Sanjana Bhalerao

The monkeypox virus is an orthopoxvirus, which is a genus of viruses that also includes the variola virus, which causes smallpox, and the vaccinia virus, which was used in the smallpox vaccine.

According to the seven-day forecast, Mumbai is likely to record its first pre-monsoon showers of the season this week. While cloudy skies are expected for most of the week, rain and thunderstorms are likely on May 28 and 29.

In the city, there has been no report of any suspected or confirmed case of the viral zoonotic disease that causes fever, chills, rashes and lesions on the face or genitals.

Notably, this is the same apartment where Amravati MP Navneet Rana and her husband MLA Ravi Rana had been arrested on April 23 by the Mumbai police over the Hanuman Chalisa row.

An AQI between 201 and 300 is categorised as ‘poor’ and between 301 and 400 is categorised as ‘very poor’ or red. The higher the AQI value, the greater the level of air pollution and health concerns.

Mumbai weather, temperature today: As per the forecast issued by the System of Air Quality Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR), Mumbai’s AQI indicates ‘upper end of poor’ levels and is likely to be within ‘poor’ category for the next two days.

According to the forecast, the AQI in the country’s commercial capital is likely to remain in the ‘red’ or ‘very poor’ category on Friday.

Construction work on the project was stopped for over two months due to the protests earlier and losses had run into crores of rupees.

The order stated that if the signboard displays the name of any shop or business in more than one script, the one in Devanagari font should be bigger. The font of the Marathi-Devanagari script cannot be smaller than that of other scripts.

For over two months, between October 2021 and January this year, fisherfolk from Worli Koliwada prevented the contractor from beginning the construction of an interchange between the coastal road and the Worli end of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link.

From 11 am to 10 pm, the digitised valet parking services can be availed through a mobile app

Five Turtles — Prathama, Savani (on January 25), Vanashree, Rewa and Laxmi (on February 13 and 16) — were tagged with platform transmitter terminals (PTTs), which were fitted with epoxy resin on the carapace (hard shell) of the turtle in Ratnagiri district.

The decision to relax the norms about the precaution dose for overseas travellers was based on recommendations issued by the National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (NTAGI).

The zoo has also received a pair of leopards from Nagpur. All three animals reached Mumbai a month ago and have finished their quarantine.

A joint initiative between the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES) and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the Integrated Flood Warning System, also called iFLOWS-Mumbai, relays alerts of possible flood-prone areas anywhere between six and 72 hours in advance

Between December 2021 and March 2022, the Thane Creek Flamingo Sanctuary (TCFS) witnessed 54,000 greater flamingos. In pre-pandamic 2019, 25,000 greater flamingos were recorded at TCFS.

BMC is also preparing a database of all the elderly and disabled living in the landslide-prone areas and may require additional help. The trained volunteers will be provided with the list.

Locals have been given subject training by bird, mangrove and biodiversity experts.

Why did the court restrain the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) from carrying out any reclamation or construction work? And what will the civic body do now?

The city is witnessing a small rise in cases as 100 cases were detected on Tuesday, after just 56 cases being recorded on Monday, due to a drop in testing numbers.

Following the third wave, on February 12, the TPR had gone below 1 per cent.

On Wednesday, Ahemdnagar in Madhya Maharashtra was the hottest in the state, logging 44 degrees Celsius of maximum temperature.

According to a weather warning, "heatwave conditions are very likely to prevail at isolated places". A gradual rise in maximum temperature by 2-3 degrees Celsius over Vidarbha is likely in the next 4-5 days.

On offer are fruit and vegetable icicles and lollies for sloth bears, monkeys and Asian elephants — Anarkali is one of the latter. The Royal Bengal tigers, including Karishma and Shakti, and leopards get to chew on frozen meat and bones.