Mumbai: Five Malayalees arrested with drugs in Navi Mumbai. Five Malayalees were arrested with 80 grams of heroin worth Rs 8 lakh at Vashi Mafco market in Navi Mumbai. A group from Kerala was caught while trying to escape with drugs.

According to the police, they were in possession of intoxicating drugs which were collected to be smuggled to Kerala. The police laid a trap based on information that a few people were coming from Kerala to buy heroin at the Mafco market in Sanpada.

Nandu Subramaniam (28) from Kozhikode, Abubakar Siddiqui from Kasargod, Aman Muhammad (26), Umar Akram (38) and Nasim Musa (30) from Kannur were arrested. They got down from Kerala by train at Panvel station and reached Vashi. When they were caught after buying drugs, they were caught by the police while trying to escape.

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has sent a letter to the states given the increasing cases of Covid in China and the US.
Center with the latest move to track covid variants amid rising new covid cases in China and the US.

The Center has sent a letter to the states after the news that the cases of Covid are increasing in China and the US. The Ministry of Health’s move is to monitor the genetic change of covid viruses by increasing genome sequencing of positive cases by tracking coronavirus variants using the INSACOG network system.

The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) is a consortium of more than 50 laboratories to monitor genetic variations in the Covid-19 virus. Genome sequencing is a technique used to identify and understand the characteristics of the coronavirus and to observe the genetic change.

“Because of the sudden surge in the number of Covid cases in Japan, the United States of America, the Republic of Korea, Brazil, and China, it is imperative to prepare genome sequencing of all positive case samples through the INSACOG network,” Health Ministry Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said in a letter to states.

Mumbai: Indian Railways has decided to run a winter special train from Mumbai to Kerala via the Konkan railway. The preliminary information is that the general quota will mostly go to Kanyakumari. Train (01461) departs from Mumbai CST at 3.30 PM on Thursday. It will reach Kanyakumari at 11.20 pm the next day. Train (01462) will return from Kanyakumari to Mumbai CST at 2.15 pm on Saturday. The journey will be via Kottayam. It will arrive at 11 pm CST the next day.

New York City:  An Indian-origin entrepreneur died in a fire in New York. 32-year-old Tania Bathija died. Died in a fire at Dix Hills Cottage on Long Island, New York. The accident happened on the 14th at around 3 a.m. Tania lived in a cottage behind her parents’ house on Carl’s Straight Path. Tania’s father, Govind Bathija, went out for a walk on the morning of the 14th when he saw the fire rising from his daughter’s cottage.

The police and fire brigade reached the spot and extinguished the fire, but Tania could not be saved. Meanwhile, Suffolk County Police said the fire was not suspicious. Tania’s pet dog also died of burns.

Jammu: In an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian. The army killed 3 terrorists. Three Lashkar terrorists were subdued by the army in the encounter.

Security forces say more terrorists are hiding in the area. An extensive search is ongoing in the area.
The encounter took place early this morning when security forces were carrying out an anti-terror operation in the Munje Marg area. A rifle and two pistols were recovered from the encounter site.

Mumbai: Nine new cases of Covid-19 were reported in Maharashtra on Monday, while six cases were recorded in Mumbai alone last day. With one death reported in the Raigarh district, the number of Covid-19 deaths in the state rose to 1,48,412.

Health officials said that the number of people infected with Covid-19 in the state so far has increased to 81,36,348. 145 people are currently under treatment in Maharashtra.

So far 23,87,929 cases and 40,133 deaths have been reported in Mumbai circle. The data from the state health department revealed that the recovery rate was 98.17 percent and the death rate was 1.82 percent.

The threat of covid is spreading concern in the financial capital of the country despite the warning that the spread of covid in China will be extreme in the coming days.