Mumbai

Earlier in the day, BharatPe announced that former SBI veteran Rajnish Kumar is joining its board as the chairman and will be playing the role of a mentor for the fintech's team on the path to forming an SFB.

The container was imported from Kandahar in the name of an importer firm with address of Masjid Bunder in South Mumbai, the DRI said, adding it arrived via Chabahar port in Iran.

BMC counsel Anil Sakhare also told the HC that 2,586 bed-ridden people have so far been administered both the doses of Covid-19 vaccine, while 3,942 people got the first jab.

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence on September 16 seized two shipping containers at the Mundra Port that had arrived from Afghanistan with at least Rs 2,000 crore narcotics.

The timetable for opening new colleges and introducing new courses has been postponed for a period of one month by the Maharashtra government as meetings mandated for the exercise could not be held amid the COVID19 pandemic, an official said.

Rao (82) was granted interim bail for six months on medical grounds by the HC on February 22 this year, and was scheduled to surrender and return to judicial custody on September 5.

Several reports had suggested earlier that if the speculated third wave of COVID-19 does not hit Maharashtra then the schools can reopen in a phased manner after Diwali.

Gangster turned builder Ashwin Naikhas spent a number of years in jail in connection with over a dozen cases across the country pertaining to extortion, narcotics and murders.

A cyclonic circulation is developing over the Bay of Bengal.

The nearly 1,500-page charge-sheet against Kundra and his associate Ryan Thorpe was filed before a magistrate court here by the crime branch.

The BMC report also said that the civic body's pest control department inspected 4,46,077 houses and detected and destroyed 4,108 mosquito-breeding spots.

The DGP also said that police must monitor railway stations, colleges etc to keep a check on eve-teasing.

On September 4 the state had administered 12,27,224 jabs, a record which was broken on Wednesday.

Nagpur has already announced the arrival of the third wave; the state government says it will impose stricter rules if oxygen consumption in Maharashtra goes above 700 MT.

A total of 1,00,41,579 vaccine doses have been administered so far to beneficiaries across all eligible age groups, the data showed.

Earlier on August 21, the state had administered over 11.04 lakh doses in a single day.