Month: April 2021

Mumbai city on Wednesday reported 4,966 new COVID cases, with the number remaining below 6,000 for the fifth day in a row. 78 people also succumbed to the deadly virus in the city. Whereas, 5,300 patients were also discharged from hospitals post-recovery. The active cases stand at 65,589. Thane city saw a spike of 971 […]

Maharashtra on Wednesday reported63,309 new coronavirus cases and 985 deaths, the state health department said.It took the tally of infections in the state to 44,73,394 and the death toll to 67,214.Mumbai recorded 4,926 new cases and 78 deaths, raising its caseload to 6,40,409 and the death toll to 12,954.A total of 61,181 patients were discharged […]

Representative image Mumbai: An FIR has been registered against the owner of a coffee shop, an Indian café chain, for allegedly poisoning a tree outside his premises in Powai. The case was registered after an official from the BMC Gardens department carried out a probe based on a complaint it has received last June on […]

The theft was reported at a provision store located on Kandivali’s Gosalia Road on April 19. (Representatioal Image) MUMBAI: A 24-year-old man stole dry fruits, besides cash, collectively worth Rs 3.8 lakh after breaking into a provision store at Kandivali West recently. However, the CCTVs captured his getaway vehicle– an autorickshaw– which helped the police […]

The Mumbai Police Crime Branch on Tuesday arrested a 27-year-old man, who has twice managed to escape from jails in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, and has 15 cases – ranging from robbery to attempt to murder – registered against him. David Devendra alias Vinayak had changed his looks so much that the police, which had […]

Even as the daily number of fresh cases seem to indicate that Mumbai may have passed its second Covid-19 peak, there has been a grim rise in its death rate in the last few weeks. Until March first week, the death rate was as low as 0.2 per cent. It gradually rose in a month […]

Representative Image Mumbai: The BMC has informed Bombay high court (HC) that it has on April 16 placed a proposal to amend bye-laws of 2006 to raise fines from Rs 200 to Rs 1200 for those found spitting on public streets. The proposal placed before municipal commissioner Iqbal Chahal comes over a week after the […]

A public interest litigation (PIL) was filed before the Bombay High Court on Wednesday seeking to quash the differential pricing for COVID-19 vaccines for the Centre and State governments. The PIL has been filed by advocate Fayzan Khan and three law students Arman Parve, Bushra Sayed and Trupti Gaikar. The PIL challenges the different pricing […]

In a relief for the (IHFL), the Bombay High Court has stayed an investigation against the company by the Palghar police until the case is heard. The Court in its order, while staying the probe by local police observed that the complaint on which the case was filed “appeared to be malafide and deficient”. The […]