A fire brigade senior official said, “The fire started in the electrical cabin on the ground floor and heavy smoke engulfed the upper floors where more than 60 people got trapped.”

As per the scheme, a software will identify vacant houses at police quarters every month and a list of would be released in the first week. The police personnel would be allowed to apply for these houses until the 10th of the month.

While the 32-km-long Metro 4 corridor is being funded by Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the MMRDA has decided to take loans from domestic banks for its extension.

It has recommended that a new act be created based on the existing requirements for efficient governance, said a source.

“It is pertinent to note that if the film is released, it will give birth to grave chaos and anarchy in the whole country and certainly cause huge destruction everywhere,” the complaint stated.

Maharashtra Rajya Prathamik Shikshak Sangh has filed a petition through their lawyer Talekar & Associates, seeking to quash and set aside the circular dated October 16, prescribing dress code to primary teachers in zilla parishad, Solapur.

Those abducted allowed to go next day

The concept of the group has expanded to Chennai, Delhi and Bangalore.

The data shows that till 2016, the latest available national crime record, Mumbai had 14,715 pending cases of crimes against women.

Evidence regarding the penetrative sexual assault coming from the mouth of the prosecution will have to be appreciated by keeping in mind tender age of the victim child,” the court said.

The accused, Manoj Pradhan, a member of the NCP in Thane, headed the Shri Vajreshwari Yogini Devi Sanatha between 2014 and 2017.

The CM was speaking at the ‘Mumbai 2.0’ conference organised by the state government in collaboration with Project Mumbai organisation to discuss Mumbai’s infrastructure and its future.

The tender calls for bids from companies which can set up, maintain and operate solar panels on both the monorail corridors between Chembur and Jacob Circle.

The woman was arrested by the Kurla police following a complaint filed by the boy’s mother last year.

Earlier in August, the Bombay High Court had directed the Maharashtra government to shift Mahul residents from the polluted area and gave eight-week time to frame a policy.

The deceased has been identified as Vanita Luthra, who lived in Four Bungalows.

According to the data provided by the traffic police to MMRDA, which is responsible for the maintenance of WEH, the signal-free corridor will reduce travel time by approximately half-an-hour.

Challenging the Opposition’s criticism against industrial growth and investment, Fadnavis said: “The foreign direct investment in Maharashtra accounts for Rs 3.36 lakh crore between 2015 and 2018. Whereas, the FDI between 2009 and 2014 (Congress-NCP rule) was Rs 1.80 lakh crore.”

The government’s response came after the opposition parties demanded that educational fees of students in these areas be refunded.

But contending that the City and Industrial Development Corporation of Maharashtra Limited (CIDCO) and the concessionaire were working on awar footing at the project site, Fadnavis said the government was on course to complete the land development work for the new airport by April, 2019.

According to the ED, the embezzled funds were used to purchase more than 100 acres of land and other properties in the name of third parties. “We have already attached the properties, amounting to about Rs 22 crore,” the officer said.

That was not only short of the 11.8 per cent bank credit growth for India as a whole, but also one of the lowest in the country.

While 0.29 hectare was acquired from the owners of a water park in Paye village in Bhiwandi, Thane, a German NRI gave a proportion of land from a total of 1.57 hectares of land in Chansad village, Vadodara.

The complainant, in her statement, alleged that she met the accused in 2012 at an event during which he introduced himself as a property dealer from Ghaziabad.