Another significant aspect is that this project will help irrigate 74,000 hectares of agriculture land in Nashik and Ahmednagar districts of north and western Maharashtra (File)Mumbai News Today Highlights: The state cabinet Monday approved Rs 1,498.61 crore for the Upper Godavari project. The revised administrative approval for the project was necessitated following cost escalation and incomplete work. The cabinet chaired by Chief Minister Minister Eknath Shinde gave the approval after scrutinising the proposal presented by the water resources department.
Over 48,000 taxi drivers and two lakh autorickshaw drivers in Mumbai will go on an indefinite strike from September 15, Thursday, seeking a hike in fares, the drivers’ union said.
Days after industrialist Cyrus Mistry and a family friend were killed in a car accident on NH-48 in Palghar district, National Highway Authority of India’s project director for the highway Suraj Singh on Sunday ruled out any design fault in the highway. He said the accident occurred because the car was speeding.
The body of a furniture factory owner who had gone missing in Nashik was found in a canal in Malegaon taluka. The body had several injury marks and based on the post-mortem report, the local police registered a case of kidnapping and murder.
According to the complaint given by his family members, Shirish Sonawane (56) was in his factory on Friday evening and then left in a car with three persons, who told read more...
The state animal husbandry commissioner, Sachindra Pratap Singh, said preventive vaccination drive against Lumpy Skin Disease will be completed in 48 hours in affected villages in the state. Know more here
The seven lakes that supply drinking water to Mumbai are 98.4 per cent full as on Monday morning with 14,24,250 million litres (ML) of water, sufficient to last the city until the 2023 monsoon, according to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Know more...
Ashutosh Arvind Kumbhakoni will continue to remain as the advocate general (AG) of Maharashtra as the state cabinet Monday kept in abeyance till December 31 his resignation, which he had tendered to the Governor when the MVA government came down from power in June. Read more...
The 67-year-old rebel Shiv Sena leader Sada Sarvankar, who was booked by the Dadar police for allegedly firing from his licensed firearm during a clash between workers of the Uddhav Thackeray-headed Sena and Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Sena early on Sunday, is a three-term MLA from Mumbai’s Mahim constituency, which is considered to be the Uddhav Sena’s stronghold.
Sarvankar had been a three-term Sena corporator in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) from 1992 to 2004. Hailing from Mumbai’s Dadar, which is considered to be a key Sena bastion, he has been a known influential leader from this belt. Know more
Describing the fall in cut-off marks in the JEE Advanced results this year as “statistically insignificant”, IIT Bombay director, Professor Subhasis Chaudhuri told The Indian Express that the dip in performance “will not impact admissions.” IIT Bombay is the organising institute for JEE Advanced this year. Know more here
A sessions court in Mumbai has observed that it was “natural for the female member” of the household to “work at home and outside”, especially in “lower strata of society”, as it acquitted a 30-year-old man and his mother of charges of domestic violence and abetting his wife’s suicide. Read more...
The Cabinet approved Rs 1498.61 crore revised administrative approval for Upper Godavari project in district Nashik. The project will help irrigate 74,000 hectares of agriculturural land in Nashik and Aurangabad districts. It will also address drinking water problems in tribal belt of Nashik district.
Maharashtra government is to celebrate September 17 (PM Narendra Modi's birthday) to October 2 ( Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary) as 'Seva fortnight.'
During this period all pending issues of people with regard to different government departments will be resolved on mission mode basis.The Maharashtra cabinet took this decision today.
The seven lakes that supply drinking water to Mumbai are 98.4 per cent full as of Monday morning and have 14,24,250 million litre (ml) of water against a capacity of 14,47,363 ml, which is sufficient to last until the monsoon next year, according to the BMC.
The seven lakes that supply drinking water to Mumbai are Upper Vaitarna, Modak Sagar, Tansa, Middle Vaitarna, Bhatsa, Vehar, and Tulsi, located either in Mumbai at Sanjay Gandhi National Park, and neighbouring districts of Thane and Palghar. Read more
A school bus carrying students caught fire in Kharghar area of neighbouring Navi Mumbai township on Monday, officials said. There was no report of any injury, they said.
The incident took place around 11.30 am in Sector No. 15 of Kharghar, a fire official said. Four students of a school, a staffer and driver were present in the vehicle when it caught fire, he said. (PTI)
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar said there was no reason for him to be unhappy with the party and it was his decision to not speak at the party conference in Delhi Sunday.
