Rane was addressing media at BJP headquarters in Mumbai. (Express Photo by Ganesh Shirsekar) Maharashtra News Live: The Union Minister Narayan Rane on Wednesday alleged that Shiv Sena ( UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray has given ” supari” (contract) to kill him. Rane was addressing media at BJP headquarters in Mumbai.
” I used to receive calls from unknown persons. They would threaten to kill me. Some of them even warned me to be careful. They disclosed how Thackeray wanted to eliminate me,” Rane said. Rane’s media interaction comes amidst growing bitterness between BJP-Shiv Sena and Shiv Sena ( UBT).
The accused in the Kerala train fire incident that killed three people has admitted to having committed the crime Maharashtra ATS stated in a note released on Wednesday. The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in coordination with central intelligence agencies had nabbed a man, wanted by the police in connection with the Kozhikode train fire incident in Kerala, from Ratnagiri late Tuesday. The accused (Shahrukh Saifi), is a resident of Shaheen Baug, Delhi.
In other news, after former chief minister and Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray slammed Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis over his alleged inefficiency in handling the department, Opposition NCP on Friday joined the chorus, saying that Fadnavis has no hold over the police in Thane and even an inspector takes orders only from Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.
The proposed Versova Virar Sealink which is now with the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) likely to extend further up to Palghar. Since the sea link was proposed previously only till Virar therefore now MMRDA will carry out a pre-feasibility study of the extended portion moreover, there is a plan to have access controlled sea link from Virar to Palghar, said the official.
Sealink was earlier with the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) however, later the project was transferred to MMRDA. Presently, the MSDRC is carrying the Bandra Versova Sealink project which is under construction and is at snail's speed. It has already constructed the city's first sea link Worli -Bandra of 5.8km which was opened to traffic in 2009.
According to MMRDA officials, the proposed sea link will act as crucial connectivity facilitating the single-free movement of commuters and will act as a ring road connectivity with the coastal road, Mumbai Trans Harbour Sealink (MTHL), Virar Alibaug Corridor.
Meanwhile, the Versova Virar sea link project cost has escalated by Rs 8,000 crore. The revised cost is now Rs 40,000 crore which was estimated at Rs 32,000 crore by MSRDC. The increase in project cost is due to the appointment of a consultant for studying the access control road, a dedicated consultant for doing peer review among others.
Several regions across Maharashtra are expected to experience unseasonal rainfall over the next 4 to 5 days, according to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD).
The IMD has attributed the untimely rains to an amalgam of moisture build up and low pressure. Sushma Nair, a scientist from the IMD explained on Wednesday, "There is moisture building over the low lying areas, thanks to the easterlies blowing into the region." She further added, "There is also a north south trough because of which there is high possibility of unseasonal rainfall across various regions of Maharashtra over the next 4 to 5 days'',
Meanwhile, a warning has also been issued for some parts of central Maharashtra, Marathwada and Southern Konkan which are expected to witness light rains accompanied by lightning and thundering.
The IMD has also predicted hail storms across several places of Southern Maharashtra and Southern Marathwada.
Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party president Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Wednesday asked Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray not to make personal attacks on Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, warning if he failed to heed the advice BJP workers will make it difficult for him to step out of his residence.
In a stinging attack, former CM Thackeray had on Tuesday termed Fadnavis, who also holds the home portfolio, as "worthless" following an alleged assault on a woman worker of the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) in adjoining Thane city.
Speaking to reporters here, Bawankule said the Opposition leader, a former ally of the BJP, should desist from making any further personal comments on Fadnavis.
“Uddhav Thackeray was pardoned when he personally attacked our leader Devendra Fadnavis, but we will not tolerate if he repeats the act. If he makes another personal attack on Fadnavis, we will make it difficult for him to step out of his home," warned the former state minister.
“I dare him to make one more personal attack against Fadnavis,” Bawankule stated. (PTI)
Around 8,000 speed violations are recorded in a month in the city, Joint Commissioner of Traffic Police (Mumbai) Praveen Padwal said on Tuesday. Padwal was speaking at the launch of the ‘Slow Down- Speed Observation Study Report’.
The report is an initiative of the United Way Mumbai, a non-profit, in collaboration with Mumbai Police’s Traffic Control Branch, and IIT Bombay.
