Tamilisai Soundararajan, former head of Tamil Nadu state BJP wing appointed as the governor of Telangana. Doctor by profession Tamilisai was born in a political family on 2nd June 1961. Her father was congress party leader and Member of Parliament. She passed her medical study from Chennai Medical College and also MD from Chennai Dr […]
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UPDATE: Justice Kotwal, judge of Bombay High Court clarifies that he did not refer to Leo Tolstoy book but the book of Biswajit Roy which is War & Peace in Junglemahal: People, State, and Maoists. People on twitter misunderstood the judge statement War and Peace, a classic novel by Leo Tolstoy written in the year
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The apex court’s order directing the Medical Council of India to hold the National Entrance and Eligibility Test (NEET) from this year itself has put hundreds of medical aspirants from Maharashtra and other states in a fix. They are supposed to prepare for an exam which is not only based on a different syllabus, but
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After Nana Patekar and Aamir Khan, actor Akshay Kumar has come forward to do his bit for the drought affected areas of Maharashtra, which is reeling under one of the worst droughts in recent years. The Khiladi donated Rs 50 lakhs towards the state-led initiative, Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyaan, that aims at making villages drought-proof by
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ON WEDNESDAY, 76-year-old Nagappa Narsingappa Lamzane, a resident of Prakash Nagar in Maharashtra’s Latur district, walked two kilometres in the summer heat to turn up at a well, metres from the Latur railway station. “They should fill this well up to the brim. Our eyes will then well up with tears,” he said, turning emotional
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The Indian cricket board, BCCI, has said that it won’t be easy to move out games from Maharashtra midway through the tournament in response to the Bombay high court order of shifting 13 matches from the drought-hit state. The high court on Wednesday asked the BCCI to shift all the IPL matches after April 30
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The Maharashtra Legislative Council on Monday unanimously cleared the bill to regulate dance bars in Mumbai and the rest of the state without even discussing its details. Following its clearance by the Upper House, the bill will now be introduced in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, where it is likely to be passed without much
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A special train carrying around five lakh litres of water for parched Latur in Maharashtra’s Marathwada region, that is battling the worst drought ever, reached on Tuesday morning. The water train with 10 wagons left from Miraj in western Maharashtra at around 11 am on Monday and reached Latur at 5 am on Tuesday, taking
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The Trimbakeshwar Temple authorities have gone back on their April 3 resolution wherein they decided to ban entry of men too into the core worship area at the famous Lord Shiva shrine here. A meeting of the Trimbakeshwar Devasthan Trust held here yesterday cancelled its earlier resolution restricting entry of males into the ‘garbhgriha’ (sanctum
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Dwaraka-Sharda Peeth Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati has blamed the worship of the “unworthy” Shirdi Sai Baba by his followers responsible for a drought-like situation in Maharashtra. The seer, who is known for his bitter opposition to Shirdi’s Sai Baba, has made this remark on a fortnight-long visit to Haridwar. According to Dwaraka seer, worshipping Sai
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MNS Chief Raj Thackeray on Saturday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of “betraying the trust” and dared the Shiv Sena to quit the BJP-led government which, he claimed, wasn’t giving due credit to the Uddhav Thackeray-led party. “Which PM undertook so many foreign trips? Where are the ‘achche din’,” Raj asked at a
The Board of Control for Cricket in India continues to find itself in choppy waters. Facing an existential crisis in the Supreme Court vis-a-vis implementing the Justice Lodha panel recommendations, another hurdle now confronts the beleaguered body, threatening to affect the IPL. Hearing a PIL filed by an NGO against wastage of water during IPL
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Indian Railways will transport water to drought-affected areas in the country, said an official statement from the Railway Ministry, issued on Friday. Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu has directed the railway administration to make necessary arrangements in this regard in Maharashtra, the statement added. Rlys will transport 2750000 litres/rake drinking water in the drought-affected areas
Giving a new impetus to campaign for gender equality, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday observed that if men are allowed in a place of worship, then women too should be permitted. “No law prevents women from entering a place of worship,” the court observed, even as it came down heavily on the Maharashtra government
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The wife of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday slammed senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh for making “baseless allegations” after he levelled “nepotism” charges against her husband over a state agency’s order asking developers to open accounts in a private bank where she works. “Singh is using a woman’s shoulders for his political target. Doing
