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As heavy rainfall pounded Mumbai and the city continued to reel under severe water-logging, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday took note of the situation and said that he had directed the officials to keep emergency services on alert. Read more on Dynamite News:

The India Meteorological Department issued a nowcast warning for Maharashtra’s Pune, Satara, Solapur, Sangli and Kolhapur districts, predicting moderate to intense rainfall at isolated places in next 3 to 4 hours.

MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena has urged governor B S Koshyari not to "reward" MLAs against whom disqualification proceedings are pending with ministerial berths or remunerative posts as it "would be totally destructive of the Constitutional scheme".

MUMBAI: Despite a near-200% jump in the civic health budget over a decade, a sizeable gap has remained in the city's primary health system. Mumbai is short of 659 public dispensaries and suffers from a 30% staff shortage in 187 existing centres, states NGO Praja Foundation's white paper on the…

MUMBAI: The Jayant Kumar Banthia Commission has recommended a maximum 27% reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in local body polls. "The reservation should be given in proportion to their population in each local body without affecting statutory reservation for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, and subject to the overall…

MUMBAI: Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday cited the party’s support to Pratibha Patil and Pranab Mukherjee to back the presidential nominee of a different political formation. “When Pratibha Patil’s name came up, Sena chief Balasaheb Thackeray had backed her, going beyond party politics.

MUMBAI: A delayed rescue operation in inclement weather may have cost four lives after a Pawan Hans helicopter made an emergency landing near an ONGC rig last month, reports Manju V. When the chopper landed off Mumbai High on a rough sea, the occupants managed to unfasten seat belts, open…

MUMBAI: A day after 12 out of Shiv Sena’s 19 Lok Sabha MPs demanded the party support Droupadi Murmu for the presidential poll, Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray announced his support for the BJP-led NDA nominee. He claimed there was “no truth” to reports about pressure from his MPs and said…

MUMBAI: The country's current account deficit is likely to touch $105 billion or 3 per cent of the GDP this fiscal, mainly due to continuously widening trade deficit, according to a report.