“In a month, we see 8,000 speed violations captured by 52 cameras across the city. Last year, we recorded 364 road crash cases in Mumbai. Of these, 44 per cent involved pedestrians, 35 per cent two-wheelers, and 10 per cent involved pillion riders. In view of the data, we are taking several strict enforcement drives against those violating rules,” he said. Read more
The Union Minister Narayan Rane on Wednesday alleged that Shiv Sena ( UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray has given " supari" (contract) to kill him. Rane was addressing media at BJP headquarters in Mumbai.
" I used to receive calls from unknown persons. They would threaten to kill me. Some of them even warned me to be careful. They disclosed how Thackeray wanted to eliminate me," Rane said. Rane's media interaction comes amidst growing bitterness between BJP-Shiv Sena and Shiv Sena ( UBT).
A SPECIAL court in Mumbai permitted Videocon Group Chairman Venugopal Dhoot to complete part of his bail conditions without his personal presence noting the 'peculiar and extraordinary' situation of his health. Dhoot was arrested in December by the CBI in connection with the ICICI-Videocon loan case. He was granted bail by the Bombay High Court on January 20 with conditions including that he had to furnish sureties.
Recently, Dhoot moved a plea before the special court seeking that the sureties be accepted without him required to be physically present. His plea said that immediately after his release from Arthur Road jail, he was taken to Aurangabad in an air ambulance and is still admitted to a hospital there due to his heart and other ailments. His lawyers also submitted a medical report where it is mentioned that he is not fit to travel and is under medical supervision. "There is no reason to disbelieve the submission and medical certificate. Thus, a peculiar and extraordinary situation arises here," the court said adding that the prayer deserved to be allowed permitting Dhoot to submit the surety bond before a notary at the hospital. The court also issued a show-cause notice to the jail superintendent as the cash bond part of Dhoot's release from jail did not have his signature.
Contradictions continue to surface within the tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), raising questions on the ability of Shiv Sena (UBT), Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to stay united on the common minimum programme (CMP) it agreed upon in 2019 when the MVA was formed.
While all three political parties have said they will fight the upcoming elections as united MVA, each of these three parties have expressed, either openly or discreetly, their disagreements on various issues, sending out confusing messages to workers. Read more
The Union Minister Narayan Rane on Wednesday alleged that Shiv Sena ( UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray has given " supari" (contract) to kill him. Rane was addressing media at BJP headquarters in Mumbai.
" I used to receive calls from unknown persons. They would threaten to kill me. Some of them even warned me to be careful. They disclosed how Thackeray wanted to eliminate me," Rane said. Rane's media interaction comes amidst growing bitterness between BJP-Shiv Sena and Shiv Sena ( UBT). On Tuesday, Thackeray had called Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis a useless Home Minister.
A Maharashtra special court on Wednesday rejected former police officer Sachin Waze’s plea to be released in a corruption case in which he had been granted a pardon but was still in jail, even though former home minister Anil Deshmukh and two others got bail.
Waze was arrested by the CBI last year on allegations that he had collected bribes on behalf of Deshmukh from bar owners in Mumbai. He had sought to turn approver before the chargesheet was filed and he was cited as a witness by the CBI. His previous plea for release was rejected by the court. Wednesday’s detailed order is yet to be made available. Read more
A SPECIAL court on Wednesday adjourned till April 11 the pronouncement of its order on the anticipatory bail application of NCP leader Hasan Mushrif in connection with a case filed by Enforcement Directorate (ED). He will continue to be protected from arrest till then. The court had last month heard arguments by ED and Mushrif's lawyers and posted the case for orders on his pre-arrest bail plea on Wednesday. The ED case concerned allegations with regard to allotment of shares of Sar Senapati Santaji Sugar Ghorpade Sugar Factory Limited-linked to Mushrif- to farmers against deposit of Rs 10,000. The ED is investigating alleged money-laundering claiming that the farmers were not given any shareholder certificate nor any acknowledgments. The ED alleged that an amount of Rs. 35- 36 Crore was collected.
Mushrif through his lawyers had submitted that the FIR the ED was relying on was nothing but a 'motivated conspiracy'. The plea filed by Mushrif stated that a counter FIR was also filed in Kolhapur against the complainant of the FIR ED is replying on, by those farmers who are claiming to have benefited from investing Rs 10,000 in 2012 in the sugar factory.
