Once again fresh tenders will be called for the redevelopment of Asia's biggest slum ‘Dharavi’ located in Mumbai suburbs that is expected to improve the lives of nearly 78,000 people. The Maharashtra government led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis in the Cabinet meeting Wednesday gave clearance to a proposal to call fresh tenders to carry out the much-awaited project.
Meanwhile, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde along with three ministers, including Industries Minister Uday Samant, Ports Minister Dadaji Bhuse, and Horticulture Minister Sandipan Bhumare, reach Delhi on Wednesday. According to sources within the Shinde camp, Samant has been asked to stay in Delhi and a few developments regarding Maharashtra’s politics may take place at night. “There is likely to be a big announcement from Delhi today evening,” said a senior Maharashtra minister.
In other news, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction Wednesday approached the Bombay High Court seeking direction to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) commissioner and its assistant commissioner of G-North ward to grant permission to hold a Dussehra rally at Shivaji Park in Mumbai on October 5. The petition was mentioned for urgent hearing before a bench of Justice Ramesh D Dhanuka and Justice Kamal R Khata on Wednesday morning, which kept it for hearing on Thursday.
The state tourism department Thursday started e-bus services in the Kaas plateau area of Satara — also known as Maharashtra's plateau of flowers. The plateau gets a lot of visitors in September and October when the flowers bloom. The e-buses were flagged off by Maharashtra tourism minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha. The Maharashtra government will also construct a viewing gallery in Kaas, which is located 25 km from Satara. The plateau, a Unesco protected site, spreads over 10,000 sq km.
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Mumbai on Thursday reported 98 COVID-19 cases, the second time the addition to the tally was less than 100 this month, a civic official said. The metropolis also recorded two deaths, which took the toll to 19,728, he added.
The tally in the city now stands at 11,49,445, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation official said. Only nine out of the 98 new cases are symptomatic, he added. (PTI)
Maharashtra's public health department will conduct a health check-up of three crore women in the upcoming Navratri festival. "We will run a special campaign for the safety of women's health.
Under this, various health related tests will be conducted. We have set a target to reach three crore women through this," said the state's public health department minister, Tanaji Sawant.
The campaign will run daily between 9 am and 2 pm. Special health camps will be organised at primary healthcare centres where tests on weight, height, heamoglobin and blood sugar, among others, will be conducted.
The State Minority Development Department has commissioned the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) to conduct a study on the social, economic and educational development of the Muslim community in 56 cities in Maharashtra that have a substantial Muslim population.
In a government resolution, the deparment earmarked Rs 33 lakh funds for the project. “The study will analyse the social, educational and economic status of the Muslim community. It will also study the impact of the state's education, health, employment, housing, credit access and infrastructure policies on the community,” according to the government resolution.
A suspected case of lumpy skin disease in an animal has been detected in Mumbai suburb of Khar, a Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) official said.
So far, the metropolis has not reported any confirmed case of lumpy skin disease which affects cattle like cows and buffaloes. The official said they have sent samples of the cattle showing symptoms of the disease for lab examination and a report was awaited. (PTI)
A court remanded five activists of the Popular Front of India (PFI) in the custody of the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad till September 26.
They are accused of indulging in `unlawful activities promoting enmity among communities' and `waging a war against the country'. The ATS arrested a total of 20 PFI activists from various places in the state on Thursday as part of the nation-wide multi-agency operation led by the National Investigation Agency.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday slammed the opposition parties in Maharashtra for "shedding crocodile tears" over shifting of a Vedanta-Foxconn semiconductor plant to Gujarat from the state, and accused them of creating hurdles for five big-ticket projects during their rule. She was addressing a press conference near Pune on the sidelines of a programme. (PTI)
While proclaiming he still had a long political innings ahead, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said he is here to stay even if people wish for his career to end.
The deputy chief minister's terse remark was a response to former chief minister Uddhav Thackeray's prediction that next election will also mark last election for Fadnavis. At a party's function held at Goregaon, Thackeray had dared union minister Amit Shah and Fadnavis to hold elections within a month. He had said, “ This will be the last election for Fadnavis.”