“It was the national conference. Our state president Jayant Patil presented the state’s position in the conference. There were other leaders who were to speak. But everybody wanted to hear our national president Sharad Pawar ji and since it was getting very late, it was decided that he would speak. I had gone to the washroom and it was presented in the media as if I am unhappy,” said Ajit Pawar while addressing a press conference in Mumbai Monday. Read more...
A sessions court in Mumbai has observed that it was "natural for the female member" of the household to "work at home and outside", especially in "lower strata of society", as it acquitted a 30-year-old man and his mother of charges of domestic violence and abetting his wife's suicide.
Priyanka Shelar, who worked as a domestic worker in the eastern suburbs of Mumbai, died by suicide at her employer's home in 2015 just over a month after her marriage to Prashant Shelar. The court said it was not clear why Priyanka had taken the extreme step. Read more
In a first, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) with the help of a start-up has introduced ‘Bluetooth enabled’ stethoscopes in two civic-run major hospitals—Sion and BYL Nair Hospitals. Read more on it
Over 48,000 taxi drivers and two lakh autorickshaw drivers in Mumbai will go on an indefinite strike from September 15, Thursday, seeking a hike in fares, the drivers' union said.
The union has sought the hike following a 25 per cent increase in CNG prices which has resulted in huge losses to taxi and auto drivers, it said. The minimum taxi fare was last revised in March 2021 to Rs 25.
The BMC has asked ferry operators to not navigate around the Gateway of India for seven days after the Ganesh festival's conclusion, and notified that the jetty there will remain closed.
After Ganesh immersion on September 9 and 10, BMC took up cleaning of the jetty area and waters at Gateway of India, including idols, wooden planks, and flowers/garlands/cloth material from the sea.
A senior civic official from the A ward said, "From Monday, we will begin cleaning the waters and the promenade. We have informed the ferry runners to steer clear for seven days. It will take fewer days to clean up and clear the waters, but for safety of passengers and the ferry, we have intimated a shut-down for seven days. Once it is cleared, ferries will be intimated to start services."
Mumbai will witness overcast skies throughout the day Monday and is likely to receive moderate rainfall toward the evening with the possibility of thunderstorms, according to information from the BMC’s disaster management department.
On Sunday evening, Mumbai witnessed light to moderate rainfall with thunderstorms and lightning, and gusty winds at the speed of 30 to 40 km, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), which has also predicted heavy rainfall for Mumbai throughout the week, until September 15. Read more
A pregnant tribal woman was carried in a makeshift stretcher due to lack of proper road in a village in Maharashtra’s Palghar district and she delivered a baby midway in a dense and dark forest, officials said on Monday.
The 21-year-old woman, from Eina village in Jawhar taluka, went into labour on the intervening night of Saturday-Sunday, a medical officer said. Read more
Days after industrialist Cyrus Mistry and a family friend were killed in a car accident on NH-48 in Palghar district, National Highway Authority of India’s project director for the highway Suraj Singh on Sunday ruled out any design fault in the highway.
He said the accident occurred because the car was speeding. While some authorities have said that one of the reasons for the accident is the three-lane highway bifurcating into two bridges of two lanes each, he denied that the highway had a design fault. Read more
After being released on bail by the Dadar police, five Shiv Sainiks of the Uddhav Thackeray camp, including Mahesh Sawant, met the president and Aaditya Thackeray on Sunday.
A Sena functionary said the Thackerays applauded them for showing courage when MLA Sada Saravankar (of the Shinde camp) was allegedly trying to intimidate them with a firearm. Read more
It was an initiative that was meant to improve commuting comfort in a city where the suburban rail transit system is jam-packed during rush hour. The inclusion of air-conditioned trains was deemed to be a panacea for the commuting woes of lakhs of commuters who travel long distances in stuffy compartments to reach Mumbai from distant parts of Mumbai Metropolitan Region.
Policy-makers, however, have been perplexed over the protests that have been sparked by the move in parts of Mumbai’s extended suburbs such as Kalwa and Badlapur. The sudden protests and the support extended to the agitators by politicians such as NCP chief Sharad Pawar have brought to the fore the angst of many lower middle class commuters who find these trains unaffordable. Read more
THE Sailani Baba dargah in Vidarbha’s Buldhana district, one of Maharashtra’s most popular shrines, has recently initiated first-of-its-kind experiment to treat the mentally ill by combining dawa (medicine) and dua (prayer) without challenging the religious beliefs and practices of the visitors.
