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The Shivaji Nagar police, probing the gangrape of a 20-year-old woman in Govandi, arrested the fourth accused, a 19-year-old, from Panvel where he was hiding near his father's workplace and preparing to flee the state to avoid arrest. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3FZRZ61

The fire-fighting system at the 20-storey Sachinam Heights, a chawl redevelopment project, was not in working order when the blaze occurred early on Saturday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3KFMygu

The Shivaji Nagar police, probing the gangrape of a 20-year-old woman, arrested the fourth accused, a 19-year-old, from Panvel in Navi Mumbai where he was hiding near his father’s workplace and preparing to leave the state to avoid arrest. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3qT72u8

The Bhandup police on Friday booked two police constables after it found that seized cash and valuables worth Rs 5.31 lakh was missing from the police station. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3KDey44

Barely two months after a fire on the 19th floor of a highrise killed one person in Lower Parel, six persons were killed and 24 injured in a blaze that broke out also on the 19th floor of a tower in Tardeo on Saturday morning.The fire started around 6. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3KM7RNt

There are 10 districts in the state that have a weekly positivity rate (WPR) higher than the state average of 24%. These districts are those where Covid-19 cases are surging and the list does not include Mumbai. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3qSJ6XM

A 20-year-old woman working for a catering firm was gangraped by four people in Shivaji Nagar area of Govandi while she was returning home from work around 4am on Friday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3KtYwtr

A month into the Omicron-Covid wave in Mumbai, the daily case count dropped to its lowest ever this year at 3,568 on Saturday. The Mumbai caseload was 29% higher at 5,008 the previous day. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3nKr9ZB

The Bombay HC has directed an employer and an insurance firm to pay Rs 3 lakh with interest as compensation to the kin of a 54-year -old truck driver who died of a coronary condition in 2003, saying the death was “accelerated due to stress and strain associated with long-distance driving for from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3fP3Klf

Property tax of former defence personnel and their kin will be waived by the BMC. This comes on the heels of the state government’s recent announcement of a full property tax waiver for homes less than 500-sq-ft area in Mumbai. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3Is3PHT

Crimes against women and children are on the rise in the city. According to the Mumbai Crime Report 2021, 3,879 cases of crimes against women were registered in 2021 compared to 3,317 in 2020. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/32rxp0Y

Andheri police has arrested a man from Nalasopara for allegedly molesting and robbing a lawyer at an ATM booth on Wednesday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3FK89AA

A day after four nursing home staffers were booked for the death of a 2-year-old who was given the wrong injection, the city crime branch raided the practices of three quacks and arrested them, seizing huge quantity of medicines from their establishments. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3nPM7X3

The contrast in the Covid graphs of Mumbai and Maharashtra got sharper on Friday, with the state registering its highest daily detections in over 250 days and the city reporting its lowest cases so far this year. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/33AbSUr

A street in Byculla which houses two schools was “safer” during a dry run done last October. This is the verdict of children and other road users who were part of a survey done under the ‘Safer Access to Schools’ project. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rBslQ9

The Nerul Police have arrested a husband-wife duo staying on the pavement outside Nerul railway station for allegedly selling their two newborn girls to two women for Rs 90,000 each in 2019. A complaint was lodged on Wednesday after a legal officer who learnt about the "illegal" adoption alerted the police from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rBn4YR

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The Mumbai cybercrime police on Thursday arrested an MBA graduate from Jharsuguda district in Odisha in connection with the Bulli Bai app case, which targeted Muslim women by putting up their images online for "auction". The accused, Neeraj Singh, is the fourth person to be arrested by Mumbai police, and the fifth overall. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3KuIpeT

A two-year-old child died after being administered the wrong injection by a nursing home sweeper in Baiganwadi, Govandi. On Thursday, the Shivaji Nagar police booked four staffers: the sweeper, a doctor, a resident medical officer (RMO) and a nurse. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3FLujlN

Daily Covid case detection in the city dropped to 5,708 on Thursday from 6,032 on Wednesday, the lowest so far this year. Cases have been mostly dipping this week after a sudden and steep climb since December. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3IiTpKs

The city police's economic offences wing (EOW) has asked the anti-corruption bureau (ACB) to investigate and take necessary action into complaints of irregularities in the Byculla zoo animal enclosure project, which has seen a cost escalation of Rs106 crore. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3KuImzJ

In a rarity, the Mumbai Police arrested a cyber fraudster within two hours of registering the FIR from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3Kr0pa9

Almost 10 days since the country’s immunisation programme rolled out booster shots against Covid-19 for essential workers and people above 60, the response has been less than enthusiastic in the state. Maharashtra has administered 4. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3KrKfNN

Former home minister Anil Deshmukh on Wednesday told the Justice K U Chandiwal commission that the then Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh when summoned to the council hall was in the dark and was shivering when asked about the planting of explosives in an SUV parked near from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3IBVxNV

In keeping with the Wednesday effect when the week's highest caseload is registered, the state recorded 43,697 cases on Wednesday, an 11.5% rise in the last 24 hours. In contrast, Mumbai's daily detection reported a 2% decline - 6,032 cases against the 6,149 reported on Tuesday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3fMqAK9

The three Indian Navy sailors who were killed in the explosion on board the Rajput-class destroyer, INS Ranvir, at the Naval Dockyard on Tuesday were taking a nap during a work break when the incident took place, said Colaba police. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/33zrI1s

