“Mumbai is the only city where I can earn enough money to fulfill my dreams, and Dharavi is the cheapest place to stay,” smiles Sandeep Pandey, summarizing why he returned to the slum in December from his village in Uttar Pradesh. “When I left Dharavi in March, I thought I …
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MUMBAI: Up to 1,688 passengers have arrived at Mumbai International Airport from the UK and other countries since midnight on Monday and 745 of them were quarantined in the city, a civic official said on Wednesday. In the wake of the detection of a new coronavirus variant in the UK, …
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MUMBAI: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport has announced a new set of guidelines for all incoming / outgoing international passengers in the context of the new strain of the Covid-19 virus detected in the UK, an official here said Tuesday. As announced on Monday, all flights to and from the …
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Maharashtra has announced that a seven-hour nightly curfew will be established in all cities and municipal corporate areas of the state. The curfew from 23:00 to 6:00 a.m. is imposed from Tuesday, December 22, 2020 for 15 days until January 5, 2021. What caused the curfew? A high-level meeting called …
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MUMBAI: Mumbai reported 586 new Covid-19 cases and 10 recent deaths on Thursday, while nearly 500 patients recovered from the infection, the city’s civic body said. According to updated data from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the Covid-19 case count in the city increased to 2.84,990, while the death toll …
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MUMBAI: Maharashtra Prime Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday urged the people of the state not to lower their guard against Covid-19 and strictly follow security protocols to avoid the imposition of another lockdown. He said that although he has been advised to impose a night curfew, he does not believe …
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As cases of Covid-19 in Mumbai continue to rise, Section 144 of CrPC was imposed in the city as of midnight on September 17 to contain the spread of the virus. However, the order is just an extension of the previous order issued by officials on August 31 and no …
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India’s largest and richest state, Maharashtra, will register its millionth new coronavirus infection on Friday, putting it on par with Russia in the pandemic and quelling India’s attempts to reverse an economic downturn. The western state, home to the financial capital Mumbai, is on track to surpass the million mark, …
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