A 150-foot-high flag will be located in the Gateway of India precinct, as proposed by Shiv Sena leader and Industries Minister Subhash Desai.
The residents of Kalundre village blamed CIDCO for not maintaining protocol while handing out contracts. “They should give contracts to only those who have a team and safety gears. The effluents from the sewage lines get mixed and create a mess in our village. We have complained in vain,” said Mahadev Bapat, an activist.
An officer said that Singh was due to go on a month-long leave to his native place in Punjab from Friday. He had informed his family — his wife, a son and a daughter — about coming home. On Thursday, he arrived at the armament depot at 11 am as per his duty timing, said an officer.
The petition claimed that after the government decided to construct the memorial, a notice was issued under the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act-1966, calling for objections and suggestions for the change in reservation of the said land.
While the Shiv Sena has been eyeing this plot for more than a year, the proposed modification had been kept in abeyance so far following opposition from the members of the gymkhana, many of them serving and retired municipal employees.
"The prime minister, who had advised youth to fry 'pakodas' (snack), had to eventually give 10 per cent reservation to the economically backward classes," Shiv Sena said.
Vastu Vidhan Project, which has restored heritage drinking water fountains in other parts of the city so far, has been appointed by the BMC to revive and conserve the “pyaus” inside the zoo.
Sources said the PWD has proposed to pay Rs 70 crore as mobilisation advance to the contractor following the Cabinet decision. The PWD’s proposal was sent to the GAD by the finance department, said an official.
Officials from the agriculture department said the state will not be able to cross the standard 2.55 lakh hectares of sowing. Farmers start sowing the rabi onion in December and finish by the end of January
Uddhav alleged that the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana has more irregularities than the Rafale deal. He asked how many people have received benefits of the government’s crop insurance scheme after paying installments to insurance firms.
The complainant is a 41-year-old gym trainer who got married in 2004. He and his wife have three children, including the 11-year old boy, and twins aged seven.
Officials at the Women and Child Development (WCD) department said that RUTF, in the form of a paste, will be provided to all Village Child Development Centres (VCDCs) for Severely Acute Malnourished (SAM) children registered with anganwadis.
The cub, T1C1, had escaped the 11-feet high enclosure, erected last week to restrict his and his sibling’s movement. The sibling, T1C2, a female, was captured earlier and was put in a similar enclosure at Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR) for re-wilding.
The Samiti plans to reach out to OBC leaders across party lines, including in the Congress, NCP, Shiv Sena, BJP and others. It also plans to seek support of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
Sahgal had been invited to inaugurate the Sammelan that will be presided over by poet Aruna Dhere. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is the chief guest for the event.
The parties include the Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh (BBM), Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Left outfits and Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana (SSS).
The driver, identified as Prashant Kamble, was arrested on Monday, produced before the court and remanded to judicial custody. The complainant in the case is the minor’s father, a daily wager.
The BEST management, meanwhile, asked the workers to end the stir and come to the negotiating table. When contacted, Bagade said the demands of the employees could not be fulfilled unless the strike was called off.
“Non-GMO is a western indulgence of the rich, it doesn’t work for the poor in Africa,” he said. Roberts, the chief scientific officer at New England’s Biolabs, distinguished between traditional breeding method and precision method, which means transferring genes directly into plant.
While sentencing Hatim Pardawala to one year in prison, the trial court had said it was sending out a “good message” to act as a deterrent since the allegations were that of assaulting a public servant.
The nominated officer and his team will check residential and commercial structures for fire compliance, including whether conditions of the fire no objection certificate have been complied with.
Majid suffered from brain haemorrhage and a kidney ailment. Her family said that they have neither been offered the Rs 10 lakh ex-gratia paid to the kin of others who died in the tragedy, nor the compensation of Rs 1 lakh or Rs 2 lakh paid to those injured.
As Gopi still held on, the 27-year-old woman’s paramour Mahesh Karale (25) administered him two doses of phenyl, smothered him and banged his head against the wall in the intervening night of December 28 and December 29.
The accused were produced in court and remanded to police custody till January 10. The complainant is Hukumchand Jatolia, a resident of Kurla (East), who runs a wholesale business in footwear. The accused were identified as Alok Sharma and 70-year-old Dalsingar Yadav from Pune.
The accused include Bipin Shah alias Bipin Indraprasth (48), who has been arrested before by Thane anti-extortion cell, for allegedly placing bets in connection with a racket involving notorious bookie Sonu Jalan.





