The drought situation in Maharashtra has worsened with more villages being supplied water through tankers, an official said on Monday. The number of villages and hamlets depending on water tankers for survival went up to 7,075 from 6,488 last Monday. ...
05:05 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Perturbed by the looming water crises in several parts of the state, Maharashtra Police has directed its personnel to remain prepared and handle possible water riots with "sensitivity", the state police chief said on Thursday. ...
02:31 AM, Mar 08, 2013
The Maharashtra Police on Thursday filed file an FIR against VHP leader Praveen Togadia for a speech he made last week in Nanded. This is not the first time that Togadia has faced the strong arm of the law but each time he has got away lightly. ...
11:49 PM, Feb 07, 2013
Police in Nanded district in Maharashtra on Thursday registered an FIR against Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Praveen Togadia for allegedly making provocative speeches. Togadia has been charged under Section 295A (deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings or any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs), Section 505 (statements conducing public mischief) and Section 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of...
05:45 PM, Feb 07, 2013
Police in Nanded district in Maharashtra were likely to register an FIR against Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader Praveen Togadia for allegedly making provocative speeches. Sources said the FIR was likely to be filed by Thursday evening. All India United Democratic Front member Imran Ali reportedly wrote to Nanded Police regarding Togadia's 'hate speeches'. ...
04:55 PM, Feb 07, 2013
Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi, accused of sedition for his "hate speech", was on Monday booked in a similar case, police said. Based on a complaint filed by city corporator Raja Singh, a local court had last month directed the Mangalhat police to investigate a speech made by Akbaruddin at Nanded in Maharashtra in 2012, which allegedly targeted a particular community. ...
10:59 PM, Feb 04, 2013
The Maharashtra State Minorities Commission chief Munaf Hakim has reportedly written a letter to Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde asking for the Parbhani, Nanded and Jalna blast cases to be handed over to the National Investigation Agency (NIA). ...
02:32 PM, Jan 22, 2013
Mumbai: A Congress office-bearer has been arrested in Maharashtra's Nanded district for allegedly killing a woman. Local Congress leader Abdul Wahid ran a woman over with a tractor and killed her after she refused to hand over her ration shop to him. The woman, Nirmala, had a ration shop. The Congressman was pressuring her to hand over ownership of the ration shop. When she refused to do so, and approached...
12:33 PM, Oct 17, 2012
Mumbai: The Congress party on Monday swept away the elections for Nanded Municipal Corporation of the state by winning 41 out of the total 81 seats. The Congress, which shares power with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) at the state level, went alone in elections to the 81-member Nanded Municipal Corporation, held on Sunday. While NCP secured 10 seats, Shiv Sena got 14 and BJP won on two seats. Reacting...
03:49 PM, Oct 15, 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 Bangalore Police on Sunday arrested another man from the city in connection with the ongoing terror-related arrests. Mohammad Akram, 22, was arrested as he tried to flee the city on Saturday night, the police said. The police added that extra security measures were in place to ensure the state's safety. The police said it had recovered a pistol and cartridges from Akram and that he had been...
12:48 PM, Sep 02, 2012
New Delhi: Home Secretary RK Singh on Saturday said that the eleven men arrested in Bangalore on charges of links with terrorist organisations LeT and HuJI had a defence establishment and a nuclear installation on their radar. "Interrogation of those arrested in Bangalore has revealed that this module had a defence establishment and a nuclear installation on its radar. Lashkar and HuJI operatives are handlers of the group," said Singh....
02:34 PM, Sep 01, 2012
New Delhi: From one scam to another - this one's in Maharashtra. An education scam costing the state as much as 1000 crore rupees has finally come under the government's radar. Fingers of students being inked but this is not an election. The Maharashtra state government is conducting a statewide inspection to find out how many students on the rolls of state run and government aided schools are bogus. This...
07:22 AM, Oct 09, 2011
Nanded: A major government-aided school scam of Rs 120 crore has come to light in the Nanded district of Maharashtra. In an inspection carried out earlier this month it was found that over one lakh students on the records of the government aided schools were bogus. Maharshtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said, "This is a very serious issue. We are looking into the matter and as soon as we get...
09:37 AM, Sep 16, 2011
Maharashtra: Ramdas Ghadegavkar, a Right to Information (RTI) activist from Nanded was found dead under mysterious circumstances. Ghadegavkar was also a Shiv Sena leader and the head of the district Milk Sellers Association. The Shiv Sena leader had exposed the thriving sand mafia in the region through the RTI act and had lodged a complaint reporting the same. His complaint had also led the district administration to initiate action concerning...
12:59 PM, Aug 29, 2010
TDP President has been protesting against the Babhali dam being built by Maharashtra on the Godavari River. ...
06:34 PM, Jul 20, 2010
He has no complain about CBI and alleges ATS torture gave 'body pain'. ...
10:41 PM, Dec 21, 2008
Purohit, posted in Deolali camp was entrusted with 60 kgs of RDX in 2006. ...
09:49 AM, Nov 16, 2008
It claims they have been involved in several such blasts in the recent past. ...
10:03 PM, Nov 12, 2008
She underwent brain mapping, psychological profiling, lie detector and narco-analysis tests. ...
11:35 PM, Nov 08, 2008
