As the matter came to light, Fadnavis got up and tendered an unconditional apology to the House and the members for the gaffe which he termed as "a very serious issue."

NCP leaders Praful Patel and D P Tripathi and former MP Ram Jethmalani were also present. The Trinamool Congress deputed Trivedi, former railway minister, for the march.

The pilot, on noticing that there was a cable wire in the vicinity of the school ground where the helicopter carrying Fadnavis was to land, took it up again, police said.

To justify his contention, Ambedkar pointed to a Facebook post of one Raosaheb Patil, who Ambedkar claims is a "close aide" of Sambhaji V. Bhide, President of Shri Shiv Pratisthan Hindustan.

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis chose not to commit the mistake done by his counterpart in neighbouring Gujarat, where police took action against Dalits, and this gave rise to emergence of local Dalit leaders.

Fadnavis said his government will soon approach the Bombay High Court, asking it to name a sitting judge to probe the January 1 violence at Bhima-Koregaon in Pune district.

The violence sparked off protests in various parts of the state today, including in Mumbai where protesters staged a rail roko in Chembur.

On Tuesday afternoon, thousands of Dalits took to the streets of Mumbai demanding action against the perpetrators of the Pune riots.

A fire that started at a rooftop pub hosting a birthday party spread rapidly through the building, killing 14 people, most of them women, shortly after midnight in a posh Mumbai locality.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’s wife Amruta was trolled on Tuesday for promoting a Christian-related charity event.

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) owes "additional surcharge" of more than Rs 1,900 crore to state- run agency MMRDA for delay in development of plots in Mumbai.

Indian Army will help build a new foot overbridge at the Elphinstone Road station in Mumbai, where a deadly stampede killed 23 people last month.

The counting of votes is underway for the Nanded Municipal Corporation polls which was held on Wednesday.

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis today visited the State Disaster Management Control (SDMC) room and took stock of the flood situation in Mumbai.

The development comes a day after Fadnavis announced a probe by Lokayukta against Housing Minister Prakash Mehta, who has been accused by the opposition of impropriety in a slum redevelopment project here. He belongs to the BJP.

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis today said around 36 lakh farmers in the state will get complete loan waiver.

Earlier in May, Fadnavis had a narrow escape after a helicopter that he boarded for his return to Mumbai from Latur met with an accident and fell to the ground seconds after taking off.

According to the CM, the waiver will help all debt-ridden farmers and small and marginal ones entirely. He also said that the loan waiver will put a burden on the state treasury.

The farm loan waiver will put an additional burden of at least Rs 30,000 crore on the state exchequer in Maharashtra.

Farmer leader and Lok Sabha member Raju Shetti, who participated in the talks, said he was happy that their demands had been met.