In the year 2021-22, the area under sugarcane cultivation was 13.67 lakh hectare. In 2020-21 area under sugarcane cultivation was 11.42 lakh hectare. (File)Mumbai News Live: In the backdrop of the decision to increase the production of sugar to aid farmers whose produce are still in the fields, the Maharashtra government Tuesday announced an incentive of Rs 200 per tonne to sugar mills where crushing has taken place beyond May 1.
Maharashtra Industry Minister Subhash Desai met union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia urging the centre to expedite the renaming of Aurangabad airport after Chhatrapati Sambhaji. In March 2020 the MVA government had cleared a proposal to rename the Aurangabad airport as Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj Airport. However, this has not yet got the go-ahead from the Centre.
After Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said “regional parties neither have an ideology nor a centralised approach”, leaders of both the Shiv Sena and NCP, allies of the party in Maharashtra, have reacted by saying that Gandhi should worry about the revival of his own party instead. Gandhi made his remarks on the last day of the party’s Chintan Shivir in Udaipur.
In the backdrop of the decision to increase the production of sugar to aid farmers whose produce are still in the fields, the Maharashtra government Tuesday announced an incentive of Rs 200 per tonne to sugar mills where crushing has taken place beyond May 1.
The sugar mills will be allowed to function till surplus sugarcane crushing is complete, said government officials. The area under sugarcane cultivation has increased this year by 2.25 lakh hectare. As a result, the production of sugarcane has also increased.
The decision was taken by the state government at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray and attended by deputy chief Minister Ajit Pawar, Revenue Minister Balasaheb Thorat, Cooperation Minister Balasaheb Patil, Agriculture Minister Dadasaheb Bhuse, Health Minister Rajesh Tope, Medical Education Minister Amit Deshmukh and other officers. Read more
The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking on Tuesday said at least 163 of 275 mini buses stayed off roads due to a flash strike called by the contractor's staff over non-payment of salaries.
This is the second flash agitation by the contractor's drivers in less than a month, inconveniencing scores of passengers. Earlier on April 22, several of 275 mini buses stayed off roads owing to the flash strike of drivers over delayed salaries.
Of the 275 mini buses of MP Group, only 112 were operated due to the agitation of employees, BEST spokesperson Manoj Varade said. "To prevent any inconvenience to passengers, the BEST operated its own buses from other depots," Varade said, adding that 94 extra buses were plied during the day. (PTI)
The Bombay High Court has refused to grant protection from arrest to the chairperson of a school in Maharashtra's Kolhapur in a case of abetting the suicide of a student.
In an order passed last month, a bench of Justice Vinay Joshi rejected the anticipatory bail plea filed by Ganpatrao Patil, who was booked by the Kolhapur police in April on the charge of abetment to suicide, after a Class 10 student killed himself a few hours after he was allegedly reprimanded by Patil.
The high court observed that the accused had scolded the boy in an “unruly manner”, and prima facie (on the face of it), had pushed the boy into a "state of deep frustration". (PTI)
Maharashtra Industry Minister Subhash Desai Tuesday met Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia urging the Centre to expedite the renaming of the Aurangabad airport after Chhatrapati Sambhaji. Read more
The Mumbai police have arrested two men from a slum pocket in Sewree for allegedly adulterating tea with a scented chemical powder and supplying it to various retailers in the city. The police also seized 430 kg of adulterated tea worth Rs 85,000 from the duo who have no licence to sell or stock tea.
Acting on a tip-off that tea was being adulterated, a police team raided a godown at Ramgad slum in Sewree around 11 am on May 14 and arrested the accused, identified as Rahul Shaikh (26) and Raju Shaikh (29).
“They adulterated tea with a chemical to give it a scent and a taste. Such tea has no benefits to the consumer and is harmful to their health. We did the raid in the presence of a food safety officer,” said Manoj Saindre, senior inspector of Sewree police station. Read more
"The Kashmir Files" director Vivek Agnihotri took a dig at former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah, saying he agreed with the political leader's remarks that his film was responsible for the unrest in the Valley.
Abdullah had called for a ban on "The Kashmir Files", describing the film as a hateful campaign.
In his response to the Lok Sabha member, Agnihotri posted a sarcastic remark on Twitter, and said: "Had it not been #TheKashmirFiles , then Hindus wouldn't have been massacred." "You're right Farooq Abdullah sahab... If there were no #TheKashmirFiles, then Hindus wouldn't have been massacred," the director tweeted last night.
"Your residents learned the slogans of 'Raliv, Galiv and Chaliv' (convert, leave or die) from my film, otherwise those innocent people would not even know how to speak. The flag of Pakistan was also put up by this film," Agnihotri wrote in Hindi. (PTI)
Maharashtra Industries Minister Subhash Desai talks about how he plans to bring investments into Maharashtra, the “unwillingness” of the Centre to engage with Opposition states in drafting policies of national significance and the Shiv Sena’s commitment to renaming Aurangabad as Sambhaji Nagar.
Can you share some insight on the development that is taking place in the industrial sector in Maharashtra?
The state has developed a complete ecosystem for industrial development and that is the reason it is the preferred destination for investors. We have more than 1 lakh hectares of fully-developed industrial land for distribution. We are now focusing on certain sectors, including bulk drugs. We are developing a bulk drug park in Raigad district near Roha and Murud. In addition to this, we are also developing electronics parks — one in Aurangabad and another in Talegaon near Pune. We are also introducing a new IT policy, which will ensure inclusive growth for the sector and related industries and grant it relaxation in setting up businesses.
Read the full interview here
The Mumbai police on Monday arrested two brothers for allegedly raping a 20-year-old woman at knifepoint at her residence and filming the act to threaten her, officers said.
The police said an FIR was registered nearly four days ago on charges of rape. The woman, in her complaint, said she had moved to the city nearly two months ago after her wedding. Last week, when she was alone at home, her father-in-law left the house and did not shut the door properly, she said. The two accused then managed to enter the residence and allegedly raped her.
Maharashtra on Monday recorded 129 new Covid-19 cases, including 74 in Mumbai, taking the overall tally to 78,80,969, while the toll remained unchanged at 1,47,855 as no fresh death due to the infection was registered in the state, an official said.The fresh addition to the tally was much lower than the 255 recorded on Sunday.The recovery count increased by 121 in the last 24 hours to touch 77,31,588, leaving the state with an active caseload of 1,526, he said.
Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole on Monday said he has conveyed to the party high command about recent political moves of the Sharad Pawar-led NCP to allegedly weaken the Congress in the state.Notably, the Congress and NCP joined hands with the Shiv Sena to come to power in Maharashtra in November 2019 after the state Assembly polls when the Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena snapped ties with the BJP.
To a query from reporters at the Nagpur airport, Patole said it seems that in the last two-and-a-half years, the NCP has been trying to "weaken" the Congress in Maharashtra. (PTI)
In an apparent jibe at BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut Monday said it is difficult for a vehicle on a downward slope and a “failed” opposition leader to apply brakes and in such a case, an accident is inevitable. This comes a day after Fadnavis said that he would not rest till the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government — which he compared with the Babri Masjid structure — was brought down from power.
A fire broke out in an under-construction building in south Mumbai on Monday afternoon, a civic official said.There was no report of any casualty, he said.
The blaze erupted around 1 pm on the ground floor of the building being constructed opposite the Esplanade House in Kala Ghoda area here, the official from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.