Maharashtra News Live Updates: ED summons NCP leader Jayant Patil on Friday in connection with alleged IL&FS scam

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.