Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Indian Railways to hike fares from July 1

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Fadnavis slams Rahul over vote theft claim; Sapkal seeks CM`s resignation
BJP and Congress leaders in Maharashtra on Tuesday engaged in a war of words over Rahul Gandhi`s voter list manipulation allegations, with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis accusing the Congress MP of lying and "shooting arrows blindly" due to the party`s "humiliating defeat" in the state, PTI reported. State Congress chief Harshwardhan Sapkal alleged that the voter count in CM Fadnavis` Nagpur South constituency increased by eight per cent in a matter of five months, and demanded his resignation by dubbing it as an "electoral fraud".

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Maharashtra cabinet gives green light to 800-km Shaktipeeth Expressway
The Maharashtra cabinet on Tuesday approved the allocation of Rs 20,787 crore for the ambitious `Maharashtra Shaktipeeth Expressway` which will pass through 12 districts, linking eastern Maharashtra with southern Konkan. The 802-km expressway will link Pavnar in Wardha district with Patradevi on Maharashtra-Goa border in Sindhudurg district, and is expected to cut the travel time between Nagpur and Goa from current 18 hours to eight hours, officials said, according to PTI.

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: E-commerce, market-driven lifestyle are damaging human relationships, says RSS leader Hosabale
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale on Tuesday said e-commerce and market-driven lifestyle were weakening social bonds and altering the fundamentals of human relationships, reported PTI. Speaking at a discussion here on the book `Integral Humanism: A Distinct Paradigm of Development` by Ashok Modak, published by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, Hosabale said, "A market-based, government-oriented life is damaging for society. E-commerce is a glaring example. It has reduced relationships to mere transactions."

Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Informers who take risks to provide information about tax evaders must be rewarded fairly, says HC
Informers who take risks to provide credible information to government authorities based on which tax evaders are brought to book should be rewarded fairly as per the government scheme, the Bombay High Court said on Tuesday, PTI reported. A bench of Justices M S Sonak and Jitendra Jain ordered the Maharashtra government to pay an interim reward of Rs 19 lakh to a 76-year-old man who had been providing information about sales tax evaders since 1992. Full story here