Omkar Pawar

From an investment banker to a strawberry farmer, Maharashtra candidates from varied backgrounds cracked the UPSC finals, the results of which were declared on Monday evening.

Aspirants from the rural areas of the Kolhapur and Satara districts have done very well in the civil services exam conducted by the Union Public Services Commission (UPSC), the results for which were declared on Monday.

A sessions court refused to grant bail to a man arrested last month for deliberately setting the video-conference department of Girgaon magistrate court on fire on June 19.

A 21-year old student who failed his first year of a homeopathy course was arrested on Sunday. He was earlier booked on charges of extortion, criminal intimidation and cheating after he pestered his girlfriend

A 24-year-old gold medallist in wrestling who has represented for University of Mumbai is among those who was on the ill-fated bus which fell into a gorge at Khopoli on Saturday. The wrestler, omkar pawar who is from Khopoli, has sustained multiple injuries and has been admitted to the intensive care unit at MGM Hospital, Kamothe.

A 20-year-old youth from Kalwa died on Monday after a woman squeezed his testicles until he collapsed. The incident took place following a tiff between the victim and the woman.

On April 28, omkar pawar may have had no clue when he gave Rising Pune Supergiant pacer Jaydev Unadkat tips for taking a hat-trick during a meet-and-greet programme in Pune.

Police said bus driver Mahesh Pujari (35) had taken a wrong and illegal exit from the Mumbai-Pune Expressway to go to the old Mumbai-Pune highway to drop two members of the group in Khopoli township while driving from Pune to Mumbau with a troupe of dhol tasha musicians.

After spending almost two years in jail following his arrest for allegedly deliberately setting the video-conference department of Girgaon magistrate court on fire, a sessions court recently acquitted 22-year-old Girgaon student after the investigating officer could not identify the accused as the same person who appeared in the CCTV footage procured from the premises.

The Kerala flood waters are receding, but the situation is still far from being under control. The state is facing shortage of daily necessities like food, medication and toiletries even as various organisations and volunteers have joined forces to help in the relief work in God’s Own Country. Among these are students from the city who are lending a hand in helping Kerala recover from the massive loss. While some are pooling resources and arranging for the daily necessities, others are in the affected state to contribute in on-ground work. We spoke to a few students who are in Kerala about the situation and their work.

With the Maharashtra government softening its norms under the Right to Education Act (RTE), 2009, 77 city schools can now heave a sigh of relief.

Several state transport buses commenced their journey on Sunday with revellers chanting "Ganpati Bappa Morya" as they headed for the ten-day Ganpati festival, that begins on Wednesday, to the Konkan.