If rolled out, Maharashtra will perhaps become the first state to provide EDNF, commonly called ready to use therapeutic food (RUTF), for all malnourished children.

“The BJP and RSS have decided to work on a two-pronged strategy to enhance the party’s vote share on one hand and negate NOTA votes on the other,” a BJP source said.

The college, run by the Deccan Education Society and established by stalwarts like Lokmanya Tilak and Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, had earlier received the nod from the University Grants Commission for the new tag.

In his brief speech, Fadnavis said, “I have graced the Loksatta’s annual function for five successive years. I can state with confidence, I will come next year too.”

The court passed an order in a Public Interest Litigation filed by Ahmad Abdi, a lawyer, seeking direction to provide a new building for the Bombay High Court with fixtures, furniture and other infrastructure on priority basis.

The project, also being planned in seven other major cities across India under the Nirbhaya Fund, has proposed one-stop crisis centres for women. A senior state official said the Centre had agreed to release Rs 151 crore for the project in Mumbai.

After their arrest, the accused claimed that one of them, Rajnarayan, was suffering from a heart ailment and they had stolen the money to fund his treatment.

Claiming that several patients are bearing the brunt of the sudden closure of the scheme, Corporator Dr Saeeda Khan has threatened to hold a protest at the Worli office of MJPJAY if the three BMC hospitals are not re-empanelled.

“While prima facie it looked like suicide, we found injuries on the woman’s neck and hands. The post-mortem report revealed that she had been murdered,” said a senior police officer.

A senior civic official said, “The BMC has spent Rs 1.10 crore on development and beautification of this open space into a recreation ground. There have been demands for it after the Kabaddi Premier League was launched."

According to data from the railway police commissionerate, every year nearly 3,000 deaths are recorded on railway tracks: both commuters and trespassers. More than 50 per cent of the deaths are of those crossing the railway tracks.

On Sunday, while the meeting was on, a group of seven to eight men allegedly forced themselves inside and beat up Selvam and Valmiki, police said. “We have lodged an FIR on the basis of Valmiki’s complaint,” a senior officer said.

The accused, in her bail plea, stated that the complaint was false and a result of domestic discord between the complainant and her friend, the boy’s parents.

Police said the accused, identified as Satyandra Pratap Sovaram Singh, had befriended several women on Facebook and later duped them of cash under the pretext of sending valuable gifts from abroad.

University of Mumbai (MU) had submitted a report claiming that 15 per cent to 20 per cent of the text in a book written by the principal of Ulhasnagar’s Chandibai Himatlal Mansukhani College resembles a book authored by an American.

The accused, Rakesh Shrestha (62), who is of Nepalese origin, has claimed to be “unaware of Indian caste hierarchies”. Shrestha had worked in over 600 films in a career spanning more than three decades.

Three labourers suffocated to death upon entering a drainage chamber on Mira Road last week. A case was registered at the Kashi Mira police station on January 18, two days after the incident, under Section 304A of the Indian Penal Code.

He owned a shop on the ground floor of Arihant Building on Manpada Road in Dombivli. Based on a tip-off, Thane Crime Branch Unit-III had raided his shop on January 15 and arrested him for illegally possessing and selling weapons.

While four of them were picked up from Aurangabad, five were brought in from Mumbra. The youngsters are suspected to be linked to a religious organisation, said officers. Until late Tuesday, none of the nine men were placed under arrest.

The project entails restoring the Fort precinct, starting with the section of Mahatma Gandhi Road between National Gallery of Modern Art, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahlaya, Esplanade Mansion and Mumbai University.

Thackeray memorial: While uncertainty clouds the future of the Shiv Sena’s alliance with the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the warring allies on Tuesday joined hands for the construction of a memorial to Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray.

The portal that will sell eggs online will be launched on January 23. So far, 1,200 women have been registered across the villages of Palghar and Dhule to supply eggs. The programme will be replicated in other districts gradually.

The state government has urged the Centre to evolve a comprehensive policy to protect the interests of horticulturists facing tough competition from imported fruits and vegetables.

The court was hearing a PIL, challenging a 1994-government resolution that increased the percentage of reservation by 16 per cent in the category of Other Backward Class (OBC) and Vimukta Jati (denotified tribes) and Nomadic Tribes (VJNT).