Thakker said that there are over 20,000 potholes in Mumbai and citizens cannot always go to the corporation's website and report them.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Thursday cancelled the licence of Solapur-based Laxmi Co-operative Bank Ltd, after it found that the lender does not have adequate capital and earning prospects.
The RBI said the bank, with its present financial position, would be unable to pay its depositors in full and has also failed to comply with certain requirements of the Banking Regulation Act.
With this move, the bank has ceased to carry on banking business, the RBI said in a release. On liquidation, every depositor would be entitled to receive deposit insurance claim amount of their his/her deposits up to Rs 5 lakh from Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC).
College students performed during a flash mob as a tribute to the cultural diversity of India at Mumbai Central railway station.
Both runways at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) will reain closed on October 18 11 am to 5 pm for repair and maintenance work.
As part of its post monsoon preventive maintenance of runway intersection, major work like runway edge lights for runway 14/32, upgradation of AGL (Aeronautical ground lights ), among other major tasks will be undertaken.
Shiv Sena Yuva Sena president Aaditya Thackeray will visit Talegaon village in Pune Saturday where the Vedanta-Foxconn’s multibillion dollar semiconductor project was proposed to be built before it shifted to Gujarat.
According to Sena functionaries, a ‘Janaakrosh Aandolan’ will be staged in Talegaon to protest against the loss of employment opportunity in Maharashtra after the state government transferred the Vedanta-Foxconn project to Gujarat. Read more
Mumbai woke up to rains Thursday morning as heavy to moderate rainfall was recorded in both the island city and its suburban belts.
Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) officials, however, denied the chances of any heavy rainfall in the city and said that light to moderate spells of rain would continue to lash it for the next 48 hours. Read more
A woman lawyer in Mumbai took to Twitter to narrate her ordeal at the Andheri Government Railway Police (GRP) station where she was allegedly made to sit for three hours and narrate an experience of molestation three to four times to get a first information report (FIR) registered.
Following this Quaiser Khalid, GRP commissioner, asked the deputy commissioner of police (DCP) to conduct an inquiry. Read more
Between June 1990 and October 1996, three women pick-pocketers kidnapped at least 13 children from several locations across western Maharashtra and killed 9 of them, a police investigation into the kidnapping of a nine-year-old revealed.
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AIMING TO create a robust system to maintain Mumbai’s roads, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to digitise road data which will improve road safety, and minimise fatalities and accidents.
The civic body has, this month, floated tenders for appointment of an agency which will deliver artificial intelligence, machine- based fully automated platform for quality data collection for road assessment and inventory management, and providing solutions for remedial action. Read more
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena on Thursday said the Mumbai civic body's decision to deny permission to it for Dussehra rally at the Shivaji Park here was expected and claimed it was "very bad script of the BJP".
Former Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar, the spokesperson of the Thackeray-led Sena, also accused the BJP of trying to corner her party with the denial of permission for the rally on October 5.
Ajay Choudhary, leader of the Thackeray-led faction in the Maharashtra Assembly, asserted that the party's annual congregation will be held at at the iconic ground in central Mumbai irrespective of permission from the civic body.
He claimed the party will resort to "guerrilla warfare tactics" to hold its rally.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has denied permission to the Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena and rival party faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde for the Dussehra rally at the Shivaji Park. (PTI)
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday countered Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray's suggestion that the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Eknath Shinde faction of the SS resign and face civic and Assembly polls "within a month".
Speaking to reporters at the airport here, Fadnavis asked if Thackeray's legislators had resigned and faced the electorate afresh after he broke the alliance with the BJP post the 2019 Assembly polls and joined hands with the Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress.
Queried on raids by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad and arrests of 20 Popular Front of India (PFI) activists across the state during the day, Fadnavis said it was coordinated action by the agency and it would not be appropriate to speak on it now. (PTI)
The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad on Thursday arrested 20 activists of the Popular Front of India (PFI) from the state during a multi-nodal agency operation for allegedly indulging in unlawful activities promoting enmity among communities and waging a war against the country, an official said.
