Bharat Shinde

Wadi police have booked assistant police inspector (API) bharat shinde and his mother for abetting his wife Vidya Shinde, 23, to commit suicide a year ago.

Illegal farming and water pollution are some of the challenges being faced by the state forest department for protecting the Nandur Madhyameshwar wetland — first Ramsar Site in Maharashtra.

The Sangli police arrested homeopath Babasaheb Appasaheb Khidrapure (42) from Miraj in the wee hours of Tuesday in connection with the death of a pregnant woman during an abortion at his hospital and the subsequent recovery of 19 aborted fetuses wrapped in polythene bags near a stream in village Mhaisal, 20km from the Maharashtra-Karnataka border, on Sunday.

The standing committee of the Kolhapur Municipal Corporation on Saturday approved the proposal to sack bharat shinde, the programme coordinator for poor implementation of the state-sponsored Nagarrothan scheme.

Saying that “when there is a breach of fundament right, liability to pay compensation is absolute and so the respondents cannot escape from such liability under any ground,” the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has directed the Karnataka police to compensate Rs 50, 000 for illegally detaining a man.

The four-day-long Mata Mahakali festival kicked off with great fanfare at the Mata Mahakali temple on Saturday. The festival was inaugurated in presence of minister for food and drug administration Sanjay Rathod in a programme organised at the temple.

Minutes after three were acquitted in murder case, angry villagers set ablaze three houses and a car and ransacked a restaurant, belonging to them.

The Maharashtra Eco-tourism Development Board (MEDB) has approved funds amounting to Rs 15 crore to boost tourism at the Nandur Madhyameshwar wetland, which is Maharashtra’s first Ramsar site located around 20 km from Nashik city.

The Sangli police on Thursday claimed to have identified the agents who used to take pregnant women to the three arrested doctors, including homeopath Babasaheb Khidrapure, for sex determination tests as well as sex selective abortions.

Police have recovered 15 computers and chairs, worth around Rs 4 lakh from the gang.

PUNE: With Shiv Sena, BJP, NCP and Congress having released their early list of candidates for the state assembly elections, rebels have begun to surface in western Maharashtra, stepping up the pace in the build-up to the elections.

The Bombay high court has granted conditional bail to one of the accused in the murder of Mangesh alias Bunty Dnyaneshwar Walunj, the Maval taluka president of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena. The murder, which took place during grampanchayat elections in Kamshet on August 4, 2015, was a fallout of rivalry between two groups.

Former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Anil Kakodkar, musician Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Marathi poet Namdev Dhasal, actor Ashok Saraf and environmentalist Madhav Gadgil have been named recipients of the University of Pune's 'Jeevan Sadhana Gaurav' awards this year.

Municipal commissioner Vijayalakshami Bidari on Tuesday slapped a show cause notice on civic body standing committee chairman Ramesh Powar, seeking his response to why he had allegedly manhandled executive engineer bharat shinde on November 20.

Former Mumbai wicketkeeper and coach Sulakshan Kulkarni on Monday thanked ex-India skipper Dilip Vengsarkar after slamming a ton at 47 in a 'B' Division game of the Kanga League.

The Sion railway overbridge closure for demolition and rebuilding has caused significant traffic jams in Mumbai, affecting commuters, residents, and students. Motorists were unprepared for the closure, leading to chaos and longer commutes. Concerns are rising over the two-year closure period, with authorities criticized for timing the closure during the rainy season.

Raids by the State Human Rights Commission last year revealed that many of the centres have been flouting the guidelines framed by the social justice and empowerment department under the Integrated Rehabilitation Centre for Addicts (IRCA).