MVA leaders protest outside the state Assembly on Wednesday. (Image: special arrangement)Mumbai, Maharashtra News Highlights(August 24): A scuffle broke out between NCP MLC Amol Mitkari and rebel Shiv Sena camp MLA Mahesh Shinde outside the State assembly as both the Shinde BJP camp and MVA MLAs raised slogans against each other. “All the MVA MLAs and leaders were protesting peacefully on the stairs leading to the assembly. The ruling party members also raised slogans against us. However a section of the ruling MLAs especially Mahesh Shinde abused us and tried to assault us. We have registered our protest to the CM,” NCP MLC Amol Mitkari said. Meanwhile, the Shinde camp’s whip Bharat Gogawale accused the MVA leaders of trying to “grab attention”.
In Calendar year 2021, when hospitals across India were battling the delta wave of Covid-19, Maharashtra recorded a significant 20.47 per cent increase in all-cause deaths to 9.74 lakh as compared to the previous year. This was over and above the 16.57 per cent rise in all-cause deaths in calendar year 2020. Maharashtra accounted for almost 10 per cent of all-cause deaths across India in 2020.
A man set himself on fire outside the Vidhan Bhavan in Mumbai on Tuesday over an unresolved property dispute with his brother, the police said. He reportedly sustained 15-20 per cent burn injuries and is conscious now. NCP leader Eknath Khadse demanded that all work for the day be set aside in the Legislative Council to discuss the matter. Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, meanwhile, informed the Council that orders have been given to probe the dispute and look into administrative negligence, if any.
All vehicles coming from P D’Mello Road towards the Chakala junction are diverted to the Avtarsing Bedi chowk and further towards the CST junction. (Representational File photo)
Commuters on Wednesday staged an agitation against the Railways at Badlapur, a distant suburb of Mumbai, demanding restoration of non-air conditioned suburban trains as authorities announced suspension of 10 AC services introduced just last week from Thursday.
Introduction of AC services on the suburban section of the Central Railway (CR) has been facing resistance from a section of commuters.
A group of commuters gathered at Badlapur station in Thane district at around 10.30 am and raised slogans demanding that AC suburban trains be replaced with non-air conditioned ones.
However, there was no disruption in train services as a large number of police personnel were deployed at the spot.
In the backdrop of the agitation, which comes days after a similar protest at another station in Thane district last week, the CR announced temporary suspension of 10 recently introduced AC trains.(PTI)
If this court fails to apply Supreme Court guidelines and principles, it will lead to a situation where “Sun is there, but light has gone”, observed a special PMLA judge on Wednesday while allowing the discharge pleas of two businessmen in a money laundering case in the absence of 'predicate' (scheduled) offence.
The order comes following guidelines laid down by the SC last month, specifying that a case under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) cannot continue if there is no scheduled offence and hence, the special court has no jurisdiction to extend judicial custody of persons arrested under the tough legislation.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) can file a complaint under the PMLA only to investigate the allegations of proceeds of crime. However, these proceeds have to be linked to a separate criminal offence (called scheduled offence) committed by the person.
The duo's discharge pleas were allowed by special PMLA court judge MG Deshpande. The judge had earlier granted interim bail to the two accused, Babulal Verma and Kamalkishor Gupta, senior executives of a real estate firm.(PTI)
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday felicitated five-term former MLA Keshavrao Shankarrao Dhondge, who turned 100 last month, in the Vidhan Bhavan here and lauded his contributions to public life.
Dhondge, also a former Lok Sabha MP, was born on July 25, 1922, and participated in the freedom movement. He founded an organization, the Shri Shivaji Mofat Education Society, to spread education among people.
Speaking on the occasion, Shinde said, “Dhondge represented the Kandhar constituency in Nanded district in the Assembly five times. He was also elected to the Lok Sabha in 1970. It was Dhondge who persuaded both the Houses of the Maharashtra legislature to start their proceedings by singing Vande Mataram on the first day of a session. His demand was accepted and came into force in 1990.” The veteran politician, a member of the Peasants and Workers Party (PWP), won his first Assembly election in 1957 followed by victories in 1962, 1972, 1985 and 1990 state polls.(PTI)
The Maharashtra government has hiked the financial assistance for loss of human life in attacks by wild animals from Rs 15 lakh to Rs 20 lakh, forest minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said on Wednesday.
Making the announcement in the Legislative Council, he said the incidence of human-animal conflict was rising in the state.
In 2019-20, 47 people lost their lives in attacks by wild animals, 80 people died in such incidents in 2020-21 and 86 died in 2021-22, he said.
“The financial assistance (in such cases) has been hiked from Rs 15 lakh to Rs 20 lakh,” Mungantiwar said.
