Maharashtra News LIVE Updates: IMD downgrades rainfall alert from `orange` to `red`

Rain relief for Mumbai, IMD downgrades `red` alert to `orange`

After four days of downpour, Mumbai got a respite from heavy showers on Friday as normal life got back on track, while the Met office downgraded the rainfall alert to `orange` for the day from `red` earlier.

Not just cause split, BJP wants to destroy Shiv Sena, claims Sanjay Raut

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Rauthit out at the BJP, saying it does not want to just engineer a split in the party, but intends to altogether finish the regional outfit to realise its dream of "breaking" Maharashtra into three parts.

10 newly-elected MLCs take oath in Maharashtra

All the ten newly-elected members of the Maharashtra Legislative Council, including Chairman Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar, took the oath. The members were administered oath of office by Deputy Chairperson of the Upper House Neelam Gorhe in the Vidhan Bhavan complex in south Mumbai.

Pravin Darekar newly elected MLC at Vidhan Bhavan. Pic/Sameer Abedi