While the state government had announced a hike in excise duty on Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) with effect from January 1, liquor manufacturers had deferred declaration of the revised maximum retail prices (MRPs) until now on account of availability of old stock.

Data from the state public health department shows that till March 2018, 1,624 children were diagnosed with leprosy. In 2018, 7.5 crore people were screened and 12,415 new cases were diagnosed through door-to-door campaigns.

Sahgal (91) was speaking at an event that paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi on his 71st death anniversary.

The court order stated that a married woman had filed a police complaint against her husband and his alleged boyfriend in February 2009. The woman had got married in December 1994 and the couple had a son.

Vicky Patel was wanted by the Surat Police since Jan 2004, when he and five other men, posing as employees of a gas company, barged into a bungalow in Umra, assaulted the family members staying in it and killed one of them, before fleeing with valuables.

Semester 5 exams were conducted in October-November last year and 57,169 students had registered for the test, of which, 56,511 appeared.

The incident took place around 2.30 pm when the accused, Walkeshwar resident Kunal Bavdane, was traveling in an autorickshaw with a 22-year-old woman.

The couple, residents of Nallasopara, are in a serious condition at KEM hospital.

The uber water taxis, each would seat six, can be booked 15 minutes in advance. The distance, which at present takes an hour through ferries, will be covered in 20 to 25 minutes.

While the Congress and the Sharad Pawar-led NCP are yet to formally declare the seat-sharing arrangement between them, the state Congress parliamentary board scrutinised the list of probables on 26 out of the 48 Lok Sabha seats.

Since they joined hands in 1989, the alliance has helped the Shiv Sena use the BJP to gain grounds in national politics. At the same time, it ensured that the BJP gained greater penetration into Maharashtra, thanks to the Sena.

These were her first public remarks since the controversy earlier this month following objections raised to her participation at the literature festival held in Yavatmal district.

The Kunbis and Marathas being one and the same, the Maratha community should have been and should be included in the list of OBC, the report says.

Based on the recommendations of a one-man committee, the state Cabinet approved a proposal to make changes to the Lokayukta and Upa-Lokayukta Act, 1971, in a bid to lend more teeth to the anti-corruption watchdog.

The boy, who lives with his parents in Eksar village in Borivali west, went missing on Saturday afternoon while he was playing outside his home.

At present, the Byculla zoo, built in 1982, has monkeys, crocodiles, elephants, hippopotamus and a surplus of exotic birds, which no other zoo wants.

A senior MMRCL official said that the length of the station has been reduced by 22 metre from 52 metre, with some increase in its width.

In April 2017, MHADA kicked off redevelopment work on these century-old buildings located in the heart of the city in areas such as Worli, Naigaum and N M Joshi Marg.

Apart from the frequent traffic snarls faced by commuters, the work has hit pedestrians too as footpaths at many places on LBS Marg have been taken over for widening.

Shiv Sena corporator from Borivali, Riddhi Khursange, had on January 18 written to Mayor Vishwanath Mahadeshwar and group leaders of the BMC, asking them to take up the issue.

Sakshi was arrested in March 2018 for allegedly killing her husband Shailesh Nimse, a former Shiv Sena leader from Shahpur. On January 27, Sakshi allegedly committed suicide in jail.

The cashier Ashish Vijay Shirke told the police that on January 20, he was on the 2 pm-to-11 pm shift when the accused approached him with the UAE Dirhams.

On January 23, residents of an upmarket locality in Virar West called the police after their clogged drains led to the discovery of flesh and fingers in the septic tank.

The alleged incident took place at 9.30 am when Saif Ali Sharafatali (25) had gone to the home of the woman with whom his marriage had been fixed.