'The worst affected is the electricity supply. A huge number of poles, some 6,000 to 8,000 poles have been damaged completely. That will take a lot of time for restoration.'
Four National Disaster Response Force teams are engaged in rescue work, he added. The village has around 50 houses, of which 17 were buried under the landslide, the official said.
The high court on Wednesday directed the authorities to shift 80-year-old poet from jail to Nanavati Hospital for 15 days, noting that Rao was almost on his deathbed.
In one of these clips or voice notes, he is heard stating that his company could not come out of the financial crisis it was facing because of the procedure adopted by the financial services firm.
The petitioners had sought interim order of protection from any coercive action and for the probe to be stayed in the case pending the hearing of their pleas.
Two persons were rescued after the incident that occurred at 4.50 am in Shahbaz village, they said, adding that before the building collapsed, the authorities managed to evacuate 52 residents.
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The Raigad district administration has asked RIL to submit details regarding production and safety measures at the plant.
According to a three-year-old article published in Lokmat, the bridge was in a terrible condition and the National Highways Authority who were aware of the condition did nothing to fix it.
26 bodies have been recovered while nearly 14 are still missing following the bridge collapse on Mumbai-Goa Highway on August 2.
Western Railway stated that local train services were running normally on Monday morning, however, commuters claimed trains were running late by 5 to 10 minutes.
'Or does India belong to the agricultural community that forms 70 per cent of this country? Which is the real India?' asks activist Ulka Mahajan.
The National Disaster Response Force, Navy and Coast Guard officials have so far been able to locate only a signboard of one of the missing ST buses .
Each bottle of pickle that leaves FarmDidi, headed to a consumer, has a little kahani behind it -- it's linked to the tale of a life, the life of a simple, striving village woman who created it, and that's what gives Manjari Sharma satisfaction and happiness.
The death toll in the spurious liquor case in Shardawadi village, Sudhagad taluka of Raigad district has gone up to 26, with two more victims succumbing at Alibaug civil hospital while undergoing treatment late on Friday night.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said on Sunday that at least 7-8 people died due to sunlight exposure during 'Maharashtra Bhushan' award event in Navi Mumbai.
Nearly 6,000 passengers were stranded as train services on the Konkan Railway route in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district were suspended on Thursday after a river overflowed following heavy rains, while incessant downpour badly hit road and rail traffic in several parts of the state, including around Mumbai, as authorities called in NDRF to help the administration in rescue efforts.
Cyclone 'Nisarga' has made landfall near Alibaug on Maharashtra coast with the wind speed of more than 110 km per hour and heavy rainfall, leading to falling of many trees and electricity poles, a Raigad district official said.
Capping the size of special economic zones to 5,000 hectare may help governments quell social unrest caused by compulsory land acquisition for such projects.
Sexual abuse is not the first instance of misconduct that has emerged from the residential school run by the Chandraprabha Charitable Trust in Karjat, reports Devidas Deshpande.
14 of 20 died due to drowning in different incidents that occurred during the immersion of Ganesh idols in parts of Maharashtra.
A Maharashtra MLC lost his cool and heckled Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan for allegedly delaying his departure to the coastal town of Alibaug in neighbouring Raigad district.
The BMC declared a holiday for all government and private schools and colleges in Mumbai on Thursday after the IMD issued a 'red' alert for the metropolis.
The sensational Sheena Bora murder case has taken yet another turn with the Mumbai police seizing a suitcase that was purportedly meant for packing the body of her brother, Mikhail whom Indrani Mukherjea had allegedly planned to kill, even as key accused Sanjeev Khanna and the driver were taken to spot to re-create the crime scene.
In response to the White Paper on irrigation over the past decade prepared by Maharashtra's water resources department, the Aam Aadmi Party has prepared an exhaustive Black Paper on the issue. It will be released by Arvind Kejriwal at Roha on December 2 in Raigad district, the political stronghold of Irrigation Minister Sunil Tatkare.
As a part of its plan to decongest Mumbai and Navi Mumbai, the Maharashtra government proposes to develop a third city in Uran, 80 km away from Mumbai in the Raigad district.
A fresh search operation involving multiple agencies and local divers was launched on Saturday morning.
Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said the white paper on irrigation, brought out by the Maharashtra government, was "an attempt to absolve Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar of all the corruption charges against him".
The marine mammal, weighing about 20 tonnes, was washed ashore following high tide at the Revdanda sea shore.
No one was injured in the incident which took place on platform no. 1 of the CSMT around 9.40 am, Central Railway's chief public relations officer Shivaji Sutar said.
A fresh search operation, involving multiple agencies and local divers, will be launched on Saturday morning
Mukesh Ambani-promoted Mumbai SEZ, coming up in the neighbouring Raigad district, on Tuesday moved the Bombay High Court seeking a speedy completion of land acquisition by the district administration.
In a setback for the Central Bureau of Investigation, three more prosecution witnesses have turned hostile in the 2006 Pawanraje Nimbalkar murder case, in which Member of Parliament Padamsinh Patil is the main accused. A total of 12 witnesses have turned hostile so far at the ongoing trial before the Alibag sessions court in neighbouring Raigad district. The three witnesses who turned hostile last week included two eyewitnesses who had seen the assailants open fire.
Four persons, believed to be businessmen, were Wednesday found murdered in a farm house at Panvel in Raigad district, police said.
UP's representation in the government could diminish, given the BJP's decreased seat count in that state.
'Though the threat posed to Mumbai by the cyclone has reduced, the next few hours will be quite crucial. The cyclone can have influence over an average of 200 km from its eye,' Thorat tweeted.
The newly expanded Maharashtra council of ministers has several leaders from political families.
The police, fire brigade, teams of the National Disaster Response Force and local trekkers were making efforts to pull out all bodies from the accident spot, a senior police official said.
The five-storey building -- Tareq Garden -- in Mahad town, around 170 km from Mumbai, collapsed on Monday evening. According to a police official, the rescue operation was called off around 11.30 am on Wednesday.
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