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Maharashtra News Live Updates: Nitish Kumar, Sharad Pawar discuss strengthening opposition unity ahead of Lok Sabha polls
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Thursday discussed efforts to strengthen opposition unity ahead of next year's Lok Sabha elections, the two leaders said. Kumar, who visited Pawar at the latter's residence in south Mumbai along with deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, told reporters that what the ruling BJP is doing is not in the interest of the country. Stay with TOI for all the latest updates.Read Less
Thursday was the hottest day recorded in Nagpur this month, with the city’s maximum temperature soaring to 41.3 degrees Celsius. Akola and Wardha were the hottest in Vidarbha on Thursday, both witnessing a maximum temperature of 43 degrees Celsius. According to the weather forecasting website El Dorado, Jalgaon was the seventh hottest city in the world, with a maximum temperature as high as 44.8 degree Celsius.
Lost & found
More than 700 stolen or robbed mobiles were recovered and returned to the owners by police at NKTT Hall in Maharashtra’s Thane on Thursday — Anil Shinde (TOI)
Lost & found
More than 700 stolen or robbed mobiles were recovered and returned to the owners by police at NKTT Hall in Maharashtra’s Thane on Thursday — Anil Shinde (TOI)
Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar and NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Thursday discussed efforts to strengthen opposition unity ahead of next year's Lok Sabha elections, the two leaders said. Kumar, who visited Pawar at the latter's residence in south Mumbai along with deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, told reporters that what the ruling BJP is doing is not in the interest of the country. Asked if Pawar will be the main face of the opposition alliance, Kumar said, "There will be nothing more delightful than that. I have told him that he has to work with more vigour not only for his party but for the entire country." The more opposition parties come together, the better it is in the interest of the country, Kumar said. Pawar said, "To save democracy, it is important to work together. After looking at the condition of the country, it seems that if we work together, there will be support for the alternative." (PTI)
Upbeat mood
After the Supreme Court verdict, Uddhav Thackeray’s supporters and party workers celebrate with crackers in Mumbai's Dadar area on Thursday — Sanjay Hadkar (TOI)
Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde has earned a certificate for a diploma course in journalism and mass communication from the Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU), the varsity said in a release. Shinde completed the diploma course with distinction by scoring 77.25 per cent marks in August 2021, it said. (PTI)
The NIA has seized incriminating material after conducting searches at six places in Mumbai in connection with a case of seizure of high quality fake currency notes from neighbouring Thane, and it said the role of 'D-company' has prima facie been established in the circulation of such notes. The Thane police crime branch seized fake currency notes of Rs 2.98 lakh face value in November 2021. During the investigation into the case, the "role of 'D-Company' has been prima facie been established in the circulation of the fake notes in India," the NIA said in a statement on Thursday. (PTI)
If more opposition parties work together and stand united, it will yield a good result while taking on the BJP in the next Lok Sabha polls, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar said in Mumbai on Thursday. Nitish Kumar, who along with Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav met Uddhav Thackeray at the Shiv Sena (UBT) leader's residence in Mumbai, was speaking to reporters. "When everyone fights together, there will be a contest (with BJP). There will be good success (to opposition parties) and the country will head in the right direction," Kumar said. Kumar said the opposition parties will decide when their next meeting will take place. "Our objective is the same...to work in the interest of the country," he said. "There should be no dispute and everyone should stay united," Kumar added. His meeting with Uddhav Thackeray is being seen as a bid to strengthen the Opposition unity ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. The Janata Dal (United) leader will also meet Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar in Mumbai later in the day. Kumar has been meeting Opposition leaders to strengthen the bloc against the BJP ahead of the Lok Sabha polls due next year. He met his Odisha counterpart Naveen Patnaik on Tuesday in Bhubaneswar. Kumar, who stunned the BJP last year when he snapped ties and stripped it of power in Bihar, had caught the national imagination with his pitch for a "united opposition" which, he believes, can take on and defeat the BJP in next year's Lok Sabha polls. (PTI)
Janata Dal (United) supreme leader Nitish Kumar and Rashtriya Janata Dal's Tejashwi Yadav will also meet Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar in the evening. (PTI)
WATCH | Bihar CM & JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar along with Dy CM & RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav meets Uddhav Thackeray at Matoshree in Mumbai
Bihar CM & JD(U) leader Nitish Kumar along with deputy CM & RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav meets Uddhav Thackeray at 'Matoshree' in Mumbai
Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde & deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis to hold conference at 2pm at Sahyadri in Mumbai post Supreme Court verdict
Coincidence, says Maharashtra minister Uday Samant on ED summons to Jayant Patil ahead of SC verdict on 2022 political row in state
Maharashtra minister Uday Samant on Thursday said it is a merely a coincidence that state NCP president Jayant Patil has been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money laundering case ahead of the Supreme Court's verdict on petitions pertaining to the 2022 political crisis in the state. The ED has summoned 61-year-old MLA Patil, the former state finance and home minister, for questioning on Friday in a money laundering case linked to alleged financial irregularities in the now bankrupt IL&FS, as per official sources.
Maharashtra | Supreme Court has said that the Shiv Sena Shinde group's Whip is illegal...The current govt is illegal and formed against the Constitution: Sanjay Raut, Uddhav Thackeray faction leader
Jaunpur farmer booked during 1993 Mumbai riots acquitted after 30 years
Observing that it was possible that he may have been an innocent bystander and that the benefit of doubt goes to him, a sessions ons court recently acquitted a Jaunpur-based farmer 30 years after he was booked for attempted murder and being part of a violent rioting mob during the 1993 communal riots in the city.