In near simultaneous raids across the length and breadth of the country, a multi-agency operation spearheaded by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday led to the arrest of 106 PFI activists in 11 states for allegedly supporting terror activities in the country, officials said.
According to the officials, the arrests were made during the raids which have been termed as the "largest-ever investigation process till date". (PTI)
Due to a loose bolt, one of the luggage rack came off in Virar bound AC local train which departed from Churchgate at 07.49 pm on 21.09.2022. It has been attended and the luggage rack has been re-fixed.
Additionally, all the AC rakes have been inspected and checked thoroughly for the same.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has denied permission to the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena as well as Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's faction for holding Dussehra rally at the Shivaji Park here, a top BMC official said on Thursday.
The permission has been denied on the basis of law and order issue raised by Mumbai Police, according to civic officials.
BMC Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal told PTI that the civic administration has denied permission to both the Shiv Sena factions for holding a rally at the Shivaji Park on the occasion of Dussehra on October 5.
The civic body has sent letters to both the factions conveying about the denial of permission, officials said. (PTI)
Mahim constituency MLA Sada Sarvankar, who belongs to CM Eknath Shinde faction, has moved an intervention application in the Bombay High Court against plea by Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction seeking permission to hold a Dussehra rally at Shivaji Park in Mumbai on October 5.
Sarvankar has sought to to be heard and be made party in the Thackeray-led Sena faction's plea and sought to stay proceedings in the same, since the proceedings pertaining to dispute between Thackeray and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Sena factions are pending before the Supreme Court and Election Commission of India over which faction is real Shiv Sena. Sarvankar said that he is an elected representative of the area where the rally is proposed and said that if the High Court passes an order in the plea, it will cause prejudice to him and Shinde faction.
NIA raids at the office of Popular Front Office India in Navi Mumbai. NIA officials have been raiding the office at Darave village in Nerul Sector 23 for the past six hours.
Almost 106 activists of the Popular Front of India were arrested on Thursday in early morning raids by multi-agencies led by the National Investigation Agency across the country for allegedly supporting terror activities in the country, officials said.
The maximum number of arrests were made in Kerala (22) followed by Maharashtra and Karnataka (20 each), Andhra Pradesh (5), Assam (9), Delhi (3), Madhya Pradesh (4), Puducherry (3), Tamil Nadu (10), Uttar Pradesh (8) and Rajasthan (2).
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A 22-year-old army aspirant who had come to Thane district in Maharashtra for an interview under the government's 'Agnipath' scheme was killed after being run over by a train, police said on Thursday.
The incident took place around 11 am on Wednesday at Mumbra railway station.
Rameshwar Deore, hailing from Dhule district in Maharashtra, had come to Mumbra where interviews are underway for the recruitment of 'Agniveers' under the scheme, an official from Thane railway police station said.
Deore was run over by a speeding train, the official said without giving more details. (PTI)
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will embark on a three-day tour of Baramati Lok Sabha segment in Maharashtra from Thursday as a part of the BJP's 'Pravas' campaign to strengthen the organisation in 144 Lok Sabha constituencies in the country.
The BJP has launched a campaign to boost the party's base in 144 Lok Sabha constituencies across the country including Baramati and 15 other seats in Maharashtra.
Maharashtra has a total of 48 Lok Sabha seats.
During the three-day visit to NCP chief Sharad Pawar's stronghold, Sitharaman is scheduled to visit all six Assembly segments - Baramati, Purandar, Indapur, Daund, Bhor and Khadakwasla - which come under the Baramati Lok Sabha constituency, a BJP leader said. (PTI)
The Bombay High Court will on Thursday hear a petition filed by the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena seeking permission to hold its annual Dussehra rally at the iconic Shivaji Park in central Mumbai on October 5.
The petition, seeking urgent hearing, was mentioned before a division bench of Justices R D Dhanuka and Kamal Khata on Wednesday.
The bench posted it for hearing on Thursday.
