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Acting on a complaint in February by a college girl about porn videos being sent to her and other girls on her phone contact list, police finally managed to arrest the culprit, who was proving extremely slippery, on Wednesday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/guT3rHM

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Having already got two-thirds of Shiv Sena MLAs and 12 of 19 Lok Sabha MPs on its side, and declaring its own names for the national executive, the Eknath Shinde camp is now moving to split the Sena's 'pratinidhi sabha' (representative council), reports Chaitanya Marpakwar. The council is the Sena's largest official forum with 282 members and comprises Sena office-bearers-from party president to shakha pramukhs. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/werNnQG

An Air India Dreamliner operating a Dubai to Kochi flight with 247 passengers and crew on board faced a pressurisation problem, leading to oxygen masks being deployed in the cabin and cockpit, and the pilots diverting the flight to Mumbai, where it landed safely on Thursday, reports Manju V. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/Q4AUzRM

The city's Mahalaxmi Temple will be in the league of temples having domes adorned with pure gold. Oman-based businessman S Periyasamy, originally from Coimbatore, has offered to electroplate the Mahalaxmi temple dome with gold worth Rs 10 crore as part of his reverence for the deity-the holy trinity of Mahakali, Mahalaxmi and Mahasaraswati-who he believes helped him through a trying time in the city during 26/11. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/Xztak06

After having failed multiple times in convincing the Supreme Court in the past one year to allow it to grant reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in local body elections, the Maharashtra government can now do so as the court on Wednesday asked the Election Commission to take into account the report of the State Commission for Backward Classes which had recommended the reservation. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/eqREQ8I

Almost 40 years after one of the biggest building violation scams rocked Mumbai and three years after the skeleton of the illegal skyscraper was demolished, Pratibha, located off Breach Candy in south Mumbai, will be rebuilt. Apartments in the area command a price of around Rs 1 lakh a sq ft. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/sXWNiw1

At least four people infected with influenza H1N1 (swine flu) are on life support in the city. Doctors caution that the viral infection is back in circulation in the city and people who test negative for Covid-19 must be tested for H1N1 by their physicians. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/mshHTnF

Both the new Shinde-Fadnavis government and the MVA government in whose regime the Banthia commission report was commissioned claimed credit for restoration of the OBC quota in local body polls. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/uhX3pzD

The Supreme Court said on Wednesday that the bunch of petitions by rival factions of Shiv Sena MLAs raised serious constitutional questions that may require adjudication by a five-judge constitution bench from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/ewIGZN1

In a significant political development, CM Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena faction on Tuesday appointed Sena functionary Kiran Sali as secretary of the Yuva Sena, a post which was held by Aaditya Thackeray's cousin Varun Sardesai. The Yuva Sena, Sena's youth wing, is headed by Aaditya Thackeray. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/qwRElZP

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Observing that once any person is arrested and remanded to judicial custody there is complete legal restraint on his professional activities, a special PMLA court rejected a plea by a man who wanted advocate Satish Uke, arrested in a money laundering case, to continue to represent him in a petition he had filed in the Bombay high court. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/T9WOmUK

In a curious case, the vault custodian of a private bank recently stole Rs 34 crore from the currency chest and dropped the wads of cash down the AC duct to his waiting accomplices, who managed to carry away Rs 12 crore in a tempo but left Rs 22 crore packed in seven bags under the staircase of the building. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/GxEyj4z

In response to complaints about tremors in two buildings on Marine Drive, the BMC has said it will conduct an assessment to find the cause of the problem. To allay residents' fears, officials have directed contractors in charge of the Coastal Road project to reinstate the tetrapods that were removed to facilitate construction work. The large, concrete tetrapods that lie along Marine Drive protect the coastline from tides and waves, and residents have blamed their removal for the tremors. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/gT2XawB

Singer-composer Bhupinder Singh, whose moody and melancholic voice gave depth and soul to some of the finest ghazals and nazms in the Hindi films of 1970s and 1980s, passed away in a Mumbai hospital on Monday evening. He was 82. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/DIH2Unm

In Dombivli, around 150 to 200 auto rickshaw drivers refused to accept passengers for around two hours. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/uKC1Px2

Mother Dairy is revising rates as well. The new prices are expected to be announced shortly. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/5PN67Db

As heavy rain in Mumbai exposed numerous potholes on city roads, the BMC, which was looking for a dry spell, has started filling these up. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/J960gtQ

Marine Drive residents have been witnessing vibrations they call "tremors akin to an earthquake". In a letter to BMC chief IS Chahal, a group of residents have written they have never experienced the phenomenon. They attribute it to the removal of tetrapods for Coastal Road work. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/ER8Mm1p

A year with two board exams-each a different format-saw Maharashtra emerging with a joint national topper and 100% success in the ICSE (class X exams of CISCE). The national success rate was at 99.97%. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/vCQHRMG

In a relief to a 53-year-old man accused in the NSEL scam, who has been in jail for the past three years despite being granted bail, amid failure to pay Rs 5 lakh surety, a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court has now reduced the amount to Rs 1 lakh. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/dRIi3nV

Less than two weeks after targeting Ajit Pawar for "independently controlling the urban development department" when MVA was in office, CM Eknath Shinde has stayed Rs 941 crore projects approved by the department during March-June this year. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/JSEy15j

High-profile Shiv Sena rebel Abdul Sattar is the first MLA beneficiary of the new government led by Eknath Shinde. As per an order uploaded on state government's website, the state on July 13 has sanctioned Rs 15.17 crore for Sillod-based National Cooperative Spinning Mill promoted by Sattar and led by his son Samir. The funds will be considered the state's share capital for the Rs 80 crore project. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/dnN36PB

