Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday issued notices to Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) President Raj Thackeray, Registrar of the High Court and state government on a contempt petition filed by a city lawyer against the MNS leader for allegedly defaming the judiciary. The notices were issued by Justice BR Gavai who has kept the matter for hearing on August 3. The petition said that Raj had allegedly referred to...
07:54 PM, Jul 23, 2012
New Delhi: Polling was underway on Thursday in Parliament House and state capitals for electing the new President. The race appears clearly in favour of UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee. Interestingly, Gujarat BJP MLA of the Mahuva Constituency Kanubhai Valabhai Kalsaria voted in favour of Pranab, who faces BJP's Presidential nominee PA Sangma. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi were among the first to cast their votes. Pranab...
12:43 PM, Jul 19, 2012
Mumbai: Congress in Maharashtra is making all efforts to woo the Raj Thackeray-led MNS to back UPA nominee Pranab Mukherjee for the presidential poll on Thursday. Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan is understood to have phoned Thackeray, seeking the support of MNS, which has 12 members in the 288-member Legislative Assembly. During his visit to Mumbai earlier this month, NDA-backed presidential candidate PA Sangma had also sought Raj Thackeray's support. However,...
08:10 PM, Jul 18, 2012
Mumbai: While steering ailing cousin and Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav from Lilavati Hospital to Matoshree, MNS chief Raj Thackeray drove home the point that family ties run deep in Maharashtra politics, a fact never more in evidence than in times of adversity. It was also an occurrence that gladdened many leaders from both parties, who construed this as " if not a precursor to a possible political alliance in...
02:02 PM, Jul 17, 2012
Parli Vaijnath: All India Chhava Sanghatna on Sunday termed as "hypocrite" the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena president Raj Thackeray over his pro-Marathi stand. "Raj Thackray's love for Marathi language is not genuine. His children are learning in English medium schools. Raj is misguiding Maharashtrian people, especially those from the Maratha community, by showing fake love for Marathi language," the founder president of the organisation, Annasaheb Jawle-Patil, told reporters at a press...
08:04 AM, Jul 09, 2012
Mumbai: All's fair in love, war and political feuds, even depriving your estranged uncle his daily cigarette fix. Last week, the Yuva Sena, led by Sena cub Aaditya Thackeray, flagged off a 'drive' against shops and tapris selling cigarettes near school premises. The very first joint it cracked down on was Shaarda Paan Bhandar. Sena's youth wing insists that they targeted the shop because it was selling cigarettes within 100...
06:31 PM, Jul 03, 2012
Mumbai: A day after Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray questioned the toll collection policy of the state government, hundreds of MNS activists on Wednesday attacked and damaged toll posts in various parts of the state, police said. The activists attacked toll posts in Thane district's Virar and Vasai towns, district headquarters of Nashik, Aurangabad and Buldhana, among other places in Maharashtra. They chased away toll collectors from Virar...
07:57 AM, Jun 14, 2012
New Delhi: Sacked CWG Organising Committee chairman and MP Suresh Kalmadi was heckled at the Pune Municipal Corporation office on Monday. Kalmadi was on a visit to the corporation office for the inauguration of the Sports committee office. Kalmadi was heckled by angry protesters, mainly from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Maharashtra Navanirman Sena, sources said. ...
02:50 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Chandrapur: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Thursday said that poaching of tigers in Chandrapur could not have taken place without the support of local people. Thackeray, who was here to collect facts regarding poaching of tigers said that "It is impossible for any outsider to lay traps in deep forests without help from local people. It is the local people responsible for the act". Talking about tiger conservation,...
02:59 AM, Jun 01, 2012
Mumbai/Aurangabad: In a snub to Anna Hazare, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray on Thursday refused to meet him days after he questioned the relevance of the Gandhian's anti-corruption crusade. Anna Hazare is in Mumbai to mobilise support for a strong Lokayukta among political parties and had met Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and Thackeray's estranged nephew and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena(MNS) leader Raj Thackeray among other political leaders. Anna Hazare, who had...
10:15 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Mumbai/New Delhi: Team Anna appeared to be divided on Raj Thackeray on Thursday with Anna Hazare praising the MNS Chief saying his work "appeals" to him and its key member Prashant Bhushan disapproving his politics. After meeting Raj in Mumbai, Hazare lauded the leader of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena(MNS) for initiatives like conducting examination for party candidates to contest the civic body polls held in February. The Gandhian said Raj's work...
09:10 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Mumbai: Visiting Mumbai after settling of a controversy stoked by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader Raj Thackeray, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday invited India Inc to invest in his state, touting the industrial policy announced by his government last year. "The state offers tremendous business opportunities in sectors such as solar energy, education, healthcare etc," Nitish Kumar told the industrialists. "The Chief Minister urged the industry captains to...
09:11 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Mumbai: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar arrived in Mumbai on Saturday evening to attend centenary celebrations of his state, a day after MNS chief Raj Thackeray withdrew his threat to disrupt the event slated for Sunday. Kumar will be the chief guest at the 'Bihar Shatabdi Samaroh Utsav' being organised at 'Somaiya Ground' in a city suburb on Sunday evening. Kumar landed at the airport here from Patna amid tight...
08:24 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Mumbai: Lauding the developmental work undertaken by Nitish Kumar in Bihar after he took over as Chief Minister, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray on Saturday took a dig at his estranged nephew MNS President Raj Thackeray for opposing Kumar's visit in Mumbai and then back-tracking. "The role of the "natwarya" (veteran actor) to first oppose and then not to oppose has been exposed. The delicious 'vada' (a local snack) has...
04:49 PM, Apr 14, 2012
Mumbai: In a turn of events, MNS chief Raj Thackeray has decided not to protest against Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's visit to Mumbai. "I spoke to Nitish Kumar on the phone and the matter is settled," Raj said. Sources say that Nitish Kumar has also invited Raj Thackeray to visit Bihar. Earlier on Thursday, Raj Thackeray had dared Nitish Kumar to celebrate Bihar Divas in Mumbai on April 15....
04:01 PM, Apr 13, 2012
This came after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said he did not need a visa to enter Mumbai. ...
10:40 AM, Apr 13, 2012
Nashik: MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Thursday dared Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to celebrate "Bihar Divas" in Mumbai. Addressing a rally at Idgah maidan in the powerloom town of Malegaon, 90 km from here, this evening, Raj said "I thought that Nitish Kumar was a nice person who was developing his state." But Raj said, referring to Kumar's statement that 'I don't need visa to come to Mumbai', "let...
12:39 AM, Apr 13, 2012
Mumbai: There was vandalism in the name of activism in Mumbai by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena as workers burst crackers outside a hospital. Hundreds of MNS workers ran riot outside the government-run Rajawadi Hospital in Mumbai demanding better amenities. But they agitated by flagrantly disregarding rules. Workers burst crackers outside the hospital disregarding silence rules. ...
01:53 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Patna/Mumbai: Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday remained unfazed over the reported threat by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) to disallow Bihar divas celebrations in Mumbai, saying no one can stop him from attending the event and he did not require a "visa" to travel there. "There is no hurdle for me to go there. Can go to any part of the country, don't need any type of visa for...
10:45 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Mumbai: Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray has said he does not give importance to the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, started by cousin Raj Thackeray, and neither do the people of the state. "I don't give much importance to MNS, neither do the people... What matters at the end of the day is the work one does, not what analysts say," Uddhav said in an interview to the New York Times....
04:36 AM, Apr 04, 2012
