Soyabean is a major kharif crop for Maharashtra with the state agriculture department estimating sowing over 50 lakh hectares this time, requiring 1.31 lakh tonnes of seeds.

Observing that the state’s move to not disclose the report as “incongruous”, the court has given directives to the state to submit its final stand on submission of the report before the next hearing.

“Apart from taking the geographical conditions into account, the perspective plan has also taken into consideration the existing higher education facilities and suggestions by stakeholders,” it said.

The first three G20 Education Working Group Meetings were held in Chennai, Amritsar and Bhubaneswar respectively.

“Shiv Sena is a family and every member is important to us. Dhiraj’s sudden death is a shock to all of us. He was doing a great job , following every order given by the party but unfortunately time attacked him,” Shinde said.

Shinde is yet to build the organisational structure of the party in the state and has scores of challenges ahead of him, which would require of him to solve them to ensure his party stays in green pastures for a long time.

Apart from losing over two-third of his party legislators, Uddhav also lost the recognition as Shiv Sena party president.

As per the petition moved by Waikar, his wife Manisha and three others, in February, 2004, there was an agreement between the BMC, owners of the land and the petitioners, who were the occupiers

Monsoon is expected to arrive this week. But even before its arrival, the city has reported over 400 dengue cases. Last year, the city reported over 1,200 cases with seven deaths.

According to the Mumbai Police, a fight had allegedly broken out after some people at a mosque asked a procession passing by to stop playing music, which later escalated with slippers and water bottles being thrown by both sides.

Slamming the Eknath Shinde -led government, Aaditya tweeted, “The world is watching as democracy is being killed in Maharashtra everyday.

Advocates Abhijeet A Desai, Surbhi Agrawal and Vishal Dharade, representing the petitioner, submitted that being a mass media student, their client was on a project to collect photographs and information on Ganpati Visarjan and he had no intention of committing the offence in question.

The parents said that they will give their child "the love and affection and will support him in every way, by giving emotional, mental and physical support, as well as any other support, including supporting the petitioner's educational pursuits."

No police complaint or FIR was registered in the matter till late Tuesday evening.

IG Prisons directed to initiate inquiry

Owing to the confusion over the new structure of the courses, colleges are coming up with flexible ways to help students ease into the new system.

The donation marks the golden jubilee of Nilekani’s association with IIT-Bombay where he joined in 1973 for a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.

Mumbai BJP chief Ashish Shelar had written to the CM demanding an SIT probe into allegations of corruption in the BMC.

As DJ Clayton Rodrigues continues to remain in Sharjah prison after a court there sentenced him to 25 years in jail in a narcotics case last month, Mumbai police will soon file a charge-sheet mentio-ning that he was allegedly framed in the drugs case by baker Anthony Paul. Once the chargesheet is filed, a police […]

The bench was told that the Supreme Court had considered the issue in appeal against the Telangana High Court order. On March 27, the apex court upheld the Telangana HC order that set aside the RBI decision.

The order stated that the inspection revealed that IIFL had not nomenclated 26 of its 45 clients’ accounts as ‘client account’ in bank record despite issuance of a warning by BSE.

In 2022-23, the motor TP premium had gone up by 14.44 per cent to Rs 49,508 crore from Rs 43,260 crore in 2021-22. The ministry takes data provided by the Insurance Information Bureau of India (IIBI) into consideration while arriving at the Motor TP premium rates.

With the help of CCTV footage and other technical analysis, investigators traced two of the accused —Hasan Ali Zaid Ali Qureshi (31) and Ubedurehman Ikramuddin Qureshi (33)— who were arrested from Malwani and Shivaji Nagar respectively.

The entrance to the event was filled with congratulatory posters dedicated to CM Eknath Shinde for being the face of the Shiv Sena that was truly embodying the values laid by its supremo.