Apple is all set to open its first store in Mumbai. Located at the Jio World Drive Mall in Mumbai, this will be Apple’s first store in India.
Apple is bringing the Apple Store to India at a time when the company has seen explosive growth in its products, especially the iPhone, in the country. India has the second biggest market for smartphones, giving Apple a lot of potential to grow in the upper tier of the smartphone segment. Cupertino is also lately expanding its manufacturing facility in India.
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In a move to provide relief to affected farmers, the Maharashtra cabinet on Wednesday said unseasonal rains will be considered a natural calamity in the state.
Talking to reporters after attending the weekly cabinet meeting, Agriculture Minister Abdul Sattar said, "Continous rains of 10 mm for a minimum of five days and losses of more than 33 per cent will be eligible for aid. Due to this decision, farmers will not be deprived of assistance due to the lack of criteria".
A statement from the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) said that terming unseasonal rains a natural calamity will help the administration to provide relief to agriculturists whose crops have been damaged due to untimely rain. Crops of several farmers were damaged in unseasonal rains and hailstorms in Maharashtra last month. The Opposition had demanded that the state government give immediate relief to the affected farmers. (PTI)
The Thane police have moved court to investigate the non cognisable (NC) complaint registered on the basis of complaint given by Roshni Shinde. In cases where NC is registered, police need court's permission to further investigate the matter.
Shiv Sena (UBT) worker Roshni Shinde was allegedly assaulted in Thane on Monday after she allegedly made an objectionable remark on social media against Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. While Roshni alleged that she was beaten up by a group of women workers of Shiv Sena, despite being pregnant, the Sena’s women wing claimed that she was not assaulted.
From the Bench to the Bar, the witness box to the dock, the newly inaugurated building of the Nagpur City Civil and Sessions Court has teak furniture made by some of the very persons who were sentenced by it — the convicts lodged in Maharashtra’s Yerawada, Thane, Nagpur and Nashik jails.
“All the furniture in this court building has been procured from inmates of jails in Maharashtra,” said S B Agarwal, Principal Judge, Nagpur District and Sessions Court, during the inauguration of the nine-storey building last month. The new building has 26 court halls, a conference hall and a host of facilities for lawyers and litigants. Read more
The accused in the Kerala train fire incident that killed three people has admitted to having committed the crime Maharashtra ATS stated in a note released on Wednesday. The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in coordination with central intelligence agencies had nabbed a man wanted by the police in connection with the Kozhikode train fire incident in Kerala, from Ratnagiri late Tuesday. The accused (Shahrukh Saifi), is a resident of Shaheen Baug, Delhi.
After taking treatment at the Ratnagiri district hospital for a day, he fled from the hospital, fearing police would nab him. Based on the intelligence agency's input, he was nabbed at the Ratnagiri Railway Station on Tuesday night by a team comprising officials from Maharashtra ATS and the Ratnagiri Police Station's ATC. The police have found a PAN card, an Aadhaar card, a mobile phone of the Motorola company, and an ATM card of Kotak Mahindra Bank, in his possession.
Shiv Sena Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi met Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday over the alleged attack on Sena UBT worker Roshni Shinde in Thane.
"Met Hon. Home Minister Amit Shah ji today wrt the law and order situation in the state of Maharashtra and how Roshni Shinde ji was attacked in broad daylight by goons of the Shinde faction. This disregard and disrespect towards women is not part of Maharashtra’s ethos and accountability needs to be set," Chaturvedi said.
The Maharashtra Police Wednesday arrested 28 people in connection with a clash between two groups in the Nandurbar district.
The police claimed that the incident took place at around 11.15 pm Tuesday, in which seven police personnel were injured and it was brought under control within an hour. Read More
Contradictions continue to surface within the tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), raising questions on the ability of Shiv Sena (UBT), Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to stay united on the common minimum programme (CMP) it agreed upon in 2019 when the MVA was formed.
While all three political parties have said they will fight the upcoming elections as united MVA, each of these three parties have expressed, either openly or discreetly, their disagreements on various issues, sending out confusing messages to workers. Read More
The state government has cancelled the appointment of lawyer Pradip Gharat as a special public prosecutor in the case lodged by the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi government against Independent lawmakers MP Navneet Rana and her husband MLA Ravi Rana.
