The most common question being asked in the city is where can one get oneself tested for the novel coronavirus. People want testing to be available at their neighborhood diagnostic laboratories, but given the recent emergence of the virus, there are not enough probes and kits to be distributed.
Three persons tested positive for coronavirus on Thursday—one each in Mumbai, Thane and Pune—taking the count of infected individuals in the state to 14. The Mumbai patient is a 64-year-old man who had travelled to Dubai and is now in ICU. State officials said his condition is serious.
Those arrested include bank director Jasvinder Singh Banwait (56) and two valuers - Shripad Jere (43) and Vishwanath Sridhar Prabhu (57).This takes the total number of arrests in this case to 15 so far.
A special POCSO Act court on Thursday convicted and sentenced a 43-year-old man to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting his minor daughter over six years.
FDA carried out raids between Wednesday and Thursday on companies making fake sanitizers that offered no real germ-killing properties. The teams found that several herbal products have flooded the market.
An elderly couple became the first novel coronavirus patients of the city when they tested positive for the virus at Kasturba Hospital on Wednesday. The 70-year-old male and his 68-year-old wife had travelled to Dubai with the Pune couple who tested positive on Tuesday. The couple is in the quarantine facility at Kasturba and seem stable, said BMC officials.
With year-end exams on or coming up soon, most city schools have already begun to follow the Unicef advisory on Covid-19 care in schools. The UN body recently issued an advisory to prevent and control the virus through instructions, including social distancing and exploring the use of online education in case of a shutdown.
Two men were arrested on Wednesday, eight months after they killed a 30-year-old woman from Powai and dumped her body in Kalwa's Kharegaon creek on July 20, 2019. Deepali Yadav's (30) decomposed body was found around one-and-a-half km from Malvani shore, around 50km away, on August 7, 2019, and a murder case was registered by Malvani police.
After trapping gangster Ejaz Lakdawala by arresting his daughter Shifa alias Sonia, the city police are now trying to build similar pressure on another fugitive gangster, Prasad Pujari.
A special Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) court on Monday convicted and sentenced a 49-year-old maulvi (religious teacher) to six years' rigorous imprisonment for sexually abusing his 9-year-old student several times over a month in 2018.
A relationship manager with a private bank's mutual fund department and his six accomplices have been arrested for allegedly trying to secure a loan against a fake Rs 50-crore fixed deposit receipt.
A water valve operator from Thane allegedly bit off a private bus driver's ear on Tuesday, when the latter refused to give him a tip for Holi.
Three months after a 46-year-old city-based businessman was arrested for indulging in "wife-swapping" and allowing three of his friends to rape his 39-year-old wife on different occasions, a sessions court has rejected the businessman's bail plea. The court observed that it appeared that the businessman had used his wife to fulfil his fantasies and made her a victim of his lust in ways that no ordinary husband would have.
A construction worker killed his co-worker by pushing him down four floors into the empty lift duct of an under-construction building over a trivial argument.The incident occurred at Malad (east) late on Friday.
Builders are finding few takers for large, luxury apartments, but there is still a sliver of high net worth buyers quietly picking up high-end properties in Mumbai.
A woman police officer escaped a bid on her life days after she had foiled a bid to hack into a bank account of Tata Sons. Seven men were nabbed from Nalasopara last Monday for allegedly trying to siphon off Rs 200 crore from the company's bank account, the police said.
A collegian was pushed out of a stationary local train at Mahim by a 25-year-old man after she objected to him beating his transgender friend who was in a ladies coach on Friday evening.
Road restrictions have been imposed on key stretches in south Mumbai on Sunday as cricket matches are being played at Wankhede stadium.The restrictions will be in force from 3pm to midnight.
A south Mumbai resident, Kiran Guje (33), has been arrested on charges of abetting his wife's suicide. The family of the deceased, Dipti Tigade, has alleged that Kiran and his mother, Manisha, used to harass Dipti who was driven to end her life.
Two Nigerians who posed as women on social media have been arrested for duping a Prabhadevi resident of Rs 7 lakh. The two claimed to be in North America and had promised the man "imported expensive gifts", said the police.
