Mumbai News LIVE Updates: The ongoing political tussle over reservations in Maharashtra escalated sharply on Friday as senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Maharashtra Minister Chhagan Bhujbal issued a fierce warning to his own MahaYuti government against encroaching upon Other Backward Classes (OBC) quotas. This LIVE blog is now closed

Mumbai LIVE Updates: A special court has allowed Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal and his son Pankaj to extend their international travel after their passports were damaged in a fire at the Enforcement Directorate's Mumbai office in April. In their plea, the father-son duo stated that the damage required them to urgently apply for new tatkal passports. Both are currently out on bail in a money laundering case and, as per Bombay High Court directives, must seek permission from the PMLA trial court for any foreign travel. We are closing the LIVE blog now