The act of manual scavenging is a human rights violation as it destroys the dignity of the person forced to carry someone else’s excreta, Bezwada Wilson, the Ramon Magsaysay awardee said.
The accused, Surendra Yadav, ran a catering business in Nallasopara, police said. Yadav, who was from Jaunpur in Uttar Pradesh fled for his home after the crime.
Last Sunday, Shah said in Latur that if an alliance happened, the BJP will ensure victory of the alliance and, if it did not, it will thrash them in the coming polls.
In an interview to The Indian Express, the 1996-batch IPS officer talks about two decades of managing the largest religious gathering on the planet and his collection of pictures of the Kumbh Mela, which is being exhibited at the Jehangir Art Gallery.
According to Fadnavis, “ease of doing business is the key to Maharashtra’s success in establishing leadership in industrial growth and foreign investments.”
Maharashtra’s Chief Secretary Dinesh Kumar Jain, a 1983-batch officer, who is set to retire this month-end, was believed to be keen on landing the prestigious assignment
The accused have been identified as Naim Mehboob Shaikh, Samshujma Ansari and Mujahid Ansari — all employees of the BNMC anti-encroachment cell, police said.
The modification allows Dr Nishigandha Naik to become eligible for the post. Naik, daughter of UP governor Ram Naik, is 57 years old.
The four bidders interested in the project have sought extension to conduct contour survey and estimate calorific value of the waste.
The scholar, Anton Zykov, worked for the Russian Embassy between 2011 and 2013, but in November 2017, he started working on a unique three-year project of recording and analysing the Parsi dialect (Parsi Gujarati or simply Parsi in India and Zoroastrian Dari or Gavruni in Iran).
As per the information from the Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL), there will be no flight movements at the Mumbai airport between 11 am and 5 pm on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays from February 7 to March 30.
Thane Collector Rajesh Narvekar confirms receiving assent on land measuring process for 61 hectares
The Sena said Prime Minister should have intervened when the crisis between the two senior officers was brewing.
While a focused jobs guarantee thrust could help mitigate financial distress for tens of thousands of rural families, Maharashtra’s performance on MGNREGA until now this year has been lacklustre on several counts.
Documents accessed by The Sunday Express show that just a month before WCD issued tenders for contentious EDNF in July 2017, the tribal department had warned against the proposed benefits of the packaged food to combat malnutrition.
As many as 75 mills, including almost all the mills in the sugar bowl of Sangli and Kolhapur, have not paid anything to their growers.
The complainant has earlier worked in a five-star hotel in Saudi Arabia for two years and after he returned to Mumbai, posted his resume on a job website, following which he was approached by alleged fraudsters.
Sources said the target has been set with an eye on Lok Sabha and state Assembly polls later this year.
The woman had withdrawn Rs 25,000 from an ATM and purchased two dresses and a gold ring allegedly using a stolen debit card.
In this regard, the civic body will write to both the planning authorities regarding segregation and organic waste composting centres to be provided in their jurisdiction.
The police said the incident took place when the accused suspected that the victim and his son had stolen their pigeons.
The HC quashed the magistrate court order after the son stated that he will repay Rs 15 lakh to his father in three months. The Court has held legally challenging such financial transactions shows deterioration of social values.
Sunday will be the sixth day of the strike called by over 30,000 BEST employees demanding, among other things, timely disbursal of their salaries and merger of the BEST’s budget with that of BMC.
" I have an interest in English and French literature, hence I read 19th-century poets like Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé," says DGP D D Padsalgikar.
Among those in attendance were classical musician and Padma Shri awardee Umakant Gundecha and Bimlesh Kumar, Deputy Director, Uttar Pradesh Tourism.





