Month: April 2021

Mumbai News LIVE: Dharavi reports 23 new coronavirus cases; BMC sets up 38 bed Covid ICU unit at defunct Octroi Naka in Mulund LIVE NOW As Mumbai city continues to face a shortage of COVID-19 vaccines, the Brihanmumbai Municipal corporation (BMC) has informed that the COVID-19 vaccination Centres in the city will be completely shut […]

Mumbai’s daily Covid positivity rate has hit single digit on Friday after 45 days. According to the BMC officials, the city’s daily positivity rate reported was 9.94%. Positivity rate is the number of Covid-19 cases as a percentage of the total tests done in the city. According to preliminary figures released by the BMC on […]

Bombay high court MUMBAI: Consider imposing for at least 15 days a “lockdown like last year” to curb the spread of Covid-19, the Bombay high court told the state government on Thursday. “We are not issuing a mandamus (direction). Do you think that the (present) restrictions are working? That only people with urgent business are […]

A file photo of people purchasing essential goods from inside a containment zone, in Parel in Mumbai. | Photo: ANI Text Size: A- A+ Mumbai: With the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic having hit Mumbai’s non-slum areas more strongly than its dense slums, the number of buildings that the civic body has sealed in […]

Mumbai reports over 4,000 cases; COVID vaccination in the city put on hold for three days The Brihanmumbai Municipal corporation (BMC) has said that the COVID-19 vaccination will not take place in the city for the next three days due to a shortage of doses. Meanwhile, Mumbai city reported 4,192 cases, 82 deaths, and 5,600 […]

Jhanvi Kukreja with her mom, Nidhi Mumbai: A sessions court on Thursday allowed the plea of Jhanvi Kukreja’s mother to intervene and oppose the bail plea of Diya Padalkar, an accused in the murder of the teenager in the early hours of January 1. Nidhi Kukreja in her plea had cited contents of the chargesheet […]

The Bombay high court on Thursday refused to stay preliminary probes against former Mumbai Police commissioner Param Bir Singh and sought a response from the Maharashtra government on Singh’s fresh petition challenging the two inquiries initiated against him. In his petition, Singh also claimed that efforts were being made to thwart the Central Bureau of […]