CM Uddhav Thackeray and NCP chief Sharad Pawar discussed the issue of NCP purportedly being soft on the BJP.
Mumbai News Live: The Maharashtra government on Thursday decided to withdraw all Covid-19 restrictions imposed under the Disaster Management Act and Epidemic Diseases Act in the state from Saturday, when Gudi Padwa – the Maharashtrian New Year — will be celebrated. While the government advised the people to follow Covid-19 appropriate behaviour, wearing a mask is no more mandatory but has been made optional.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has spoken to Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar about the issue of the NCP allegedly being soft on the BJP even as members of the ruling Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) were reportedly being targeted by central investigation agencies, Shiv Sena sources have said.
Meanwhile, speaking at the Mumbai Press Club on Tuesday, Mumbai police commissioner Sanjay Pandey said that noise pollution, traffic woes and drugs are the bigger problems faced by the citizens than gangsterism or organised crime. Pandey said, “I would say the menace of drugs. It is destroying an entire generation. You will soon see action on that front.”
The Maharashtra government on Thursday decided to withdraw all Covid-19 restrictions imposed under the Disaster Management Act and Epidemic Diseases Act in the state from Saturday, when Gudi Padwa – the Maharashtrian New Year — will be celebrated.
While the government advised the people to follow Covid-19 appropriate behaviour, wearing a mask is no more mandatory but has been made optional. Read more
An 18-year-old accused in the Clubhouse hate chat case was granted bail by a metropolitan magistrate’s court in Mumbai on Thursday.
Akash Suyal had been arrested from Haryana on January 20 by the Mumbai Police in connection with a complaint over alleged lewd comments against women on the voice chat app.
The FIR filed by the BKC police alleged that chatrooms were created on January 16 and January 19 this year, where the accused made objectionable comments about women. Read more
A special court on Thursday granted the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) an extension of 60 days to file a chargesheet in the Cordelia cruise ship drugs raid case.
The NCB had on Monday sought a 90-day extension beyond the stipulated time of 180 days to file its chargesheet. In October 2021, the agency had arrested 20 persons in the case, including Aryan Khan, son of actor Shah Rukh Khan. While 18 were granted bail, two remain in custody.
On Wednesday, special judge V V Patil heard arguments by the NCB special public prosecutor and the defence lawyers of Abdul Kadar and Chinedu Igwe, the two still in custody. Read more
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has setup new-refurbished bus stop which will be operational at Borivali West.
A tactical urbanism initiative, the new-refurbished bus stop is now operational at Borivali West, @mybmcWardRC
Designed for the comfort of Mumbaikars, this bus stop is first of many. @mybmc pic.twitter.com/p6gd7naPC8
— Tactical Urbanism Mumbai (@TacticalMumbai) March 30, 2022
A case has been registered against an assistant police inspector for allegedly abetting the suicide of a man and his 11-year-old daughter at Asangaon in Thane district of Maharashtra, an official said on Thursday.
The FIR against API R S Kshirsagar, posted at Shahapur police station, was filed on Wednesday, he said.
“The 36-year-old man and his daughter committed suicide by hanging themselves at their residence during the intervening night of Tuesday and Wednesday. The man, identified as Vikas Kedare, had left a a two-page suicide note, in which he held the officer responsible for the extreme step,” the official said.
According to police, Kedare’s wife had allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison in August last year. The police had arrested Kedare and his mother in connection with her death. After being in jail four months, he walked out of it in January. (PTI)
The ED is conducting searches on Thursday at the house of a Nagpur-based lawyer, who has filed several petitions against senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis in the last few years, a police official said.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) began searching lawyer Satish Uke’s house located in Parvati Nagar area of the city around 6 am amid tight security by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), he said.
The Mumbai unit of the central agency is conducting searches in connection with some land transactions, the official said. Uke has filed several petitions in courts against BJP leaders, especially former Maharashtra chief minister Fadnavis. In one of his applications, he had sought criminal proceedings against Fadnavis for the “non-disclosure” of criminal cases in his election affidavit. Uke has alleged that the BJP leader filed a false affidavit in 2014 by hiding two criminal cases – of cheating and forgery – registered against him in 1996 and 1998. (PTI)
Trains on the new Mumbai Metro lines between Aarey and Dhanukarwadi, which will be inaugurated April 2 by CM Uddhav Thackeray, will run with a frequency of 10-11 minutes and have the capacity to carry over 3 lakh passengers every day. There will be nine rakes operating over 150 trips every day on the lines between 6 am and 10 pm.
The Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority has finalised the timetable for the lines which will run from April 2 after the inauguration.
The MMRDA is constructing a 35-km stretch of two elevated metro corridors—Line 2A between Dahisar and D N Nagar and Line 7 between Dahisar East and Andheri East. These two new lines will run parallel on east and west side of suburb and are expected to decongest Western Express Highway, the major arterial road of Mumbai. Read more
With the addition of five coronavirus positive cases, the infection count in Thane district of Maharashtra rose to 7,08,769, an official said on Thursday.
These cases were reported on Wednesday. As the virus did not claim any life during the day, the death toll in the district remained unchanged at 11,880. Thane’s Covid-19 mortality rate is 1.67 per cent, he added.
In neighbouring Palghar district, the case count has gone up to 1,63,590, while the death toll is 3,407, another official said. (PTI)
Maharashtra Energy Minister Nitin Raut on Wednesday cautioned the people saying that the next two days are going to be crucial for the state as it did not receive enough coal supply amid the rising electricity demand due to the heatwave.
Meanwhile, an audio clip has surfaced on social media, in which BJP MLA Babanrao Lonikar is purportedly heard threatening an official of the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (MSEDCL) with Income Tax raids for allegedly disconnecting the power supply of his bungalow in Aurangabad.
In other news, Congress, which is part of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition government in Maharashtra, on Wednesday wrote to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and demanded implementation of the Common Minimum Programme (CMP). The CMP could not be implemented properly in the last two years due to the coronavirus pandemic, said state Congress chief Nana Patole in the letter.
Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/mumbai-news-live-politics-traffic-pollution-crime-7845455/
