Several parts of the city recorded heavy showers overnight between Monday and Tuesday. Till 8. at 30am on Tuesday, the Indian Meteorological Department’s observatory recorded nearly three-digit rainfall.
As the showers began late at night and came in intervals, no case of severe waterlogging was reported.
Rainfall figures indicated that most of the rainfall was recorded after 8. 30pm. In the 12 hours ended 8. at 30pm on Monday, the IMD’s Colaba observatory had recorded 2. 8mm rain and the one at Santacruz 4mm.
Oil, gas and metals conglomerate Vedanta Limited, along with its joint-venture partner Foxconn, a Taiwanbased multinational contract electronics manufacturer, will jointly invest $20 billion (approximately Rs 1.5 lakh crore) in Gujarat.
The JV’s decision to choose Gujarat for the project comprising a semiconductor fabrication unit, a display fabrication unit, and a semiconductor assembling and testing unit instead of Maharashtra triggered a political blame game in the state, with the opposition targeting the Eknath ShindeDevendra Fadnavis government for losing out on a mega opportunity and deputy CM Fadnavis blaming the erstwhile MVA government for not inviting Foxconn for two years when they were working on the deal with Gujarat.
While Shiv Sena’s Aaditya Thackeray said he was shocked to see that a project “almost finalized” had been lost, Fadnavis told TOI, “If at all a blame game is to start, it’s the earlier government that is to be blamed. Our government came just a few days back. ”
The executing authority for the underground Metro 3 corridor (Colaba-Bandra-Seepz) has targeted bringing all nine rakes required to commence Phase I services (Aarey-BKC) by June 2023.
The first rake arrived for trials in Mumbai from Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, this July.
Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL) is currently conducting the “initial design-proving” trial run of the first prototype train. MMRCL’s managing director Ashwini Bhide said, “A second rake will arrive by the end of November.
Nine trains required for the commissioning of Phase I would be made available by June 23 and the remaining will arrive by May 2024. ”
Two 19-year-old women, both childhood friends and living in the same building in Pune, allegedly committed suicide within a span of an hour, police said on Wednesday.
The incidents took place on Tuesday evening in Shewalwadi area of Hadapsar town here in Maharashtra, they said.
One of the women allegedly hanged herself in the bedroom of her residence at around 6.30 pm, police inspector Arvind Gokule said.
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Wednesday wondered whether Eknath Shinde was made the chief minister of Maharashtra at the cost of losing the mega Vedanta-Foxconn semiconductor project to Gujarat.
NCP chief spokesperson Mahesh Tapase asked if Shinde, a Shivsainik, was serving the interest of Maharashtra or Gujarat.The plant was earlier supposed to be set up in Maharashtra and the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government had held several rounds of discussions with Foxconn.
The ED seized 91.5 kg gold and 340 kg silver during the last week search at the premises of bullion traders in a money laundering case investigating against Parekh Aluminex Ltd company.
Parekh Aluminex took around Rs 2,297 crore as loan from banks. The company had allegedly siphoned off the money through various companies and defaulted the bank payment.
Legendary jazz musician Ramsey Lewis, known for hits such as ‘The In Crowd’ and ‘Wade in the Water,’ passed away at the age of 87 at his home in Chicago.
According to Fox News, Jazz fans hold Lewis in high regard for songs from the 1960s like ‘The ‘In’ Crowd,’ ‘Hang on Sloopy,’ and ‘Wade in the Water.’
Three Grammys and seven gold records were earned by him. The group’s debut album, ‘Ramsey Lewis and the Gentlemen of Swing,’ was released in 1956.
Lewis died Monday in his sleep at his Chicago home, according to his son, Bobby Lewis. Lewis began learning the piano at the age of 4. His early years were spent in Chicago, where he used his background in gospel and classical music to forge his own jazz style in the countless local clubs that employed burgeoning jazz musicians.
“It gave us a lot of opportunity to try our ideas and learn what it means to perform in front of an audience,” Lewis said as he was named National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2007.
He went on a globe tour and gave a performance at the state dinner for President Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil that was hosted by then-President Bill Clinton in 1995.
“I believe that my father — his love for the piano and his passion for the piano and how he coveted this love and how he protected it — that gave him longevity,” Bobby Lewis said.
Lewis spent the final year of his life working on his memoirs, which are finished and slated to be released next year, according to Brett Steele, whose Tampa, Florida-based Steele Management has represented Lewis since 2011.
