As the Maratha protests turned violent in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, two MLAs from Shiv Sena and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) have offered to resign to support the agitation of the Maratha community demanding caste based-reservation, besides addressing other issues.

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray has said that he is ready to accept the ‘one-nation and one-election’ idea, but the Prime Minister, Chief Ministers and ministers should stay away from election campaigning like government officials who are barred from campaigning.

The farmer, identified as Jagannath Sonawane, a resident of Deogaon Rangari village in Gangapur tehsil of Aurangabad district, had allegedly consumed poison on Tuesday morning, when the agitation was being held.

IN THE Tulsiram Prajapati alleged fake encounter case, a Gujarat police officer told the court Wednesday that he had not been informed about a prisoner having escaped from police custody in his jurisdiction in 2006.

Claiming that protests have fallen on deaf years, residents and political parties angry with pothole-ridden roads have resorted to creative ways of agitating in Thane, Kalyan and Navi Mumbai. 

THE FIRST year junior college (FYJC) admissions hit yet another roadblock Wednesday after the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court allowed minority colleges to surrender in-house quota seats under the Central Admission Process (CAP). 

The court told the technical institute to ensure that experts who enter the premises of Atash Behrams — sacred Parsi temples — are practising Zoroastrian.

The government has been holding talks with the AIIB for the Metro 4 project. During the Chinese bank’s Third Annual Meeting last month, it had been announced that the bank will be funding India’s National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF).

With Maharashtra awaiting the Centre’s nod for Mumbai’s Coastal Zone Management Plan (CZMP), the construction of the Dr BR Ambedkar memorial at Indu Mills in Dadar has also been slowed down.

Rajendra Shinde, who heads the Botany department at St Xavier’s College, Mumbai, is set to become the first non-Christian principal of the college. In September, Shinde will take charge of the college that turns 150 this year.

Mekhail said he got suspicious after he felt dizzy on two at least occasions when consumed drinks offered by Indrani Mukerjea, the main accused in the murder case.

The husband of Maria Zuberi, the co-pilot who died when a chartered plane crashed in Ghatkopar on June 28, on Tuesday approached the Ghatkopar police alleging that her jewellery was stolen by staffers at Rajawadi hospital where her body was brought from the crash site.

What was originally Seth Moti Shah Road, named after Seth Moti Chand Shah, a business magnate and philanthropist, is now referred to as ‘Love Lane’, like it was a common road name.

While protesters indulged in sloganeering, disrupted traffic on arterial roads in the suburbs, and asked shopkeepers to down their shutters, no violence was reported from any of these spots.

The new hospital with over 300 cabins dedicated for animals will be built on 3,040.45 square metres plot behind Arthur Road jail.

While 56 train services were cancelled between Thane and Vashi railway stations on Wednesday, almost 25 buses belonging to the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) were damaged.

Chandrapur district has a whooping 100-plus tiger population of which only 44 are in the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve (TATR).

“The people have been cheated. If we had not taken part in the government, the BJP would have come to power by breaking the Congress and NCP like it broke the Congress and Trinamool Congress in Tripura," said the Shiv Sena chief.

Government data indicates that about 1,000 patients enrol under the MPJAY every day. Around 3.5 lakh surgeries are conducted in Maharashtra annually.

On Monday, 28-year-old Kakasaheb Dattatraya Shinde had died after he jumped into the Godavari river from a bridge at Kaygaon Toka village in Aurangabad during the ‘Jal Samadhi’ agitation conducted by a group of local Marathas.

Maratha reservation demand: Leaders point out, the immediate trigger for their protest is the announcement by Fadnavis in the state Assembly on July 20 that his government would provide 16 per cent reservation in government jobs to the Maratha community.

The team that had come to drop the girls on July 13, managed to get information about a murder convict, who had been sighted in Thane before. 

Khan claimed that the charge of having assaulted Patel was added as the original complainant (Sharma) is an NRI and has not turned up to give his evidence.

Doctors treating him claim he did not require intensive care support and was stable before he went missing. The post mortem showed he died due to septicaemia.