Maharashtra News LIVE Updates: Minor boy held in connection with rape and murder of nine-year-old girl in Kalyan

Leader of opposition Ajit Pawar on Wednesday said a decision by the NCP on whether to march to the Nagpur council hall during the winter session of the state legislature will be taken on December 6 during the meeting of the party's state executive committee.

Two bike-borne persons snatched a gold chain worth Rs 1.12 lakh from the neck of an Indian Coast Guard officer who was on his way to buy milk in Powai.The incident occurred around 6.30 am on Monday. Binoo Nair (39), posted as a subordinate officer at the Bureau of Naviks (Indian Coast Guard) at Panvel was walking on Adi Shankaracharya Marg in Powai when the man who was riding pillion on the bike ripped the chain off his neck.

Central Railway (CR) will run one-way special train on special charges from Mumbai to Madgaon to clear the extra rush of passengers on December 3.Train number 01427 one-way special will leave CSMT Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus at 12.20am on Saturday and will arrive in Madgaon at 12.15pm on the same day.

The BJP wants deadline to be extended by a day to December 3. BJP state president Chandrashekhar Bawankule in a letter to the state election commission requested that the candidates be allowed to fill forms offline.

A gutsy 31-year-old lady commuter managed to help arrest a 20-year-old male passenger who tried to escape after molesting her at the busy Thane railway station, police officials informed Wednesday.The incident occurred on the stairway leading to platform 10A at Thane on Tuesday morning, around 9.35am, when the lady who stays in Ambernath and works in a MNC in Airoli was on her way to work.

Days after comments by Governor B S Koshyari on Chhatrapati Shivaji triggered outrage, state tourism minister Mangalprabhat Lodha stoked another controversy by comparing CM Eknath Shinde's defection from the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray to form a government with BJP to the Maratha ruler's heroic escape from an Agra prison.

A woman YouTuber, reportedly from South Korea, was harassed by a man on a street of Mumbai on Tuesday night.A video of the alleged incident, has gone viral on social media platforms.Sharing a video, a Twitter handle claimed that the woman was from Korea and was livestreaming in suburban Khar when the incident took place. READ MORE

The BEST on Wednesday submitted its budget for 2023-24 to the civic corporation, projecting a reduction in losses by Rs 250 crore in the transport division and a profit of Rs 120 crore in the electricity supply division but no hike in bus fares till March 2024. The budget showed an overall deficit of Rs 2,000 crore, the estimated gap between revenue and expenses.

The BMC has drawn out a Rs 6 crore plan for rejuvenating two lakes in Malad. The larger plan, however, is to improve the condition of all the 18 lakes that the BMC’s P-North ward boasts off, but are little known.Officials said that to begin with, the civic body plans to first start with improving the condition of two water bodies, namely Shantaram Talao and Posari Talao. The plan will include creating a promenade with grand entrance to the talao, creating asecluded space that could be used for yoga activities or asa picnic spot, green gazebo to help maintain the temperature in the space and cantilever decks. Civic officials said water quality tests will be carried out as well to chalk out a course of action to improve its condition. Besides, a study of the existing green cover around the lakes will also be taken up to understand the proportion of native and exotic species. In the case of Posari Talao, on the front edge of it, eateries are planned to increase footfalls and revenue.