Spread across three years, the experiment is being carried out in the ‘rain shadow’ region of Solapur.

Until now, 30 restaurants — 15 in Mumbai, 10 in Pune and five in Nagpur — have been rated on a scale of five based on six parameters by food inspectors.

With the monsoon only a couple of days away, officials of the Pune Municipal Corporation’s health department have identified 89,896 mosquito breeding spots in the city.

Addressing a press conference here, the activists said, “The fascist RSS governments at the Centre and the state have targeted the activists deliberately to protect the real culprits in the violence following Elgar Parishad namely Milind Ekbote and Sambhaji Bhide.”

Farmer leaders from Maharashtra will try to prevent “communal elements” from dividing the votes of farmers in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Swabhimani Paksha MP Raju Shetti said on Wednesday.

Over 500 teaching and non-teaching staff of B J Medical College have signed a petition, urging Dr Pravin Shingare, Director of Medical Education, to cancel the transfer order of Dean Dr Ajay Chandanwale.

Police said the Elgaar Parishad, held at Shaniwar Wada on December 31, had allegedly led to the violence in Koregaon Bhima on January 1 during the 200th year celebration of the Battle of Bhima Koregaon.

"It has to be asked why he is conducting these meetings now after the BJP suffered defeats in bypolls. Sena will contest the 2019 elections solo. The Palghar bypoll results have shown the Sena’s strength,” the party said in an editorial in its mouthpiece Saamana.

After holding talks with Uddhav Thackeray, Amit Shah held a meeting with top leadership of the BJP to discuss the political challenges and strategy for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls

The former President will spend four hours at the RSS valedictory function of the all-India third year training camp for swayamsevaks, scheduled for 6.30 pm on Thursday. The programme will be broadcast live on Facebook at RSSorg.

BJP chief Amit Shah presented a book, Saaf Niyat, Sahi Vikas, a compilation of public welfare schemes undertaken by the government in the last four years under PM Narendra Modi. The chat saw Shah explaining the reforms of the government and its impact on the lives of people.

Neither Sena nor BJP leaders confirmed the details of what was discussed at the meeting. Sources said the BJP reiterated its stand that a Sena-BJP alliance would help both parties in the 2019 polls.

The commission is hearing a complaint filed by protesting students over the institute’s decision to withdraw financial aid to the incoming batch of students, who are eligible for the scholarship.

The incident took place on June 1 when Bihar natives Shyamkumar Beed (20) and his brother-in-law Sunilkumar Beed (31) found work on a boat that sailed off from Usgaon in Virar

“We have approached them with regard to its operation and maintenance. They are studying the proposal,” said Sanjay Khandare, Additional Metropolitan Commissioner.

The court was informed by the CBI Wednesday that two witnesses, who were to depose were not available. While summons to one of them was not served, another official from Gujarat informed the CBI that he was unwell and could not appear before the court.

Thane-based group of tribal professionals, AYUSH, has been working to promote tribal life, art and culture through their tribal tourism initiative, a guided tour to tribal regions in and around Thane.

The police had called the duo for questioning after their names had cropped up during the investigation of bookie Sonu Jalan, who had been arrested by Thane Police last week.

Bhatkal, who is a death convict lodged in Tihar jail in New Delhi, is usually produced before court through video-conferencing. The special court in Mumbai, however, had directed for Bhatkal to be produced before the court, as it had to frame charges against the accused.

The car driver was arrested and released on bail on Wednesday. According to police, the accident took place on Tuesday when Armaan Shaikh, a senior kindergarten student and a resident of Byculla, was on his way home and was run over by the reversing vehicle.

The police said deceased Sanjay Shah, a resident of Forjett Street, was facing financial issues since the last one month. Tardeo police have registered a case of accidental death.

One of the deliverables of the school, that came into being in September last year, was policy-level intervention and giving back to the society, said Neeraj Hatekar, a professor from the school.

According to MMRC only 10,450 of the total trees will be part of the compensatory plantation and the rest will be part of their CSR activity. MMRC will use 19 hectares of land as allocated by SGNP for the plantation activity. ENS

After Wednesday’s hearing of the MMRC application, the petitioners, residents of south Mumbai, taking exception to the noise pollution caused due to Colaba-Bandra-SEEPZ underground Metro work at Cuffe Parade, in the evening met Advocate General A A Kumbhakoni to discuss resolution of the issue.