Maharashtra

Palghar, Jul 11 (PTI) A major portion of a bridge across a river was washed away on Thursday following heavy rains in Maharashtra's Palghar district, officials said.

No casualty was reported in the incident, district disaster management cell chief Vivekananda Kadam said.

The bridge was located over a small river at Morchundi village in Mokhada taluka, he said.

Mumbai, Jul 10 (PTI) Karnataka minister D K Shivakumar was taken into custody by Mumbai police outside the luxury hotel where rebel MLAs from his state are lodged.

Fomer Union minister Milind Deora and former Maharashtra minister Naseem Khan, who had arrived to meet Shivakumar, were also detained, an official said.

Shivakumar was almost pulled out by police while he was being interviewed by a TV channel.

The three leaders were taken to the BKC police guest house, the official said.

Mumbai, Jul 10 (PTI) High drama was witnessed outside a hotel here on Wednesday as senior Congress leader and Karnataka Water Resources Minister D K Shivakumar was prevented from entering the premises where the rebel MLAs are stationed.

Shivakumar, who was accompanied by senior JD(S) MLAs, told reporters that he had booked a room in the hotel but was not being permitted inside.

Thane, Jul 8 (PTI) Two women corporators of the BJP from the Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) in Thane district of Maharashtra came to blows at a function here on Sunday.

A video of the incident purportedly shows the two women charging at each other following some provocation at the function for distribution of umbrellas to the needy.

The women have been identified as corporators Geeta Jain and Rupali Shinde, both from the BJP, sources said.

Mumbai,July 7; GANASHAKTI: The political drama unfolding in Karnataka has now crossed state borders with Congress and JD(S) rebel legislators landing in Mumbai. At around 8.35 pm on Saturday, nine Congress and JD(S) MLAs arrived at Sofitel Hotel in Mumbai's Bandra Kurla Complex.

Mumbai, Jul 7 (PTI) Villagers in Ahmednagar in Maharashtra Sunday observed a spontaneous shutdown protesting against the rape of a 50-year-old woman earlier in the week, police said.

The woman was raped and then threatened by one Gorakh Shingte on Wednesday in Karjat village of the district, over 260 kilometres from here, an official said.

Thane, Jul 6 (PTI) A court in Thane district has sentenced a plastic bag manufacturer to two years of rigorous imprisonment in a 15-year-old power theft case.

In the order passed recently, District Judge P P Jadhav also imposed a fine of Rs 1.26 crore on Abutalib Shamshuddin Khan (57). If he fails to pay the fine amount, he will have to undergo additional one year of simple imprisonment.

Thane, Jul 5 (PTI) Three members of a family in Kalyan in Thane district were booked for allegedly throwing out a pregnant woman from their home over unfulfilled dowry demands, an official said Friday.

The victim had married Satya Sonar in September last year and she has told police that the latter, along with his mother Parasakti and brother Kartik Sonar, were harassing her for Rs 1 lakh dowry, the official said.

Mumbai, Jul 4 (PTI) Banks have reported a massive 73 percent increase in incidents of fraud worth Rs 71,543 crore in FY19, a senior Reserve Bank official said Thursday.

Till March 2019, the top five, 10 and 100 cases of frauds cumulatively reported constituted 24 percent, 34 percent and 70 percent of all frauds, respectively, a chief general manager with the RBI Jayant Dash said.

In FY18, the banks had reported frauds worth Rs 41,167 crore, he added.

Mumbai, Jul 4 (PTI) As Rahul Gandhi reached a court here to appear before it in a defamation case, many Congress supporters gathered outside shouted slogans, asking him to rescind his resignation as the party chief.

Across the road from the metropolitan court building, around 150 Congress supporters held placards and shouted slogans asking Gandhi to take back his resignation as the party's president.

Congress workers also shouted similar slogans outside Mumbai airport when Gandhi landed here this morning.