Monday cleared road repair proposals amounting to Rs 1,800 crore. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3EsUGwx

HSC exam to begin from March 4, SSC from March 15

The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education will be issuing a detailed schedule for SSC and HSC exams on Tuesday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3H2wDG6

'Name MVA min present at Karan Johar’s party or apologise'

Mayor Kishori Pednekar on Monday challenged BJP MLA Ashish Shelar to name the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) minister who allegedly attended the party hosted by director Karan Johar after which several Bollywood celebrities, including Kareena Kapoor-Khan and Amrita Arora, were infected with Covid-19, or tender a public apology. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3mlyoGy

Bombay HC to Maha govt: Reply on aggregator cab rules

Bombay high court on Monday directed the state government to submit its reply on the statutory regulations for aggregator cabs and the terms and conditions attached to their licences. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3J6Vhr5

Mumbai could get cooler in next 24 hours

Mumbaikars can look forward to cooler days as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday forecast a further dip in minimum temperatures. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3so3O2X

Mumbai live: City's air quality in 'poor' category

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Mum: 191 Covid cases, zero deaths in last 24 hrs

Covid-19 cases and fatalities both in the state and the city reported a significant drop on Monday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3mmbxL5

Maha: 81% of Omicron patients were fully vaxxed

Eighty-one percent of the 54 patients detected with the Omicron variant in Maharashtra are cases of breakthrough infections, meaning they got infected despite being fully vaccinated. A few have even taken a third shot of the Pfizer vaccine. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3pfc7wb

Mum: RT-PCR pre-booking confusion for int'l arrivals

Yet another mismatch between Central and Maharashtra government rules has led to fresh confusion among arriving passengers, leaving international ones in a tizzy this time, reports Saurabh Sinha. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3qeHia3

‘Hindutva betrayal’ remark: Sena hits back at Shah

The Shiv Sena on Monday hit back at the BJP for Union home minister Amit Shah’s remarks that the former had betrayed Hindutva for power after the 2019 Maharashtra assembly polls. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/30QBaw8