The plea said the party was constrained to approach the HC as the Mumbai civic body was yet to take a decision on their applications submitted in August seeking permission for the rally. (PTI)
Citizens participating in a human chain of cleanliness campaign at Pambees Road, Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation under Bharatiya Swachhata League.The Indian Swachhata League is India's first inter-city competition led by youth to build Garbage Free Cities. More than 1,800 cities from Leh to Kanniyakumari are participating by setting up a team for their city.
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A few weeks ago, while investigating two cases lodged at a police station in Ghatkopar along the eastern suburbs, the Mumbai Police’s cyber sleuths traced the suspects online to a location that had not popped up on their radar before — Ernakulam in Kerala.
One of these cases involved a gift card scam in which the complainant lost Rs 7 lakh. In the other, the complainant lost Rs 11 lakh on a fake website for investment in gold. Both the cases were lodged separately at the Pant Nagar police station. Taken together, they formed the latest dot on a cyber crime cluster map of sorts that the city’s police have been piecing together. Read more
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday made its 11th arrest in connection with the murder of Umesh Kolhe, 54, a chemist from Amravati city who was murdered earlier this year for a social media post in support of former BJP national spokesperson Nupur Sharma who had made derogatory comments about Prophet Muhammad.
The accused, however, claimed that he had voluntarily presented himself before the special court in Mumbai to surrender but before he could complete the formalities, he was arrested by the NIA.
The accused – identified as Shaim Ahmed alias Shahim alias Shaheem alias Sahim Mathe alias Monu Mathe -- is a resident of Amravati. Ahmed was allegedly actively involved in the conspiracy and the NIA had also declared Rs 2 lakh cash reward for any information leading to his arrest. Ahmed's lawyer Kaashif Ali said he had decided to voluntarily surrender before the court and cooperate with the NIA.
The Maharashtra government on Wednesday approved the creation of 18 new reserve forests in the state besides seven proposed reserve forest areas, an official release said. It will take the number of protected sanctuaries in the state to 52.
The new reserve forests are: Velhe Mulshi (87.41 sq km) in Pune and Raigad districts, Lonavla (121.20 sq km), Naneghat (98.87 sq km) in Pune-Thane districts, Bhorgirigad (37.64 sq km) in Pune, Dindori (62.10 sq km), Surgana (86.28 sq km) and Taharabad (122.45 sq km) in Nashik district, Kareghat (97.45 sq km) and Chinchpada (93.91 sq km) in Nandurbar, Ghera Manikgad (53.25 sq km) and Alibaug (60.03 sq km) in Raigad district, Rajmachi, Gumtara (125.50 sq km) in Thane, Jawhar (118.28 sq km), Dhamni (49.15 sq km), Asherigad (80.95 sq km) in Palghar, Atpadi (9.48 sq km) in Sangli and Ekara (102.99 sq km) in Chandrapur district, it said. (PTI)
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday attacked Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray, and claimed himself to be the real torchbearer of Balasaheb Thackeray's ideals.
Shinde, who is in Delhi with some of his cabinet colleagues, said the Shiv Sena faction loyal to him is being labelled as "betrayers" by those who "shortchanged" the ideals of Balasaheb Thackeray. (PTI)
Speaking at the rally in Goregaon, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray said that the party will fight the BMC polls like it is their first election, with all workers coming together. "Devendra Fadnavis said we should always fight election like it's our last election. It is your (BJP-Shinde combine) last election," he said.
He also questioned the need for PM Narendra Modi to visit Mumbai ahead of the BMC polls.
"I challenge Amit Shah, none of your conspiracy or tricks will succeed here. You try to polarise with Hindu and Muslim, but today Muslims are also with us. Even non-Marathis are with us. We never differentiated people with their religion. We helped Mumbaikars without difrentiating their religion. Your Shah-niti will not work here," Thackeray said.
Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday dared the BJP to defeat it in the upcoming Mumbai civic polls, saying his party's relationship with the metropolis was unbreakable.
He said, 'Union Home Minister Amit Shah has asked his party to show the Shiv Sena its place in the Mumbai civic polls. I dare you to try it. Shiv Sena's relationship with the city was unbreakable and the party was deeply connected with the day-to-day life of ordinary Mumbaikars, rushing to their help whenever required.' Thackeray asked the BJP, his former ally, to tell people what was its contribution in building the metropolis apart from consider it just a piece of real estate.
