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After three straight days of increase in new Covid-19 cases, there has been a sharp decline on Friday. The state reported 121 new cases and zero deaths, while Mumbai reported less than 70 (68) new infections. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/1JgPvE2

The clash between the Shiv Sena and Independent MLA Ravi Rana and his wife, MP Navneet Rana, is set to intensify with the couple announcing that they will recite the Hanuman Chalisa outside the chief minister Uddhav Thackeray's family home, Matoshree, on Saturday. Meanwhile, the Mumbai police served the couple a notice on Friday, asking them not to disturb the law and order situation in the city. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/riV1Waz

The state Goods and Services Tax (GST) and income-tax (I-T) investigation wing have seized nearly Rs 9.8 crore unaccounted cash and 19 kg silver bricks worth Rs 13 lakh stashed in secret compartments on the floor and a wall of a bullion trader's 35 sq ft office at Kalbadevi. Officials suspect Chamunda Bullion's involvement in fraudulent input tax credit claims and hawala. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/XuyA9jL

Maharashtra witnessed yet another day of high peak electricity demand of nearly 28,000MW on Friday, with Mumbai’s demand touching 3,500MW amid sweltering heat. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/Gk2vW1R

Shiv Sena member of parliament Sanjay Raut said that BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis could have been the chief minister by now had he “acted with wisdom” and realised that Shiv Sena, a Hindutva party, was a friend. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/QAjug1r

The sister of a woman with whom Maharashtra social justice minister Dhananjay Munde had an extra-marital relationship has been arrested for allegedly extorting money from the politician and for threatening to implicate him in a rape case if a sum of Rs 5 crore was not paid from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/dwyZehY

Ten days since the booster dose drive was opened for the age group of 18-59 years, not a single shot has been administered to anyone from this age bracket in 17 districts of Maharashtra. The reason: no private hospital is offering vaccination in these places, and the Centre has mandated that age groups under 60 can get the third shot only in the private sector. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/OwmY9jL

He was speaking at a press conference to announce the upcoming first Incredible India International Cruise Conference 2022 slated May 14 and 15 at Mumbai, the country's cruise capital. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/7qthf0a

There is a rise in mobile phone thefts at bus stops, especially at Vashi, Nerul, Airoli areas. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/hLWx01n

NMC’s deputy commissioner (encroachment) Karuna Dahale said that they seized the equipment of the hawkers during a drive and their action against the hawkers will continue regularly on Godavari river banks, Raviwar Karanja, Main Road, M G Road, Bohorpatti, Bhandi Bazaar and other market areas. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/PSTdj5Y

Santosh Ghatekar, senior inspector at Rabodi police station said the incident might have occurred around 4.30 pm when the victim was stacking the grain-filled sacks at the godown of a ration shop in Rabodi. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/RfVSTzB

In an RTI reply to activist Anil Galgali on whether Mumbai University allotted land to M/s Siddhesh Enterprises for the purpose of shooting a film, the university said permission was granted to the production house on terms and conditions as suggested by a committee set up on the from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/UvabNRS

The sessions court said it can recommend that the mother of two boys, aged 12 and 7, killed in an accident at Navy Nagar in 2016 could be compensated even if the accused are acquitted.“It is not to be forgotten that Ratna Dhyani has lost her two children in the accident... from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/HLSP6Nc

Khandeshwar police on Tuesday filed an FIR against a private bank manager and two women loan recovery staffers for abetment to suicide and criminal intimidation after a retired BMC staffer, Vijay Pawar (62), from Panvel's Sukhapur village ended his life by hanging due to mental trauma caused by them. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/rAHam2t

​​Head constable Sharad Chaudhary, who is attached to the Malad traffic chowky, lodged a complaint with the Malwani police station. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/jkTIzRs

The country’s largest volunteer festival for cleaning of water bodies, Jallosh Clean Coasts for the beaches and water bodies of Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, will be held at 16 locations, five more than the December 2019 event, on April 23 and 24 (Saturday and Sunday). from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/INAESKa

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In a detailed order, acquitting 17 people booked for the 2016 Deonar dumping ground fire, a sessions court said that simply because the accused deal in either collection or purchase of scrap, it cannot be inferred that they were also involved in setting solid waste on fire or were responsible for it. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/kivaPwH

Bombay high court on Tuesday issued notice in a petition filed by two retired defence personnel from Pune challenging a notification issued last year by the Centre restricting retired officials of security organisations and military personnel from publishing or writing anything about war and defence without Centre's prior nod. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/mBkKPL5

The Bombay high court frowned at the state government for not deciding on the representation of a hospital in Nalasopara (E) that has surplus Covishield vaccine vials with expiry dates of April 21 and May 2. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/fNhzW4X

The city recorded 85 new Covid cases on Tuesday, the highest in one-and-a-half months, prompting the BMC’s public health department to alert ward officials to “be vigilant and take all necessary action”. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/tlAep8c

The headmaster of a Mumbai-based international school became the target of an extortion ring, which threatened to expose the sexual acts he committed in front of a webcam at the behest of a woman he had befriended on social media. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/gsebZmW

Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) officials from Mumbai arrested a businessman from Madhya Pradesh before he could board a flight to the US. The arrest was made on the basis of a lookout notice in the alleged involvement of Rs 50 crore duty drawback case. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/RyX2tE1