“India lacks awareness and human resource to treat mental illnesses. We are ill-equipped to treat these patients and integrate them into the mainstream. As a result, families visit religious places with their mentally ill patients, in the faith that a shrine or a temple will solve their problems,” said Dr Hamid Dabholkar of Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti, who is part of the Dawa-Dua project that was initiated last week. Read more
More than 5,000 teachers from government schools across Maharashtra gathered in Aurangabad on Sunday to protest against the state government for giving them many non-academic tasks to complete.
“We should be focusing on helping children cope with pandemic-induced academic loss instead of non-academic responsibilities forced on to us by the government,” said Navnath Gend, who heads the primary teachers’ wing of the Shikshak Bharati, a state-wide teachers’ organisation that played an instrumental role in the protest.
“Our leaders — MLCs from teachers’ constituencies — are going to present our issues to the Chief Minister and the education minister. Along with our concerns and suggestions, our request to focus on academic tasks will be conveyed to the government. But if this does not resolve the issue, we will continue protests across Maharashtra,” he added. (Read More)
A 58-year-old self-styled godman was arrested on Sunday for allegedly raping a woman from the time she was a minor, a Mumbai police official said.
The family of the victim had come in contact with Suresh Kumar Ravindra Narayan Awasthi after being told about his "divine" powers by some acquaintances, the Versova police station official said.
"On the pretext of rituals, he raped the victim several times since 2019 (when she was a minor), clicked objectionable photographs of her and continued to sexually attack her by threatening to upload these pictures on the internet," he said.
After she recently told her parents about her ordeal, the family approached police. he said.
Awasthi, an information technology professional, was arrested on Sunday for rape and other offences under Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act provisions, the official said. (PTI)
Accused in Sidhu Moose Wala death case had conducted a recce in Mumbai to target Bollywood actor Salman Khan on the instructions of Lawrence Bishnoi, said Gaurav Yadav, Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) on Sunday.
Earlier in June, a threat letter was sent to him and his father Salim Khan
The letter in Hindi said that both Salim Khan and his son would soon meet the same fate as slain singer Siddhu Moosewala (Tera Moosawala bana denge), said the police sources on condition of anonymity. (ANI)
The Maharashtra government should implement seriously its policy to promote Marathi language, the Bombay High Court has said while directing it to henceforth hold the public prosecutor recruitment exam in the state in Marathi also.
A division bench of Justices S V Gangapurwala and R N Laddha passed the order on September 7 on a petition filed by one Pratap Jadhav, seeking that the exam for the posts of public prosecutors be conducted in Marathi also instead of only English.
The order was made available on Saturday. Jadhav had said he studied in Marathi since school, and that proceedings before the courts of Judicial Magistrate First Class and Civil Judge Junior Division are normally conducted in Marathi language.
Marathi is a local language, he said. The high court in its order said the Maharashtra government ought to have been serious on the issue. (PTI)
Mahim MLA Sada Sarvankar, a member of the Eknath Shinde faction of Shiv Sena, came under attack from the Uddhav Thackeray loyalists for allegedly firing a gunshot on the premises of the Dadar police station Sunday. Several Sainiks gathered at the Dadar police station demanding an FIR against Sarvankar, who recently switched to the Shinde camp. Speaking to The Indian Express, Sarvankar said that he did not fire the weapon and has Y category security cover accorded to him. (Read More)
Against the backdrop of Sunday’s road accident in Palghar, resulting in the death of industrialist Cyrus Mistry and one more person, the Palghar Police said on Thursday that Dr Anahita Pandole, who was at the wheels, had applied brakes five seconds prior to the accident.
Palghar SP Balasaheb Patil said the police have received an interim report from Mercedes on the crash late Wednesday.
“The report sent to us by Mercedes said that the vehicle was being driven at a speed of 100 kmph and Dr Anahita Pandole applied brakes five seconds prior to the accident. When the crash took place, the vehicle was travelling at a speed of 89 kmph,” he added. (Read More)
The Bombay High Court recently observed that “the judicial system is answerable to jailed accused and speedy and fair trial is basic expectation from trial courts” and reprimanded delay by a special court hearing cases under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS Act) to start a trial despite the passing of more than a year. (Read More)
Rebel Shiv Sena MLA Sada Sarvankar allegedly fired a round during a clash between workers of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena and Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's camp early on Sunday, following which police registered a case against him, his son and some others, officials said.
Sarvankar, who represents Mahim Assembly constituency, however denied opening fire and claimed his rivals were trying to malign him. He also said if police call him for questioning, he will cooperate with them.
Police also arrested five Sena workers from the Thackeray camp, who were later released on bail, they said.
