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Fadnavis backs FDA crackdown, says 'this action will continue'

MUMBAI, Aug. 19 -- Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis is standing solidly behind Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner Tukaram Mundhe, whose sweeping crackdown on food safety violations has be... Read More


Law to be in effect from Aug 28

MUMBAI, Aug. 19 -- The state government has announced that it will bring into force the Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Act from August 28, coinciding with Raksha Bandhan. A notification to this effec... Read More


Pune cops withdraw FRA sections as law not in force

Pune, Aug. 19 -- Pune Police have withdrawn sections of the Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Act invoked in two cases after realising that the legislation is not yet in force, commissioner Amitesh Kuma... Read More


No bribe bid found: CBI report against ROC official

MUMBAI, Aug. 19 -- A Mumbai special court has accepted the CBI's closure report in a 2024 bribery case against then Registrar of Companies (ROC) official for want of evidence after the agency found no... Read More


HC cancels Luthra brothers' bail

Panaji, Aug. 19 -- The Bombay high court at Goa on Tuesday cancelled the bail granted to the owners of Birch by Romeo Lane, a nightclub in North Goa where a massive fire claimed 25 lives late last yea... Read More


Real Sena battle: Defection not to be rewarded: Uddhav to SC

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- The Uddhav Thackeray-led faction of the Shiv Sena told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that the Election Commission's (EC) determination as to which group constitutes the political ... Read More


SC: Hanging a valid execution method

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to issue any judicial mandate for replacing hanging with another "less painful or humane" method of execution, holding that no case had been... Read More


court calls pharmacist's murder a 'terrorist act'

MUMBAI, Aug. 19 -- The 2022 murder of Amravati veterinary medical shop owner Umesh Kolhe was intended to strike terror among people who supported former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma and therefore amo... Read More


Goa seeks life term for Tejpal, moves SC

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- The Goa government on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking enhancement of former Tehelka editor Tarun Tejpal's 10-year jail term to life imprisonment, contending that the mini... Read More


Our Fight to deal with terror will continue: MEA

New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- India on Tuesday said it will continue to act against all forms of terror, including cross-border terrorism, in the wake of Pakistan dismissing the busting of an ISI-backed terro... Read More