In addition to his wife and son, Lewis is also survived by his daughters Denise Jeffries and Dawn Allain, his other sons Kendall Kelly Lewis and Frayne Lewis, as well as a large number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The public ballot for next year’s London Marathon will have a non-binary gender option for the first time, organisers confirmed on Wednesday.
All potential runners in the mass participation event will have three gender options when the ballot opens on Oct. 1 — male, female and non-binary.
The elite races, which all operate under World Athletics rules, will not offer a non-binary gender option.
“This is a significant step forward for the TCS London Marathon as we continue our journey to make our event truly inclusive,” Event Director Hugh Brasher said.
“We know there is still much more to be done, but changes such as this demonstrate our commitment to making the TCS London Marathon an event that is for everyone.”
The change has been implemented following an extensive review and consultation period by London Marathon Events (LME) aimed at making the event the most “diverse, equitable and inclusive” marathon in the world, the statement added.
The London Marathon’s announcement comes the day after the Boston Marathon also said it would have a non-binary option for those signing up for next year’s race.
Next year’s London Marathon takes place on April 23.
The three gender options (male, female and non-binary) will be offered to all participants registering for the mass participation element of the London Marathon via other entry routes, including charity entries.
Smruti Shekhar Panchal, a resident of Bhayanderpada, Thane, reportedly having hundreds of fake facebook accounts and several Gmail accounts got arrested by Cyber police for not only trolling Amruta Fadnavis but by using a fake account she posted abusive messages in response to a post by Amruta Fadnavis, a complaint filed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) youth wing functionary Pallavi Sapre. According to the complaint, Sapre came across a post by Amruta Fadnavis on September 7, which pertained to a function and included some photographs.
A Facebook user named Ganesh Kapoor made three objectionable comments as responses to that post. The comments were “highly abusive, vulgar and derogatory in nature,” a cyber-police officer said. Following Sapre’s complaint, the Mumbai cyber police sought details of the account holder and the IP address of the electronic device from which the comments were posted.
This led them to Panchal, in whose name the device was listed. She was arrested from her residence on Monday evening. Panchal has been booked under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Information Technology Act, 2000, and both her mobile handsets have been seized by the police for the investigation. Police interrogation revealed that Panchal had created a fake account on the social media platform and abused Fadnavis. They also found that this was not the first time she had done so.
Yashasvi Yadav, special inspector general of police, state cyber police said “Panchal is a serial offender and she had similarly abused people using her original Facebook account, following which in November 2021 the authorities wrote to Facebook to “take down” her account as it was abusive. The account was taken down by Facebook. She then created another Facebook account in the name of Ganesh Kapoor. For this she has also created a similar sounding fake email account,” the official quoted above said. “We have found 53 fake social media accounts and 16 fake email accounts from her mobile phones. She has been harassing Amruta Fadnavis for the last two years. After we managed to take down her account last year she created this fake account in the name of Ganesh Kapoor,”
Amruta Fadnavis always maintained dignified calm on social media trolls and she gave several statements to the media stating that she ignores the trolls. “It’s natural to get trolled on social media “I post on social media and then forget. I don’t look back to keep tabs on trolls, but focus on giving positive criticism when needed. It’s about endurance. You have to change your mind-set about trolls so they don’t attack you.”
Amid tough global market conditions, tech giant HCL Technologies has reportedly laid off 350 employees globally, including in India, Guatemala, and the Philippines, who were working on a Microsoft news project, media reports said.
According to reports, the workers, who were employed by HCL’s client Microsoft’s news outlet MSN, reportedly learned that they had been let go at a town hall meeting last week.
The last day of employment is reportedly September 30 for the laid-off employees, who will receive severance compensation.
Last month, a report said that at least half of the companies worldwide are planning to lay off people, with most reducing bonuses and rescinding job offers amid the economic downturn.
As per the latest PwC ‘Pulse: Managing business risks in 2022’ survey released last month, 50% of respondents are reducing their overall headcount, even as business leaders remain concerned about hiring and retaining talent.
More than 32,000 tech workers have been laid off in the US since July, including at Big Tech companies like Microsoft and Meta (formerly Facebook), and the worst has not been over yet for the tech sector that has seen a massive stock sell-off.
In India, more than 25,000 startup workers have lost their jobs since the pandemic began — and more than 12,000 have been fired this year.
