Hours after the Centre issued fresh Unlock 3.0 guidelines on Wednesday, chief minister Uddhav Thackeray green-lighted reopening of malls and market complexes starting August 5 from 9 am to 7 pm
Wednesday was dry with only light rains recorded a day after significant rain was received in many pockets of the city on Tuesday.
A special court on Wednesday granted NIA seven-day custody of Delhi University associate professor Hany Babu MT (54) in Elgar Parishad case. Arrested on Tuesday, Babu will be in custody till August 4. He is the 12th accused to be taken into custody in the case. NIA sought police custody for 10 days.
The 100-year-old British-era bridge at Reay Road will be demolished to make way for cable-stayed one with an iconic design and more lanes.
The city on Tuesday logged 700 new cases, its lowest in 77 days. BMC commissioner IS Chahal had earlier said it was the lowest daily addition in 100 days, but later corrected it. In another positive sign for the city, active cases dropped below 20,000 for the first time since May 29.
Breaking its “all-time” record for the month of July, the Santacruz observatory reported 1,474mm rainfall till Tuesday evening.
A police study has concluded that the general poor health of cops is the root cause of the large number of Covid deaths among the Mumbai constabulary as compared to other government units, barring health workers. The police department has recommended that younger personnel from the constabulary should be deployed for frontline Covid duty, in containment zones and hospitals, as their recovery rate is better than that of older cops.
The NMMC reported an average daily of 306 Covid-positive cases in 13 days from July 16 to 28. On Tuesday itself, 320 cases were reported, taking the total cases to 14252. Also, eight deaths on Tuesday, took the toll to 402.
From the 2 lakh Covid-19 cases that Maharashtra added in its first 26 days of July, Mumbai's contribution was merely 15.7%.
Imagine a flat in Goregaon for Rs 30 lakh when an affordable home in Mumbai is priced at a minimum Rs 1 crore. The first-ever affordable housing scheme in the city under the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana (PMAY) is set to make this a reality.
A long-pending proposal mooted by elected representatives of the island city is set to be approved at the next cabinet meeting following the collapse of Bhanushali building in Fort last week.
Nearly 2,000 healthcare workers in the city who stepped up to fight Covid in the thick of the pandemic are now battling civic apathy as they await salaries, promised hikes and incentives.
The state is likely to extend the capping on hospital charges and rates for Covid and non-Covid treatment in private hospitals for another three months. The scheme that allowed local authorities to take control of 80%beds in private hospitals and regulate treatment costs expires on August 31.
Two siblings from Ambivali near Kalyan, along with a 17-year-old close relative, allegedly bludgeoned their 50-year-old uncle and grandmother to death with bamboos during an exorcism on the behest of a self-proclaimed godman on Saturday. Police have arrested Kavita (27) and Vinayak Tare (22), the teenager, and the ‘godman’, Surendra Patil (35).
Billionaire industrialist Cyrus Poonawalla is believed to have agreed to set aside 60,000 vials of Covid-19 vaccine exclusively for the Parsi community to which he belongs.
The state on Sunday crossed 2 lakh cases of coronavirus infections reported in July alone. In all of June, the state had detected over 1.07lakh cases, which shows the spread has doubled this month. Maharashtra’s cumulative Covid-19 toll stood at 3,75,799 on Sunday.
The city - where cases reported per day haven't crossed 1,700 in two months - could have been 'unlocked' but for the growing number of Covid-19 cases in the broader Mumbai Metropolitan Region, BMC commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal said on Saturday.
The 'Mumbai model' of tackling Covid-19 that was fine-tuned over the past two months or so is credited by municipal commissioner I S Chahal for flattening the curve.
