Mumbai/ New Delhi: Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Prithviraj Chavan has emerged as a front runner for the post of Maharashtra Chief Minister after the MLAs authorised Congress President Sonia Gandhi to take the final call. Maharashtra is likely to have a new Chief Minister by Wednesday afternoon. Sources have told CNN-IBN that us that Prithviraj Chavan will in all probability be chosen for the top job. Union Finance...
07:14 AM, Nov 10, 2010
New Delhi: Parliament's winter session starts on Tuesday with the Opposition looking to corner the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance on the Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society scam, Commonwealth Games irregularities and the 2G controversy. As US President Barak Obama left for Indonesia the focus within the Congress has once again shifted to decide the fate of Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan who finds himself at the center of a storm over...
11:38 AM, Nov 09, 2010
Mumbai: In south Mumbai's prime property in Colaba, a 27-storey building near the Colaba defence station, over 3800 square metres is at the centre of a fresh controversy. The entire area, which is around four acres, forms part of the Colaba defence station and is one of the most sensitive defence locations in the country. There have been allegations that the Maharashtra government’s revenue department gave permission to a private...
08:48 AM, Oct 30, 2010
Ahead of the crucial municipal elections, the MNS chief is taking on none other than his uncle and Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray. ...
11:22 AM, Oct 28, 2010
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena continues to remain in the limelight for its controversial stands. This time around it has called for a ban on the burqa, calling the Muslim veil a threat to security interests. In an editorial in party mouthpiece 'Saamna', the party said Turkey had once banned the burqa and now France had followed suit. It said criminals were using the burqa to commit crimes. It cited how...
09:32 AM, Oct 20, 2010
Mumbai: Life seems to have come a full circle for Bal Thackeray as the third generation of the Thackeray family was launched into the political arena on Sunday. Bala Sahib's grandson — Aditya Thakeray will now be spear heading the Yuva Sena, the youth wing of the Shiv Sena after Bal Thackeray introduced his grandson, Aditya Thackeray, to active politics on Sunday. Bal Thackeray, who has always criticized the dynastic...
08:39 AM, Oct 18, 2010
Mumbai: A day after two Congress leaders were caught on camera discussing massive pooling of funds for a rally by party supremo Sonia Gandhi, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has claimed that the dealings were all above board. Maharashtra's Congress state president Manikrao Thakeray and leader Satish Chaturvedi were caught on camera discussing how every minister in the state has contributed Rs 10 lakh, and that Chavan has himself given...
09:51 PM, Oct 14, 2010
Pune: In Maharashtra the state government is caught in a new land controversy. After it cleared 25 thousand acres of land acquired from farmers for a lake resort near Pune, social activists are calling for the Centre to intervene claiming the land deal has no environment clearance. This controversy is rousing three months after Maharashtra's revenue minister Narayan Rane had ordered an enquiry into the transfer of land from farmers...
08:05 AM, Oct 13, 2010
Pune: Maharashtra government has finally decided to regularise the land transfer deal of the 25,000 Lavasa Resort City near Pune, where 25 thousand acres of land have been acquired from farmers to build a lake city resort. However green activists have now taken the issue to Bombay High Court claiming the land deal has no environment clearance and the court has admitted the petition. But the Maharashtra government’s decision to...
11:15 AM, Oct 09, 2010
Mumbai: Close on the heals of RTI activists Satish Shetty and Datta Patil being brutally murdered in Maharashtra, another RTI activist Anwar Shaikh has approached the Bombay High Court, saying he has received death threats and has demanded protection. The court has admitted his plea for hearing. Shaikh said: "I got a threat saying forget about the cemetery otherwise you will be shot, I said do what you want so...
08:56 AM, Sep 23, 2010
The state revenue department says that farmers are being paid peanuts for their land taken over for the Lavasa city resort. ...
10:21 AM, Aug 25, 2010
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