
Mumbai: Leader of Opposition Eknath Khadse on Thursday said that Adarsh Commission's report had not given a clean chit to former Maharashtra Chief Ministers in the scam. Initiating a debate on the opposition-sponsored last week motion, Khadse said the land belonged to the state's revenue department. "The application for land for the Adarsh Society went to the revenue department and not the Defence Ministry," he said. The judicial commission was...

04:03 AM, Apr 20, 2012

Mumbai: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on a possible land scam has been tabled in the Maharashtra Assembly. The report had indicted senior ministers including former Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh for allegedly allotting land at discounted prices to trusts run by them. The CAG report that was leaked alleged that Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh during his tenure as the Maharashtra chief minister made...

12:33 PM, Apr 17, 2012

New Delhi: The Judicial Commission report on the multi-crore Adarsh scam was tabled in the Maharashtra Assembly on Tuesday. Sources say that the report states that there's no clear evidence to show that the land belonged to Defence or that it was reserved for Kargil widows, However, sources also say that Defence was in possession of land for an extended period. The findings of the report was discussed at the...

11:41 AM, Apr 17, 2012

Mumbai: There was ruckus in the Maharashtra Assembly over the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report on land allotments and the House had to be adjourned till 12 noon. The Opposition demanded that the CAG report be tabled in the Assembly on Monday. A CAG report that was leaked alleged that Rural Development and Panchayati Raj Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh during his tenure as the Maharashtra chief minister made inappropriate land...

12:00 PM, Apr 16, 2012

New Delhi: The Maharashtra government has recommended cricketer Sachin Tendulkar's name for the country's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan made the announcement in the Assembly on Wednesday. "We felicitated both players from the state after the World Cup. From that time plans were on to recommend the name of the son of the soil, the son of Maharashtra for the Bharat Ratna for his...

08:30 AM, Apr 05, 2012

Mumbai: Three protesters on Wednesday killed in police firing in Maval near Pune, raising the question if the Maharashtra Police have use excessive force in putting down the farmers protest. The Maharashtra government has ordered an enquiry and six policemen have been suspended after the footage of the police action was aired. Visuals clearly exposed that the police didn't follow protocol and shoot in the air or below the waist,...

08:55 PM, Aug 11, 2011

Mumbai: The house of actor Anupam Kher was attacked on Saturday night by alleged activists of Republican Party of India (RPI) who protested his remarks on the Indian constitution, the police said. The actor was not present when stones were pelted at his house in suburban Juhu around 8 pm. A few window panes were broken. The police said a team has been rushed there and 11 persons have been...

11:04 PM, Apr 09, 2011

Mumbai: Members cutting across party lines on Saturday moved a breach of privilege notice in Maharashtra Assembly against veteran actor Anupam Kher for his alleged derogatory comments against the Constitution. Speaker Dilip Walse Patil said he was admitting the demand of the members that their statements made in the House be accepted as privilege notice against the actor. He asked the members to give the notice of breach of privilege ...

04:31 PM, Apr 09, 2011

Mumbai: Members cutting across party lines on Saturday moved a breach of privilege notice in Maharashtra Assembly against veteran actor Anupam Kher for his alleged derogatory comments against the Constitution. Speaker Dilip Walse Patil said he was admitting the demand of the members that their statements made in the House be accepted as privilege notice against the actor. He asked the members to give the notice of breach of privilege ...

04:31 PM, Apr 09, 2011

Mumbai: Members cutting across party lines on Saturday moved a breach of privilege notice in Maharashtra Assembly against veteran actor Anupam Kher for his alleged derogatory comments against the Constitution. Speaker Dilip Walse Patil said he was admitting the demand of the members that their statements made in the House be accepted as privilege notice against the actor. He asked the members to give the notice of breach of privilege ...

04:31 PM, Apr 09, 2011

Mumbai: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar has reached every conceivable milestone in the world of cricket. Now with the World Cup in his kitty, the clamour for Sachin to be awarded the Bharat Ratna is growing. The Maharashtra Assembly adopted a resolution on Tuesday, seeking India's highest civilian award for Sachin Tendulkar. The state assembly unanimously recommended to the Central Government that Sachin be presented the Bharat Ratna. "The Maharashtra Assembly has...

09:15 AM, Apr 06, 2011

Cyrus the fighting legislators in an interview that never took place. ...

03:30 PM, Nov 15, 2009

Anti-Hindi sentiments have had a long history in India. ...

08:03 AM, Nov 11, 2009

His shop was vandalised for calling Sena supremo Bal Thackeray senile. ...

01:38 AM, Nov 11, 2009