Edition

English

News
City News
mumbai News
Mumbai News LIVE Updates: City records lowest COVID-19 death count since March 28

THE TIMES OF INDIA | Jun 08, 2021, 23:38:17 IST

Comments

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: City records lowest COVID-19 death count since March 28

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi today and discuss issues like the Maratha quota and financial aid for cyclone relief measures. The meeting is taking place over a month after the Supreme Court struck down a 2018 law providing reservation to the Maratha community in jobs and education in the state. Mumbai witnessed a decline in daily coronavirus cases on Monday. With 728 new cases and 28 fatalities, the city’s infection tally has reached 7,12,329 and the death toll stands at 15,066. Maharashtra on Monday reported 10,219 fresh coronavirus positive cases, the lowest after March 9 this year, and 154 fatalities while 21,081 patients were discharged. Also, Aarey Colony authorities on Monday handed over 286.7 hectares of land to the Maharashtra government. A statement from the chief minister's office said the Aarey land parcel handed over comprises 125 hectares in Borivali, 71 hectares in Goregaon and 89 hectares in Marol Maroshi.

16:22 (IST) Jun 08

The IMD Mumbai has issued an orange alert for Mumbai, Thane and Palghar for Saturday indicating heavy to very heavy rains at isolated places being very likely

15:12 (IST) Jun 08

Bombay HC cancels and confiscates a caste validity certificate "fraudulently obtained" by Navneet Rana, independent MP from Amravati; imposes a cost of Rs 2 lakh on her to be paid to Maharashtra Legal Services Authority

14:52 (IST) Jun 08

Uddhav Thackeray on vaccinating 18+ age group

"We'd require 12 crore doses to inoculate 6 crore people twice, in 18-44 years group. We tried but couldn't do it as there wasn't adequate and steady supply. Thankful to PM Modi for centralising vaccine procurement. I hope everyone in India is vaccinated soon," Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray said post his meeting with PM Modi.

14:35 (IST) Jun 08

Mumbai begins to unlock: How retailers, salons, shopkeepers are reacting to changes

08:40

14:14 (IST) Jun 08

Conditions are favourable for the onset of monsoon, expected to arrive in Mumbai later today or tomorrow

Shubhangi Bhute, Scientist, IMD Mumbai

13:13 (IST) Jun 08

Visited Delhi almost a year and everyone knows the reason behind the meet: Thackeray

"We have discussed various topics and Prime Minister listened to us. He said that he will take the information and look into the issues. Maratha reservation, political reservations for OBC, land for Metro Car shed in Kanjur, GST returns, change in the NDRF parameters to provide assistance, classical language tag to Marathi Bhasha Din were among the topics," said CM Thackeray.

Daily Puzzles

Connect

The Perfect Trace

Play Now

Loop The Loop

Puzzle Circuit

Play Now

Daily Crossword

Special puzzle

Play Now

Classic Matrix

Number Play

Play Now

Mini Crossword

Lite Challenge

Play Now

12:18 (IST) Jun 08

CM Thackeray meets PM Modi along with Ashok Chavan and Ajit Pawar

12:16 (IST) Jun 08

Rain lashes Mumbai

Rains lashed Mumbai and its neighbouring areas on Tuesday morning, bringing respite from the sweltering heat, and the MeT department termed it as pre- monsoon showers. On Saturday, IMD confirmed the arrival of the south-west monsoon in Maharashtra, when it had reached up to Harnai port in coastal Ratnagiri district. Shubhangi Bhute, director at the RMC Mumbai, termed the present rainfall in the city as "convective precipitation"."You can observe that there is thunder, lightning and a constant variation in the intensity of the showers. You can call it pre-monsoon showers, but certainly not the south-west monsoon," she told a news agency.

11:40 (IST) Jun 08

Hyatt suspends operations at Hyatt Regency, Mumbai

Global hospitality firm Hyatt Hotels Corporation has suspended operations at Hyatt Regency hotel in Mumbai, and said the property will remain closed till further notice.

11:35 (IST) Jun 08

Sachin Sawant hopes PM Modi will take decision on Maratha reservation after meet with MVA leaders

मराठा आरक्षणाचा प्रश्न हा सर्वोच्च न्यायालयाच्या निर्णयानंतर १०२ वी घटनादुरुस्ती व इंदिरा स्वाहनी प्रकरणातील ५० ट… https://t.co/jesKuPqfya
— Sachin Sawant सचिन सावंत (@sachin_inc) 1623130510000

11:34 (IST) Jun 08

Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on government's decision to reduce gap between 2 vaccine doses

01:28

10:21 (IST) Jun 08

Video: Oil spills on Nitin flyover after two trucks collide; two injured

00:20

09:42 (IST) Jun 08

Bakri Eid: SP leader Rais Shaikh writes to CM Uddhav Thackeray seeking nod for Eid-celebration

The Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA from Bhiwandi and Group leader in BMC Rais Shaikh has written a letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray to allow Bakri Eid-celebrations this year.In a letter to CM Thackeray, Shaikh said that for every Muslim Eid-Ul-Fitr and Eid-Ul-Adha ( Bakra Eid) are very auspicious occasions.

09:08 (IST) Jun 08

NCP chief Sharad Pawar meets Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray at his official residence Varsha Bungalow, ahead of CM's meeting with PM Modi in Delhi today

08:55 (IST) Jun 08

Navi Mumbai: Check the list of today's vaccination centres, timings

The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) released a list of vaccination centres administering Covishield and Covaxin doses on Tuesday (June 8). The first and second dose of Covishield will be administered at 23 Urban Primary Health Centres, MCH, Turbhe to people above 45, healthcare workers (HCW) and frontline workers (FLW) today. The centres will conduct the vaccination drive from 9 am to 5 pm and will have 130 doses each.

08:54 (IST) Jun 08

Mumbai: 712 acres of Aarey forest land handed over to SGNP

MUMBAI: Aarey Colony land declared as a forest last year was formally handed over to the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) authorities on Monday. The newly appointed chief executive officer of Aarey Colony formally handed over a total 712 acres to the SGNP director. In 2019, the state government had handed over 100 acres for a zoo. This is now part of the Aarey forest. An additional 90 acres in possession of the SGNP is reserved for relief and rehabilitation of tribals and slum dwellers.

08:39 (IST) Jun 08

BMC Additional Commissioner Suresh Kakani: Slums, high-rises at equal risk in Covid third wave

TOI spoke to Suresh Kakani, Additional Municipal Commissioner (AMC), about how the civic body is thinking of containment policies and planning to scale up infrastructure as there have been a spate of reports warning about how children are at increased risk for a possible third wave between July and September.