In view of the bumper crop and record carry-over, the central government had mandated exports of 50 lakh tonne (l) this year. To boost exports, a distance-based transport allowance was also announced.

The government has already declared 151 talukas out of a total 355 as drought-affected, but various districts are pressing the government to declare more talukas as drought-hit. The water scarcity coupled with crop loss has badly affected farmers.

In November 2018, BMC had claimed that by year-end they will complete the final list of eligible hawkers and licences will be distributed. However, four years after the list was proposed, the civic body is yet to finish the task.

The two witnesses had filed separate applications seeking to be re-examined, which were heard a day before the court pronounced its judgment.

Last year, Sena was criticized for not acquiring a plot reserved in Kurla west for open spaces. Opposition parties had alleged that as Sena leader Dilip Lande has a house on the land, the civic body was not acquiring it.

Through the decades that Narayan spent working with the state transport department and Iravati as a teacher at the Aryan Education Society High School, they have seen Mumbai’s transition.

The Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray had criticised the Modi government at a rally in Pandharpur, stating, “Pahredar (watchman) has become chor”, echoing Congress president Rahul Gandhi who used the term “Chowkidar chor hai” (the watchman is the thief).

The man had gone to Irshalgad fort for trekking.

On January 1, last year, when a large number of Dalits, mainly Ambedkarites, had turned up at the Jaystambh or war memorial to mark the 200th year of the battle, tension had prevailed.

Sunita Chaturvedi, wife of junior technician Manish Pandey who died in an airplane crash at Ghatkopar in June, alleged that when her husband refused to board the aircraft, he was “induced by employees of Indamer and UY Aviation.”

In December alone, four major fires in the city had left 20 dead in less than 15 days. 

The CBI, in its initial chargesheets had claimed that Sohrabuddin was killed due to a conspiracy between the politicians of Rajasthan and Gujarat, along with marble owners of Rajasthan, from whom he was trying to extort money.

Structural engineer and former professor at VJTI College Jamshed Sukhadwalla says planning for underground projects must involve not only engineering, but also geology, geomorphology, and other considerations.

“The accused and deceased also worked as property dealers and there was some dispute regarding a particular plot that led to the murder,” said Jadhav.

While one-and-a-half lanes of traffic on the arterial Western Express Highway (WEH) are barricaded with signboards indicating that Metro work is in progress, the remaining lanes are jammed with honking, angry traffic.

The son of a fireman of the Mumbai Fire Brigade, Soham narrates his experience of not getting admission into a particular college for engineering this year.

In December, many walkers, runners and tourists visiting the promenade for an unhindered view of the sea, saw yellow barricades “gobbling up” the promenade for the construction of Mumbai’s ambitious coastal road project.

Lawyer Nitin Satpute, representing Pol, told the vacation bench of Justice C V Bhadang on Monday that the police had neither allowed nor rejected their plea seeking permission to hold a public meeting in Pune on December 30 and 31.

While those with damaged houses received a small sum of Rs 5,000 as rehabilitation money, small factories were completely ignored, said Sanjeev Jain, secretary of the Industrialists’ Association in Vasai.

Scrutiny of the CCTV footage in the housing society and analysis of the call data record of the carpenter, helped police nab him.

The BMC and an American organisation have proposed to transform the CSMT junction into a pedestrian-friendly area. The makeover include delineated traffic lanes, walking and resting zones.

In light of last year’s Kamala Mills compound fire which killed 14, the civic body had started sending letters to commercial and residential establishments.

According to the Disaster Management Cell department, the fire was brought under control around 3.30 am and doused at 4.30 am.

Sources said that the much-awaited major transfer in the state’s senior bureaucracy may well be deferred till Chief Secretary Dinesh Kumar Jain’s fate is revealed.