The middleman nature of APMCs and their monopoly is the crux of the issue. That is why the government wanted to free the farmers from the APMC’s clutches.
The traders were protesting the state government decision to remove vegetables and fruits from the scope of the APMC.
Animal rights activists observed 9 July as Poison Biscuit Day to mark the anniversary of the mass poisoning of stray dogs in Navi Mumbai eight years ago.
Zakir Naik's now-infamous Peace TV has its offices in Dubai, Saudi Arabia, the USA and UK, but none in India. Officially speaking. However, India — more specifically, the tiny area of Dongri in South Mumbai — is actually where Naik's videos are made.
A city square near where noted journalist Jyotirmoy Dey was gunned down over five years ago will be named by him.
A centre of The People's Improvement Trust, established by Babasaheb Ambedkar in 1944, is coming up at Dadar in place of the old Ambedkar Bhavan.
Mumbai civic chief Ajoy Mehta has not just ensured that the corporation filed charges against all officers in the road scam, but has effected a fundamental change in accountability
Zakir Naik is not a terrorist. Not till the moment there is hard evidence to prove his direct involvement in any of the terrorist activities either in India or abroad
Meet Indian security establishment’s latest headache: Doctor, debater, preacher, televangelist and Salafist Zakir Naik, a globally-recognised Islamist scholar based in Mumbai.
Fans of Salman Khan made a festive occasion of the release of Sultan, on Eid
Academician and Jawaharlal Darda Education Society Secretary Kishore S Darda, who was facing protests in Yavatmal for allegedly protecting teachers accused of sexually abusing young students in a society-run school, was arrested early on Monday
Four persons, including two women, were booked in Thane for allegedly stripping down a minor girl, police said on Saturday.
Heavy rains lashed the city in the last 24 hours with suburban train services running 10-15 minutes behind the schedule, but no incident of waterlogging was reported so far.
Riders on the storm: Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan's early morning cycle ride together
The demolition of Dadar's historic Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Bhavan in the early hours of Saturday morning has turned into a major controversy over the past four days
Nine people were killed after a massive fire at a medical store in Andheri West, in Mumbai on 30 June, 2016.
In one of the biggest incidents of its kind in the state, armed dacoits stormed into a cash management firm and decamped with Rs 12 crore cash in Thane.
Rains continued to lash Mumbai for the third consecutive day on Saturday, slightly disrupting suburban train services.
Maharashtra Government announced appointment of retired Bombay HC judge to probe allegations of irregularities against Eknath Khadse in the purchase of land near Pune.
The article also attacked Sena MP Sanjay Raut who recently said the BJP-led governments at the Centre and in Maharashtra were worse than the Nizam.
Sanjeev Khanna, arrested in connection with the murder of his former wife Indrani Mukerjea's daughter Sheena Bora, has approached Bombay High Court seeking a copy of a confessional statement of Indrani's former driver Shyamvar Rai, who was recently made approver in the case.
A 45-year-old man was allegedly beaten to death over a minor dispute at Khardi village in Thane, police said on Wednesday.
The struggle to bring app-based cabs and government regularised autorickshaws and taxis at par has begun in some states, including Delhi, Maharashtra and Karnataka.
A judicial committee of a retired Bombay High Court judge will probe the purchase of the MIDC land near Pune by former Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said here on Monday.
A court here on Monday granted the special investigation team probing the murder of CPI leader Govind Pansare to take the custody of Viredra Tawde, arrested in the Narendra Dabholkar murder case by CBI.
It took one thief, who stole the battery box fom Mahim substation, to halt the all-time-busy Western suburban railway services to come to a grinding halt on Monday morning.
Amidst a spar between the ruling alliance partners in Maharashtra, CM Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday greeted Uddhav Thackeray on Shiv Sena's 50th anniversary.
An alarming 82 percent of structures in Thane city are unauthorised, an RTI query claimed.
With the BMC elections to be held in February 2017, the current ruling party in the BMC – Shiv Sena – and its alliance partner BJP are openly waging a war against each other on social media since the last two days.
In the wake of resignation of Eknath Khadse from the post of Maharashtra Revenue Minister over allegations of misuse of power, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has warned his BJP colleagues against overruling the opinion of bureaucrats.