1. Maharashtra Farmers Warn Of Intensified Stir, Including Rail And Road Blockades
Virtually rejecting Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis' assurance on farm loan waiver, Maharashtra farmer leaders on Thursday issued a two-day ultimatum to the government to accept their demands, failing which they will intensify their stir with blockades of rail tracks and roads.
If the government failed to heed our demands, farmers will on Monday (June 12) take out 'morchas' (protest marches) to the respective collectorates and government offices in all districts, followed by statewide railway and road blockades on Tuesday (June 13), farmer leaders warned in Nashik.
They also plan a 'Maharashtra shutdown' on Monday, lockdown of several government offices and demonstrations outside offices of ministers and legislators.
The Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana indicated the party will soon walk out of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance in Maharashtra.
Source: IANS
2. Each Unit In Cessed Bldg Could Fetch You A Flat In New Redevelopment Plan
Earlier, MHADA would allot just one flat irrespective of no. of units; builders to get higher FSI.
The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) has worked out a proposal which will benefit both tenants and builders alike: incentivising the redevelopment of cessed buildings in the island city.
A proposal sent by MHADA to the state government states that if a tenant holds more than one room in a cessed building, the housing body proposes to award every tenant a tenement of 300 sq ft per flat held.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
3. Thane: Two-hour Search For 'Girl Lying Near Tracks' Yields No 'Body'
The stationmaster at Dombivli along with the Government Railway Police (GRP) and a few other staffers spent more than two hours on Wednesday walking 3km back and forth looking for an unidentified girl who was supposedly lying on the tracks between Dombivli and Thakurli, but could find no trace of her. They finally had to conclude that the information they received may have been correct, but the girl may have walked away as her injuries were not serious.
According to sources from Dombivli railway station, around 7.30pm a guard travelling on a Kalyan-CST local informed the stationmaster at Dombivli about a girl lying near the tracks between Thakurli and Dombivli station. Soon after the call, the assistant stationmaster along with a few other staffers, including four coolies left to search for her with two large torches.
Source: Mid-day
4. Mumbai: HSC Topper Stole Bikes To Fund Drug Habit
Addicted to drugs, a former HSC topper and son of a doctor turned to stealing bikes to fund his habit. Jaykishan Omprakash Singh (now 23) was caught by the police on Monday.
Singh was detained by the cops when he was spotted by a patrolling van taking away a bike. "We detained him when he had no proper answers to our questions," said an officer from MIDC police station.
When he was questioned, he revealed that he was stealing the bike. The police then informed his father, who had a shocking tale to narrate.
Source: Mid-day
5. Cash For Favours: 9 Cops Suspended From Two Prisons
Five months after Mumbai Mirror reported a sting operation by a student that exposed how cops took cash from prisoners’ kin in exchange for favours, nine policemen from Kalyan and Taloja jails suspended.
Nine policemen have been suspended after a sting operation conducted in January by a student revealed how cops accepted bribes from prisoners’ kin in jails across the city. In a front-page report on January 2, Mumbai Mirror had reported how cops were caught on tape taking money in exchange for arranging meetings with prisoners, allowing home food, arranging hospital visits and other such favours. The total number of suspensions now stands at 17, as eight policemen had already been suspended in January.
Source: Mumbai Mirror
6. Ignoring BJP, Shiv Sena Rejects Proposal To Change Land Use Of Aarey Plot
The love-hate relationship between the Shiv Sena and the BJP is unlikely to be over anytime soon. In a civic improvements committee meeting yesterday, even before BJP corporators could speak to support the proposal of change in land use of a 33-hectare plot in Aarey, Sena corporators rejected it.
The proposal was about giving an NOC to the UDD, which had issued the notification for changing the land use (reservation) of the plot from a no-development zone to a development zone to enable a Metro carshed to come up there.
Source: Mid-day
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