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.
'In Mumbai the mortality rate was reaching a percentage of almost 8 plus in about April.' 'But now over last one month, we have come down.' 'We have drastically controlled mortality.' 'We are now about 3.9.'
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.
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.
Six persons, all traders from Mumbai, drowned in the sea at Ekadara beach in Murud area of Maharashtra's Raigad district on Sunday morning, police said. Fifteen people, all small traders from Chembur suburb in Mumbai, hired a mini-bus and went to the beach for a picnic in the morning, an official at Murud police station told PTI.
Shivaji made sure that his soldiers respected the sanctity of mosques and the Quran Sharif to ensure that his fight against the Mughals did not become fight against Islam, explains Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
A local court in Mumbai on Thursday allowed the CBI to question afresh Indrani Mukerjea and two other arrested accused in the Sheena Bora murder case.
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.
Reliance Infrastructure's 4,000-MW power project at Shahpur in Raigad district is facing legal hurdles on environmental ground
A recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
The farmers called off their agitation on Monday after the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government announced it has accepted "almost all" of their demands in writing and assured to implement them in a time-bound manner.
A woman and her 14-year-old daughter suffered injuries on Wednesday during a game-ride at Adlabs Imagica theme park in Raigad district near Mumbai, police said.
This week was the first time Peter and Indrani appeared in court no longer married, footloose and fancy free once again, even if in jail.
Body-building and the traditional form of kushti (wrestling) rein supreme in this little village near Mumbai.
The much-awaited policy for mandatory rehabilitation of land owners displaced by industrial projects and SEZs might get delayed with the matter being referred to a Group of Ministers.
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Senior Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi courted arrest at Belapur on Thursday along with party workers as part of the 'jail bharo andolan' to protest the Mahamumbai special economic zone of Reliance group in Raigad.
A R Antulay, the former Maharashtra CM, passed away today on Tuesday a prolonged illness
'This Ram Navami -- the birth anniversary of Lord Ram -- presents the majority community an opportunity to shed its minority complex and offer an olive branch and discrimination- free society to the minority,' suggests Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
Polling for the two Maharashtra Legislative Assembly bypolls started in constituencies of Naigaum in Mumbai and Srivardhan in Raigad Thursday morning at 0800 hours.
In just 18 frames, the photograph of the dainty Sheena, with her winsome smile and starry eyes, dissolved, flesh falling off her facial bones, into what the CBI alleged was her corresponding yellowed, morose-looking skull with hollow, haunting eye sockets.
Pathan was suffering from various ailments, including blood clots in the brain, and had suffered a paralytic attack earlier.
They were sentenced for their involvement in landing the arms and explosives used in the blasts.
Former police sub-inspector V K Patil was on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment and ordered to pay a fine of Rs 2 lakh for his role in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.
The board formally approved 10 SEZs, including a 16 hectare IT zone of Tata Consultancy Services in Kolkata, Saloni Business Park Private Ltd's 27.5 hectare biotech zone in Thane and a 4.77 hectare electronic hardware and IT zone in Raigad, proposed by Modern India Property Developer.
With this, the death count in the August 2 night tragedy has gone up to 28, while 12 people are still missing.
"We wanted to question them in the jail and we have got permission," a CBI official said.
With the conviction of Bhoinkar, Abbas and Shahjahan, the total number of accused found guilty has risen to 35.
Both have been found guilty of conspiracy.
CBI's Special Crime Branch lodged a case in the designated court against Indrani, her former husband and Sanjay Khanna and former driver Shyamvar Pinturam Rai.
Indrani's former husband Sanjeev Khanna was also charged with murder.
Daring the Maharashtra government to take action against them, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena workers and supporters headed towards Pune on Sunday, without paying the toll, to attend a public meeting to be addressed by their leader Raj Thackeray.
Peter, 59, husband of prime accused Indrani Mukerjea, was arrested on November 19 for his alleged role in the murder case and was in CBI custody for two weeks following which he was granted judicial remand.
Dutt was convicted under the Arms Act for the illegal possession of an assault rifle and a pistol but acquitted under the anti-terror law TADA.
A 14-year-old girl who was gang-raped allegedly by two youth earlier this month in the neighbouring Raigad district, was also molested by a local Nationalist Congress Party leader on the very same day of the incident, the police said.
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.
Indians celebrated the second International Day of Yoga on Tuesday at different parts of the country.
Many pictures showed The Skeleton Named Sheena. For the purpose of the photographs, the skeleton had been re-assembled and looked straight at the camera.
A court in Mumbai on Tuesday remanded former media baron Peter Mukerjea in judicial custody till December 14 in the Sheena Bora murder case.
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.
