Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Mumbai sees nine COVID-19 cases, no death; active tally now 29

Mumbai sees nine COVID-19 cases, no death; active tally now 29

Mumbai on Friday reported nine COVID-19 cases, which took the tally here to 11,55,151, while the death toll stood unchanged at 19,746, a civic official said.
The addition to the tally is a slight rise from the seven cases reported a day earlier, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation official said. The recovery count increased by five to touch 11,35,376, leaving the metropolis with 29 active cases, he added. As per BMC data, the recovery rate was 98.3 per cent, while the caseload doubling time was 2,18,342 days. So far, 1,86,49,078 coronavirus tests have been conducted in the city, including 2,612 in the last 24 hours. (PTI)

HC order on Monday on Kochhars` pleas challenging their arrest in loan fraud case

The Bombay High Court on Friday heard prosecution and defence arguments on the applications of former ICICI Bank CEO and MD Chanda Kochhar and her businessman-husband Deepak Kochhar, challenging their arrest by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in an alleged loan fraud case, and reserved its verdict which will be delivered on Monday. The Kochhars, along with Videocon group founder Venugopal Dhoot, were arrested by the CBI late last month for their alleged roles in the case and the trio is currently in jail under judicial custody. (PTI)

Shiv Sena (UBT) organisation intact in Nashik, says Raut as some functionaries join Shinde faction

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Friday said his party`s organisation was intact in Nashik despite some functionaries joining the rival faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. The Shiv Sena split into the Uddhav Thackeray and Shinde factions after the CM led a revolt in June and brought down the Maha Vikas Aghadi government on June 29 last year. Brushing aside the defections as irrelevant, Rajya Sabha MP Raut said, "People of Nashik don`t even know their names. Some brokers and contractors must have gone there (Shinde faction). The (Shiv Sena) organisation (in Nashik) remains." Several Shiv Sena (UBT) members had switched sides at an event attended by CM Shinde. (PTI)

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Friday asked Chief Minister Eknath Shinde to protect jobs and investments in Maharashtra and not fall prey to what it called his ally BJP`s plan of "diverting" big industrial projects from here to other states: PTI