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Mumbai Metro car shed row: Bombay High Court stays transfer of land at Kanjurmarg to MMRDA; setback to Uddhav Thackeray government
Mirror Online / Updated: Dec 16, 2020, 17:41 IST
Kanjurmarg for construction of a
Metro car shed.
The Centre and the Shiv Sena-led MVA government in Maharashtra are locked in a tussle over ownership of the land.
The interim stay comes as the Bombay High Court directs MMRDA to maintain status quo on the land till the Centre and other parties that have claimed title rights over the disputed land can be heard.
The state government had told the court that it backs the decision of the collector and would stick by it. The state government had also claimed that the decision would not impinge on the rights of the Centre either.
Thane: New cases drop below 100 for the second time in a week
Mirror Online / Updated: Dec 16, 2020, 11:08 IST
coronavirus cases in
Thane city continues to remain below 150 for nearly 10 days, and for the second time, the number has dropped below 100.
On Tuesday, the lake city reported 90 new cases, taking the overall count to 53,615.
With 941 patients taking treatment, the active cases remain below 1,000.
87 people were also discharged, taking the count of recoveries to 51,462.
However, with two more people losing their lives, the death toll has increased to 1,214.
So far, the city has conducted 7.42 lakh cases, including 5,504 on Tuesday.
The recovery rate remains highest in the country at 96 per cent.
Will Mumbai local trains resume from January 2021?
Mirror Online / Updated: Dec 15, 2020, 15:24 IST
Mumbai local trains
Mumbai local train services for all,
Maharashtra Cabinet Minister has hinted that train services could resume at the beginning of the new year.
Vijay Wadettiwar, the Cabinet Minister for
Relief and Rehabilitation spoke about resumption of trains while speaking to the media during the assembly session.
Although almost all activities have been opened in phases after the
lockdown, Mumbai
local train services are not resumed at full capacity as yet.
The alertness of Railway Protection Force (RPF) constables saved a 29-year-old woman from being crushed to death under a running train at Mumbra railway station on Monday morning.
Farmers’ protests: Twitter, mainstream media reduce Indian farmer to binaries of Khalistani and well-heeled; truth is hardly this simplistic Khabar Lahariya’s ground reportage, featuring interviews with farmers from Bundelkhand, investigates the diversity of issues that make up the ongoing agitation in particular, and the agrarian sector in general Khabar Lahariya December 12, 2020 10:45:38 IST Protesting farmers from Bundelkhand. YouTube screenshot/Khabar Lahariya
In the first segment of a two-part series, Khabar Lahariya looks at how the identity of the Indian farmer is not as homogenous as politically-motivated Twitter trends will have you believe, and how as the primary stakeholders of these agrarian policies, the real farming communities are actually best suited to know its pitfalls.