Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Police records 30 witnesses` statements in journalist`s murder case

Senior NCP leader Ajit Pawar said on Thursday that the issues troubling the Maharashtra Congress should get resolved as it is one of the constituents of the Maha Vikas Aghadi, and condemned the alleged attack on Congress Legislative Council member Pradnya Satav. Read more...

Police have arrested a 40-year-old man for allegedly attacking Congress MLC Pradnya Rajeev Satav in Maharashtra`s Hingoli district, an official said on Thursday.
Satav claimed an unknown person attacked her from behind on Wednesday and that there was a threat to her life. The MLC also said this was the second attack on her since November last year and she expected more security to be provided to her. (PTI)

A Congress leader and former Latur mayor has demanded the Marathwada Rail Coach Factory in the city be renamed after former Maharashtra chief minister and son-of-the-soil late Vilasrao Deshmukh. The local unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party, however, opposed the demand saying the factory has been built due to the efforts of the Union government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and that Deshmukh had no role to play. (PTI)

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday inaugurated a widened Kopri road bridge on the railway tracks in Thane district, an official said. The overbridge (ROB) has been widened to 4-plus-4 configuration from the present 2-plus-2 lanes, which would give relief to motorists using the arterial Eastern Express Highway to travel from Mumbai to Thane and beyond, as per the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA). (PTI)