The BJP won the highest number of seats, 384 of 1,638, in the nagar panchayat elections in the state, the results of which were declared on Wednesday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3tXE12z

At a time when death has literally become a part of life, Mumbai will soon have a world-class public crematorium open to all communities. The Mata Ramabai Ambedkar crematorium, just off Worli Naka, is being transformed into a series of eight covered pavilions where the last rites can be conducted under vast skylights and amidst landscaped gardens, with in-built closed circuit cameras that can relay the ceremony to friends and family across the world. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3IqLFXb

State environment minister Aaditya Thackeray who said the state government is now "actively considering" an alternate location for Metro 3 shed insisted that Kanjurmarg still remains the best option since it has been proposed as a hub for a car shed for three different Metro lines: 3,4 and 6 would criss-cross the entire MMR region, extending beyond Mumbai. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3FNoWTc

A day after the Monday low thanks to restricted testing on weekends, Maharashtra reported a 26% rise in daily case detection to 39,207 on Tuesday and a steep 120% jump in Covid deaths. The state registered 53 fatalities, the highest in over 100 days since October 8 (59). from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3IiWSsw

Mucormycosis, the black fungal infection that worsened the impact of the second Delta wave in India, hasn’t disappeared from the Covid wards in the city. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/33LT1p8

The state cabinet is likely to review the issue of reopening schools in its next meeting on Thursday. The government is under pressure from a section of parents and school associations who have petitioned them to reopen schools. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/352W2lw

Covid displaced usual chart-toppers heart attack and cancer to become the leading cause of death in the city in 2020. Out of 1.1 lakh total deaths recorded in the first year of the pandemic, 11,105 (10%) were Covid fatalities, 8,576 (7.6%) were cancer deaths and 5,633 (5%) were heart attacks, according to recent data accessed through RTI. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3FFGMHK

Holding that an unexplained and gross delay of almost 8 years in disposal of their mercy petitions is “wholly due to the casual approach” of Maharashtra government officers, the Bombay high court on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of sisters Renuka Shinde (50, left) and Seema Gavit (48) from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3GBiMXD

Four months after a span of an under-construction elevated road, which was under construction, collapsed at Bandra-Kurla on September 17 last year, the regional development authority, MMRDA, has penalised the contractor Rs 1 crore for “not taking adequate precaution, leading to the from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rrtucR

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Nearly 680 days after the pandemic started, the city’s Covid-19 caseload touched the 1 million mark on Monday. Only the US, India, Brazil, the UK, France, Russia and Turkey have seen more patients than Mumbai in the two-year-long pandemic so far. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3KkuBDT

A substantial 68% of Covid patients who died of complications at state-run medical colleges and hospitals in the last 48 days were unvaccinated, the latest report by Maharashtra's Medical Education and Drug Department has said. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3FAILgn

The Bombay high court has slammed district authorities in Kolhapur for a “brazen act of fabrication” intended to show that an archaeological site was over 100 metres away from a bridge under construction. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/34ZKAHk

A 16-month-old girl and her mother were killed, while her father suffered injuries after a cement mixer rammed into their motorcycle on Western Express Highway (WEH) in Goregaon (E) on Saturday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/34PI7Pu

The waning of the Omicron wave has begun in Mumbai, but it may take at least another month before the rest of the country experiences a decline in the third wave. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3tviI8a

Param Bir Singh took pains to lead the Mumbai police at the fag end of his career. However, now he has expressed distrust in the same force, which he served for more than three decades, after he realized that subject to the approval of the Supreme Court, he can be arrested any moment in an extortion case. In fact, even the SC was surprised when Singh submitted that he has no faith in Maharashtra police and the cases registered against him be transferred to any other state. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3KhPAqH

Cracking down on educational institutes that join hands with edtech companies to offer online or conventional programmes, the University Grants Commission and the All India Council for Technical Education have warned them of derecognition, reports Hemali Chhapia. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3quNz2F

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Opposition parties and activists slammed the BMC for its ‘decision’ to close down parks and gardens in the city citing the Covid-19 pandemic. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rnyHCC

Daily Covid detections in the city dropped below 10,000 on Sunday after a gap of 13 days. While Mumbai reported a 25% dip in cases, the state reported a 3% decline in the last 24 hours. Maharashtra reported 41,327 cases and 29 deaths, taking its total cases to 72.11 lakh and 1,41,808 deaths. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3tyWxOy

Even as negotiations between Tesla, the US electric car manufacturer, and the Central government seems to be stretching, a Maharashtra minister has extended the company an invite to start operations in the state and has assured all possible help. Two other states, Telangana and West Bengal, have also expressed interest in getting the car maker to invest within their jurisdiction. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3A47R6r

Despite restricted access to beaches during the pandemic-induced lockdown year of 2020, deaths by drowning shot up by 13% in Maharashtra as compared to 2019. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/32am3hK

The BMC on Sunday suspended its marriage registration services citing the Covid-19 pandemic. “The Marriage Registration services have been temporarily stopped by the BMC’s health department due to the current Covid-19 situation in Mumbai. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3Ajina9

A crane operator died after the 500-tonne capacity vehicle tilted over and collapsed at Kanjurmarg on Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road while a girder of the Metro rail line was being installed around 6.30am on Sunday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3rs0aCS