The workers from both the sides first clashed in Prabhadevi area of central Mumbai shortly after Saturday midnight before indulging in a scuffle outside the Dadar police station some time later, where Sarvankar fired the round from a weapon, police said. (PTI)
Mumbai on Sunday recorded 187 Covid-19 cases and one death, which took the tally in the metropolis to 11,47,978 and the toll to 19,718, a civic official said.
The recovery count increased by 375 to touch 11,26,549, leaving the city with 1,711 active cases, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation official said.
Of the new cases, only 13 are symptomatic, taking the total number of such patients to 216, he added.
BMC data showed the recovery rate was 98.1 per cent and the growth rate of cases between September 4 and September 10 stood at 0.024 per cent. (PTI)
The Mumbai airport customs seized Sunday 12 kg gold valued at Rs 5.38 crore from a specially designed belt worn by a Sudanese passenger, said officials.
According to the customs, a group of six passengers, who had taken a flight from Dubai, were alleged to have created commotion to help the accused escape but were overpowered. The officials said that it was a regular tactic to divert the attention of customs authorities while one member of the gang tries to smuggle contraband past the red channel. (Read More)
Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray has dared the rebel MLAs who have joined the faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde to resign and face elections.
Speaking at an event, the Worli MLA hinted that housing, quality education, healthcare, roads, and public transport will be the 'focus areas' of Shiv Sena in the upcoming elections to the Mumbai civic body. (Read More)
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has hit out at former chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, saying that his style of functioning was responsible for the split in the Shiv Sena.
He also admitted that believing senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar was his "biggest" political blunder, and added that in order to take revenge for the back-stabbing, it was important that one lives long.
After the 2019 Assembly election results, Fadnavis and Pawar had taken oath as the state chief minister and deputy CM, respectively, at a hush hush ceremony held at the Raj Bhavan in November that year. However, their government lasted only nearly 80 hours after Pawar quit.
Speaking at the CNN News18 Town Hall event on Saturday, Fadnavis said only Uddhav Thackeray has to be blamed for the recent political turmoil in the state and it was his style of working that led to the split in the Shiv Sena. (PTI)
The campaign to ban regressive widowhood rituals in Maharashtra is getting a good response with more than 7,500 villages passing resolutions to curb these practices and even Ganpati pandals chipping in, a social activist associated with it said on Sunday.
Herwad in Kolhapur was the first gram sabha in the state to pass a resolution in May this year banning practices like breaking bangles, wiping off sindoor (vermillion) and removing 'mangalsutra', toe ring of widows as part of funerary rituals, social activist Pramod Zinjade told PTI.
"My appeal to Ganesh pandals to allow widows to perform aarti (prayer ritual with lighted lamp) and puja of the idols met with good response during the festival that just ended. Some 100 mandals allowed widows to perform aarti and honoured 1,500 such women," he said.
Expressing joy on the development, widow Asha Shinde (80), who was invited to a Ganesh pandal in Pune, said, "Since my husband's death in 2011, I live alone as my children are abroad. I haven't participated in such public functions after the death of my husband as widows have no place in society." "I am satisfied. Women in my family never treat me like a widow. I feel proud that I participate in all social functions in the family," she added. (PTI)
Maharashtra Minister Suresh Khade has claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the "soul of the country" who resided in the hearts of the people and was "undefeatable".
His effusive praise for the PM came while answering a query on Nationalist Congress Party chief Jayant Patil claiming it was impossible to defeat the latter's party supremo Sharad Pawar and his kin from Baramati area in the state.
Patil had said the sun may rise in the west but a political defeat in the Baramati home turf for the Pawars was not possible. The state minister for social justice was speaking to reporters in Pandharpur, some 360 kilometres from here, on Saturday.
"(Prime Minister Narendra) Modi is the soul of this country. He is undefeatable. (Former PMs) Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Indira Gandhi lost elections in their time, but Modi will never lose," Khade asserted. (PTI)
Maharashtra BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule Sunday said the rival factions of the Shiv Sena must stop fighting on the streets as he urged former chief minister Uddhav Thackeray to ask his supporters to ‘restrain’ themselves.
The remarks from Chandrashekhar Bawankule came after fresh scuffles broke out between the workers of the Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde camps of the Shiv Sena on the last day of Ganesh immersion and early Sunday. (Read More)
Workers of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's camp clashed with each other here in the early hours of Sunday, officials said.
After complaints from the two groups, Mumbai Police registered First Information Reports (FIRs) against 10 to 20 members of both the sides, including local MLA Sada Sarvankar, they said.