The assistance is provided in the case of death due to an attack by tiger, leopard, bear, gaur, wild boar, wolf, hyena, crocodile, wild dog and elephant, the minister said.(PTI)
A scuffle broke out between NCP MLC Amol Mitkari and rebel Shiv Sena camp MLA Mahesh Shinde outside the State assembly as both the Shinde BJP camp and MVA MLAs raised slogans against each other. “All the MVA MLAs and leaders were protesting peacefully on the stairs leading to the assembly.
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Fadnavis announces a probe by an officer of urban development department in cases where BMC officers opened companies in their relatives names and took contracts. He said BMC had started an inquiry, but now there will be time bound one. BMC was ruled by Shiv Sena for the last 25 years.
Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis says that all roads in Mumbai will be concretised. Mumbai has 1900 kms of road of which 1200 kms are asphalt. A tender to concretise 400 km has been issued and another tender to concretise 200 km will be done. The rest will be concretised next year, he said.
Maharashtra Deputy CM, Devendra Fadnavis, announced new tenders for Dharavi slum redevelopment in assembly today. He said that new tenders will be issued in the next three months.
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A scuffle broke out between NCP MLC Amol Mitkari and rebel Shiv Sena camp MLA Mahesh Shinde outside the State assembly as both the Shinde BJP camp and MVA MLAs raised slogans against each other. "All the MVA MLAs and leaders were protesting peacefully on the stairs leading to the assembly. The ruling party members also raised slogans against us. However a section of the ruling MLAs especially Mahesh Shinde abused us and tried to assault us. We have registered our protest to the CM," NCP MLC Amol Mitkari said.
The Mumbai police’s Crime Branch arrested two men for allegedly murdering their friend who won a lottery in Jharkhand. The two accused who demanded money from their friend were allegedly angered by his refusal to pay them and stabbed him to death before fleeing to Mumbai.
An officer from the Mumbai Crime Branch said they had received information from the Jharkhand Police about the two accused identified as Taufiq Ansari, 19, and Saqib Ahmed, 21.
The Jharkhand Police said Ansari and Ahmed were captured on a CCTV camera killing their friend Javed who refused to give them money. Javed’s family said he had recently won a lottery of Rs 1.80 lakh due to which the accused may have been demanding money from him. Read more.
Potholes along the Kharegaon bridge halted traffic on the route between Mumbai and Nashik on Wednesday morning.
A departmental inquiry has been initiated against five police constables of Malabar Hill police station in Mumbai for allegedly abusing, disrupting law and order and manhandling two on-duty policemen of Azad Maidan police station near Aaram food joint at the CST junction last Friday evening.
The police said the five irate constables could be stopped only after the back-up police force arrived after one of the victims informed his colleagues at the police station. A senior IPS officer confirmed the incident and said two of the five constables involved in creating ruckus have been transferred to the control room at south region office “as punishment”. Read more.
A departmental inquiry has been initiated against five police constables of Malabar Hill police station in Mumbai for allegedly abusing, disrupting law and order and manhandling two on-duty policemen of Azad Maidan police station near Aaram food joint at the CST junction last Friday evening.
The police said the five irate constables could be stopped only after the back-up police force arrived after one of the victims informed his colleagues at the police station. A senior IPS officer confirmed the incident and said two of the five constables involved in creating ruckus have been transferred to the control room at south region office “as punishment”. Read more.
Speaking in the state Legislative Council on Tuesday, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said it was wrong to honour the convicts in the Bilkis Bano case who were recently released from prison.
The matter was raised by the Opposition during the hour-long discussion in the House on the issue of women’s safety in the light of several instances of sexual misconduct, including the recent rape of a girl in the state’s Bhandara by two men over three days. Read more
The Mumbai suburban collector through an affidavit recently informed the Bombay High Court that part of the eight out of 48 structures, including the unauthorised portions of buildings near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA), which are flouting the height norms and are in the way of approach surfaces of the runaways will be demolished within a month. Know more here
The first MVA meeting after the fall of Uddhav Thackeray government, concluded after deliberations for over one and a half hours.
The meeting saw participation from former CM Uddhav Thackeray and all top leaders of the MVA. The leaders from all parties said that the meeting was also a show of unity where it was important to send a message that the opposition "stands together".
Justice UD Salvi (retired), who convicted the 11 men in the Bilkis Bano rape case during the 2002 Gujarat riots, Tuesday stated that the Gujarat government should have taken into consideration the gravity of the offenses committed by the convicts, the punishment awarded to them, and also the victim before granting them remission.
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Between 2014, when the bridge was identified as unsafe and was closed for heavy vehicles, and August 19 this year, when the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) finally received a no-objection certificate from the traffic police for demolition, the project hit several roadblocks, said sources in the BMC Bridges department. Read more...