They were booked for allegedly resisting arrest and obstructing police, who had visited their Khar residence last year after the couple announced that they will chant the Hanuman Chalisa at the private residence of then chief minister Uddhav Thackeray. Read More
The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) in coordination with central intelligence agencies has detained a man, wanted by the police in connection with the train fire in Kerala that killed three people, from Ratnagiri late Tuesday.
A senior Maharashtra ATS officer confirmed Sharukh Saifi was detained at a railway station in Ratnagiri. “We have detained him based on the intelligence provided by the central intelligence agency. He has admitted his crime. We are in the process of handing him over to the Kerala Police,” added the senior Maharashtra ATS officer. Read More
FROM THE Bench to the Bar, the witness box to the dock, the newly inaugurated building of the Nagpur City Civil and Sessions Court has teak furniture made by some of the very persons who were sentenced by it — the convicts lodged in Maharashtra’s Yerawada, Thane, Nagpur and Nashik jails.
“All the furniture in this court building has been procured from inmates of jails in Maharashtra,” said S B Agarwal, Principal Judge, Nagpur District and Sessions Court, during the inauguration of the nine-storey building last month. The new building has 26 court halls, a conference hall and a host of facilities for lawyers and litigants. Read More
Maharashtra Congress’ disciplinary committee, headed by former chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, will meet on Wednesday to decide on the fate of party leader Ashish Deshmukh from Nagpur, after he accused state party president Nana Patole of accepting money from Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. The party has slammed Deshmukh saying that he has lost his mental balance. Read More
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is scrambling to repair the pipeline in Thane that ruptured last week when Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) was carrying out excavation for an infrastructure project. Civic sources said the repairs will cost the BMC Rs 13 crore.
The BMC meanwhile had imposed a 15% water cut in Mumbai for a month starting March 31, citing repair of the water supply channel that provides water to several parts of the island city and the suburban belt. The portion of this main tunnel that was damaged was also in Thane. Read More
Around 8,000 speed violations are recorded in a month in the city, Joint Commissioner of Traffic Police (Mumbai) Praveen Padwal said on Tuesday. Padwal was speaking at the launch of the ‘Slow Down- Speed Observation Study Report’.
The report is an initiative of the United Way Mumbai, a non-profit, in collaboration with Mumbai Police’s Traffic Control Branch, and IIT Bombay. Read More
The NCP on Tuesday said that it is the only party that has the political strength to change the current situation in Maharashtra.
“It seems for every action in the state, ruling party BJP has decided to blame the NCP. It is for a simple reason that only NCP has the political power in the state to change present situation,” state party president Jayant Patil told mediapersons following party chief Sharad Pawar’s meeting with senior leaders to discuss the future road map of NCP and strengthening of the organisation. Read More
In a major relief to the joint buyers of a property who had executed an agreement for sale in 2006 to purchase an apartment in a Bandra-based project but were denied possession by the developer, the Maharashtra Real Estate Appellate Tribunal, Mumbai recently asked the developer to pay an interest of 2 per cent on the amount paid by the buyers. The amount is to be calculated from 2008 till the actual possession of the flat.
The amount of interest can be made adjustable at the time of possession against the balance amount to be paid by the homebuyers. The developer was also asked to pay Rs 20,000 to the homebuyers. Read more
As a part of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport’s (CSMIA) monsoon contingency plan, both runways — RWY 09/27 and 14/32 — will remain temporarily non-operational on May 2 for pre-monsoon maintenance and repair work.
The temporary closure will be from 11 am to 5 pm and a NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) has been issued in this regard. All operations will resume as usual from May 2, 2023 after 5 pm, as per the official statement issued on Tuesday by the airport’s public relation office.
The scheduled temporary runway closure is a yearly practice and contingency plan. Read more
Nationalist Congress Party state president Jayant Patil Tuesday said that if Prime Minister Narendra Modi's academic qualification has become a subject of public debate, then the authorities concerned should respond to questions being raised over it, asserting that NCP does not think Modi has become the PM because of his degree.
“It's not that Modi became the PM because of his degree. The PM has disclosed his educational qualification and if questions are being raised about it and people are also discussing it, the matter is bound to get analysed in detail. The authorities concerned must respond to it,” Patil said.
