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BMC seals actor Rekha’s bungalow after security guard tests Covid positive

The guard at the 65-year-old 'Umrao Jaan' actor's bungalow, Sea Springs, tested positive Tuesday, a civic official said.

WHO chief cites Dharavi as example of effective Covid outbreak control, BMC tweets thanks

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus mentions countries that have been able to control the outbreak, urging others to take aggressive combative strategies.

Can get tested for Covid-19 in Mumbai without doctor’s prescription, says BMC

Municipal commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal took the decision in view of increasing number of private labs and testing capacity.

How Covid hotspot Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum, fought against all odds to flatten the curve

Home to 8.5 lakh people living in cramped houses, Dharavi was deemed to fail. Yet, in two months, it appears to have turned the story around.

Mumbai works to ramp up its health infra as it slowly surfaces from Covid lockdown

Mumbai is planning to add over 8,000 beds in ‘jumbo’ field hospitals, and boost public infrastructure to ensure almost 6,500 Covid beds for critical care.

Average daily growth rate of Covid-19 infections reduced, claims BMC

Till 2 June, a total of 41,986 COVID-19 cases and 1,368 deaths were recorded in the city, the worst-hit by the disease in Maharashtra.

‘Feel like criminals’: Why Mumbai doctors are angry over civic body’s strict Covid test rules

BMC guidelines say doctors have to physically check patients before prescribing tests, failing which they stand to lose their licence.

Dharavi reports 41 new Covid-19 cases, total tally rises to 1,715

No new death was reported in Dharavi, due to which the toll remained unchanged at 70, a BMC official said.

99% of Mumbai ICU beds are occupied, BMC data shows

A total of 1,438 people tested positive for coronavirus in Mumbai Thursday taking the total number of cases in the city to 35,273.

On Camera

Should Goa share Mhadei waters? A living river can’t be divided like property

Asking Goa to give up 4% of a river’s flow to help parched districts seems reasonable, moral. But it masks a deeper ethical problem: who bears the burden of the ‘greater common good’?

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

India takes a relook at Russian Su-57, but not for its stealth. Here’s why

India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.