
Sharad Pawar's nephew Ajit allegedly allotted government land to a firm in which he held stake. ...

03:10 PM, Apr 20, 2011

New Delhi: An IBN-Lokmat report has blown the lid off a land scam that implicates the Sharad Pawar family in Maharashtra. In 2007 when Ajit Pawar, nephew of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief, was irrigation minister of Maharashtra AG Mercantile, a company partly owned by Ajit was given a contract to repair a dam in Raigad. But instead of money for the repairs the company was given land. AG...

06:52 AM, Apr 20, 2011

New Delhi: An IBN-Lokmat report has blown the lid off a land scam that implicates the Sharad Pawar family in Maharashtra. In 2007 when Ajit Pawar, nephew of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief, was irrigation minister of Maharashtra AG Mercantile, a company partly owned by Ajit was given a contract to repair a dam in Raigad. But instead of money for the repairs the company was given land. AG ...

06:52 AM, Apr 20, 2011

Mumbai: It is the triumph of people power. The Mukesh Ambani-led Raigadh Special Economic Zone project, touted as the country's biggest SEZ has now been scrapped by the Maharashtra government. Protesting farmers in the area will now get their land back. Floated by Ambani in partnership with Anand Jain, the Raigadh Maha-Mumbai SEZ needed over 20,000 acres. But villagers who owned all this land put up massive resistance. And when...

09:17 AM, Feb 20, 2011

He said Congress rule ensured fruits of development went to common man. ...

04:26 PM, Oct 08, 2009

Company's plea to extend deadline for acquiring land rejected. ...

10:26 PM, Jun 05, 2009

Farmers of Pen taluka in Raigad district of Maharashtra voted against an SEZ with an overwhelming majority. ...

02:38 AM, Oct 07, 2008

Referendum conducted in 22 villages in Pen taluka of Raigad district where nearly 91 per cent voted against it. ...

08:47 PM, Oct 06, 2008

Vilasrao Deshmukh says land acquisition will be given only after ensuring nobody was being forced out of their property. ...

10:27 PM, Mar 31, 2007

The promise of a better rehabilitation package in Maharashtra by Reliance Industries hasn’t impressed farmers. ...

09:43 AM, Feb 25, 2007

Police have arrested two people for the murder of Stephen Bennett, but his mother says the police are wrong. ...

10:58 PM, Jan 08, 2007

The Maharashtra police have arrested two more persons in the sensational murder of a British tourist in Raigad. ...

01:56 PM, Jan 08, 2007

The British national who was murdered in a village in Raigad district of Maharashtra had feared for his life. ...

01:08 PM, Jan 04, 2007

The fate of the biggest SEZs in Maharashtra is to be decided at a public hearing in Raigad. ...

12:57 PM, Sep 29, 2006