The Narcotics Control Bureau on Friday arrested an Australian architect, Paul Bartel, on charges of procurement and consumption of contraband. While officials did not find any contraband in Bartel's Santacruz flat, they claimed to have come across his WhatsApp chats allegedly discussing drugs.
While Mumbaikars lit up their homes and prepared for the Diwali weekend, thousands of healthcare workers gave travelling to their hometowns a miss and chose to tend to Covid patients instead. Many decided against even meeting their near and dear ones despite being in the same city for fear of passing on the infection.
The railways on Friday gave its approval for teaching and non-teaching staff of schools to travel on suburban local trains with immediate effect.
The Covid-19 pandemic could have a severe and adverse impact on blood sugar levels among diabetes patients across the country, said doctors ahead of the World Diabetes Day on November 14.
(This story originally appeared in MumbaiMirror on November 12, 2020)
After banning firecrackers in the city except on the main night of Diwali, the BMC is now discussing with police a plan to impose Section 144 of the CrPC or other related provisions during the festival to prohibit movement of people in groups and control the spread of Covid-19, reports Vijay V Singh. A decision is expected after discussions with the government.
Nagpur resident Sameet Thakkar, who allegedly posted offensive messages against CM Uddhav Thackeray and his minister-son Aaditya, was arrested by BKC cyber police on Tuesday.
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), comprising the city and eight bordering civic corporations, touched six lakh coronavirus cases on Wednesday.
Diwali has perked up demand for domestic air travel and the proof lies in the five-digit return airfares for travel to most cities the coming weekend. The topsy-turvy part in the Diwali airfare trend is that for travel from Mumbai, Patna is more popular than Goa. Travel companies said that most revellers have planned to fly back home this holiday season and leisure travel has taken the second spot amid Covid-19.
A day after two MSRTC staffers allegedly died by suicide due to non-payment of salaries, the state government on Tuesday announced a Rs 1,000-crore financial package for the loss-making body for six months.
BMC has proposed a hike in theatre tax for multiplexes, cinema halls, theatres as well as music shows and entertainment programmes.
Bombay high court on Tuesday allowed two Jain temples at Dadar and Byculla to open on five days of Diwali, from Dhanteras to Bhai Beej.
Six properties belonging to underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's family in Ratnagiri's Khed district were auctioned on Tuesday.
The wife of film producer Firoz Nadiadwala, who was arrested on Sunday for possession of 10gms of ganja, was released on bail on Tuesday.
A sessions court on Tuesday discharged Kamala Mills Ltd directors Ravi Bhandari and Ramesh Gowani almost three years after a fire at two restaurants situated inside its compound claimed 14 lives.
This Diwali, the BMC has banned firecrackers at all private spaces and public areas such as Marine Drive, beaches, grounds and hotels within city limits so as to not inconvenience Covid-19 patients. On November 14, the day of Laxmi Puja, though, Mumbaikars will be allowed to light mild crackers such as anars and sparklers in housing societies and courtyards around their homes.
Following an internal committee’s recommendation, civic chief I S Chahal on Monday approved removal of medical superintendent of Sewri TB Hospital from the post and ordered a full-fledged departmental enquiry against 16 staff, including 12 nurses, a medical officer, an engineer, a clerk and a cleaner. This came three weeks after the decomposed body of a 27-year-old TB-Covid patient was found in the hospital toilet.
Shabina Saeed, wife of film producer Firoz Nadiadwala from whose Versova flat the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) had allegedly found 10gm of ganja or marijuana, was produced before the 8th metropolitan magistrate court on Monday, which remanded her to 14 days’ judicial custody. She was arrested on Sunday.
Traffic e-challan fines of more than Rs 700 crore are unpaid across Maharashtra till date, said state transport commissioner Avinash Dhakne. And of this, traffic violators in Mumbai owe the traffic police almost Rs 280 crore, nearly 40%.
