MUMBAI: The head of Maharashtra's Covid task force Dr Sanjay Oak on Thursday said a coronavirus patient can infect 400 people, and hence, there is no .
Easter Sunday, the most important occasion on the Christian calendar which comes up April 4, will also be celebrated without community fanfare.
MUMBAI: For second year in a row, the Catholic Church has pressed the mute button on holy week festivities.
Elaborate ceremonies and processions have been cancelled owing to the resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Easter Sunday, the most important occasion on the Christian calendar which comes up April 4, will also be celebrated without community fanfare.
Archbishop of Bombay, Oswald Cardinal Gracias, will broadcast all his services online. Issuing Holy Week guidelines to priests, he said, The washing of the feet ceremony at Maundy Thursday is cancelled. On Good Friday, the individual kissing of the cross is prohibited. After the unveiling, the cross will be held aloft for the entire congregation to venerate.
Driver Mohamad Tatif Khan (33) was handed over to the police.
ALIBAUG: At least four people were killed and three injured when a truck hit them on a 15-km stretch of Murud-Roha Road in Maharashtra s Raigad district, police said on Thursday.
The incident took place around 7.30pm on Wednesday, when a truck carrying some materials from a factory in Salav hit three persons near Cheher and Aamli villages, an official said.
The vehicle moved on without halting and knocked over a two-wheeler carrying a family of three near Nhave village, he said.
Primary school teacher Laxman Babu Dhebe (42), his wife Rameshvari (38) and 13-year-old son Rohit were killed on the spot, the official said.
WR spokesperson said, The services will be suspended for one month from today.
The train services had remained suspended since lockdown from March 2020 till October. It was again shut in November due to poor occupancy.
Passengers who had booked the ticket have been informed and their refunds will be processed accordingly.
Mumbai: The Mumbai-Ahmedabad Tejas Express will stop running from April 2 for one month as cases of Covid-19 has jumped exponentially.
WR spokesperson said, The services will be suspended for one month from today.
The train services had remained suspended since lockdown from March 2020 till October. It was again shut in November due to poor occupancy.
Bombay high court. (File photo)
MUMBAI: Holding that free and fair elections are the hallmark of democracy, the Bombay high court on Thursday set aside a July 2020 decision of the state government that allowed district guardian ministers to be consulted in appointments of administrators to gram panchayats pending elections to the local self-governing bodies.
The HC noted that now elections have already been held in many of the Gram Panchayats. The constitutional scheme envisaged the Panchayat Raj and high degree of autonomy to the Gram Panchayats. The sheer magnitude of large number of Gram Panchayats and their importance in a democratic set up is a good reason why any political dispensation would be eager to gain control and extend its hold over the Gram Panchayats,’’ said a bench of Justices S S Shinde and M S Karnik.