Mumbai News LIVE Updates: BJP strangling democracy by finishing off opposition parties: Patole

Mumbai Live News Updates: The office of the Ajit Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Party will be inaugurated in Thane on July 22 as part of birthday celebrations of the newly-appointed Maharashtra deputy chief minister. Former Thane Municipal Corporation corporator Najeeb Mulla said a rally will also be organised on that day.

Mumbai Live News Updates: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar on Thursday appointed Narendra Rane as Mumbai`s Working President of the party. Pawar handed over the appointment letter to Rane and also congratulated him.

Mumbai Live News Updates: Students of a Zilla Parishad school in Ahmedpur tehsil of Maharashtra`s Latur district staged a sit-in agitation here over the shortage of teachers. The ZP-run school at Andhori village has 213 students in classes 1 to 9 but only five teachers against the sanctioned strength of ten, said some parents during the agitation in front of the Zilla Parishad building here on Wednesday.

Mumbai Live News Updates: Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday demanded a probe to find out how money collected under the PM CARES Fund, set up during the coronavirus pandemic, was utilised. If any corruption has taken place in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which was ruled by the undivided Shiv Sena for more than two decades, then probe it, but also inquire into the work done by states during the pandemic, he said.