The Ganeshotsav holiday compensation controversy refuses to die down even as the entire education department machinery, including the minister himself, jumped in to placate the agitated sections of the society by shifting the compensatory holidays from Christmas to Diwali.

Mumbra saw another of its buildings collapse when the five-storeyed Banoo Apartments building came crashing down at 8 am on Saturday. One person was killed, one rescued and two remained trapped under the debris.

The collapse of the Banoo Apartments building could have led to a much larger loss of life had it not been for Aslam Ansari’s family, especially his 8-year-old daughter, Asma. The first floor residents of the building woke up the rest of the residents of the building before the collapse after Asma alerted her own family.

The state government will have a proper roadmap for redeveloping all legal and illegal buildings in Thane districts, especially those in Mumbra, in the next three months, according to Thane’s guardian minister, Ganesh Naik.

After becoming an electoral candidate of the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA), senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde on Saturday expressed his desire of contesting the forthcoming MCA elections for the very first time.

The Bombay high court on Saturday observed that the convict was not heard by the trial court on the point of sentence, and set aside the death penalty imposed on Santosh Mane, a Pune bus driver, who mowed down nine persons and injured 37 in January last year.

The Santa Cruz police on Saturday arrested a 37-year-old man for allegedly raping his four-year-old neighbour while her parents were away on Thursday night. Another incident of rape was also reported in the Ghatk-opar area where a 20-year-old man was arrested for raping a 17-year-old girl, his neighbour.

Stating that doctors shouldn’t make sex determination a “business”, the Bombay high court lambasted the lawyer of a doctor, who allegedly carried out sex determination when a woman had gone in for a regular pregnancy check-up. The court also dismissed the petition and reserved its order in the plea filed by the doctor, who had pleaded that the proceedings against her in a magistrate court be quashed.

India, as you all know, is a deeply religious society. Religion is embedded in our culture, and finds expression in the myriad festivals that dot the calendar here. It means a lot to us. For starters, it means holidays.

The City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) has decided to build new railway stations in Navi Mumbai, including Bonkawade, which is the homeplace of guardian minister Ganesh Naik, and Digha. The issue was discussed at a meeting between chief minister Prithviraj Chavan and NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Friday at the Sahyadri guesthouse.