“We do not believe that Modi became the prime minister because of his academic qualification,” he added. (PTI)
The Mumbai police Tuesday arrested a youth for allegedly killing his father.
The police investigation has revealed that the accused, Rahul Salve, 23, fought with his father frequently after consuming alcohol and it was during one such fight Sunday that the father passed away. Read more
Bhalubhau Kisan Ghode has literally dedicated his life to millets. The 45-year-old tribal farmer from the Jahagirdarwadi village in the Akole taluka of Maharashtra’s Ahmednagar district exclusively grows seven different types of millets over five acres of his leased land and has travelled far and wide to collect different varieties of millets.
Now, in 2023, the International Year of Millets, Ghode wants the development of a concrete value chain, which he said would allow millets to be popularised once and for all.
Jahagirdarwadi is the base camp of the Kalsubai peak – the highest mountain peak in Maharashtra. Trekkers and tourists from Mumbai and Pune throng this village of around 400, mainly Mahadev Koli, tribal families, over the weekends, especially during and post monsoons. Besides acting as guides, these families also run tourist homestay facilities. Parthasarathi Biswas reports
The BJP will send two free tickets to Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray and his son, youth leader and former minister Aaditya Thackeray for a ‘Me Savarkar’ medical programme organised at the Savarkar Auditorium in Dadar on April 5, said Mumbai BJP chief Ashish Shelar Tuesday.
Shelar added that Chief Minister Eknath Shinde will attend the musical concert on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. He further said, “The event is in honour of Veer Savarkar. It is not a political event. It is open to all but we will send two free tickets for Uddhavji and Aditya Thackeray.” Read more
Maharashtra recorded 711 fresh Covid infections and 4 related deaths in the past 24 hours, a state health bulletin said.
The state's active caseload now stands at 3,792, with Mumbai having the highest number of active cases at 1,162 followed by Thane at 670.
Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders Uddhav Thackeray and Aaditya Thackeray today visited party worker Roshni Shinde at Sampada Hospital, who was injured in an assault in Thane yesterday night allegedly by activists from the Shinde faction. Shinde is currently undergoing treatment.
The Thane police have lodged a non-cognisable complaint against unknown persons in connection with Shinde's attack.
Addressing a public rally in Bihar’s Nawada district, Union Home Minister Amit Shah Monday declared that the BJP’s doors were permanently closed for Nitish Kumar and Janata Dal (United) president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh. While making these bold assertions, Shah claimed that more than half of JD(U) MPs and MLAs were ‘knocking’ the BJP’s doors. Therefore, he subtly implied that the BJP will welcome JD(U) MPs and MLAs willing to switch sides with the exception of two top leaders – Nitish Kumar and Lalan Singh.
Shah’s public pronouncement is a well-planned move and the message is not just confined to the BJP’s estranged alliance partner JD(U) but is also directed towards Uddhav Thackeray’s outfit in Maharashtra, observed some political pundits. In the context of Maharashtra, it can mean that the BJP’s doors will be closed for Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray and MP Sanjay Raut. Shubhangi Khapre reports
Ever since Pune reported a rise in the number of Covid cases this March, authorities have registered three deaths due to the infection.
“All three who succumbed to the infection were above 65 and had co-morbid conditions,” said Dr Suryakant Deokar, Assistant Medical Officer, Pune Municipal Corporation. Civic health authorities said the last Covid death in the city was in November last year.
The three succumbed to Covid on March 11, March 31 and April 2 at Rao Nursing Home, Sahyadri Hospital and Sassoon Hospital respectively. Since the pandemic, Pune city has reported a total of 9,413 deaths due to Covid-19 and more than 6.9 lakh persons have tested positive for the disease. Read more
Following a surge in Covid cases in the state, Maharashtra Health Minister Tanaji Sawant Tuesday informed that the state would be conducting a mock drill from April 13-14.
"As suggested by the central government, we are going to hold a mock drill for our Covid preparedness in the state on April 13-14," Sawant said.
The health minister asked people not to panic but remain vigilant and take precautions. "It's true that Covid numbers are increasing but it's not affecting much as it's a very mild variant which is prevalent in the state. No need to panic at all but everyone should take precautions while going to crowded places." (ANI)
Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, responding to Uddhav Thackeray's 'useless home minister' remark, said, "Maharashtra has seen non-governance during 2.5 years rule of CM Uddhav Thackeray and the people are aware who did that."
