Maharashtra Congress preps up for upcoming municipal corporation polls

Ahead of Maharashtra Municipal Corporation elections, Maharashtra Congress informed that it is prepping up for the upcoming polls and held discussions about the party's manifesto for the state.

Speaking to the reporters yesterday, Maharashtra Congress in-charge HK Patil said, "Today, we had Mumbai regional Congress committee's screening and strategy committee meeting. We have discussed the preparations for the elections of the corporations. We have also discussed the manifesto and programs that we should launch." Patil also informed that they have decided to hold a rally in Shivaji Park on 28th December in this regard.

(With inputs from agencies)

Pune Mayor writes to Maharashtra Health Minister, demands relaxation in restrictions for shops

Pune Mayor Murlidhar Mohol on Friday wrote to Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope and demanded relaxation in restrictions for shop timings in the city.

Mohol has demanded to further relax the restrictions in Pune and to allow the shops to function till at least 8 pm.

Weekend curfew in eight Karnataka districts bordering Kerala, Maharashtra

In view of surge in Covid cases districts that share borders with Kerala and Maharashtra, Karnataka on Friday decided to enforce a weekend curfew in eight such districts as well as night curfew across the state.

According to fresh guidelines issued by the Revenue Department, night curfew has been advanced by an hour, and will be now in place from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.

Maharashtra reports 5,539 new coronavirus cases, 187 deaths, 5,859 recoveries

Maharashtra reported 5,539 new COVID-19 cases and 187 fresh deaths on Friday, taking the infection tally to 63,41,759 and the toll to 1,33,717, a health department official said.

The official said 5,859 patients were discharged from hospitals across the state in the last 24 hours, pushing the number of recoveries to 61,30,137 and leaving Maharashtra with 74,483 active cases.

According to the official, the state has 4,35,516 people in home quarantine and 2,837 in institutional quarantine.

Maharashtra | 30 people have been infected with Delta variant in Nashik. 28 patients are from rural areas. We sent the samples to Pune for genome sequencing after which they were tested positive for Delta variant: Dr Kishore Shrinivas, Surgeon in Nashik district hospital

Police Control Room received a phone call last night, threatening that bombs have been placed at four locations across Mumbai. Search was done by Police, bomb squad & GRP team. In probe, it was found to be hoax call. Police team finding out the caller &his location: Mumbai Police

For the convenience of passengers during Ganapati Festival, WR will run 38 trips of 8 pairs of Special trains

Light to Moderate rain in Mumbai and Suburbs: IMD 

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) in its 24-hour forecast has predicted light to moderate rainfall in the city and suburbs on Saturday.

The IMD on Saturday said that the island city, eastern suburbs and western suburbs recorded 3.31 mm, 2.56 mm and 1.33 mm rain, respectively, in the last 24 hours.

Meanwhile, a high tide of 4.14 metres is expected at 1139 hours and another high tide of 3.57 is expected at 2324 hours in Mumbai today. Also, a low tide of 1.83 metres is likely to occur at 1736 hours today.

Cumulative Covid-19 vaccination as on 7 am of August 7 in Maharashtra is 4,63,76,886

Maharashtra: Thane district adds 218 COVID-19 cases; seven more die

Pornography case | Bombay High Court dismisses businessman and actor Shilpa Shetty's Raj Kundra and Ryan Thorpe's applications challenging magistrate court's remand order and seeking immediate release.

Police personnel with sniffer dogs at CSMT after receiving bomb threat call

Mumbai: Gas leakage in Kasturba hospital, 58 patients shifted, out of which 20 are COVID-19 patients

Maharashtra Congress slams NIA for delays in SUV planting case

Maharashtra govt sets up 15 temporary health centres in flood-hit Mahad

Mumbai: CM Uddhav Thackeray inaugurated the Mahim BEST Bus Depot along with Mayor Kishori Pednekar, BEST Chairman Ashish Chemburkar, BEST GM Lokesh Chandra, MLA Sada Sarvankar, Corporator Milind Vaidya and other dignitaries

BEST launches next batch of fully electric buses

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