This is required after Maharashtra de-notified 16,000 acres of land earmarked for the Maha Mumbai Special Economic Zone in Raigad district.
'My daughter lives in the building along with her two daughters aged five and two years and a son who is three years old. I don't know their fate'
The Maharashtra government will send a permanent memorandum to the Centre elaborating the long-term steps that need to be taken in the state to combat natural calamities, Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said on Wednesday.
The Raigad district Congress has called for a shut down in the Panvel area of New Mumbai on Friday to protest violence by Shiv Sena's activists.
Villagers from Raigad and Nashik in Maharashtra and Mangalore in Karnataka speak about how their lives and livelihoods will be affected by special economic zones in their regions.
The police sought the sessions court to quash the CJM order and grant them custody of the three accused.
Former Customs additional collector Somnath Thapa, convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case, died after a prolonged illness at a hospital in Mumbai on Friday. Thapa (60) was suffering from lung cancer, the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Actcourt sources said. He was sentenced to life imprisonment by special TADA Court Judge Pramod Kode in July 2007.
The DGP said after concealing the contraband, the accused persons had meticulously welded the door border and repainted it.
The project of Reliance Energy with capacity of 4000 MW at Shahapur in coastal Raigad district is in progress and is expected to be completed by 2011, Maharashtra Legislature was informed.
Three tests were conducted by the AIIMS forensic department to prove that the charred remains were of Sheena.
Districts like Thane and Palghar bordering Mumbai also have similar forecast of "heavy to very heavy rains" at few place for Monday, he said, adding that intensity of rains would come down from Tuesday onwards.
Nearly 120 of the 257 auto fuel pumps in Mumbai face closure, as oil marketing companies (OMCs) have lost their earlier protection under the Maharashtra Rent Control Act. They were enjoying protection from eviction by the land owners prior to 2005. However, after the rule was amended, they lost it and were served with eviction notices by the owners as soon as the lease period expired.
The officials also said that the ministry of commerce and industry had recommended the Maharashtra government to take back the land acquisition notification that it had issued. The zone has been given in-principle approval by the BoA, as RIL is yet to acquire the requisite land.
Thackeray said lockdown has been partially eased because economic activities need to continue as 'now we have to learn to live with the virus'.
The Nizamuddin-Thiruvananthapuram Rajdhani Express and Nizamuddin-Ernakulam Mangala Express, which left Nizamuddin on June 15, were diverted to run via Kalyan, Pune, Wadi, Guntakkal and Dharmavaram.
The Mumbai SEZ had sought the stay on the grounds that if the acquisition is not completed by June 8, the entire process will lapse under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894.
Early on Friday morning, the team of police officials and forensic experts from Mumbai had reached Gagode Budruk village in Pen teshil and the digging had started around 6 am.
Three months have passed, but the Maharashtra government has not been able to finalise its report on the results of the September 22 referendum it had organised in 22 villages of Raigad district that form part of the 10,000-hectare Mumbai Special Economic Zone developed by Jai Corp, a company promoted by Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani's close associate Anand Jain.
Reliance Infrastructure's 4,000-MW power project at Shahpur in Raigad district is facing legal hurdles on environmental ground
In a new twist to the Sheena Bora murder saga, Indrani Mukerjea and her former husband Sanjeev Khanna have blamed each other for the crime during police interrogation.
'This is not China. There is freedom of movement in Kashmir, even in Sikkim. I can go anywhere. But in the SEZs created in my own hinterland I can only enter if I have a pass issued by a civil servant who is appointed as the caretaker of that SEZ,' says Magsaysay Award winner Aruna Roy.
One of the high points of the proceedings was when Indrani Mukerjea's lawyer smartly utilised Dr Zeba Khan's expert status to pose her A Most Curious Question. He asked her if a skull can grow new teeth, even after the person, who it belonged to, had died, three years before. We can be sure that the discrepancy between the number of teeth discovered in the skull unearthed in 2012 and the skull shown in court in September 2019 will come up soon in Courtroom No 51. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel reports from the Sheena Bora Murder Trial.
Despite being given the post of a Union minister, Rane has been behaving like a "roadside gangster", Shiv Sena's mouthpiece Saamana said in an editorial.
The family members of Sujata Surveshi, a senior crew member with Air India, who died in the tragic air crash near Mangalore on Saturday morning, still cannot believe that she is no more.
Both have been found guilty of conspiracy.
A Bharatiya Janata Party office-bearer from Shirur in Maharashtra's Pune district has sought the removal of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and his Nationalist Congress Party from the ruling alliance, which also consists of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena.
The length of the sentence is yet to be announced.
They were sentenced for their involvement in landing the arms and explosives used in the blasts.
Gale-force winds, heavy rainfall and high tidal waves swept the coastal belts of Maharashtra and Goa as Cyclone Tauktae hurtled northwards towards Gujarat.
The rise in water level in the tracks was also due to release of water from Barvi dam, railway officials said.
The Bombay high court on Tuesday dismissed a public interest litigation seeking a disproportionate assets case against former Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray and his family, observing that it sought a "roving enquiry".
The court acquitted five other accused -- Mansoor Ahmed Mansoor Qureshi, Shaikh Kasam alias Babulal, Sultan-e-Rome Ali Gul, Abdul Aziz Abdul Kader and Mohammed Iqbal Ibrahim -- for want of evidence.
BJP president LK Advani has termed the Centre's aid to Maharashtra as 'inadequate'.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday announced Rs 500 crore as a special package for rehabilitation of rain-affected victims in Maharashtra in addition to the Rs 200 crore from the National Contingency and National Calamity Funds.
Shaikh was also held guilty of conspiracy and participating in landing operations of arms and ammunitions, which arrived at Shekhadi coast in Raigad district on February 3 and 7, 1993.
The presence of ants was detected at Alibag in Maharashtra and subsequently a complaint was lodged with the Food and Drug Administration authorities.
The tests, according to the report, showed that Pepsi products from its plant in Khalapur in Raigad district contained 0.6 mg of lindane, which is above the permissible limits.
Union minister Narayan Rane approached the Bombay high court on Tuesday, challenging the FIRs registered against him in parts of Maharashtra over his remarks against state Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, and sought protection from arrest.
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