The Dadar police also arrested five Sena workers who were later released on bail, they said.
The incident took place around 12.30 am in New Prabhadevi area in which Sena functionary Santosh Talavane was allegedly attacked by Mahesh Sawant and 30 others, police said.
Talavane is part of the Shinde camp, while Mahesh Sawant belongs to the Thackeray-led Sena.
Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant, who supports former chief minister Thackeray, demanded action against Shinde camp legislator Sada Sarvankar under the Arms act for allegedly firing in public at the clash spot. (PTI)
A Project 17A Frigate, Taragiri was launched today at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited in Mumbai.
Mumbai Police have arrested a 28-year-old school peon on charges of sexually harassing and stalking a minor student in the school premises in south Mumbai, an official said on Sunday.
The offence came to light after the 15-year-old girl's parents observed changes in her behaviour and contacted the convent where she studied, he said.
On September 5, the peon found the girl alone and allegedly touched her inappropriately. Since then, the accused had stopped reporting to the school, located in Gamdevi area, the official said. The school subsequently submitted a complaint at Gamdevi police station, he said.
The peon allegedly harassed the student multiple times in the school premises. The accused had also made a video call on the girl's mobile number, the official said. (PTI)
Members of a tribal community in Nashik facing livelihood crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic "handed over" their children to goatherds for up to Rs 10,000 a year to work as labourers, police said on Sunday.
The matter came to light after an 11-year-old girl working as a labourer died recently, they said, adding that a case of murder has been registered in this connection. The Nashik rural police have so far rescued eight such children from neighbouring Ahmednagar in Maharashtra.
Two persons have been arrested in connection with the murder case and three others held under the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act-1976, a senior official said. (PTI)
A fight broke out among Shiv Sena workers in the party’s bastion in Mumbai’s Dadar (west) Sunday. A source said that a group supporting Uddhav Thackeray allegedly beat up supporters of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde in the wee hours of Sunday. The police said a leader of the Uddhav faction, Mahesh Sawant, from Mahim and his supporters have been booked for unlawful assembly, rioting, assault and dacoity. The fight was an outcome of a fracas that took place over serving water during a Ganpati visarjan procession Saturday. (Read More)
The recent accident killing industrialist Cyrus Mistry and a family friend on National Highway-48 has forced the Union government to bring a rule mandating rear seat occupants of any car to wear seatbelts. It has also brought forth a debate on the lacunae in designs.
The police have already said that the spot where Dr Anahita Pandole, who was at the wheel when the fatal accident took place, rammed the car into the edge of a bridge, the three-lane highway narrows into a two-lane bridge and there is another two-lane bridge on the side. Read more
BJP leader Ashish Shelar joined an ongoing beach clean-up campaign at the Dadar Chowpatty on Sunday, after the Ganesh festival concluded in Mumbai.
The launch of Indian Navy’s indigenously designed Nilgiri-class stealth guided missile frigate Taragiri in Mumbai has been cancelled as India mourns Queen Elizabeth II's demise on Sunday. The frigate Taragiri has been built by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd (MDL) for the Indian Navy.
Taragiri, a 149-metre-long and 17.8-metre-wide ship is propelled by a combination of two gas turbines and two main diesel engines which are designed to achieve a speed of over 28 knots at a displacement of around 6670 tonnes.
Is the growing trend of hiring foreigners as artists, technicians etc taking away jobs of their Indian counterparts in the film industry? Well, film union leaders say the threat is real. They also claim many foreigners working in Bollywood don't possess a proper work permit, and that the Mumbai Police seldom act.
The Indian film industry, like its counterparts in sectors like Information Technology, telecom etc, is increasingly hiring foreign talents in the fields such as cinematography, direction, production, script-writing, and junior artists and dancers. The majority of foreigners are being fired from countries like the UK, Russia, and Uzbekistan to name a few.
It may appear as a win-win situation for the film industry and foreigners as the industry gets a variety of talent and the foreigners earn a steady income, but the unions differ. "We all know that Indian film and advertisement industries are ranked first in the world as far as the number of films produced per year is concerned. The annual turnover is pegged at USD 2.7 billion. Indian cinema is composed of various regional language film industries employing a large number of people. However, the Indian film industry is now facing a major issue with the foreign crew replacing their Indian counterparts. Many of these foreigners are working illegally in India in violation of visa norms," a union leader said. (PTI)
The family members of activists arrested in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case claimed they were "systematically" denied medical treatment and the condition of activist Vernon Gonsalves was yet another act of "criminal negligence" of prison authorities.