:Thackeray should show restrain while commenting:, home minister Fadnavis added.
Pune and its surrounding areas are expected to have cloudy skies with chances of light rains for the next few days. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said this will result in a dip in the maximum temperature for the next few days.
The IMD has alerted about a western disturbance (moisture-bearing winds from the Mediterranean Sea which cause rains in the north and northeast part of the country) as well as a cyclonic circulation over western Rajasthan and its neighbourhood, which exists 1.5 km above mean sea level. Read more
The Pune traffic police said that over the last two weeks they have slapped fines on 392 police vehicles, 160 vehicles of government officials and 35 vehicles of the personnel of the Armed forces for flouting various traffic norms. Officials said the actions will continue in the coming days.
Officers from the Pune City Traffic Control Branch said that a few weeks ago, they received multiple complaints on Twitter, where citizens had posted photos of police and government vehicles flouting parking norms, wrong side driving rules and helmet rules among other traffic norms. Read more
Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis hit back at Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, saying, "Looking at his 30-month tenure as the CM, the whole of Maharashtra has come to know as to who is useless. What authority does a CM who did not have the courage to seek the resignation of two of his ministers who went to jail have to speak on these matters?"
"A person who for 30 months sat in the confines of his home should not teach us statecraft. If we start speaking, he will have no place to hide his face," he added.
Launching a frontal attack on Maharashtra Deputy CM and Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray Monday called his erstwhile ally a "useless home minister", saying that the rule of law was being not being followed in Maharashtra in Fadnavis's tenure.
The former chief minister's tirade against Fadnavis was sparked by an alleged assault on Shiv Sena (UBT) worker Roshni Shinde in Thane yesterday night; the woman was allegedly assaulted by activists from the Shinde faction and is currently under treatment.
Former MLA and Congress leader from Nagpur Ashish Deshmukh questioned whether the party’s Maharashtra chief Nana Patole gets Rs 1 crore every month from Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, in an indication of growing infighting within the Maharashtra Congress even as the crucial BMC polls are around the corner.
The comment came after Patole was not seen on the dais at the Maha Vikas Aghadi rally in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (formerly Aurangabad) on Sunday.
“Our state president (Patole) was absent from the MVA rally at Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar despite being healthy. When I checked, I got to know that he was on his way to Surat. It seems he gets one khoka (Rs 1 crore) per month from state’s chief (minister). That is the reason why he never talks against him (Shinde) but targets only BJP and Devendra Fadnavis” said Deshmukh. Read more
NCP president Sharad Pawar today convened a meeting with state party leaders in Mumbai.
In 2020, three men were lynched by a mob in Maharashtra’s Palghar district after allegedly suspecting them to be child-kidnappers and organ harvesters. The three were driving to a funeral in Surat when a group of villagers in Gadchinchle, a tribal village in a remote part of Palghar, stopped their car and attacked them with stones, logs and axes.
So far 101 people have been arrested and nine minor detained in connection with the crime. Zeeshan Sheikh recaps the incident.
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At least 16 passengers had a narrow escape when a fire erupted in an air-conditioned state transport in Maharashtra's Nagpur on Tuesday, police said.
The incident took place at Kondhali, around 50 km from the district headquarters, in the morning hours when the Maharashtra State Transport Corporation's (MSRTC) 'Shivshahi' bus was on its way to Amravati, an official said.
There were 16 passengers onboard when the blaze suddenly erupted on the bus, he said, news agency PTI reported.
Three years after two sadhus and their driver were lynched in Maharashtra’s Palghar by a mob on the suspicion that they were child lifters, two holy men were rescued by the local police after residents in a village in the district suspected them to be child stealers.
In the incident that took place in April 2020, the three men were lynched by the villagers which led to over 100 people being arrested by the police. The Opposition had targeted the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, which was in power in Maharashtra at that time, over the issue.
The Mumbai police Sunday arrested an alleged drunken man for reportedly running over a 70-year-old man at Nanabhai Moos Marg. The police said the accused, who is a driver by profession, was returning home when he allegedly rammed into the senior citizen identified as Arun Parab while he was crossing the road. Read More
Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis along with Union Minister for transport, road and highways Nitin Gadkari will address a Savarkar Gaurav Yatra organised y BJP in Nagpur on Tuesday late evening.
