The city recorded an increase of two degrees Celsius in the day temperature in the last 24 hours. The maximum temperature increased on Friday, a day after the withdrawal of Southwest Monsoon over Mumbai. The India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) Santa Cruz Observatory recorded a maximum temperature of 36.4 degrees Celsius – 3 degrees above normal. The minimum temperature in Mumbai on Friday was 24.4 degrees Celsius. High relative humidity was also recorded at 79 per cent on Friday morning.
The highest maximum temperature recorded in October was 38.6 °C in 2015. According to the IMD, the average maximum temperature for October for the city is 33.4 degrees Celsius.
A special court on Thursday dismissed an application seeking quashing of the look-out circular (LOC) issued against the former chief financial officer of a firm linked to fugitive jeweler Nirav Modi. Ravi Gupta, named as an accused in the Punjab National Bank (PNB) ‘fraud’ case, had sought cancellation of the LoC against him, saying it was preventing him from traveling abroad for his work.
Gupta said he cooperated with the CBI probe and appeared before the agency 31 times. He said that neither he has been arrested nor charge sheet has been filed in this case. Gupta said he was surprised to know about the LoC and had requested the CBI to quash it, but it was not done.
Addressing the annual Dussehra rally at Bhagwangarh in Beed district on Friday, BJP national secretary Pankaja Munde, in a veiled attack on her own party rivals, said, “How long will you stop me.” Munde also announced that she is going to visit villages across Maharashtra to support reservation for Marathas and OBCs.
“Maratha reservation is for education and jobs while OBC reservation is for political empowerment. They are not blocking each other’s path. Still, in the name of reservation politics, efforts are being made to create Maratha vs OBC.
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