New Delhi: The Tis Hazari Court in New Delhi on Thursday ordered the Sabzi Mandi Police Station to register an FIR against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray for his alleged hate speech against North Indians. The ruling came after the court went through an action-taken-report, which was submitted before the court on a complaint for registration of an FIR against Thackeray. A detailed order and the sections under...
05:40 PM, Sep 27, 2012
Mumbai: The nation-wide bandh called by the BJP-led NDA and other Opposition parties to protest fuel hike and FDI in retail evoked little response in the metropolis on Thursday owing to Ganesh festivities across Maharashtra. The Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) have kept away from the day-long bandh due to the festival. BJP leaders including Deputy Leader in Lok Sabha Gopinath Munde and Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra...
12:00 PM, Sep 20, 2012
Mumbai: MNS chief Raj Thackeray has backed the UPA government's decision to allow FDI in multi-brand retail but wants outsiders not to be given jobs in these outlets in Maharashtra. "I will write to FDI retailers asking them to employ Marathi youth. People from outside shouldn't be employed there," Thackeray told reporters on Tuesday, asserting "Maharashtra will not tolerate migrants getting jobs in retail shops." "FDI in retail should come...
08:05 PM, Sep 18, 2012
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena and the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) are likely to enter into a pre-poll alliance for the Nanded municipal elections. The elections to the civic body is slated for October. This is for the first time that Raj Thackeray's MNS and the Shiv Sena, whose supremo is his uncle Bal Thackeray, will enter into an alliance for any elections. While the local units of both the parties...
07:40 PM, Sep 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police was on Thursday directed by a Delhi court to inform it as to what action it has taken on a complaint filed against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray for allegedly branding Bihar natives in Mumbai as infiltrators. Metropolitan Magistrate Neeraj Gaur directed the police to file an Action Taken Report (ATR) by September 22. "ATR be called from SHO of concerned police station...
07:59 PM, Sep 13, 2012
Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Monday said he thought nephew Raj Thackeray would carry forward his legacy as a cartoonist. Asked why no one could inherit his legacy as a cartoonist, Thackeray said, "Who will take it forward? I thought Raja (his pet name for nephew Raj Thackeray) will carry it forward." Thackeray expressed these sentiments in the last part of his marathon interview, published in party mouthpiece...
03:04 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Dear Raj, This is the second open letter I am writing to you since, as was the case four years ago, you refuse to ...
12:06 AM, Sep 07, 2012
Mumbai: The activists of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) on Tuesday vandalised a cinema hall in Boisar in Thane. According to reports, the cinema hall was screening a Bihari film when the incident occurred. This comes a day after a case was registered against MNS chief Raj Thackeray for his alleged hate speech against the people from Bihar. The petitioner submitted that the people of Bihar felt insulted and their...
10:32 PM, Sep 04, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray's reference to Biharis living in Mumbai as 'infiltrators' has invited charges of hate speech. A case has been filed against the MNS chief in the Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) court in Nalanda. However, in a positive development for Raj Thackeray, there are signs of a thaw between him and his uncle Bal Thackeray with a Shiv Sena editorial referring to the increasing...
12:25 AM, Sep 04, 2012
Biharsharif: A complaint case was on Monday filed in Nalanda district court against MNS chief Raj Thackeray for his comments against the people of Bihar. A social activist Biresh Pandey filed the case in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Krishna Bihari Pandey under several sections of IPC. The petitioner submitted that the people of Bihar felt insulted and their sentiments were hurt by Thackeray's recent speech in which he...
06:27 PM, Sep 03, 2012
New Delhi: Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray on Monday came out in support of his nephew Raj Thackeray, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief, who had attacked Bihar and its residents threatening to brand them as "infiltrators" if the state went ahead with its decision to take legal action against Mumbai Police over a vandal's arrest. In an editorial in the Sena mouthpiece 'Saamna', Bal Thackeray said that the arrest of...
12:28 PM, Sep 03, 2012
New Delhi: The "threats" issued by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray against Hindi news channels were an "assault on roots of democracy", a body of editors of electronic news channels said on Sunday. The Broadcast Editors' Association in a release asked the Maharashtra Government to ensure protection to media personnel in Mumbai against "lumpen elements". "We take serious note of threats given by the MNS Chief against Hindi news...
08:24 AM, Sep 03, 2012
New Delhi: JD(U) President Sharad Yadav on Sunday alleged that MNS chief Raj Thackeray was a "stooge" of the Congress which was using him against the Shiv Sena-BJP combine for electoral gains in the state. "Raj Thackeray is a stooge of the Congress and the ruling party in the state is using him against the Shiv Sena-BJP combine," Yadav told reporters when asked about the MNS' chief's remarks on the...
10:34 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil on Sunday told the Hindi news channels, operating in the state, that they do not need to be scared of Raj Thackeray. The MNS chief, earlier in the day, said that he would shut down all the Hindi news channels if they do not stop misquoting his speeches. Patil, however, assured the Hindi news of full protection. "Hindi media should not be fear Raj...
08:47 PM, Sep 02, 2012
Patna: MNS chief Raj Thackeray's 'anti Bihari' remarks today created a furore in the state with political parties on Saturday asking the Centre to take strong action against him for his divisive comments. BJP leader Giriraj Singh condemning Thackeray said he should be booked on charges of sedition for attacking the unity and integrity of the country. The Maharashtra Navanirman Sena(MNS) chief's anti-Bihari jibe yesterday was also violative of Constitution...
04:44 AM, Sep 02, 2012
Mumbai: Six suspected workers of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) allegedly ransacked a theatre located at Grant Road of south Mumbai, protesting screening of a Bhojpuri film, police said. According to police, a group of around six persons barged into Super Cinema, a single-screen theatre, on Friday night and threatened the security guard, Mohammed Alam (19) and the management of dire consequences if they did not stop screening the Bhojpuri film...
06:48 PM, Sep 01, 2012
Patna: MNS chief Raj Thackeray's 'anti-Bihari' remarks on Friday created a furore in the state with political parties on Saturday asking the Centre to take strong action against him for his divisive comments. BJP leader Giriraj Singh condemning Thackeray said he should be booked on charges of sedition for attacking the unity and integrity of the country. The Maharashtra Navanirman Sena (MNS) chief's anti-Bihari jibe on Friday was also violative...
05:27 PM, Sep 01, 2012
Mumbai: MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Friday threatened to brand Biharis as "infiltrators" and force them out of Maharashtra if authorities in Bihar take legal action against Mumbai policemen who picked up a teenager from there without informing their counterparts in that state. Thackeray, whose party has often launched violent campaigns against Hindi-speaking people in Maharashtra, was reacting to a media report that Bihar chief secretary Navin Kumar has written...
06:29 PM, Aug 31, 2012
Mumbai: Raj Thackeray-led MNS has issued a diktat to the Colors TV channel not to broadcast a show on September 8 when noted singer Asha Bhosle will sing with Pakistani vocalists and threatened to disrupt the shoots of the channel if it airs the programme. The film wing of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena has also requested Bhosle not to join the Pakistani singers at the show. "We will not allow...
10:08 AM, Aug 31, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday issued summons against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray for his alleged hate speeches against north Indians and instigating violence against them on various occasions. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Manish Yaduvanshi directed that summons be issued against Raj Thackeray for September 28. The court's order came on three different cases lodged against Thackeray, one of which pertains to attack by MNS...
07:35 PM, Aug 30, 2012
