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HC stays closure of 757 schools in western Maha

MUMBAI, May 31 -- The Bombay High Court has stayed the proposed closure of 757 aided and unaided schools across western Maharashtra, observing that the state government acted in violation of the princ... Read More


Jarange-Patil begins indefinite hunger strike

MUMBAI, May 31 -- Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange-Patil sat in a field under the scorching sun on Saturday, launching his indefinite hunger strike to push the state government to meet his demands... Read More


Demand for Mhada flats halves in 2 yrs

Mumbai, May 31 -- Going by the number of applications received this year for flats developed by the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada), the demand has nearly halved compared to... Read More


Tanpure switches from NCP (SP) to BJP; Tope next?

MUMBAI, May 31 -- In a setback to the Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP), former minister Prajakt Tanpure (49) joined the BJP in Mumbai on Saturday. He is likely to be rewarded with the party's candidature for... Read More


Uran braces for another water crunch

URAN, May 31 -- Uran's water worries are back. With storage in the Ransai dam, the taluka's primary source of drinking and industrial water, falling to 86 feet and the monsoon yet to deliver meaningfu... Read More


CEC defends SIR exercise, says it produced 'purest' electoral rolls

New Delhi, May 31 -- Chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said on Saturday that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls had produced the world's accurate voter lists, dismissing O... Read More


Degree colleges in Mumbai release second merit list, cut-offs drop

MUMBAI, May 31 -- Colleges affiliated to the University of Mumbai released their second general merit list for admission to first-year degree programmes on Saturday, bringing relief to students scorin... Read More


5,929 kg methanol seized in Bhiwandi

Pune, May 31 -- The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday seized nearly 5,929 kg of toxic methanol from a Bhiwandi-based company, Rex International, which allegedly supplied the c... Read More


22 policemen, excise officials suspended over hooch deaths

Pune, May 31 -- A day after the hooch tragedy claimed 16 lives, as many as 22 officials from the Pune city police, Pimpri-Chinchwad police and state excise department were suspended for alleged neglig... Read More


'Methanol, ethanol slip behind hooch deaths'

PUNE, May 31 -- Investigators probing Pune's hooch tragedy suspect that a fatal mix-up between methanol and ethanol may have triggered one of the region's deadliest incidents of illicit liquor poisoni... Read More