The BJP has organised rallies across state from April 2 to 6. The rallies are with regard to protest against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's remark on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.
After Guardian Minister Chandrakant Patil raised concern over the adverse impact on the overall development of the city due to the expansion of city limits and instead favoured splitting of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), the Maharashtra government has asked the civic body to give its opinion on breaking the PMC and forming a new municipal corporation for the East Hadapsar and Wagholi. Read More
Infighting within the city unit of BJP is coming to the fore as party leaders face off over the proposed Balbharti-Paud road link project. National vice-president of women’s wing of BJP and former legislator Medha Kulkarni has opposed the mega infrastructure project which is being promoted by Guardian Minister Chandrakant Patil and former mayor Murlidhar Mohol. Read More
Mumbai Police have registered an FIR against 15 crew members of a fishing boat after it allegedly entered a prohibited area of the ONGC in the Arabian Sea and security agencies were provided wrong details about two crew members, an official said on Monday.
The incident took place between 8 am and 10 am on Saturday, 55 nautical miles away from the west coast in the Arabian Sea, an official said. Read More
Eknath Shinde’s struggles are far from over. The Election Commission of India may have recognised the Sena faction he leads as the real Shiv Sena and allotted it both the party name and its bow-and-arrow symbol, while he is himself ensconced in the Chief Minister’s seat — but in the eyes of Maharashtra voters, the Thackeray name still carries the magic. Read More
A 50-year-old woman from Navi Mumbai town in Maharashtra allegedly lost Rs 14.30 lakh to fraudsters after being offered a job online, police said on Tuesday.
Based on the woman's complaint, a case was registered against four persons on Sunday under provisions of the Indian Penal Code and the Information Technology Act, but no arrest has been made so far, an official from NRI Sagari police station said.
On March 23, the victim received a message on WhatsApp from a woman who identified herself as the owner of a social media agency in Mumbai and offered her job as a freelancer. The victim was thereafter given some YouTube links, she was asked to like them and was given some money in return, the official said quoting the complaint. The woman was then made to do some transactions in crypto currency trading and initially given some returns. Later, she stopped getting any money and by that time she had allegedly lost Rs 14.30 lakh, he said.
The woman realised she had been cheated and lodged a police complaint, the official said, adding that a probe was on into the case., news agency PTI reported.
Mumbai has grabbed the lion’s share in the agriculture term loan projections by National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) even as the city has no farmlands. As per the Maharashtra state focus report 2023-24 by the regulatory body, the financial capital of India has 43 per cent of the share in the projections. “(This is)…due to predominance of activities like fisheries, agriculture infrastructure (storage facilities) and agri-ancillary sector (food and agro-processing) projects with large TFOs (total financial outlay) being sanctioned from zonal offices or specialised branches of commercial banks,” as per the report.
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THE MUMBAI Police’s special investigation team (SIT), which is investigating the suicide of IIT student Darshan Solanki in February, is likely to move for a lie-detector test to be conducted on the IIT student whose name was mentioned in a note purportedly written by Solanki and found in his hostel room.
In the note, Solanki purportedly said “(student name) you killed me”. Read the full story here
With the Shiv Sena (UBT) dominating the first joint rally, since it lost power, of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) at Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar on Sunday, where the Sena (UBT) president took the centrestage, speculations are rife on Uddhav Thackeray leading the alliance in the run-up to upcoming polls in the state.
The dominance of the Sena (UBT) in Sunday’s rally was evident, starting from the arrangements with a gigantic picture of Uddhav placed centrally on the stage with traditional Shiv Sena-style saffron-color background and Sena flag in the middle of the stage with other leaders’ smaller photos on both sides. Read More
A sessions court on Monday sentenced three men to life imprisonment for the murder of a 52-year-old woman, the wife of a prominent city-based developer, in 2012. The trio was also found guilty of committing robbery of various items worth Rs 1.4 crore from the Ghatkopar residence of the developer.
Ashok Purohit (Maharaj), Mahendrasingh Rathod and Hemant Manaria were convicted on charges including murder for killing Chetna Ajmera, robbery and house-trespass. Purohit was a cook employed by Chetana and her husband, Jayant, who owned Ajmera Builders. He was sacked by the Ajmera couple a few months before the murder as he was irregular at work. Read More