Gonsalves, arrested for his alleged role in the case, was recently admitted to the state-run JJ Hospital in Mumbai. As per his lawyer, the activist he had been diagnosed with dengue and was on oxygen support.
The case relates to alleged inflammatory speeches delivered at the Elgar Parishad conclave, held in Shaniwarwada in Pune on December 31, 2017, which police claimed triggered violence the next day near the Koregaon Bhima war memorial located on the city's outskirts. (PTI)
The Maha Vikas Aghadi allies took a dim view of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde sharing a stage with Chief Justice of India U U Lalit amid the Supreme Court hearing petitions of the Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena and the CM camp.
State NCP president Jayant Patil, whose party is a constituent of the MVA along with the Sena and Congress, in a tweet said, "A serious case of challenging the legitimacy of the Eknath Shinde government is being heard by a Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court." "In such a case, it is improper that Shinde shares stage with the Chief Justice of India. This is not as per protocol." CJI Lalit was on Saturday felicitated at an event in Mumbai where Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju was present. (PTI)
Four tribal students from remote villages of Maharashtra's Vidarbha region have moved a step closer to realising their dream of becoming doctors and serving their community by clearing the medical entrance examination NEET 2022.
With minimum resources at their disposal, students belonging to families of farm labourers and marginal farmers have cleared the National Eligibility Entrance Test (NEET) 2022, results of which were declared on September 8.
Talking to PTI, 18-year-old Arun Lalsu Mattami said he always dreamt of becoming a doctor, but education was not easily accessible where he lived. Arun hails from a tribal hamlet in Bhamragad taluka. He pursued his studies by staying in a hostel from Class 4 onwards in Aheri and Class 12 in Bhamragad.
The teen, belonging to Madia Gond community categorised as a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group, scored 450 out of 720 in NEET-2022. Arun's parents are farmers, who take up odd jobs to eke out a living. (PTI)
Observing that getting proper medical aid is a valuable right of an undertrial prisoner, a special court earlier this week directed that Rakesh Wadhawan, the 69-year-old promoter of infrastructure company HDIL, be shifted to the state-run J J hospital.
Wadhawan suffers from various ailments and has been admitted to hospitals multiple times since his arrest in 2019 in the PMC Bank fraud case. The court was told that his movements are completely restricted and he requires assistance in jail. Read more
A sessions court recently rejected an appeal filed by Asha Gawli, wife of gangster Arun Gawli, seeking discharge from a case of alleged cheating and misappropriation of funds in 2006.
The court said that Asha was privy to the conspiracy and a prima facie case has been made out against her. Read more
The principal of a Mumbai college has been booked for allegedly making casteist remarks against a student. A sessions court earlier this week rejected the anticipatory bail plea of the principal.
The principal, a woman, was booked by the Azad Maidan police station under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act in July. Read more
During the 10-day Ganesh festival, 1,93,062 Ganesh and Gauri idols were immersed across the city, a 14.51 per cent increase in the number of immersions from 1,65,040 in 2021.
However, the number of immersions in artificial ponds this year dipped in comparison to 2021. Read more
Eleven months after it was started, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) last week completed the restoration of four pyaus (drinking water fountains) inside Veermata Jijabai Bhosale Udyan — the Byculla zoo.
While three of the four pyaus were restored to their original structures, one pyau was restored into a water fountain, which is now operational, according to information from BMC’s heritage department. All four pyaus are about a century old and came up between 1903 and 1933. Read more
The newly commissioned Mumbai Metro lines 2A and 7 have recorded over 45.62 lakh ridership in the last five months, between April and August, and September till date. The Maha Mumbai Metro Rail Operation Corporation Ltd (MMMOCL), which takes care of Metro Line 2A&7 operations and maintenance, has provided the ridership figures confirming the same.
The average monthly ridership recorded on the operational stretch of Metro Line 2A&7 collectively is more than 8 lakh on an average, whereas the daily average ridership is 27,000, as per the MMMOCL. Read more
At least 20 people died on Friday, the last day of Ganpati immersion across the state, data released by the DGP office showed. Police said that while 14 of these deaths were due to drowning, four members of the same family succumbed to injuries sustained in an accident in Nagpur while a 55-year-old woman died after a tree fell on a pandal in Thane.
While the deaths were reported from 13 districts of the state, in Mumbai, the Ganesh festival and the immersion procession passed off peacefully and no untoward incident was reported, police said. Read more