Mumbai news in photos: Top stories on March 2, 2021

Several lanes and streets in Mumbai have been painted in order to beautify the city while also to spread the essential message to help curb the spread of the virus. A woman can be seen walking past a mural depicting people travelling in an overcrowded local train to raise awareness about maintaining social distancing and the use of masks. Photo: AP

After a chaotic first day, the second day of vaccination in NESCO Jumbo Centre, Goregaon was comparatively smoother. Senior citizens, who had registered themselves on the CoWIN portal, marked their attendance at the centre and got themselves vaccinated. Photo by Uma Kadam/BCCL

A team of healthcare workers conducted coronavirus swab tests for labourers at the labour camp in Dharavi on Tuesday. Numbers in the slum colony are once again on the rise since the second week of February. Photo by SL Shanth Kumar/BCCL

A tea vendor selling tea on the streets cycles home in Mumbai. The city has seen a rise in temperatures upto 36 degree Celsius according to the MET department. Photo by SL Shanth Kumar/BCCL

A handcart puller waits for work in an industrial area in Mumbai. After two consecutive quarters of contraction, India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the October-December quarter (Q3) grew by 0.4 per cent, while the GDP for the entire financial year 2020-21 (FY21) is seen contracting (-)8 per cent, as per the second advanced and quarterly estimates of GDP released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) on Friday. Photo by SL Shanth Kumar/BCCL

The Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted bail to former Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) CEO Partho Dasgupta who is an accused in the TRP scam. According to ANI, Dasgupta has been granted bail upon furnishing a bond of Rs 2 lakh.

The first electronic chip being installed in an Auto rickshaw meter at a repair shop in Bhandup on Tuesday evening. The first batch of 2,000 autos with recalibrated meters showing revised fares will now go for the road tests at Wadala, Andheri and Borivali RTOs. Photo by Sanjay Hadkar / BCCL

Many trees were cut during the road widening at MIDC service road between Turbhe-Juinagar in Navi Mumbai on Tuesday.

Photo by KK Choudhary / BCCL

A 35-year-old auto rickshaw driver residing in Agroli village was killed after his auto was rammed into by a car on the Agroli bridge in CBD, Belapur on Monday around 10.30 pm. The accused car driver has abandoned his vehicle and escaped.

Photo by KK Choudhary / BCCL

India's largest Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) 'Mavala' completed drilling 100 metres of tunnel work today. The tunnel is 2.7 km long and around 10-70 metres deep.