Maharashtra cabinet on Wednesday sanctioned Rs 100 crore to fund the ongoing development work of the Shirdi airport. Shirdi, famous for its Sai Baba temple, attracts about 15,000 devotees every day, according to government’s estimate. The airport works are expected to be completed by next year, before the centenary celebrations of Sai Baba start. An […]
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’s wife Amruta has come in for flak from rationlists after accepting a necklace, apparently produced from thin air by a self-styled godman. The incident occurred during an awards event organised by a Pune-based educational institute. In visuals aired non-stop by Marathi channels, the godman, Guruvanand Swami, is shown giving Amruta,
The ongoing row over the entry of women in the Shani Shingnapur Temple at Ahmednagar in Maharashtra is likely to come to an end after both the parties on Saturday agreed to accept the decision of Mahasrashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on the issue. Following the meeting with Ahmednagar district administration, activist Trupti Desai ,
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Concerned over the sharp rise in infectious disease like tuberculosis, Maharashtra government will introduce a bill banning spitting in public places in the upcoming state Legislature Budget session scheduled next month. State Health Minister Deepak Sawant had last year at a function on World Cancer Day mooted the idea of a law banning spitting in
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The Maharashtra Governor on Thursday sanctioned the Central Bureau of Investigation to prosecute former chief minister and the state Congress president Ashok Chavan in the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society case. Chavan, who resigned from his post after the scam surfaced, was among the 12 who were charge sheeted by the investigation agency for allegedly grabbing
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) informed a special court on Tuesday that it intends to drop charges under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) against the 11 accused in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case. The agency also sought to defer framing of charges against the accused, including Lt Col Srikant Purohit and
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At least 13 students of Pune’s Inamdar College on Monday drowned in the sea near Murud beach in Raigad, Maharashtra, according to reports. ANI reported that over 13 bodies have been recovered till now while IANS reported that the death toll is likely to rise as 10-12 students are still missing. The tragedy took place
The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (IS) had elaborate plans to target foreigners and vital defence installations in Goa and Maharashtra, investigators questioning the chief of the terror group’s Indian wing have learnt. The Maharashtra anti-terrorism squad (ATS), during its ongoing probe, has found that Shafi Armar alias Yusuf, who defected from Indian Mujahideen
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As the storm over Shani Shingnapur mandir in Maharashtra refuses to die down, others are brewing or ongoing elsewhere in the country. The aborted attempt by protesters to enter Shani Shingnapur on Republic Day and break the tradition of not permitting women into the temple’s most sacred innards is clearly not the last we have
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asked for strong action against officials in the customs and excise department in view of people’s complaints against it, sources told NDTV. PM Modi was chairing his ninth interaction through Pragati – the multi-modal platform for Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation launched in March last year to address people’s grievances
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A Muslim women’s group on Tuesday came out in support of women’s entry into the Shani Shingnapur temple in Maharashtra, charging “male-dominated bodies” which run shrines with bias. The Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan said it supports demands by Hindu women to be allowed to enter the chabutra or sanctum sanctorum at the well known temple
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The Centre has lifted the four-year-old ban on poll-bound Tamil Nadu’s controversial bull-taming sport ‘jallikattu’ by altering its 2011 notification. The fresh notification also cleared other traditional bull-related events like bullock cart races in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Punjab, Haryana, Kerala and Gujarat. Soon after the notification was issued late Thursday, activists vowed to move the Supreme
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The Bombay high court in an important order on Thursday directed Union government to consider adopting a “zero tolerance policy” towards drunken driving and make appropriate changes in the law. Observing that “too many lives had been lost” in the recent past due to the “lethal cocktail” of drinking and driving, a division bench of
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday criticised the Chairman of the Legislative Council Ramraje Naik Nimbalkar for proroguing the Upper House “without playing the national anthem”. Fadnavis said he would soon meet the state Governor to apprise him of the matter. Addressing a press conference after the conclusion of the session in Nagpur on
Defending the practice of not allowing women to perform ‘puja’ at Shani Shingnapur temple in Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra rural development minister Pankaja Munde said on Thursday traditional rituals cannot be “linked with insult” of women. Munde’s statement, which came in the wake of a woman offering ‘puja’ at the temple by breaching security, drew sharp
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Five persons, including three women, were arrested from Manmad near here for allegedly selling a new-born baby girl, police said on Thursday . The five accused were nabbed yesterday by Manmad Police in the district and were produced before a local court, which remanded them in three days police custody. According to the complaint lodged
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The proposed expansion of the ministry in Maharashtra slated for the first week of December will see 10 ministers of state being inducted into the BJP-led NDA government. “BJP President Amit Shah has given clearance for the Cabinet expansion and formal approval of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to be taken. “Out of the 12
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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis along with other ministers and the Mumbai Police, on Thursday paid homage to the martyrs on the seventh anniversary of the horrific terror attack of 26/11. On this day in 2008, ten Pakistani terrorists had arrived by sea route and opened fire indiscriminately at people killing 166, including 18 security
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Maharashtra will be the first state in the country to enact a law against social boycott of individuals or families by caste panchayats. A draft of the said act called as the ‘Maharashtra Prohibition of Social Boycott Act, 2015’ which was published on the state government’s website on Wednesday has termed any action of social
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Colonel Santosh Mahadik, the 38-year-old Indian Army Officer who died in an encounter with terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, will be cremated with full military honours including a 21-gun salute in his home town Satara in Maharashtra today. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, many politicians and retired armymen will attend the last rites of
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As many as fourteen people from Washim in west Vidarbha may have lost their vision in one eye after an infection which was caught during cataract surgeries at a district hospital there, the Hindustan Times has reported. The incident puts the spotlight on the sorry state of health care in Maharashtra, particularly outside of metropolitan
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On the eve of one year of their alliance, the Shiv Sena and the BJP are back to squabbling and Sena president Uddhav Thackeray has threatened to withdraw support to the Maharashtra government if the BJP does not shed its arrogance. The rift between the parties comes just ahead of the Kalyan Dombivali Municipal Corporation
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The controversial law banning dance bars in Maharashtra, which provided employment to thousands of women, was put on hold by the Supreme Court today. The court said the Maharashtra police will ensure that dignity of women was not affected by the dance performance. Dance bars have been a contentious issue in the state, where the
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Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s memoir may have the unintended consequence of catalysing the breakdown of the BJP-Shiv Sena government in Maharashtra. The Sena is all set to walk out of the alliance, because Matoshree is peeved with chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on a host of issues, the latest being the release of the former Pakistan foreign
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Inspired by actor Nana Patekar, now Bollywood star Akshay Kumar has reached out to Maharashtra’s drought-hit farmers who have committed suicide. As the state faces one of its worst droughts especially in the Marathwada region, Mr Kumar has earmarked a sum of Rs. 90 lakh to financially help 180 families of those farmers who killed
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Rakesh Maria has denied reports that he plans to resign, a day after his removal as chief of the Mumbai police in the middle of the high-profile Sheena Bora murder investigation. Before Mr Maria was shifted, he confronted questions about his direct involvement in the investigations, which, according to sources, upset him deeply. Maharashtra Chief
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Even as actor Nana Patekar hits the screens once again in a comic role in Welcome Back, on the ground in Maharashtra’ drought-hit Latur, it’s his image of a serious, no-nonsense man that comes to the forefront. While distributing cheques of Rs. 15,000 to widows of those farmers who committed suicide, the recipients were first
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