Mumbai: In a good news for people of Mumbai, retailers called off their strike against the Local Body Tax on late Saturday and said they were ready to talk to the government. The announcement came even as the city struggled with shortage of supplies due to the three-week long strike.
Supporting the agitation by Maharashtra traders against the newly introduced Local Body Tax which replaces octroi, Indian Merchants' Chamber had on Saturday asked the state government to re-consider integrated measure of tax collection. The agitation was on for the last three weeks.
"It has always been our view that octroi should be abolished and we appreciate the government's initiative. However, with the new LBT, we feel that creating multiple centers of tax registration and collection is not advisable since it will encourage corruption," IMC President Niranjan Hiranandani had said in Mumbai. LBT will also lead to extra burden on the consumers, he had said.
"LBT will make things complicated. Besides, since the tax will be collected from the traders, they will definitely transfer the extra financial burden onto the customers," Hiranandani had said, adding, "It will result in rise in inflation". ...
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11:26 PM, May 11, 2013
Yavatmal: Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court has ordered the Maharashtra Government to file an affidavit on a PIL which alleges corruption committed in the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Agency (MGNREGA) scheme in the district in 2011-12. The division bench of Justice Bhushan Dharmadhikari and Justice AB Chaudhari on Friday ordered the government to file an affidavit on the PIL by July 22, 2013. The PIL was filed...
02:05 AM, May 07, 2013
Mumbai: Maharashtra government will set up vigilance committees in four cities of the state, including Mumbai, to check female foeticide. Speaking at a Pre Conception and Pre Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) (PCPNDT) review meeting, Health Minister Suresh Shetty said the vigilance committees will be headed by the municipal commissioners. The committees in Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune and Aurangabad will report to the government every month. Similarly, he also...
02:07 AM, May 04, 2013
Five days after the Winter Session of the state Legislature ended, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Wednesday assumed charge of the Finance and Power portfolios. Governor K Sankaranarayanan on Monday approved the notification forwarded by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan for handover of the departments to the senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader. ...
07:42 PM, Dec 26, 2012
Patil has said that Maharashtra government will request that 25 of the 100 fast-track courts be set aside exclusively for women's cases. ...
06:58 PM, Dec 26, 2012
Nearly Rs 31.40 crore has been spent by the government on the protection of Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist Ajmal Kasab, who carried out the Mumbai terror attack and was hanged in November. Minister of State for Home RPN Singh said as per information furnished by Maharashtra government and Indo-Tibetan Border Police, as on November 23, 2012, an amount of Rs 31,39,02,589 has been spent on the protection of Kasab. ...
03:10 PM, Dec 19, 2012
Both Maharashtra and the Union government spent Rs 28.46 crore to provide food, security, medicines and clothes during Ajmal Kasab's confinement in Arthur Road Central prison in Mumbai and at Yerwada jail in Pune. The government spent Rs 9,573 on Kasab's funeral and on the day of his execution, it spent Rs 33.75 on food and Rs 169 on his clothes, according to information obtained through an RTI query by...
11:23 PM, Dec 06, 2012
In a case disturbingly similar to the Keenan Reuben murders of 2011, Dombivali boy Santosh Vichivara was knifed to death for taking on goons who were harassing a girl in his colony. As many as five people have been arrested in the case, of which four minors have been sent to juvenile homes. The other accused, who is an 18-year-old youth was sent to 10-day custody. ...
09:25 PM, Dec 06, 2012
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar, who had recently resigned as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra over the irrigation scam, will be re-inducted into the state Cabinet on Friday morning. ...
07:20 PM, Dec 06, 2012
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday said that the White Paper on the irrigation scam in the state has been tabled in the Cabinet. The Maharashtra Chief Minister said that the White Paper gives details of all irrigation projects under the corporations. ...
10:00 PM, Nov 29, 2012
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Tuesday said the inquiry, ordered into the arrest of two girls from Palghar for their Facebook comments against the shutdown for Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray's funeral, is expected on Wednesday. "The inquiry has begun and will look into whether the arrests were warranted and whether the sections applied were correct. Similarly, the probe will also investigate the incident of vandalism in the aftermath," Maharashtra...
05:50 PM, Nov 20, 2012
Mumbai: Very soon the face of Asia's largest slum Dharavi is going to change. Maharashtra Government has decided to redevelop the slum. The slum which is spread over 550 acres will be divided into 5 sectors and high rise building would be constructed. Dharavi has been used by filmmakers to bring out the grim reality of Mumbai and has been the central plot of many Bollywood blockbusters. Even some Hollywood...
12:25 PM, Nov 02, 2012
Nagpur: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithiviraj Chavan has said that the state Cabinet will be revamped before the Winter Session of the State Legislature. "The Maharashtra Cabinet will be reshuffled before the Winter Session which commences in Nagpur from December 10," Chavan told reporters on Sunday night on the sidelines of a function. To a question why not a single Member of Parliament from Maharashtra, particularly from Vidarbha, was inducted into...
05:21 PM, Oct 29, 2012
Mumbai: A day after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar resigned as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, his supporters in the party on Wednesday came out to protest outside the state Assembly building, blaming Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan for the crisis. The Congress, however, made it clear that Chavan would stay as the Chief Minister, even as NCP chief Sharad Pawar said his party would support them. But...
08:40 PM, Sep 26, 2012
New Delhi: Senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Praful Patel has said that Ajit Pawar resigned as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra after consultations with party chief Sharad Pawar. Defending Ajit Pawar, who quit on Tuesday over allegations of irregularities during his tenure as the irrigation minister of Maharashtra, Patel said that the NCP leader has set a good example in public life. "It was a good decision by...
07:35 PM, Sep 25, 2012
NCP chief Sharad Pawar has said that his party will continue to be a part of the government in Maharashtra. ...
07:18 PM, Sep 25, 2012
Sources tell CNN-IBN the Maharashtra government is likely to drop the sedition charge against cartoonist Aseem Trivedi. ...
06:01 PM, Sep 11, 2012
Mumbai: Under fire from the opposition over the Azad Maidan violence, the Maharashtra government finally decided to shunt out Mumbai police commissioner Arup Patnaik, replacing him with Satyapal Singh. While Arup Patnaik was ostensibly promoted to DG state security council, the government called it a routine administrative move. However, sources said it was an under fire Home Minister RR Patil, hoping to deflect criticism, who recommended the removal of Patnaik...
09:35 PM, Aug 23, 2012
Mumbai: At the first meeting of their coordination committee after the recent standoff, ruling allies, the Congress and the NCP, in Maharashtra on Saturday night decided to hold regular monthly meetings of the panel to iron out differences. "All is well," state NCP chief Madhukar Pichad said after the meeting. The meeting was held in a positive atmosphere, he said adding it was decided to hold a meeting of the...
11:51 PM, Aug 04, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan is facing a strong rebellion from within the Congress party. CNN-IBN has accessed a letter of grievance written by the Congress MLAs in Maharashtra to state party chief Manikrao Thakre. The letter, signed by 43 of the 82 Congress MLAs in the state, points that there is anger among the constituents of the government over the lack of progress on several projects. The letter...
05:04 PM, Jul 24, 2012
