Mumbai News Highlights : LoP Amabadas Danve suspended for 5 days from Maharashtra legislative council for ‘misbehaving’

BJP’s central leadership Monday announced five candidates, including party’s national secretary Pankaja Munde, for the legislative council elections in Maharashtra to be held on July 12.

The BJP, which faced a debacle in the state in the recently held Lok Sabha elections, focussed on social engineering while choosing the candidates for the Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC), where the party hopes to get five seats based on its strength in the state Assembly.

Out of the five candidates, three of them — Pankaja, Parinay Phuke and Yogesh Tilekar — represent the Other Backward Caste (OBC), whereas the two others Amit Gorkhe and Sadabhau Khot belong to the Matang (Dalit) and Maratha communities respectively. Read more

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) taking to X confirmed that the corporation has completed the challenging work of connecting the C. D. Barfiwala Flyover and Gopalkrishna Gokhale Flyover for travel between Andheri East and West, in a record-breaking 78 days.

As per the instructions of the Traffic Police, ancillary works and tests related to traffic management will be completed in the next two days.

Following this, the lane will be opened for West-East traffic from Thursday, July 4, at 5 pm.

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The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) launched a massive crackdown on illegal bars, restaurants, and unauthorized structures across the city, demolishing 41 establishments and sealing 98 paan shops in a coordinated operation, officials said.

The drive, spearheaded by Municipal Commissioner Kailas Shinde, involved hundreds of civic personnel and targeted unlawful commercial spaces, particularly in the Belapur and Yeoor Hills areas, reported PTI.

Seven bars were demolished in Yeoor Hills alone, while the maximum number of demolitions took place in Belapur.

The bodies of all five people swept away in a waterfall near Bhushi Dam in Pune's Lonavala area were found today with that of the last missing person, a 4-year-old boy, being fished out in the evening, an official said.

The five, comprising a woman and four children, drowned at around 12.30 pm on Sunday and the bodies of three of them were recovered some hours later, while that of a girl was fished out earlier on Monday morning, he said.

"The body of Adnan Ansari was recovered this evening, after which the search operation was called off," said Suhas Jagtap, senior inspector of Lonavala police station.

The bodies of Shahista Liaqat Ansari (36), Amina Adil Ansari (13) and Umera Adil Ansari (8) were found by rescuers some hours after search-and-rescue operations started at the site on Sunday afternoon.

The Maharashtra government will soon unveil a policy regarding hoardings in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), state Minister Uday Samant told the legislative assembly on Monday.

Samant made the statement during a discussion about hoardings erected in the city by violating rules and the hoarding collapse incident in which 17 people lost their lives last month.

"A policy will be unveiled once the code of conduct for the legislative council polls ends after the results are declared for the graduates and teachers constituencies," the minister said.

He said the committee headed by former Allahabad High Court chief justice Dilip Bhosle is probing the May 13 hoarding collapse in Mumbai's Ghatkopar area.

BJP legislator Ram Kadam alleged that Bhavesh Bhinde, whose firm erected the hoarding that collapsed, was photographed with Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, and his role should also be probed.

Samant further said that permissions are not taken from the civic authorities to erect hoardings on railway land.

Of the 1,025 hoardings in Mumbai, 306 are on railway land, he said.

BJP leader Ashish Shelar demanded an inquiry into hoardings erected since the COVID-19 pandemic.

He alleged that hoarding owners received subsidies and a 50 per cent discount on licences.

(With PTI inputs)

Sitting MLC Pradnya Satav will be the Congress candidate for the biennial council elections in Maharashtra.

Pradnya Satav is the wife of late AICC general secretary Rajeev Satav, who died due to Covid-19 complications in 2021. He was a member of the Rajya Sabha. Prior to that, he represented the Hingoli Lok Sabha seat.

The India Meteorology Department (IMD) has predicted that rains in the city will intensify this week, issuing a 'yellow alert' for Mumbai and an 'orange alert' in Palghar and other areas of the Konkan region.

IMD officials said the rains are likely to intensify owing to the strengthening of the westerly winds. “The westerly winds have started to gather strength again and a trough has developed in the west coast leading to low pressure.

The Crime Intelligence Unit of the Mumbai Crime Branch probing the fake visa racket allegedly being operated by Navy officers, arrested four persons, including one more Navy officer, on Saturday and Sunday.

The racket, allegedly involved in sending people to South Korea using forged documents, would tell them to tear up their visa papers once they reached there and seek asylum, which would then be followed by citizenship.

According to the crime branch, Sub-Lieutenant Braham Jyoti, posted in INS Shivaji Lonavla, said to be the mastermind of the racket, was arrested along with his associate Simran Teji.