The letter, signed by members Pradip Sawant, Milind Satam, Supriya Karande, Pravin Patkar and six others, said Tawde misused his power and ordered “arrest” of a student who had recorded the interaction. Senate members of the MU want to lodge their protest, they said.

The girl allegedly ended her life by hanging from the ceiling because her parents did not allow her to marry her boyfriend.

Addressing students at the annual convocation ceremony at the Fort campus of the varsity, Pednekar said, “NAAC reaccreditation is now our topmost priority and the preparations for this are going on full swing.” The university has applied for NAAC reaccreditation and is expected to get it by January end.

Under the project, the government will provide financial subsidy up to Rs 1.5 lakh to a family, which owns a land, for building a house. In case of landless families, the government will provide a financial aid of Rs 50,000 and help the family find a suitable land to build the house.

Congress state president Ashok Chavan raised the demand during a party rally in Vidarbha’s Gondia, which has a sizeable paddy farming population.

The submission was made before the division bench of Chief Justice Naresh Patil and N M Jamdar, which is hearing a Public Interest Litigation seeking that Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Google take EC’s approval before publishing or sponsoring any political advertisement on their platforms.

Venting his anger at being sidelined yet again, Khadse — who was once the number two in Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’ Cabinet — said he had been targeted unfairly, and that he was fed up of politics.

In the last few years, BKC has become one of the busiest business districts in the city. An estimated 30 lakh to 40 lakh motorists drive to and fro their offices in BKC every day.

One of the accused, Mehraj Abdul Bari (19) of Mankhurd, was caught after a CCTV camera footage showed him riding away with a scooter parked at Ferry Wharf on January 6.

The alleged fraud went on from 2012 to 2018 till one of the top managers of the bank found that four cards were making payments way above their credit limit.

On Friday morning, Additional Metropolitan Commissioner, Sanjay Khandare, met monorail employees and accepted their demands.

The committee, which was to meet on Friday afternoon, will now meet on Saturday with all stakeholders, including BMC, BEST and the workers on strike since January 7 midnight.

With a fleet of 3,337 buses, the BEST, which is also the second largest mode of public transport in Mumbai, employs around 39,000 people. It pays Rs 135 crore a month towards their salaries and wages — an annual wage bill of Rs 1,620 crore.

Congress leaders took the battle to the BJP in Nagpur — Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’s native district and also the home turf of the RSS. Both parties have already declared their intention of contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha polls in an alliance.

Rekha Deodhar, vice-president of Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Mahamandal, said: “Farmer widow Vaishali Yede, whose husband committed suicide seven years ago, will open the Sammelan tomorrow.

During the hour-long discussion, speakers will bring in their own area of expertise to the table, talking about the arrangements that go into preparing for an event of this magnitude.

Fadnavis accepted the offer. The core sectors that were discussed included agriculture, industries, infrastructure, information and technology.

At 10.30 pm, Vishal borrowed Rs 500 from Durga and left their Mulund flat. At 1 am, he texted his father Mahendra, a businessman: ‘I am going to a party. See you tomorrow.’ The next morning, Thakkar went missing. Vishu, as his family called him, would be 33 years old now.

What started as a plan to cycle 1,400 km across the United Kingdom turned into a goal of going around the world. Kulkarni chose Perth in Australia as the start and finish line, maintaining an average of 320 km or 16 hours of cycling per day.

This comes a day after 2,000 eviction notices were issued to the striking employees by the state government under the Maintenance of Essential Services and Maintenance Act. The notices were issued to BEST employees staying at government quarters in Bhoiwada, Parel, Colaba and Wadala.

Currently, there are two weather radars scanning the skies of Mumbai and, with the addition of four C-band radars, meteorologists believe it will be the first-of-its-kind radar network installed over a small area in India.

The police said that Ansari, posing as a customs officer, had approached the lawyer, Colaba resident Jitendra Kshirsagar, on the pretext of selling him an iPhone — worth Rs 78,000 in the Indian market — for Rs 30,000.

In a fire compliance inspection of the commercial structures in the area, the fire brigade found three LPG cylinders and seven industrial use cylinders stocked in the Gymkhana kitchen.

The fire brigade has proposed to install this simulator at the fire station in Thakur Village, Kandivali. Officials said the BMC will make budget provisions for the simulator in the estimates for the financial year 2019-20.