Mumbai: The Maharashtra government will fix responsibility on those political parties who called the Bharat bandh on Thursday and recover from them losses caused to public and private property, Home Minister RR Patil said. "The process of registering the panchnamas of the loss has been initiated. The police department has been asked to assess the loss of the public and private properties due to attacks on the buses, disrupting public...
09:08 PM, May 31, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil on Wednesday said there should be a timeframe to award punishment in terror cases and sought to know for how long the government should take care of Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, facing death penalty in the 26/11 case. "Kasab has killed so many innocent people. For how many days, should we take care of him is the question doing rounds in my mind," he...
12:13 AM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare will meet top political leaders in Mumbai including Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Thursday. Anna's main agenda will be to garner support for a strong Lokayukta legislation in Maharashtra. "Anna's two-day schedule in Mumbai is packed with meetings on Lokayukta issue with those who matter in state politics," Hazare's aide Datta Awari said. The Gandhian will also meet...
08:58 AM, Apr 26, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil on Tuesday ordered an investigation by Mumbai Police into the alleged leak of some portions of the Comptroller and Auditor General's (CAG) report which reportedly indicted some ministers, while the opposition Shiv Sena demanded a CBI probe into the lapse. The development came a fortnight after a Bharatiya Janata Party legislator Devendra Phadnavis present a CD to assembly Speaker Dilip Walse-Patil and Shiv Sena...
01:41 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra government has refused to foot the Rs 19.28 crore bill sent by ITBP towards reimbursing expenses for guarding 26/11 terrorist Ajmal Kasab lodged in the Arthur Road jail in Mumbai and wants Centre to waive the amount. Home Minister RR Patil on Wednesday said the state government has requested Centre to waive the Rs.19.28 crore bill sent to it by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), a central para...
10:59 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Gadchiroli: Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil has said that the state will form a tribal battalion to counter the Naxal situation in Gadchiroli after 12 CRPF jawans were killed in an attack there on the March 27. But with Naxals allegedly brutally killing anyone they suspect to be a police informer, in front of their families, the question is how many tribals will agree to support the government's initiative? Gadchiroli,...
06:23 AM, Apr 01, 2012
Mumbai: The Naxal-affected Gadchiroli district would have a 'tribal battalion' to tackle the ultras, Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil said on Friday. "The recruitment will be done by State Reserve Police Force (SRPF)," he said, adding that locals would get priority. Patil was speaking in the Legislative Council during a debate on recent Naxal attack in Gadchiroli in which 12 CRPF men were killed. He reiterated government's stand that the...
07:25 PM, Mar 30, 2012
Mumbai: Miffed at being denied permission to hold election rally at Shivaji Park in central Mumbai, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Sunday said "best friends" NCP and Shiv Sena were indulging in politics to prevent him from campaigning. "NCP and Shiv Sena, who are best friends are indulging in politics to prevent me from campaigning," Raj told reporters in Mumbai. When asked how he plans to hold...
09:56 PM, Feb 05, 2012
Yavatmal: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) alone can bring a total face-lift to the rural Maharashtra through focus on sustained development, party leader and Home Minister RR Patil has said. Patil was addressing a well-attended public rally at Danki on Thursday to kick off his party's election campaign for the ensuing Zilla Parishad (ZP) and Panchayat Samiti (PS) elections on February 7. State NCP President Madhukarrao Pichad presided over the function....
02:33 AM, Feb 04, 2012
Mumbai: Eight major terror attacks in the last two decades - from 1993 serial blasts, to this year's 13/7 attack, more than 500 have perished. And Mumbai remains on high alert almost every second day. But, apart from this perennial challenge, Mumbai's security set-up is silently grappling with another crisis. The specialised Maharashtra Anti-terrorism Squad was sanctioned 90 Sub-Inspectors, but 80 posts are lying vacant. Same goes with Assistant Inspectors,...
09:58 AM, Oct 21, 2011
Mumbai: BJP leader Gopinath Munde on Wednesday dared Maharashtra home minister RR Patil to stop LK Advani's anti-corruption Jan Chetna Yatra. "I dare RR Patil. If he has courage, he should try and obstruct the rath yatra. It will come to Maharashtra and BJP will welcome it," Munde said. Munde refuted Patil's reported statement that Advani's rath yatra was aimed at creating divisions in the society. "Its aim is to...
07:09 PM, Oct 12, 2011
Mumbai: Union Home Minister P Chidambaram on Monday night reviewed the security situation in the city and discussed steps to enhance the apparatus at a meeting with Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and senior officials of the state government. Chavan briefed the Union Home Minister of investigations into the July 13 triple bomb blasts in Mumbai and the security measures being taken to prevent any such incidents in the future,...
11:42 PM, Oct 03, 2011
Mumbai: Calling for a need to strengthen the state Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil on Monday said the administrative problems, being faced due to overlapping of functions between the ATS and Crime Branch, should be rectified. "There are problems, which will be rectified. Certain functions of the two agencies overlap. We will have to fix the responsibilities and the nature of work of both the agencies," Patil...
09:44 PM, Sep 26, 2011
Mumbai: BJP on Wednesday demanded a ban on the controversial book 'Shivarayanchya Badnamichi Kendre' (Forces who Vilify Shivaji) by Purushottam Khedekar for its alleged anti-Brahmin diatribe. Raising the issue in the legislative assembly, BJP member Devendra Phadanvis said "independent" authors have filed police complaints against Khedekar but the government has not yet acted on the contents of the book. Phadnavis read out an excerpt from the book, according to which...
12:48 AM, Aug 04, 2011
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Government on Monday said it would request the CBI to issue a Red Corner Notice against underworld don Chhota Rajan, allegedly the main conspirator in the murder of senior journalist J Dey. Home Minister RR Patil told the Legislative Assembly that Dey was killed by aides of Chhota Rajan in early June. "Nine persons have been arrested so far and the police are looking out for three...
05:49 PM, Aug 01, 2011
displayed with permission. Use of the CNN name and/or logo on or as part of CNN-IBN does not derogate from the intellectual property rights of Cable News Network in respect of them.
Disclaimer: Network18 Media & Investments Limited is proposing, subject to market conditions and other considerations, an offer of its equity shares on rights basis and has filed a Draft Letter of Offer with the Securities and Exchange Board of India. The Draft Letter of Offer is available on the website of SEBI at www.sebi.gov.in and the websites of the Lead Managers at www.icicisecurities.com and www.rbs.in Investors should note that investment in equity shares involves a high degree of risk and are requested to refer to "Risk Factors" in the Draft Letter of Offer. The Equity Shares have not been and will not be registered under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "US Securities Act"), or any state securities laws in the United States and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, "U.S. persons" (as defined in Regulation S under the US Securities Act) except in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the US Securities Act and in accordance with any applicable U.S. state securities laws.
Disclaimer: TV18 Broadcast Limited is proposing, subject to market conditions and other considerations, an offer of its equity shares on rights basis and has filed a Draft Letter of Offer with the Securities and Exchange Board of India. The Draft Letter of Offer is available on the website of SEBI at www.sebi.gov.in and the websites of the Lead Managers at www.icicisecurities.com and www.rbs.in Investors should note that investment in equity shares involves a high degree of risk and are requested to refer to "Risk Factors" in the Draft Letter of Offer. The Equity Shares have not been and will not be registered under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "US Securities Act"), or any state securities laws in the United States and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, "U.S. persons" (as defined in Regulation S under the US Securities Act) except in a transaction exempt from the registration requirements of the US Securities Act and in accordance with any applicable U.S. state securities laws.
