Owaisi also took a swipe at Pakistan and Maulana Masood Azhar over their role in the February 14 Pulwama terror attack in which 40 CRPF personnel were killed.

The CPI(M) is hoping that a deal with the Congress-NCP combine could give Gavit, who has a substantial following in Kalwan Surgana, a chance to win the seat.

The police said the 19-year-old woman was asked to meet the professor a week ago due to her low attendance. The professor then allegedly asked for sexual favour to increase her attendance record and allow her to sit for her exams.

On Thursday night, official email from the registrar was sent to students in Delhi and Mumbai saying it had been cancelled due to “unavoidable circumstances”.

“The call was made to the Air India Mumbai airport operation control centre late Friday, threatening to hijack an aircraft to Pakistan. While it has been classified as a non-specific threat, we have taken it seriously in view of current situation,” an AI official said.

A first-of-its-kind course jointly instituted by the Mumbai University and the state tribal development department was developed to promote life skill education in tribal population to help them assert as well as know their rights.

The turtles that come to the centre in Dahanu suffer from a myriad of issues, but many show signs of ‘depression’.

The DRI has alleged that Shree Chamunda is importing secondary CRGO coils by “misdeclaring” the product and showing “forged” Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) certificates.

Nuclear medicine uses radiation to provide information about the functioning of a person’s specific organs, or to treat diseases like cancer.

In 2016, a court had sentenced five persons to death and awarded life terms to seven others for their roles in the 2006 serial blasts on trains. Only Wahid Shaikh was acquitted .

In order to take care of nodal traffic, a service road has also been proposed alongside. This will ensure unobstructed traffic movements from Mumbai Trans Harbour Link Corridor (MTHL) to the airport.

“Although the RSS never directly intervenes in the politics of the BJP, there is always a subtle message conveyed to the top leadership, which helps in setting the political direction,” a senior BJP functionary requesting anonymity said.

So far, the counsels for all petitioners have relied heavily on the Supreme Court’s judgment in Indira Sawhney and Others versus the Union of India case, which held that the 50 per cent reservation ceiling cannot be exceeded, except in exceptional cases, like in extraordinary situations in far-flung and remote areas, and if a special case is made out.

Ganapathy’s addition takes the number of accused in this case to 23. Charges have now been framed against 15 of these, under provisions of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act and the Indian Penal Code.

A senior MMRDA official said the corridor, work for which had begun in March 2018, was on track and is likely to be completed before the 2023 deadline. “The agency will be collecting toll until 2045,” the official added.

The manufacturers, which were served closure notices, meanwhile, have demanded that the state government withdraw the notices as they have complied with its directive to submit buyback plans.

Wajid Ali’s elder brother Ahmed had confronted him when he had said that he wanted to leave everything and go to Medina

CyArk, an international non-profit organisation based in California, USA, is working on digital scanning and archiving of the historic arch monument, whose final data of an accurate surface model will be submitted free of cost to the state Directorate of Archaeology and Museums for its own use.

According to the proposal, the parking authority will convert the five checkpoints into either an inter-state bus terminal or a goods’ terminal where heavy vehicles, like trucks, can unload goods into smaller delivery vehicles, which will be allowed to enter the city.

Raigad Police was informed around 1.30 am on Thursday. “We immediately contacted the bomb squad and ATS teams. Other agencies were engaged too. Finally, the device was defused around 4.30 am,” a senior officer from Raigad Police said.

According to the police, the driver, Salim Damanwala (38), allegedly made remarks insulting the armed forces and hurting religious sentiments during an argument with a passenger over the Pulwama terror attack.

The bandh has been called after FSAM’s letter, raising issues over the implementation of the Right to Education (RTE), to the state government on January 24 failed to elicit a response from the administration.

The corporators want the civic body to bear 50 per cent of the expenses that goes into running these schools. In the sixties, the civic body had decided to provide grants to needy, private schools provided the state government bore 50 per cent of the expenses.

Ansari was arrested and stamps bearing the seals of the local tehsildar office, the income tax office, various private enterprises and local Congress MLA Arif Naseem Khan, along with affidavits addressed to the PAN card office for correction of personal details, were recovered from his shop.