“We laid a trap and arrested three women. When we checked their luggage, we found 49.728 kg of cannabis stashed in four bags,” said a senior officer.

The police are also probing about his local clients and suspect that he had been selling synthetic drugs to individuals in the film industry staying in Andheri west, said the police official.

Assistant police inspector Mahedra Puri said the accused earlier worked at call centres of the insurance company. Rakesh Shinde (31), who was their team leader at the company, is the alleged mastermind.

The Foundation has helped Residents’ Association of Pali Hill set up a biogas plant, which caters to the electricity needs for the entire Pali Hill from the collected waste.

‘Repair work on Mumbra bypass ruined garden.’ The 250-square-foot garden used to be a lush green space with a children’s play area and rows of flowering plants and trees surrounding a walking track for residents.

Kiran Mangaonkar, principal of Guru Nanak Khalsa College in Matunga, said that cut-offs were likely to be high as many students had scored over 95 per cent in the CBSE and ICSE boards.

Since last year, the Board has made exception for students with special needs and allowed them to take the exam on computers or laptops.

In the academic year 2016, Mumbai recorded a pass percentage of 86.6, a 4 per cent decline from 2015.

The BMC had installed automatic water meters starting from 2010-11. The total number of meters was 54,990 in 2010-11, whereas in 2012-13 , around 77,876 water meters were installed.

The state-run bank branches in Mumbai were either shut or witnessed little activity. Their employees held a march from the P M Road in Fort, close to the central bank headquarters, to Azad Maidan.

Temperatures remained one degree above normal. While maximum temperature was recorded at 35 degrees Celsius, the minimum was 28.2 degrees Celsius.

Subodh Jain, former member engineering, Railway Board, said: “Procedural delays are slowing down the construction of projects in the city. As foot overbridges are now a safety item, simplification of procedures should be looked into.”

In Maharashtra the study interviewed 509 adolescent girls, 185 adolescent boys, 135 parents and 42 young women from Mumbai, Nanded, Ulhasnagar and the smaller towns of Baramati and Lonavla.

The Sena said Naidu, who was also a strong supporter of demonetisation, had cited it as one of his reasons to quit the NDA recently.

The development also means that the state government has now taken the right of fixing the extent of the levy from all the municipalities across the state.

“There should be perfect coordination between MMRDA, BMC, railways, state government departments and all related institutions,” Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis said. 

A state government official said that the sub-committee would take decisions following remarks from the finance department.

Bahujan Vikas Aghadi’s candidates Vilas Tare represents Boisar, Kshitij Thakur represents Nalasopara and Vasai is represented by Hitendra Thakur. Shiv Sena’s Amit Ghoda represents Palghar assembly seat.

In 2014, while BJP had won 23 Lok Sabha seats, Sena had won 18, Congress 2, NCP 4 and Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana 1. In the state polls, while BJP had bagged 122 seats, Sena had won 63, Congress 42, NCP 41 and others 20.

Finance department raises alarm, project cost up by Rs 3,795 crore before it starts

We haven’t yet opened the road to the public. This is a purely political gesture. We will have to discuss how to manage the situation,” said a TMC official

BMC Commissioner Ajoy Mehta confirmed that the civic body has directed its employees on deputation to return to their original posts as soon as their deputation contract is completed.

Using technical evidence, the police found that the photographs uploaded on the social media platforms had been morphed using an app that Pujari had installed on his mobile phone.

A Nagpur Police team is in Mumbai to seek his custody in a case registered by a woman alleging that Rizvi cheated her under the pretext of giving her a job.