Education officers have also been instructed to put all other books supplied under this scheme on hold until an expert committee reviews all of them. One of the two books is Samarth Shri Ramdas Swami, which was written by Shubha Sathe and published by MSCERT.

On Tuesday, the average traded price of the bulb at Lasalgaon’s wholesale market, in Nashik district’s Niphad taluka, was Rs 1,800 per quintal, a nearly 125 per cent jump from the Rs 840 per quintal price at which onion was traded on October 8.

On Tuesday, Fadnavis directed the district administration to start making provision for water tankers in talukas, which are facing water scarcity.

It is being undertaken by a cooperative housing federation, the Ray Nagar Federation. As per the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana provisions, the project is eligible for a grant of Rs 2.5 lakh per unit.

The installation of solar agriculture pumps will be undertaken in three phases. In the first phase, 25,000 solar pumps at Rs 858.75 crore will be installed in the current financial year 2018-19. The second phase has 50,000 solar pumps, which will require Rs 1,717.50 crore to be completed in year 2019-20.

There are five major corporations under which projects are executed regionwise. They are Vidarbha Irrigation Development Corporation, Godavari Marathwada Irrigation Development Corporation, Tapi Irrigation Development Corporation, Maharashtra Krishna Development Corporation and Konkan Irrigation Development Corporation.

The police said they recovered 45 grams of mephedrone from the Nigerian. The investigators said that the accused was scared that he would be harmed by the group members, he was part of, due to which he refused to divulge further details.

The devotees reserve the third coach from the guard’s cabin for placing their 3-feet-long Mahishasura Mardini idol inside the compartment. Nashik resident Vasant Nikam, who runs a hotel in south Mumbai said thousands of devotees travel in the train to worship the idol.

Navi Mumbai Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime), Tushar Doshi, said in May 2017 four molestation cases took place within the span of a month that had a similar modus operandi.

An officer said that Qureshi initially denied he was involved in the Nehru Nagar cases and told them that he resided in Nehru Nagar in 2009. However, we checked his passport and found that he left in August 2010.

Rubabuddin was earlier scheduled to appear as a witness before the court on August 6 this year. On that day, Rubabuddin’s advocate told the court in Mumbai that he had met with an accident and would require another date.

The police said the four had alleged that some of the protesters had punctured the tyres of some of the vehicles used by contractors after which they decided to attack the legislator.

A senior police officer from Sahar police station said, “We were patrolling the area. We had no intention to end their strike.” Salaries worth Rs 120 crore of the employees remain to be paid. The company had folded its operations in 2016.

On Tuesday, Mukerjea stepped into the witness box to argue her bail in person, as she had earlier told the court that she wanted to express her “plight” before the court. 

On October 8, a 34-year-old man from Vakola succumbed to septic shock in a case of hepatitis and malaria after suffering from fever and chills for four days, following which he got admitted to a hospital and died within six hours after that.

“Many companies would hire a third party to write their anti-sexual harassment policies and NGOs to conduct sessions with their employees. The approach was scattered so I wanted to start something which would assist companies on this aspect,” Kapoor says.

The police said one of the HODs at Garware institute had arrived at police station on Monday after he received the anonymous letter. The BKC police then registered a case and arrested three persons — two institute officials and a student.

The police believe he displayed some of those nerves in strangling the model he had called home, bundling her into a suitcase and leaving it near a marsh before returning home to clean the bloodstains off the floor.

During investigation, the agency came across a couple of investors who could have invested in ‘ATC Coin Ltd’. However, when the EOW approached them asking for the details of losses they had incurred, none of them came forward.

DCP (crime) Dilip Sawant said that Maurya’s former employee Radha Kushwaha (37) had allegedly hired Rajendra Aherwar (30) and Hemendra Kushwaha (19) to eliminate Maurya.

The premium train from Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT), which has fare four times higher than the alternative Konkan-bound trains, has recorded less than 50 per cent occupancy during the off-peak season.

On September 20, a policeman deployed at the pandal accidentally brushed against the cashier of the Ganpati Mandal Trust, after which an argument ensued between the volunteers and policemen.

Sawarkar through his advocates Sanjeev Punalekar and Prakash Salsingikar submitted before the court that the police claiming a collusion between him and Salve was not found as they were only meeting as part of their job.

A senior police officer said, “The four accused who attacked Gomes have been arrested. During questioning, they said that it was a fight over boarding a cab that led to them assaulting the journalist.”