Hitting out at the BJP for the shifting of the Vedanta-Foxconn project from Maharashtra to Gujarat, Uddhav Thackeray said at a Mumbai rally that the ruling government has stayed all projects approved by the previous MVA government.
"Vedanta went away but they are still lying. They are indulging in blame game instead of bringing back the project. All the big projects are going out," he said, adding that the Centre is giving huge incentives to the project after it was moved to Gujarat.
Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray addressed a rally in Mumbai on Wednesday, on the day when the party moved Bombay HC regarding permission to hold the Dussehra rally at Shivaji Park. Speaking about Union minister Amit Shah's comment about wiping out Sena, Thackeray said the Sena will show the BJP its place.
Talking about BJP's criticism of Sena over dynasty politics, Thackeray said, "They say they want to win Mumbai. But do you even understand what Mumbai is? They are criticising us on dynasty. I am proud of my legacy. One of the five who fought for Mumbai (during Sanyukta Maharashtra Movement) was my grandfather. You check what is your legacy." He added that the BJP has taken so many people from outside that their own legacy is not recognisable.
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday rapped the Union government for "half-baked assurances and lips service" on tracking film producer Mushtaq Nadiadwala's two minor children, who he claims have been illegally detained by his wife in Pakistan since 2020.
A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and P K Chavan had last week directed the Union Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) to at least find out where the children are and establish some contact with them.
The court was hearing a petition filed by Nadiadwala, seeking a direction to the government to facilitate the safe return of his nine-year-old son and daughter aged six. (PTI)
A delegation of Shiv Sena legislators loyal to party president Uddhav Thackeray met Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari on Wednesday and raised the issue of law and order under the Eknath Shinde-led government and highlighted problems being faced by farmers.
The delegation, led by Ambadas Danve, the Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Council, also submitted a memorandum listing their grievances and demands.
The memorandum highlighted six points of which four were instances of law and order related to rebel Shiv Sena MLAs of the Shinde camp, while one was linked to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Nitesh Rane, a bête noire of the Thackeray family. (PTI)
A special court granted bail to Independent MLA and former Maharashtra minister Bachchu Kadu in a 2018 case where he is accused of assaulting government officials.
Kadu had allegedly assaulted and abused government officials at the state secretariat- Mantralaya- in Mumbai in March 2018. He had allegedly barged inside an IAS officer's cabin and misbehaved with him. (PTI)
The number of casual leaves for the police personnel in Maharashtra from ranks ranging from constable to inspector was on Wednesday increased from 12 to 20, a decision taken by the state cabinet headed by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.
An official statement said the number of casual leaves for the state government employees was earlier increased from eight to 12.
However, looking at the increasing workload of the police personnel, like 'bandobast' during festivals and VVIP duty, the number of casual leaves has been raised from 12 to 20 for the ranks from constable to police inspector, it added. (PTI)
Adani group chairman Gautam Adani met Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray at the latter's residence Matoshri.
Incidentally, the meeting between the two comes on a day when Maharashtra cabinet cleared the proposal to again seek tenders for the Dharavi redevelopment project with additional benefits. The previous Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government led by Thackeray had held three meetings to put the much-delayed project on track. Adani group's name was in the reckoning for this project since then.
According to sources, the meeting between both Adani and Thackeray who share cordial relations, was only to exchage greetings.
A rickshaw driver who tried to charge his phone in his friend's tourist car accidentally started the car by pressing the accelerator and rammed it into three auto-rickshaws, injuring seven people, including pedestrians and three minors, at a busy junction in Ghatkopar (east) on Wednesday afternoon.
The driver has been arrested and at least three of the seven persons suffered grievous injuries, the police said. The incident, which was captured on CCTV cameras took place around 12.40 pm at Pushp Vihar junction in Ghatkopar east.
