Mumbai News LIVE Updates: Hearing on Sheezan Khan`s bail plea adjourned

The Maharashtra government is planning to construct 72 hostels for students belonging to Other Backward Classes across all the 36 districts of the state, Cabinet Minister of Co-operation, OBC and Bahujan Welfare Atul Save said on Thursday. Revenue Minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil has instructed all district collectors to allot land for these proposed hostels at the earliest, he said at a press meet here in central Maharashtra. (PTI)

The Maharashtra Public Service Commission on Thursday said it was postponing the implementation of new syllabus for exams to 2025 instead of starting it from the current year. MPSC aspirants have been protesting across the state, mainly in Pune, seeking that the new syllabus be implemented from 2025. Speaking to reporters in Pune, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said students have succeeded, adding the MPSC decision is important and shows his government belongs to the common man. (PTI)

A court in Maharashtra`s Palghar district on Thursday adjourned the hearing on the bail application of TV actor Sheezan Khan, arrested in the Tunisha Sharma suicide case, to Friday. After police sought time to respond to the bail application, the Vasai sessions court adjourned the hearing. Khan, arrested for alleged abetment of his co-actor Tunisha Sharma`s suicide, is lodged in judicial custody. Khan and Sharma were allegedly in a relationship earlier but had a break-up later. His lawyer Sharad Rai said the bail application mentioned that as the charge sheet has been filed and investigation is complete, the actor can be released. Tunisha Sharma allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself on December 24, 2022, on the sets of a TV serial near Valiv in the district. (PTI)

After poet-lyricist Javed Akhtar slammed Pakistan for 26/11 terror attacks at the Faiz Festival in Lahore, Uddhav Thackeray faction leader Sanjay Raut praised Akhtar on Thursday and said that President Droupadi Murmu and PM Narendra Modi should felicitate him: ANI