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With regard to the regularisation proposal for Narayan Rane’s house, Adhish, at Juhu, civic officials said it will be deemed to have been rejected if the compliances—namely documents like scrutiny sheet, list of concessions and a no-objection certificate (NOC) for a high-rise from the fire from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/O8UGWj6

Twenty-five people were arrested in connection with a communal riot between two groups at Aarey Colony on Sunday. The police registered two FIRs, one against each group, on charges of attempt to murder under Section 307 of the IPC. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/DAOPUd7

State Congress leader Nana Patole said in a statement that there is a conspiracy to raise religious issues to divert people’s attention from the real issues of price hike in essential commodities and inflation. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/jW6nJot

Amid the ongoing row on the use of loudspeakers at religious sites triggered by MNS chief Raj Thackeray, state home minister Dilip Walse Patil said on Monday that the director general of police and Mumbai police commissioner would formulate guidelines for the use of loudspeakers in public from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/8OlNwMf

Rejecting the closure report in the rape case involving film and music produce Bhushan Kumar, a magistrate’s court said both the investigating officers avoided carrying out a “qualified investigation” and asked for a review of the case by the policeWhile the court had rejected the B summary from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/5XkUrZi

Investigations into the April 8 demonstration outside Silver Oak, NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s south Mumbai residence, have revealed that 11 of the MSRTC workers arrested for participating in the protest were drunk. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/31NYLcZ

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Twelve years after the ‘murder’ of two Pune residents, the Bombay HC found that one of them “did not die a homicidal death” and terming the belated identification parade a “farce”, acquitted the four men convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by a trial court in 2015, reports Swati from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/9l80aXw

Rejecting that skin to skin contact was a necessity in a sexual assault, a special Pocso court found guilty a 40-year-old father from city and sentenced him to five years rigorous imprisonment for repeatedly touching the private parts of his 5-year-old daughter over her clothes. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/RecQBax

The Economic Offences Wing of Mumbai police has registered 34 FIRs against 150 people, including five dozen foreigners, for allegedly violating laws of registration of 34 companies and for fraudulently becoming directors of Indian companies. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/VTYQIkX

Air India staff colony residents have planned a rally on Sunday in Kalina to protest against notices issued by the government asking them to vacate their quarters. The rally has been planned by three Air India unions and four colony associations. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/3hORFaJ

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The rising incidence of difficult-to-treat tuberculosis (TB) among Mumbai's youth found a mention at the recently held national conference on TB and Chest Diseases in Ambala. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/eBxwWjG

Maharashtra recorded 44 Covid-related deaths, including three in Mumbai, in the first fortnight of April. In comparison, the city recorded four deaths and the state toll was 77 in entire March. Health officials, however, said there is no cause for concern as far as the number of deaths, daily caseload and active cases were concerned. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/XRkJxOw

Preliminary assessment by Central Railway authorities has blamed the train crew of the Gadag Express for the lack of signal knowledge and presence of mind which led to a side-collision with Dadar-Puducherry Express on Friday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/pu9qEHQ

Maharashtra is set to record its highest sugar production in the 2021-22 season with an estimated output of 133 lakh tonnes, which is 25% higher than the previous year. This would make Maharashtra the top sugar producer in the country, ahead of Uttar Pradesh, for the second year in a row. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/r1Dm5is

A 40-year-old homemaker was murdered by her husband at their home in Bhayander on Friday morning as he found the breakfast served to him too salty. The couple’s 12-year-old son, who was at home at the time, tried to intervene to save his mother, but failed, said the police. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/bqU9CG7

A reputed medical college in the state is grappling with an unusual request from its nurses: Teach resident doctors of the 100% male department of orthopaedics how to interact with female patients. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/cDYqpnF

A 76-year-old builder shot dead his elder daughter-in-law with his licensed revolver for not serving him breakfast on time on Thursday in Rabodi here and is on the run.Around 11. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/l4twYyo

In a major safety lapse, three coaches of Dadar-Puducherry express derailed after loco pilot of train number 11139 CSMT-Gadag Express jumped the red signal and collided into it between Dadar and Matunga on Central Railway (CR) on Friday evening. There were no casualties or injuries to any passenger in the trains. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/Y2uUGgl

The BMC has increased fire safety scrunity fee by up to seven times for issuing no-objection certificates to developers for highrises, both residential and commercial. The revised charges are applicable to new buildings and existing ones if there is any revision in the plan, amalgamation of units, change of user and activity, said a circular recently issued by the BMC. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/bkudpS5

With the graph of Covid-19 cases rising in the national capital, doctors said that while there is no reason to panic, it is better to use a face mask. Cases in Delhi rose sharply in the last few days, with 325 and 366 cases recorded on Thursday and Friday, respectively. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/doRmMT3

The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) wrote in its notice dated April 13, “Central agencies have noticed that DAE employees (including their constituent units) and their family members have been posting photographs/videos of DAE offices and facilities on Facebook/WhatsApp and other social from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/HmesR4a

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A teenaged girl was found strangled in a Nalasopara lodge on Wednesday, sparking a manhunt that led to the body of a young man by the railway tracks in Borivli and the unravelling of a sordid murder-and-suicide incident. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/ZFkoOrq

In the upcoming academic year, school bus operators want a 35-40% hike in fees compared to the pre-Covid levels. If the bus fee was around Rs 18,000 annually in 2020, it could go up to a maximum of Rs 25,000 in 2022-23, School Bus Owners' Association president Anil Garg told TOI from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/70dX4Bl