The Uddhav Thackeray faction maintained that it would hold the annual event at the Shivaji Park despite the denial of permission.
He had uploaded a video on social media in which he demanded that the Maharashtra government make travel arrangements for migrants, who are stranded due to the coronavirus-enforced lockdown and want to go back to their native places.
Rahul Kulkarni, journalist with a Marathi news channel, was arrested by Mumbai Police on Wednesday, a day after several migrant workers gathered near Bandra station in Mumbai demanding that they be sent back to their home towns.
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Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Wednesday stoked a potential controversy when he called Arvind Kejriwal a Veda Mukhyamantri (mad chief minister), while recalling his own days in the police force.
The sensational Sheena Bora murder case probe tonight acquired a new turn with police claiming that Sanjay Khanna, former husband of Indrani Mukerjea, confessed to his complicity in the crime during a joint interrogation of three accused on a day the victim's skeleton remains were recovered.
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All along, Rahul, right till today 10 years later, hung onto his gut feeling that something surely had happened to Sheena.
Lawyer Amit Ghag got up to tell the judge that Shrikant Shivade -- Salman Khan and Peter Mukherjea's lawyer -- would take a morning flight from Jodhpur to Mumbai and would be in court by 3 pm on Friday to cross-examine Sub-Inspector Dalvi. For a moment, Judge Jagdale looks startled. "But isn't he caught up with that case in Jodhpur?" the judge asked.
The objects were promotional balloons filled with gas, launched by the event management company to advertise its client.
A 30 year-old Colombian national stuck in Mumbai due to the coronavirus-enforced lockdown has alleged that a junior police officer had made sexual advances towards her at a hotel, according to her complaint.
Judge D W Deshpande said, "I will pronounce the verdict on May 6," at 11.15 am and asked Salman to be present on that day.
A Pakistani family which arrived here to visit the Haji Ali dargah to pray for their mentally challenged son was refused accommodation by several hotels in the city following which they spent the night on a pavement.
'Quite the raconteur, much to the dismay of Courtroom 51's CBI Special Judge Jayendra Chandrasen Jagdale, Christopher 'Doglis' Marquis, a Bandra dog-breeder who was Prosecution Witness No 57 and a panch or witness, seemed to move into the witness box with glee, embellishing every answer that he gave to the lawyers' questions with a variety of additional details.' Vaihayasi Pande Daniel reports from the Sheena Bora murder trial.
Mumbai and its adjoining areas were lashed by heavy showers on Tuesday, causing water-logging at a number of places, including railway tracks, which slowed the movement of trains and vehicles on roads.
Incessant showers lashed Mumbai and its neighbouring areas on Wednesday morning, leading to flooding in many low-lying areas and traffic snarls on roads.
A local court remanded Indrani and her driver Shyam Rai to judicial custody for two weeks while the other accused Sanjay Khanna was taken to Kolkata for being produced in a court there.
Sanjeev Khanna, the step father of Sheena Bora and a key accused in the sensational murder case, was on Tuesday remanded in judicial custody till September 21.
I don't think Rahul Mukerjea once referred to Sheena as killed or murdered and always referred to it as her disappearance. It felt like he still used the word 'disappear' because killed had a finality to it that he didn't want to face.
This is the fourth death this year caused by vehicles skidding on potholes on the Jawhar-Dahanu road.
Three months after two legislators allegedly assaulted a police officer inside the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly premises, the crime branch has filed 130-page chargesheet against them.
'They are all worried about one thing -- what about tomorrow?'
'They were only chanting one slogan, "Ghar jaana hai (we want to go home)".'
Chakraborty, who appeared before the CBI for the first time, left the Defence Research and Development Organisation guest house complex in Santacruz a little after 9 pm, said an official.
heavy showers were likely to continue for next 48 hours, according to the India Meteorological Department.
During rehearsals, when Dilip Kumar improvised, Gulshan Grover was quick to point out that he had got the lines wrong.
An FIR has been registered against Shiv Sena leader Ramdas Kadam for allegedly giving an inflammatory speech during a political rally in Mumbai two days back, police said on Wednesday.
A 23-year-old man who allegedly sent threat messages to Bollywood actress Madhuri Dixit on her mobile phone in a bid to extort money has landed in the police net.
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Indrani had earlier maintained that Sheena Bora, murdered in 2012, was her sister
Sheena Bora's brother Mikhail, who arrived in Mumbai from Guwahati, on Friday said he will cooperate with police in the probe of his sister's murder as more details of the murky case and cover-up bid are expected to emerge later in the day.
The Maharashtra assembly on Wednesday revoked the suspension of the five legislators who had allegedly assaulted a policeman on the assembly premises in March this year.
Pandey expressed bewilderment over no positive response from the municipal authorities in Mumbai, whom he accused of keeping IPS officer Vinay Tiwari in virtual house arrest, despite being informed about the adverse remarks made by Supreme Court against their action.
All the three accused in the sensational Sheena Bora murder case -- Indrani Mukerjea, Sanjeev Khanna and Shyamvar Rai -- will be produced in a court in Mumbai as their police custody ends on Monday.
The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday raided multiple locations in Maharashtra as part of a money laundering probe against state transport minister Anil Parab and others linked to alleged irregularities in a land deal in coastal Dapoli area of Ratnagiri district and other charges, officials said.
Taken aback by the turn of events following the arrest of his wife Indrani in connection with the murder of Sheena Bora, former Star TV CEO Peter Mukerjea on Wednesday distanced himself from the case.
Goswami claimed in the top court that he was interrogated by Mumbai Police for over 12 hours with regard to FIR on alleged defamatory statements and one of the two investigating officers probing the case against him has tested Covid-19 positive.
"Nyay ki jeet hui hain (truth has triumphed)," Kumar said soon after the apex court's verdict upholding a CBI probe into actor Sushant Singh Rajput's suicide.
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