“For many years, the BJP used to win the polls on our strength. The way the BJP is behaving is very painful. It is very arrogant. So, I will contest hundred per cent to defeat their arrogance and will win it,” said Khotkar in Nashik on Tuesday.

Bhujbal urged Devendra Fadnavis “the state government’s lawyer should place in court the right perspective and facts on which OBC quota was sanctioned and enforced several decades ago”.

“Rising of the court” refers to a sentence for which the guilty is detained in a courtroom and made to sit for hours till the proceeding concludes.

In a bid to overcome its chronic housing crisis, Maharashtra, the country’s most industrialised state, on Tuesday eased norms regarding turning over of revenue land that were originally earmarked for industrial activity for residential and commercial use.

The government will pay a monthly honorarium of Rs 10,000 to those imprisoned for over a month and Rs 5,000 per month to their partner after their death

Following a tip off, a team from the Local Crime Branch (LCB) of Pune Rural Police raided a hotel in Lonavala on January 23 and arrested one person, Bhaveen Anam (38), a resident of Mulund in Mumbai.

Former director of the National Spot Exchange Limited (NSEL), Joseph Massey was arrested on Sunday by the Mumbai Police Economic Offences Wing (EOW).

At the BJP’s state executive meeting held at Jalna district in Marathwada region, Fadnavis addressed the party workers and asked them to get ready for the big battle of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Rajya Sabha MP Saroj Pandey, also the BJP in-charge for Maharashtra, made the remarks while referring to Congress MP Ghulam Nabi Azad’s remarks that Priyanka’s entering politics was the party’s trump card.

The bypolls for the local bodies brought mixed results. While the BJP won Alandi (Pune), Congress won Dudhani (Solapur), NCP won Beed and the Sena won Arjuni.

The upgraded scheme will include knee and hip implants, and also treatment for anaemia for above and below poverty line patients.

Tata Institute of Social Sciences’ (TISS) has partnered with foreign universities and HelpAge India to form the China - India Population Ageing Forum to study implications of population ageing and work out suitable policy responses.

William Rodricks and Aakash Shetty, alleged ‘tippers’ of the Pujari gang, were arrested earlier this month and were alleged to be supplying contact details of possible targets in the city who would then receive extortion calls from the gangster.

After a test pit was dug on detection of a depression on the road near the Pizza By The Bay junction on Marine Drive on Monday afternoon, officers found a cavity, almost 20 feet X 7 feet, that could have caused the road to cave in.

The alleged incident took place on January 24 when a Class VI student of Tree House High School in Virar West went home crying.

The victims’ father is a police constable. Kumar Arjun Dere’s father reportedly lost his savings, mortgaged his wife’s jewellery and even took a loan from a moneylender to help pay the sum.

For several years, the workers have been demanding maternity and other leaves, increase in minimum pay, provident fund benefits and pension

According to a preliminary inquiry report submitted to the additional municipal commissioner, standard operating procedure was not followed while operating on seven patients on January 4.

Ambroli Church is named after Ambroli House, the chapel that stood at the site on Dr Wilson Street, before the church was constructed in 1832.

On January 19, Union Railways Minister Piyush Goyal had flagged off the city’s third Rajdhani Express, the first on CR, from CSMT.

Last week, the state had filed an affidavit before the court saying that 16 per cent reservation was given to the Marathas on the basis of the community’s “social, educational and economic backwardness”.

The 150-year-old Grade One heritage structure was inaugurated on January 24 by Yuva Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray and Mumbai Mayor Vishwanath Mahadeshwar after the first phase of restoration was completed.

According to the Unit III Crime Branch, the Vitthalwadi police had lodged a case of cheating in which some people had obtained forged death certificate from the Mumbra division of Thane municipal corporation office.

The ward boy, Lankesh Uttekar, is an employee of an agency that was given the contract by the hospital.