Mumbai LIVE: Fire breaks out in commercial building in Lower Parel

Mumbai reported four COVID-19 cases on Friday, which took the tally here to 11,55,308, while the death toll stood unchanged at 19,747, a civic official said.
On Thursday too, the metropolis had reported identical case and death figures. (PTI)

A major fire broke out in a four-storey commercial building at Lower Parel in central Mumbai on Friday evening, civic officials said. There was no report of any injury in the blaze which erupted at around 7.15 pm in an office on the third floor of the building located in Raghuvanshi Mill compound, they said: PTI

Maharashtra governor-designate Ramesh Bais and his wife Rambai Bais arrived in Raj Bhavan in Mumbai on Friday and were accorded a grand welcome by staff and officials. A Raj Bhavan release said Santosh Kumar, principal secretary to the governor, joint secretaries Shweta Singhal and Prachi Jambhekar were present.
Bais will take oath as governor of Maharashtra on Saturday. (PTI)

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday said the Election Commission`s decision in favour of Eknath Shinde established that Shinde leads "the real Shiv Sena. "It is now proved that Eknath Shinde leads the real Shiv Sena. The decision has been given on merit," Fadnavis told reporters in Nagpur. "Shiv Sena is a party of ideology. Shinde is taking the ideology ahead....he is walking in (Sena founder) Balasaheb Thackeray`s footsteps," the BJP leader said. (PTI)