The cook, Sanju Sokasingh Rana, also claimed his former employer, 35-year-old Ashwini Hadke, ordered two other employees to hold him hostage, police said.

Police have arrested Siddhesh Tamhankar (28) and Khushi Sahjwani (42) after the DNA from two drops of blood that had seeped into a mat in the boot of Sahjwani’s car matched Vyas’s DNA.

S K Vishwakarma, 32, succumbed to injuries after he was taken to a rural hospital near Pulgaon station where the incident happened. According to railway officials, the incident happened around 5 pm after driver B L Brahme observed smoke in the engine.

Named Communication Based Train Control (CBTC), the technology will increase the number of train services every hour to 24, from 16 at present.

Of the 8,604 hectares of land required for the construction of the 704-km expressway, the agency has acquired 6,679.93 hectares. For this, 17,749 farmers have been paid a compensation of Rs 4,628.18 crore.

Mohammed Tahir, a professor from Akbar Peerbhoy College of Commerce and Economics in Grant Road and a member of MU’s senate, said, “The next academic term will start from June 18 and continue till November 5.”

The complainants, a middle-aged hotelier and his wife, come across an advertisement in the classifieds section of a leading English language tabloid in which a travel agency claimed to offer between Rs 50,000 and Rs 3 lakh to couples interested in travelling abroad.

The incident took place on November 13, when the victim, Kisan Lohar, 56, was returning to his house on Wada-Manor Road.

According to senior municipal engineers, engineers had to redo part of the design because the quality of soil was different from what they had been previously told, leading to a difference in the level of two sections’ joint in the base of the flyover, which looks like a crack.

One of just four national parks in the world to be located in a metropolis, the Sanjay Gandhi National Park faces challenges ranging from encroachments to man-animal conflicts. The park’s director Anwar Ahmed tells The Indian Express what’s making a difference.

Many in the media had called out the Mumbai Police for lack of evidence in its case against Vora, with one scathing piece in a tabloid criticising everyone from police to journalists.

Labour officials said they had planned to outsource in all 967 posts that include 10 posts of superintendent, 115 posts of accountant, 647 posts of clerk-cum-data entry operators, 5 posts of stenographer, 23 of drivers and 162 posts of peons.

Of the 25,000 drought-hit villages in the state, jalyukt shivar projects undertaken in the last three-and-a-half years have helped make 11,247 villages water-reliant, encouraging villagers to take up two crops. The target is to make the remaining villages drought-free by 2019.

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut also commented on the BJP’s election campaigns. “The development agenda was missing from the BJP’s campaigning in the Gujarat polls and this has been repeated in the Karnataka campaign,” he said.

A press note issued by Gadchiroli police said Pandorang Pada (45) was shot dead by a group of Maoists around midnight.

Of the total 1.36 crore farmers in Maharashtra, the government has set an ambitious target of bringing 80 per cent of them within the institutional credit mechanism.

“When I had conveyed to Uddhav Thackeray our decision to field a Wanga family member for the bypoll, he had given his consent. He had also conveyed that Sena would not field any candidate,” Fadnavis said.

Incidentally, experts say, the increase in ridership on two routes coincides with the increase in traffic congestion on Western Express Highway & Link Road due to construction of Metro corridors there

As reported earlier, in the last week of April, Justice Kathawalla was hearing cases on April 23 till 11 pm. And on April 25 till midnight.

The two-day conference, held at the Marathi Bhasha Bhavan in the Kalina campus of MU, is a confluence of archaeologists, food historians, food bloggers, nutritionists and food enthusiasts, where they exchange ideas about the culture surrounding food.

“The institute had earlier committed that SC/ ST students, who are eligible for GoI-PMS, and OBC students would be asked to pay only Rs 4,500 per month. But the institute failed to fulfil its promise,” said a student.

The first Human Library gathering took place in Bandra bookstore, Title Waves, in 2017.

Nadeem Akhtar had alleged that on March 17 he was assaulted by two jail staffers after he refused to strip for a search

Wife alleges bills pending, Republic TV says all amounts due under contract paid