Residential rental markets across the top 7 cities have made a strong comeback. Analysis of the average monthly rental trends across the leading luxury localities in the top 7 cities reveals that most markets have seen double-digit growth in the last two years, with only a few exceptions, as per the latest ANAROCK report.
The seven cities are Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune, NCR, MMR. The data found that the average monthly rentals in the prominent luxury micro-markets across the top 7 cities increased anywhere between 8-18% in the last two years. Mumbai’s Worli saw the highest rental growth of 18% in the period – from Rs 2 lakh per month in 2020 to Rs 2.35 lakh in 2022 for luxury homes of minimum 2,000 sq. ft. area.
IN HER statements before the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Sanjay Raut’s former aide and the agency’s prime witness has made allegations that a family-owned entity of the Shiv Sena MP had produced the film, Thackeray, by channelling his unaccounted money. Swapna Patkar has given multiple statements to the ED since last year against Raut.
The MP has denied the charges in his statement to the agency stating that there were agreements with film production companies for the film. As per Raut’s statement, Rauters Entertainment, where his wife and daughters are named directors, had produced the film. “He (Raut) has channelised his unaccounted money in this project,” Patkar’s statement part of the supplementary chargesheet filed last week states. She has also made allegations that he had acquired a liquor company in April 2021.
The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation (MMRC) Wednesday awarded the naming rights of five stations of the Metro-3 corridor to a few brands for a period of five years starting from the commissioning of the line.
The corporation in a statement said, “The total value of station naming rights is Rs 216 crore cumulatively over 5 years with 5% annual escalation – generating non-fare revenue to the tune of Rs 40 crore annually.”
“MMRC is happy to associate with reputed brands like Kotak Mahindra Bank, LIC and ICICI Lombard for station naming rights for Line 3. This is the first step towards generating non-fare box revenue that would ease funding and keep the fares reasonable for the commuters,” said MMRC managing director Ashwini Bhide.
The Bombay High Court on Wednesday questioned the Mumbai Suburban District Collector for demolishing crematorium of the fisherfolk at Erangal Beach in Malad (West) and wondered if the Collector, who acted without following due process of law, was "so naive" despite being aware of the laws and regulations.
The court made oral observations after it was informed that the Collector Nidhi Choudhari was merely following orders of the Maharashtra State Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) to undertake demolition.
A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Madhav J Jamdar was hearing a plea by Chetan Vyas, who had challenged the construction of the allegedly unauthorised Hindu crematorium on the beach by the fishing community and had said that the same was in violation of Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) rules.
Once again fresh tenders will be called for the redevelopment of Asia's biggest slum ‘Dharavi’ located in Mumbai suburbs that is expected to improve the lives of nearly 78,000 people. The Maharashtra government led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis in the Cabinet meeting Wednesday gave clearance to a proposal to call fresh tenders to carry out the much-awaited project.
Moreover, it announced that additional incentives will be provided to ensure its speedy implementation. Shinde said that the new tender would also include the development of the Railways’ land that lies adjacent to Dharavi.
The Cabinet approval will give way to all clearances related to the project that will improve the living condition of the slum dwellers who live in small houses without toilet facility or other basic amenities.
After an Enforcement Directorate chargesheet in the Patra chawl case mentioned him, NCP president Sharad Pawar said Wednesday that he would welcome any inquiry the Maharashtra government initiated against him.
Two Naxalites, including a woman, collectively carrying rewards of Rs 6 lakh on their heads surrendered before the Gadchiroli police in Maharashtra, a senior officer has said.
The duo is identified as Anil alias Ramsay Kujur (26), a resident of Gadchiroli, and Roshani Pallo (30), a resident of Chhattisgarh, Gadchiroli superintendent of police Ankit Goyal said in a release.
Goyal stated that Kujur was carrying a reward of Rs 4 lakh and Pallo of Rs 2 lakh. Kujur was working as a militia member. He was involved in two cases of ambush in 2011 in Khobramendha and Gyarapatti and also in an encounter in Chota Zeliya forest in the same year. (PTI)
A 29-year-old man allegedly strangulated his mother to death with the help of a woman relative in Maharashtra's Thane district after she disapproved of their affair, an official said on Wednesday.
