Mumbai News: The first evacuation flight, which was carrying 219 Indian citizens from Ukraine, landed in Mumbai on Saturday evening. The flight had taken off from Bucharest, Romania as a part of the Indian government’s new evacuation plan through Ukraine’s neighbouring countries since Ukraine closed its airspace.
Mumbai reported 89 fresh Covid-19 cases and zero deaths on Saturday. While 200 people were discharged, the active cases as of Saturday evening were 902. The total Covid-19 tally reached 10,56,296 in the city.
In another development, almost nine months after the Supreme Court scrapped the Maratha quota, the Maharashtra government on Friday has taken the decision to set up an independent and dedicated backward class commission to study the backwardness of the Maratha community. The decision was taken at a meeting of the cabinet sub-committee of the Maratha Reservation held by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray.
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Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mumbai-news-live-weather-traffic-covid-7790184/
