Shrikant Shinde made light of threats from some segments of the Sena that rebel MLAs would not be allowed to roam around freely in Maharashtra.
A 22-year-old person was killed and another one injured on Thursday after a tree fell on their hut in Mumbai as moderate to heavy rains lashed the city and its suburbs in the last 24 hours, officials said.
Eighteen patients have died in the last 24 hours at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital in Kalwa in Thane, civic commissioner Abhijit Bangar said on Sunday.
Pranjal Patil, who hails from Ulhasnagar in Maharashtra, had lost her vision when she was just six years old.
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Maharashtra on Tuesday reported 18,466 fresh coronavirus positive cases, around 52 per cent or 6,303 cases more than the previous day's tally, and 20 fatalities, the state health department said.
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Gangster Suresh Pujari, wanted in several extortion cases in Mumbai region and Karnataka, has been deported to India, a senior police official said on Wednesday.
The depression will intensify into a deep depression --- the third and fourth stage of any cyclone formation --- by this evening. It will intensify into a cyclonic storm by June 2, the Cyclone Warning Division of the IMD said.
Tope said action would be taken against those buildings where FSI more than four had been utilised. There are 588 such buildings. He, however, said the government would soon make the roads free of encroachment.
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A 90-year-old woman was discharged from the civil hospital in Thane in Maharashtra on Tuesday after recovering from COVID-19, the district administration said.
The counting of votes is underway in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections, where estranged saffron allies, BJP and the Shiv Sena are locked in a battle.
A defence spokesperson said that nine persons were stranded on the terrace of a building close to the Ulhas river near Kalyan.
Maharashtra Governor S M Krishna Saturday signed an ordinance aimed at regularising illegal buildings in Ulhasnagar township of neighbouring Thane district.
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As many as 13 persons attacked him with swords and other sharp-edged weapons, the police said.
The home minister held a video conference with Chief Ministers of Gujarat and Maharashtra -- Vijay Rupani and Uddhav Thackeray respectively -- and Administrator of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Praful Patel, and assured them all central help in view of the impending cyclone, an official statement said in New Delhi.
Tropical storm 'Tauktae' (pronounced as Tau'Te) which had intensified into a very severe cyclonic storm, lies close to the Gujarat coast, the India Meteorological Department said. "The landfall process has started and will continue during next two hours," the IMD said.
The children, aged 8 and 9 and hailing from different families, went to the neighbourhood shop where they picked up a packet of 'chakli' (a snack) without the owner's permission and ate it. This angered the shop owner, Mehmood Pathan, 69, police said.
At least eight persons, four of them children, were buried alive and three injured when a portion of a five-storey residential building crashed in Thane's Ulhasnagar on Tuesday evening, police and health officials said.
In a tragic incident, a thirty-year-old man committed suicide on Tuesday morning by setting himself on fire in front of the municipal office in Ulhasnagar in Thane district, Maharashtra.
Three weeks since Principal Mahesh Matai found his 16-year-old son dead outside their Ulhasnagar residence, the Mumbai Police is still clueless about the case.
Sixty-one-year-old Lalchand Radhakishan Ahuja was the sole breadwinner for his family. One of the victims of July 13, 2011 blasts in Mumbai, Ahuja succumbed to his injuries at the St George Hospital.
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After having retained the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance has now set its eyes on other municipal bodies in the state, especially Pune, Nashik, Thane and Ulhasnagar.
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Tuesday visited Thane and adjoining areas affected by heavy rains since last week.\n
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Shiv Sena spokesperson Sanjay Raute told rediff.com that they are going full throttle against Orkut and will not tolerate any statements against their party and their supremo.
The intensity of the blast was so high that window panes in adjoining buildings were shattered and shocked people were seen running helter-skelter, an eyewitness said.
The toppers among other categories were: Backward: Umesh Prakash Swami 94.66 percent; Disabled: Karishma Mahendra Sharma 88.26 percent and Night School: Yedba Saibu Thorat 62.40 per cent.\n
Sessions judge S S Joshi granted Morpani bail for a sum of Rs 25,000 and warned him not to tamper with evidence.
The Ulhasnagar MLA spent nine years in jail and won elections twice while still incarcerated. He was released on bail on September 4, 2001.
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