The incident took place in Bhiwandi town on Tuesday and the man initially tried to pass it off as a case of accident, senior police inspector Madan Ballal from Narpoli police station said.
After a probe into the incident, the police on Wednesday arrested the man and his 30-year-old woman relative, he said. The accused woman is the niece of the deceased's husband. She was staying with the deceased's family here, the official said. (PTI)
An auto-rickshaw driver allegedly raped a woman vendor near a railway station in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said on Wednesday.
The incident took place on September 17 when the woman was selling cigarettes near a rickshaw stand located close to the Bhayander railway station, an official from the Mira Bhayander-Vasai Virar (MBVV) police commissionerate said.
The 28-year-old driver approached her and offered to buy all her stock. He then took the woman in the auto-rickshaw to an isolated place and allegedly raped her inside the vehicle, the official said. (PTI)
NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said that filing cases and arresting Opposition leaders seem to be the flagship project of the Centre.
“If you check today's newspaper, it has detailed how Central probe agencies have increased their actions against Opposition parties and leaders. It seems that filing cases and arresting Opposition leaders are the flagship project of the Centre.
"Whenever they have some doubts about the outcome of an election, such steps are taken as an important work. The key issues and challenges before the society are kept aside,” Pawar told reporters here in a swipe at BJP-ruled Centre. We will respond to it politically, said the NCP chief. (PTI)
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde along with three ministers, including Industries Minister Uday Samant, Ports Minister Dadaji Bhuse, and Horticulture Minister Sandipan Bhumare, will be visiting Delhi Wednesday evening.
Shinde will also be accompanied by Magathane MLA Prakash Surve. Few other MLAs may join him later in the evening. Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis who was earlier speculated to be accompanying him is unlikely to travel to Delhi as per his official schedule. Read more
The Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction Wednesday approached the Bombay High Court seeking direction to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) commissioner and its assistant commissioner of G-North ward to grant permission to hold a Dussehra rally at Shivaji Park in Mumbai on October 5.
The petition was mentioned for urgent hearing before a bench of Justice Ramesh D Dhanuka and Justice Kamal R Khata on Wednesday morning, which kept it for hearing on Thursday. Read more
The Maharashtra state cabinet is all set to clear a proposal for the redevelopment of Dharavi Wednesday.
Dharavi is the largest slum in Mumbai and various attempts to redevelop it have failed in the past or did not take off.
However, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is very keen that the proposal gets clearance this time.
The Eknath Shinde-led government is likely to clear a proposal granting 20-day casual leave to policemen to reduce their stress levels. This is a proposal mooted by former DGP Sanjay Pandey, who is now behind bars in an ED case. Currently, officers get only 12 casual leaves.
Meanwhile, the move has taken many by surprise as the BJP was always at loggerheads with Pandey. The matter will come up in the state Cabinet meeting scheduled to be held on Wednesday afternoon.
Two persons allegedly killed a 20-year-old man to take revenge for the murder of a relative of one of them in Maharashtra's Thane district, police said.
The body of the Mohammad Itthad Mohammad Abdul Vahid, with his throat slit and injuries on both legs, was found in Kausa area of Mumbra town on Monday, Kalwa's Assistant Police Commissioner Vilas Shinde told reporters on Tuesday.
The deceased was a native of Malda in West Bengal. Based on technical inputs, the police arrested Sanif Asu Sahi from Bandra in neighbouring Mumbai on Tuesday, the official said. (PTI)
Six people were killed in two road accidents on the busy Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway in Maharashtra's Palghar district in the last two days, police said on Wednesday.
The driver of a car heading from Mumbai to Gujarat lost control over the wheels, following which the vehicle hit a road divider and rammed into a tempo in Amgaon village of Talasari tehsil late Monday night.
Three occupants of the car and the tempo driver died on the spot, an official from Talasari police station said. In a similar accident near the same spot, a car rammed into a tempo on Tuesday afternoon, he said. Two of the car occupants were killed, he said.
The police have registered cases in connection with the two incidents under relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the Motor Vehicles Act, the official said. (PTI)
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