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On the lines of the Centre’s Stand Up India programme, the state is set to come up with a comprehensive policy to facilitate and promote entrepreneurship among Maharashtra’s scheduled caste (SC) and scheduled tribe (ST) communities. The decision comes ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s formal inauguration of the Stand Up India scheme on April
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Congress leader and lawmaker from the parched Latur city constituency Amit Desmukh has been reportedly missing from his assembly constituency for the past week. This is at a time when the area is reeling under a severe water crisis, with drinking water being supplied to the residents at a shocking interval of 40 days, that
Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s aggressive posture against Vinayak Damodar Savarkar has sent worries amongst many of party’s senior leaders, who are asking the top brass to show caution, because of public sentiments in Maharashtra. Though, Savarkar was not a member of RSS, Rahul and his team are using him to take on the BJP and
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The Advocate General of Maharashtra Shreehari Aney submitted his resignation on Tuesday morning. His resignation comes after he received flak for publicly raising a demand for Vidarbha’s statehood. On Sunday while attending a public function to distribute relief to drought-hit farmers, Mr. Aney flagged out a demand for a separate Vidarbha and also said that
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The National Investigating Agency (NIA) which is probing a case relating to an ISIS module in India has detained a youth from Hooghly. According to ANI report, the man, identified as Ashiq Ahammed is from Hooghly. He will be produced before NIA court in New Delhi today. in February this year, NIA had busted in
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After a 10-year hiatus, dance bars are set to reopen in Mumbai and Maharashtra state with activists warning women and girls could be trafficked and abused in these venues but bar owners arguing this is legitimate, needed work. Maharashtra in 2005 suspended the licences of hundreds of bars and hotels that featured skimpily dressed women
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When Services did the lap of honour to acknowledge and appreciate the presence of a huge turnout at the Railways Stadium on Sunday, they were joined by a handful of their supporters. It was such a day. It was such a match. One where fortunes fluctuated every moment of the first half. In a high
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal is likely to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) today for questioning in the money laundering case filed against his family related to Maharashtra Sadan scam. Speaking to ANI, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kirit Somaiya said that Bhujbal’s questioning will now bring everything out in
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Lalu Prasad’s son and deputy Bihar Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav has hit out at Raj Thackeray over his remarks on non-Marathis getting autorickshaw permits in Maharashtra. Thackeray, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief, had yesterday asked his partymen to burn auto-rickshaws of non-Marathis. Reacting sharply to Thackeray’s comment, Tejaswi said Thackeray should know that “Maharashtra is
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Making cane products, paper bags and radio jockeying were part of prisoner number C-16656 Sanjay Dutt’s daily routine at the Yerwada Central Jail in Maharashtra. But apart from these what kept him busy was writing about his life experiences. The 56-year-old Bollywood actor, who recently walked out a free man after serving jail term following
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In a harrowing incident, a man raped his own daughter for four months in Satara, following which both the father and the minor girl were thrashed by the panchayat, reports The New Express. The panchayat of the Panchwad village in Satara, Maharashtra beat up both daughter and father with a cane ten times. The man
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Maharashtra government to grant licences to dance bars by March 15. The Court also refused to allow the state government’s demand that there be a live feed from a dance bar to the nearest police station. The court said that CCTV coverage of the performance area would be
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The Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Wednesday filed its charge sheet in the Maharashtra Sadan scam against senior NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal in a court. Other than Bhujbal, who swas the PWD minister during the previous Congress-NCP regime in the state, his son Pankaj and nephew Sameer, as well as 14 others have also been
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Pune-Mumbai Expressway witnessed a massive traffic jam today after an oil tanker toppled blocking the busy road route between the two cities. Maharashtra Rural Development Minister Pankaja Munde tweeted a photo of the expressway advising people to avoid the route. “Plz avoid Pune Mumbai travel on Expressway. Huge traffic jam,” Munde tweeted. An oil tanker
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After drawing flak for his remark that farmers? suicides have become a ‘fashion’, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Maharashtra Gopal Shetty on Thursday clarified his stand, saying there is a competition among the state governments to give compensation to the farmers who commit suicide. The BJP MP from North Mumbai said that he erroneously
