Mumbai News Updates: Rahul Narwekar to club Sena disqualification pleas

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Cyclonic storm expected in Arabian Sea: IMD issues warning

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has reported that a low-pressure system in the southeast and adjoining southwest Arabian Sea has evolved into a depression. Forecasts suggest that it will further intensify into a cyclonic storm by the morning of October 21, and potentially escalate into a severe cyclonic storm by October 22. The trajectory of the storm is projected to move north-north-westwards, ultimately heading toward the South Oman and adjoining Yemen coasts. Earlier, the IMD had issued a weather warning for Mumbai in light of the developing cyclonic storm in the Arabian Sea. However, the latest updates indicate that the city may not experience significant impacts.

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Jailed gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli visited the Navratri pandal at his bastion Dagdi Chawl

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: As air quality in Mumbai deteriorates, BMC says construction sites not taking pollution control measures will be shut down

With the air quality deteriorating in Mumbai, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Friday warned it would stop construction anywhere, may it be a private site or a government project, if dust and pollution control measures are not being taken. Construction is going on at a whopping 6,000 sites in the city currently, an official release quoted municipal commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal as saying. The Air Quality Index (AQI) in the city was above 200 (poor) at several places in the city during the day, the Central Pollution Control Board data showed.

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Maharashtra speaker to club all Shiv Sena disqualification petitions; next hearing on Oct 26

Maharashtra assembly speaker Rahul Narwekar on Friday decided to club the cross-petitions filed by the rival Shiv Sena factions seeking disqualification of each other`s MLAs after a split in the party last year, and hear them together, an opposition legislator said after attending a hearing on the matter. He gave time till October 25 to the ruling Shiv Sena headed by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and the rival faction led by former CM Uddhav Thackeray to submit their written replies to the petitions submitted by them to the speaker`s office, said the legislator.