Mumbai: Hoardings welcoming JD(U) leader & Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and Dy CM Tejashwi Yadav put up as the duo will be meeting Uddhav Thackeray today
IL&FS money laundering case: ED summons NCP leader Jayant Patil on Friday
Enforcement Directorate (ED) summoned NCP leader and former minister Jayant Patil in a money laundering case pertaining to the Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited (IL&FS).Patil has been asked to appear before the law enforcement agency on Friday to record his statement. The ED is examining Patil’s accounts to ascertain if he had received proceeds of crime generated from IL&FS fraud.
READ MORE4 men thrashed by mob over dispute in Palghar; police launch probe
A group of around 40 people allegedly beat up four men following a dispute at a gym in Maharashtra's Palghar district, an official said on Thursday.A case has been registered against three identified and more than 35 unidentified persons after the incident which took place on Wednesday morning when the victims and the accused were exercising at the gym in Kudus village in Wada taluka, he said.One of the victims dropped a dumbbell following which one of the accused allegedly abused him and passed comments over his caste, Palghar police spokesperson Sachin Navadkar said.
If Eknath Shinde, 15 other MLAs are disqualified by SC verdict, group of traitors will be finished: Sanjay Raut
Ahead of the Supreme Court's verdict on last year's Maharashtra political crisis, Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Thursday said that if 16 MLAs of Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena including chief minister Eknath Shinde are disqualified, "then the group of traitors will be finished"."If the 16 MLAs including CM Shinde are disqualified today, then this group of traitors will be finished," Raut said.
If the 16 MLAs including CM Shinde are disqualified today, then this group of traitors will be finished
Sanjay Raut, Uddhav Thackeray faction leader
25 couples, including MLA's son, tie knot at mass marriage ceremony in Latur
Twenty five couples, including the son of BJP MLA Abhimanyu Pawar, have tied the nuptial knot at a mass wedding ceremony in Maharashtra's Latur district. The event was organised on Wednesday evening by Ausa legislator Abhimanyu Pawar at the Utage ground which was attended by many political leaders, including chief minister Eknath Shinde, deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, Leader of Opposition in the state assembly Ajit Pawar and Union minister Raosaheb Danve, who blessed the couples. Shinde appreciated the BJP MLA's efforts towards organising the mass marriage ceremony for the poor and deprived people. Other leaders should take the similar initiative, he said.
Enforcement Directorate summons NCP leader Jayant Patil on May 12 in connection with alleged IL&FS scam
The Enforcement Directorate has summoned Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and former Maharashtra minister Jayant Patil in connection with the IL& FS money laundering case, an official said on Thursday. Patil, who is the Maharashtra NCP chief, has been asked to appear before the agency on Friday, the official said.Patil's statement may be recorded in connection with the case at the ED's office located at Ballard Estate in South Mumbai.
Maharashtra logs 154 fresh Covid cases, 1 death; active tally down to 1,423
Maharashtra on Wednesday recorded 154 fresh coronavirus cases, while one more patient succumbed to the infection in the state, which saw nearly 300 recoveries, the health department said. With these additions, the state's Covid-19 tally rose to 81,67,947 and the toll increased to 1,48,541, the department said in a bulletin. Mumbai detected 47 patients in the last 24 hours.
A five-judge Constitution bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices M R Shah, Krishna Murari, Hima Kohli and P S Narasimha will pronounce the verdict at around 11 am
SC judgment on Sena vs Sena row that roiled Maharashtra politics at 11am
The Supreme Court will on Thursday pronounce its verdict on a batch of crosspetitions filed by the Uddhav Thackeray and CM Eknath Shinde teams on the Maharashtra political crisis resulting in change of guard in the state last year, but the judgment would also have wider ramifications as the court is likely to decide on the role of the speaker and governor in case of defection and intra-party crisis.
Two tiger cubs on view at Byculla zoo now
From Thursday, visitors to the Byculla zoo will be able to view two Royal Bengal tiger cubs, who were born on November 4, 2022, and three more penguin chicks, which were born in the zoo late last year.
Sister can replace man on waitlist for govt job: Bombay HC
The Bombay HC has allowed a sister’s name to be substituted in place of her brother on a waitlist for a government job on compassionate grounds. The court took note that she was refused only because a GR does not allow it and makes an exception only on the death of a wait-listed candidate,reports Rosy Sequeira.“We see no valid reason for refusing to substitute the name of the petitioner (Shubhangi Kamodkar) in place of her brother in the waitlist of respondent (Nashik civic body) for appointment,” said the bench in the May 2 verdict and directed the NMC to substitute her name within four weeks.
IOB ex-DGM gets 1-year RI; was convicted last month too
Eight years after a complaint was filed, a special CBI court on Tuesday convicted and sentenced a former deputy general manager (DGM) of Indian Overseas Bank to one-year rigorous imprisonment for facilitating the dishonest sanction and disbursementof a Rs 11 crore corporate and car loan to a Powai company, Anytime India Fitness Pvt Ltd, in 2011.Lalbaug resident Pradeep Kumar Saha was also fined Rs 5 lakh. This is his second such conviction in a month. The company was also fined Rs 25 lakh.
