Navi Mumbai: Kalamboli resident arrested for illegally selling Remdesivir
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The police busted a Remdesivir black marketing racket wherein the vials were being sold for over eight times the original price, officials said.
The police have arrested a man from Navi Mumbai and have seized three vials from him. Investigations are on as to from where he had sourced the vials.
The arrested person has been identified as RD Kanade (38), a resident of Kalamboli in Navi Mumbai.
According to the police, specific information was received by them that a man would be arriving at Shivaji Chowk in Khandeshwar area on late Saturday night in order to sell Remdesivir vials in black. The police had also learnt that person was supposed to sell each vial for Rs 25,000, while original cost of each vials is around Rs 1,500.
Latur on Tuesday recorded 1,477 fresh COVID-19 cases (Representational)
Latur:
A private hospital in Latur city intimated the family of COVID-19 patients about the shortage of oxygen, following which relatives attempted to agitate at Shivaji Chowk area around 8 am, the official said.
The police managed to counsel the angry family members and cleared the road in 15 to 20 minutes, he said.
The director of the hospital has alleged that the facility has not been given enough medical oxygen to treat critical patients. The hospital has the capacity to treat 50 critical patients. My demand is 200 cylinders, but I was given 10 from one agency, despite paying an advance for the same, he said.
The BMC has pasted notices on trees that may be hacked in Chembur
MUMBAI: Chembur residents are planning to hold a peaceful Chipko protest after learning that the BMC is likely to cut down over 150 trees to make way for the Metro-2B project, which will connect DN Nagar to Mandale in Mankhurd.
Even as the civic gardens department and local ward office were passing the buck on each other on where residents could submit suggestions and objections, notices have already been pasted on the trees. Chembur, which is a highly polluted area, is already deficit in green cover. We request the BMC to stay the cutting/transplantation pending consultations with us and other stakeholders, urged Hemant Petare, general secretary of the Chembur Citizens Forum.
Directs for strict adherence to schedule, maintain 24/7 customer care service
JAMMU: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan, Thursday while conducting a surprise visit to receiving stations and central workshop of Jammu division issued several instructions to officers of Power Development Department for effective regulation of power supply and further streamlining the system.
During his visit to the receiving stations, he directed the officers to strictly adhere to the schedule already announced for both rural and urban areas and no unscheduled power cuts should take place. Healso directed them for stepping up enforcement drives to reduce power pilferage and seizure of banned equipments and maintain proper record of that on daily basis.