Three labourers from Orissa and Chhattisgarh were killed in a landslide on the Amravati-Mumbai national highway near Badnera in this district Wednesday evening, highway police said.
The Bombay High Court has directed the management and teachers of St Xavier's High School in Navi Mumbai to sort out their dispute regarding payment of salaries as per the Sixth Pay Commission recommendations.
The governor met Mukherjee, who was in the city to attend a couple of official meetings, at Raj Bhavan, an official release said.
In a major crackdown on child labour, 108 children working in small scale industry units in Madanpura area of south Mumbai, were rescued.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation Wednesday declared 34 private Mumbai primary schools as illegal.
The project's first phase, providing a 12 km east-west Versova-Andheri-Ghatkopar corridor, was expected to become functional by August.
Maharashtra Relief and Rehabilitation Minister Patangarao Kadam today expressed satisfaction over Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) preparation to tackle the monsoon.
The two parties which are supporting the bandh, being held across the country to protest petrol prices, said essential services would not be affected.
The accident took place when a speeding truck slammed into a bus which had stopped to fix a punctured tyre on the Mumbai-Pune expressway.
Meanwhile, the two Disc Jockeys were grilled for the third consecutive day and their statements recorded.
"There is no point in criticising anybody. I am answerable as the head of the state. The livelihood of about 57 percent of the population depends on agriculture and hence irrigation is very important for the progress and development of the state," Chavan told reporters.
Sports and Youth Welfare Minister Padmakar Valvi said his department had been allotted 50-acre land by the Revenue Ministry at the Thane suburb for setting up the dedicated facility.
The court has asked the Secretary of the concerned department to file an affidavit by 9th May on why the state had not considered this issue so far despite the order of the judges.
The causes for the two deaths on the Central Railway on Thursday have their roots in the refusal of the Maharashtra Government to shift its own headquarters to Navi Mumbai in the 1970's.
Ghai today met Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray and invited him to visit the institute's campus.
Expressing concerns over the rising number of illegal shops on the premises of the Siddhivinayak temple, Legislative Council Deputy Chairman Vasant Davkhare today directed the BMC and police to remove these structures.
The trial of seven Pakistani suspects, including terror group LeT commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, charged with involvement in the Mumbai attacks was on Tuesday adjourned till 10 April as the anti-terrorism judge hearing the case was unwell.
Over 300 iconic landmarks around the world will be bathed in blue light, to show support for 'Light It Up Blue', a worldwide initiative to help raise awareness about autism. Mumbai has refused to follow suit.
Grace won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi award last year for his book 'Varyane halte raan'.
There was an accidental fire on board the tanker last Saturday when it was berthed at New Pir Pau Pier of the Mumbai Port Trust.
In Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Boo focuses on the hopes, fears, and improvisational efforts to survive by a handful of residents of Annawadi, a slum pieced together in the shadows of the five-star hotels that encircle Mumbai's international airport.
The inquiry was ordered after the tail of the aircraft struck the runway while landing at the Mumbai airport yesterday.
At the elections held in the civic headquarters here, Prabhu garnered 125 votes, defeating Sunil More of Congress, who secured 65 votes in the 227-member body.
Pawar is perhaps toying with the question: can the NCP go it alone in the home state? If he can, and thinks he should, he will move silently for the kill.
The Shiv Sena today said the verdict in Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation polls was a slap on the face of Congress-NCP.
The elections that will decide the fate of 1,244 candidates began this morning amid tight security.
Ghai said that he would be move the Supreme Court.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had refused to give the party a go-ahead based on an earlier order passed by the court declaring Shivaji Park as a silence zone.
The ATC asked the Jet pilot to abort the takeoff as an IndiGo flight was about to land, airport sources said.