Nearly 30 birds injured due to kite strings were rescued from across Mumbai during Makar Sankranti on Monday, a forest official said. Distress calls were received from different parts of the city, said Pawan Sharma, founder and president of Resqink Association for Wildlife Welfare (RAWW) and honorary wildlife warden with forest department.
The recently inaugurated MTHL sea bridge has recorded traffic of over 79,000 vehicles on Saturday and Sunday, as per the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority. The bridge was inaugurated by PM Narendra Modi on January 12 and was opened to public the next day. As per the MMRDA, on Day 1, a total of 24,000 vehicles took the sea bridge, while it was 55,000 vehicles on Day 2.