Karad, a close aide to BJP minister Pankaja Munde, had joined the NCP on May 2 and had filed nomination papers from Osmanabad-Latur-Beed constituency

Sanjay Nirupam, Mumbai Congress president, said the Sena was playing the “politics of opportunism” and it did not have the “guts to quit the BJP-led governments” at the Centre and state.

Nearly half of Dhamni dam’s irrigation water promise not met, tribals want project to divert water for Mumbai’s two satellite towns cancelled

The CID has verified the identities of 49 such officials serving across the state, who have got government jobs after dummy candidates appeared for them in the exams. As many as 15 such officers were arrested in the first week of March.

According to police, Agrawal had stopped at the restaurant with a friend when he heard a dog’s cries coming from inside the tempo. He saw a woman assaulting an adult female dog.

While Kapil Yadav and Kunal Nakti were convicted on the charge of voluntarily causing hurt to deter a public servant from his duty, the court did not find enough evidence to convict them on charges of having caused grievous hurt and assault.

As per police, the families decided to not report the rape after the family of the 11-year-old boy agreed to foot the medical expenses of the girl.

The petition demands improvement in public infrastructure of post-mortem centres, training and minimum qualification of those engaged in conducting autopsy and a monitoring mechanism to ensure doctors, and not class IV employees, conduct supervised autopsy.

While the MMRC has received 11 tunnel boring machines (TBMs) out of the total 17 it sought, only eight have been engaged in the tunneling work at present. It proposes to have all the 17 machines in operation by July.

The woman, a domestic help, approached the court when the girl, a “rape victim” was 24 weeks pregnant, which is beyond the stipulated ceiling of 20 weeks, under Section 3 of Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971.

Ganore filed an application through advocate Vaibhav Bagade before the sessions court hearing his case, seeking one-day bail to attend the rites. The court has directed the prosecution to file a reply.

The residents around the nallah in APMC were complaining of the stench and had asked for the sewers to be cleaned.

Officials said they have also been receiving complaints of stray animals, including dogs and cats entering kitchen premises

Then Mumbai Police commissioner Arup Patnaik, and Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Himanshu Roy, had said the case should be cracked within a week. Six years later, however, the perpetrators continue to be at large.

The students said they were protesting against the institute’s new notification asking SC/ST and OBC (non-creamy) students to make an upfront payment of a part of the fees.

Those cultivating the land say the farm produce is meagre, the land is not fertile and they have to deal with water shortage during summers.

According to the police, last month, the tutor had taken a class with the girl, a resident of the building, where he allegedly molested her.

“The turtle was spotted on the beach by local residents around 7.30 am and they informed the Mangrove Cell. The turtle was so badly decomposed that we could not even conduct an autopsy,” said Makarand Ghodke, Assistant Conservator of Forests, state Mangrove Cell.

The alleged incident took place on a 7.30 pm Ahmedabad-Mumbai flight on Saturday. The police said a fight broke out between two crew members during the flight, when he allegedly molested her.

In 2005, a special court in Mumbai had acquitted all eight persons tried as accused in the case, including Mohammed Altaf, who, in his confession, named Qureshi. Qureshi, a native of Aurangabad, was apprehended by a team of Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad on May 5.

With the work on the 22-km sea link beginning in mid-January this year, birders were disappointed to observe that the flamingos stayed away from the Sewri jetty. However, the migratory birds seem to have finally returned to their site in the city.

Vyas had gone missing from near her home in south Mumbai on March 16. Two of her colleagues at celebrity salon chain BBlunt, Tamhankar (28) and Sahjwani (42), have been arrested on charges of murdering her and disposing of the body.

The Alibaug police registered a case of abetment to suicide against the three named in the note after Naik committed suicide by hanging himself in his Alibaug bungalow on Saturday morning.

Teacher Ajay Patil, 35, had been interested in theatre from his childhood. “I am from a poor background. It was my mother and theatre that kept me in school and later made me a teacher. So, when I was posted in Pisavali village, I decided to introduce my children to theatre.”