Month: June 2021

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Anil Deshmukh writes to ED, requests them to record a statement on audio, visual mode Maharashtra plans to hike its vaccination process to up to 1.50 million doses per day, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said on Monday. “We are making preparations to administer 15 lakh vaccine doses per day,” Thackeray said, […]

Did you know that Mumbai’s peak during the second wave was lower than that in Delhi and Bengaluru? Scientists say the difference in numbers was due to higher levels of previous exposure to the virus. The same findings can now come as a ray of hope with experts predicting that the third wave in the […]

MUMBAI: The results of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s first paediatric sero-survey show over 50% of the children surveyed have antibodies to the Covid-causing SARS-CoV-2, allaying fears that the probable third wave would disproportionately affect kids. BMC commissioner I S Chahal called the results, released on Monday, as “encouraging”. The presence of antibodies in blood reveals […]

Mumbai: The Regional Passport Office (RPO) on Monday informed the Bombay high court that it will expeditiously process the passport renewal application filed by actor Kangana Ranaut after she amended her plea to the state that there are only FIRs registered and no criminal cases pending against her in any court. The actor had approached […]

Maharashtra Sunday recorded 9,974 fresh Covid-19 positive cases and 143 fatalities, taking the tally of infections to 60,36,821 and the toll to 1,21,286. A total of 8,562 patients were discharged during the day, taking the count of recovered patients in Maharashtra to 57,90,113 so far, leaving the state with 1,22,252 active cases, the state bulletin […]

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: ED summons former Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh LIVE NOW Maharashtra plans to hike its vaccination process to up to 1.50 million doses per day, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said on Monday. “We are making preparations to administer 15 lakh vaccine doses per day,” Thackeray said, barely three days after the […]

Mumbai: With the danger of the third wave looming large, chief secretary Sitaram Kunte had a review meeting with district collectors and told them to prepare a district oxygen management plan and work on that should be completed by July. The plan should take into account the highest Covid cases in their area in the […]

Mumbai: Around 170 IIT-Bombay alumni from across the world and spanning batches right from 1964 to 2019 have come together to contribute around Rs5.5 crore for renovation and upgrade of Hostel 5—one of the oldest in the institute— which was their home during their years on campus.While alumni from different batches have made several contributions […]