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A 26-year-old man from Ambernath, on his way to work at a pharmaceutical company Saturday, died on the spot after he fell off his scooter while navigating a pothole in Kalyan and was crushed under a bus that was right behind him. This comes days days after CM Eknath Shinde had instructed public agencies that roads in Thane district be made free of potholes. Acting on the father's complaint, cops have booked the bus driver for death due to rash and negligent driving. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/ORpJHbL

In a battle of political oneupmanship, the two-member cabinet of the Eknath Shinde and Devendra Fadnavis government on Saturday re-approved the renaming of Aurangabad and Osmanabad districts. It also gave a fresh nod for the naming of the Navi Mumbai international airport. The proposals were first approved by the MVA government at its last cabinet meeting, but the new Shiv Sena-BJP government has said that those decisions were illegal. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/mOJqKan

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has been allowed by the new state cabinet to raise Rs 60,000 crore in loans. In Phase I, the authority will borrow Rs 12,000 crore, for which the Shiv Sena-BJP government has decided to stand guarantor to fund various infrastructure projects in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/CYbiNgR

The state's stop-work decision on the Metro 3 car shed at Aarey will be lifted soon, said deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/WpomqNn

Bombay high court on Friday granted bail on merit to Bilal Razaq, convicted in the 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case and, sentenced to life imprisonment. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/dp4Rkrj

The state's stop-work decision on the Metro 3 car shed at Aarey will be lifted soon, said deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/qvKdNcl

The state's stop-work decision on the Metro 3 car shed at Aarey will be lifted soon, said deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/j9QLtWO

While the premier IIT-Bombay maintained its third position in the country in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) for 2022, Mumbai University (MU) jumped several places to figure among the top 50 universities. It ranked 45. In the "overall" category, too, MU went up 15 places to bag the 81st position. The seventh edition of NIRF was released on Friday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/aeBlt1A

The state government on Thursday announced reduction in cess on petrol and diesel by Rs 5 and Rs 3 per litre respectively. The cut, made in a component of VAT, will come into effect from Thursday midnight. With this, petrol will cost Rs 106.31 per litre in the city and diesel Rs 94.27. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/X3txD5p

CM Eknath Shinde on Thursday said NDA’s presidential poll candidate Droupadi Murmu would get a record number of votes from Maharashtra. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/rdxy9sw

The Bombay high court on Thursday criticised the state government for ordering civic bodies not to demolish unauthorised structures during the monsoons even as a building in Mumbra facing demolition sought relief based on this directive. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/7We2wEP

The State Election Commission (SEC) has stayed the poll process for 92 municipal councils and 4 nagar panchayats which was scheduled to be notified on July 20. The process has been stayed in view of the Supreme Court hearings on the OBC quota issue. The next hearing is on July 19. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/gebZvKI

The central government's GST notification of Thursday will deal another body blow to the common man's household expenses. It imposes a tax of 5% on unbranded pre-packed foodgrains, pulses and cereals, as well as pre-packed labelled curd, butter milk and lassi, which were outside the ambit of GST so far. These are items of mass consumption sold at local kirana stores. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/MwensJ8

Due to continuous heavy rain in the city, the Mumbai University has cancelled all exams scheduled on Thursday even as Mumbai deputy director of education Sandeep Sangave has directed education officers of different zones, including Mumbai, to take a decision on shutting schools in case of heavy showers. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/Qy3DeNf

Though Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray announced on Tuesday that his party would back the BJP-led NDA's presidential poll candidate Droupadi Murmu, the Thackeray-led Sena hasn't been invited for a meeting with Murmu in Mumbai on Thursday. Murmu will meet MPs, MLAs and senior leaders to seek support for her candidature, reports Chaitanya Marpakwar. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/wK7IjEF

Observing that a mother "cannot be asked to choose between her child and her career" and a family court failed to consider that an estranged mother was vested with the right to development, the Bombay HC allowed a woman to take her minor daughter to Poland where she has been offered a senior position, reports Swati Deshpande. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/sm7bgh3

Due to continuous heavy rain in the city, the Mumbai University has cancelled all exams scheduled on Thursday even as Mumbai deputy director of education Sandeep Sangave has directed education officers of different zones, including Mumbai, to take a decision on shutting schools in case of heavy showers. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/1AGbwWg

The BMC has been asked to vacate the 4.2-hectare plot in Bandra-Kurla Complex earmarked for the bullet train terminus before September by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA). It is currently being used for a Covid field hospital. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/2GmxWaO

Dr. T Jacob John, the expert who pushed for the pulse polio campaign over 25 years back, now wants to tweak the strategy to eradicate the paralysing virus. It begins with "unlearning" a medical statement that polio spreads through the orofecal route, and also increasing the injectable polio vaccine's dosage in the national polio vaccination programme. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/IBZKdaY

The price of CNG in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) will once again be hiked by Rs 4 per kg from Wednesday morning, pushing it to an all-time high of Rs 80 per kg. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/ShJqTE0

Despite a near-200% jump in the civic health budget over a decade, a sizeable gap has remained in the city's primary health system. Mumbai is short of 659 public dispensaries and suffers from a 30% staff shortage in 187 existing centres, states NGO Praja Foundation's white paper on the city's health status, released on Tuesday. from Mumbai News: Latest Mumbai News Headlines & Coronavirus News Updates from Mumbai - Times of India https://ift.tt/1Spn4Yc