Centre asks Maharashtra and Karnataka to form ministerial team to address border issue
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday asked Karnataka and Maharashtra to form a six-member team with ministers from both states to address boundary issues.
At a meeting with Maharashtra Chief Ministers Eknath Shinde and his Karnataka counterpart Basavaraj Bommai, he also said the boundary dispute cannot be settled on the streets but only through constitutional means.
Shah had called the chief ministers of the two states after violence flared up in the border region where Maharashtra has staked claim on 865 Marathi-speaking villages in Karnataka.
Maha: Two killed in tiger attacks in Chandrapur district
Two persons were killed in separate incidents of tiger attack in eastern Maharashtra's Chandrapur district on Wednesday, forest officials said.
As many as 49 persons have died in `man-animal conflicts' in the district since the start of the year, said a senior forest official of Chandrapur Circle.
The district is home to the Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve.
Baburao Kamble, a 65-year-old farmer, was killed in Rudrapur vilage in Saoli tehsil while he was on his way to his farm on Wednesday morning.
Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde arrives in Delhi, to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah today
Maha-K'taka-border-row: After K'taka, dispute may escalate between Maharashtra and TelanganaÂ
After the Maharashtra-Karnataka border row, a Maharashtra-Telangana border dispute may escalate as 14 villages of Chandrapur district in the western state bordering the Telugu one, have expressed interest to join the latter alleging continuous neglect and lack of development by the former. Although, all these 14 villages--geographically located in remote Jivati tehsil of Chandrapur district--are part of Maharashtra the dependence of these villages is more on Telangana.
These 14 hamlets have lagged behind in development due to the government's negligence and lack of developmental projects. The villages have to struggle for basic facilities like roads and water; because of this, the local people resent the Maharashtra government.
Award for translation of Ghandy's book would have meant govt's approval for Naxal movement: Maha minister, defends roll back
Maharashtra minister Deepak Kesarkar on Wednesday defended the state government's decision to reverse the award for the Marathi translation of former Maoist ideologue Kobad Ghandy's memoir, saying giving the prize would have meant the government's "stamp of approval" for Naxalism.
A row has erupted after the state government rolled back the decision of a selection committee and withdrew the Late Yashwantrao Chavan Literature Award 2021 for Anagha Lele for her translation of Ghandy's "Fractured Freedom: A Prison Memoir", six days after announcing the prize on December 6.
Fake call centre selling Viagra located in Gorai busted by Borivali police
Maha: Cops save man who jumped in creek in Thane district
NCB busts inter-state drug trafficking syndicate, arrests five
Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Mumbai has busted an inter-state drug trafficking syndicate supplying drugs in Dharavi, Mumbai. Five persons have also been arrested in a well-coordinated operation conducted over four days, as informed by the NCB.
A total of illicitly diverted 1407 CBCS bottles (140 kgs) and 6000 Nitrazepam tablets (3.6 kgs) were seized from Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai in multiple on-field operations, confirmed by the NCB.
NCB had information from internal sources that a Mumbai-based syndicate was actively involved in the inter-state trafficking of illicitly diverted pharmaceutical drugs.
We are having 1st G20 meeting in Mumbai from Dec 13-16 and for that elaborate security and traffic arrangements have been made. We are also ensuring that these arrangements do not cause any inconvenience to the public: Vivek Phansalkar, Mumbai CP
Man dumped by wife made death threats to Sharad Pawar, arrested
A person named Narayankumar Soni - who called up the home of Nationalist Congress Party President Sharad Pawar and issued repeated threats to kill him for not helping resolve his domestic brawls - has been arrested from Bihar, police officials said here on Wednesday.
The accused Narayankumar Soni is reportedly said to be 'mentally disturbed' after his wife deserted him a few years ago and got married to another man. Soni apparently nursed a grudge against Pawar for not helping resolve his domestic problems.
RPF Constable Tejaram of #Vasai post jumped in to save an old female passenger and a young girl.The RPF constable pulled them away from moving train after they slipped and fell on the platform while boarding the local on December 12 around 9.12 pm.
Thane sees four new COVID-19 cases; active tally at 29
Thane district of Maharashtra has reported four new coronavirus-positive cases, taking its overall infection tally to 7,47,377, a health official said on Wednesday.
These cases were reported on Tuesday and the active infection count in the district is 29 now, he said.
The death toll remained unchanged at 11,967 as nobody succumbed to the infection during the day, while the recovery count has reached 7,36,146, the official added. (PTI)
The first meeting of the Development Working Group of #G20 begins in Mumbai. The meeting started with a video message by Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra: G20 India
Traffic congestion near Vashi toll; commuters plan your travel accordingly
Air Quality Index of the most significant places across the city
Traffic on Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road near Oberoi School; commuters please plan your travel accordingly
Former corporators seek CM intervention in BMC functioning
Around 94 former corporators from the Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Samajwadi Party and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) have written to Chief Minister Mr Eknath Shinde seeking his intervention on the lack of transparency and financial mismanagement in the BMC under state-appointed administrator and civic chief Mr Iqbal Singh Chahal.
A letter alleges that officials are being put under pressure by higher authorities and cites the latest internal transfers of various employees as an example of the same.
According to Mr Ravi Raja, former Leader of Opposition in the BMC, no tenders were invited and contracts were awarded directly for the ongoing beautification works for the G-20 presidency meet.
