Tapati Mukhopadhay, president of Maharashtra Federation of University and College Teachers’ Organisation (MFUCTO), said in a statement that the executive committee has decided to withdraw the agitation and teachers will be rejoining duties from Thursday.

This is the second incident in Thane in the past 10 days where traffic constables have been assaulted

The court was hearing a petition filed by the family members of Dabholkar and rationalist Govind Pansare, seeking a court-monitored probe in the two cases.

The road stretches right up to Grant Road railway station, after it crosses the ‘Do Tanki Junction’, named after two tanks that many decades ago provided water near a former tram station.

Those who showed up to register their objections included members of political parties, environmental activists and residents of Aarey Milk Colony.

According to Kashimira police, the two accused had booked 21-year-old Nafis Ahmed’s cab and they seemed to be in inebriated state

In the petition filed through counsels M M Vashi and Aparna Devkar, Atlanta Limited has stated that it is the owner of the land at Sheel village in Mumbra’s Shilphata area, which falls under TMC’s jurisdiction.

Acting on a tip-off, officials from the Naya Nagar police station raided a shop inside Shanti Shopping Centre in Bhayander last week, posing as customers.

The employees demanded payment of salaries to the tune of Rs 600 crore from the aviation firm.

Last month, the court had began hearings into petitions filed by the accused challenging the validity of the sanction to prosecute them under the Act.

The three witnesses include an assistant of Gujarat Police officer ML Parmar, accused in the case, and two men from Gujarat — Mahendrasinh Jhala and Ramzan Qureshi — who were booked as co-accused with Sohrabuddin and Tulsiram for a firing incident at Navrangpura in 2001.

Speaking to The Indian Express, Bharip Bahujan Mahasangh president Prakash Ambedkar said: “My party is willing to join hands with the Congress to put up a strong front. But we have taken a decision not to have any alliance with the NCP.”

The worst-hit areas are Nashik and Marathwada divisions, where the major reservoirs have not filled up to their capacity this monsoon.

Fadnavis, who started a statewide tour on Wednesday to review the progress of government projects, participated in a review meeting in Aurangabad.

Sources said distressed load shedding continued for one to four hours in the high loss zones or areas where pending bills and losses are higher than 58 per cent.

The glider arrived at the base camp on Tuesday and a test flight was conducted near Anji village on Wednesday.

While the police were initially told by the hotel owner that his employees were not minors, the chairperson produced pictures he took as proof following which the children were rescued and taken to a shelter in Thane.

Kripa Fernandes, a 2016-batch Xavierite, detailed her experience with the WDC in a Facebook post on Tuesday while joining the #metoo movement, sharing her experiences of sexual harassment through social media posts like many woman across the country.

The Gujarat Police had asked Thane police’s help as the girl was last seen in Thane, sources said.

A senior official of the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company (MSEDCL) said “high-loss zones” — areas where pending bills and losses are more than 58 per cent — saw load-shedding on Monday and Tuesday.

According to the accused policemen, Tulsiram had escaped from custody during a train journey, while returning from a court hearing from Ahmedabad to Udaipur and was subsequently gunned down in an encounter.

In the last week of September, the Balbharti had issued a circular detailing the changes in the exam patterns for children with special needs with more weightage on internal marks.

Last week, at a NCP meeting, a section of party workers had indicated that they would like to see Ramraje Nimbalkar contesting from Satara instead of Bhosale. Nimbalkar, a senior NCP leader, is also the chairman of the state Legislative Council.

The editorial added that the temple chief priest in Ayodhya has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of merely giving ‘Jai Shriram’ slogans and not speaking a single word on the construction of the temple.