Aurangabad: Senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde on Thursday said here that instead of nominating the master cricketer Sachin Tendulkar to the Rajya Sabha, the Union Government should award him the Bharat Ratna award. Munde was talking to media in the city during his visit to attend the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the Marathwada Mukti Sangram Museum. He was answering a question about the government's nomination of Tendulkar to the upper...
01:02 AM, Apr 27, 2012
Mumbai/Aurangabad: In a snub to Anna Hazare, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray on Thursday refused to meet him days after he questioned the relevance of the Gandhian's anti-corruption crusade. Anna Hazare is in Mumbai to mobilise support for a strong Lokayukta among political parties and had met Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and Thackeray's estranged nephew and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena(MNS) leader Raj Thackeray among other political leaders. Anna Hazare, who had...
10:15 PM, Apr 26, 2012
Mumbai: Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray has said he does not give importance to the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena, started by cousin Raj Thackeray, and neither do the people of the state. "I don't give much importance to MNS, neither do the people... What matters at the end of the day is the work one does, not what analysts say," Uddhav said in an interview to the New York Times....
04:36 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Following the victory in Mumbai and Thane, Shiv Sena Executive President Uddhav Thackeray said people liked the work of the party. ...
05:54 PM, Feb 18, 2012
Mumbai: Poor voter turnout or no, Mumbaikars expect the Sena-led Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to turn the dismal state of affairs around, and fulfil their aspirations of making Mumbai, if not Shanghai, at least, more liveable. MiD DAY speaks with them to find out what they expect of the new BMC house. Infrastructure, of course, features at the top of the Mumbaikar's wish-list, along with basic amenities of health, clean water,...
02:21 PM, Feb 18, 2012
New Delhi: In what came as a major setback for the Congress and the NCP, the first big electoral battle of 2012 has gone in favour of the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) combine that managed to retain power in the prestigious Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the country's richest civic body. An honest Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said that the defeat in the BMC polls has come as a...
07:31 AM, Feb 18, 2012
Mumbai: Expressing satisfaction over the results of civic polls in Mumbai and elsewhere in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray told reporters outside Matoshri residence in suburban Bandra this afternoon that he was "overwhelmed". "I thank people for reposing faith in me and my party. Today is a good day. Let me celebrate it. I am overwhelmed," he said. Shiv Sena-BJP-RPI alliance has emerged as the biggest group in...
06:14 PM, Feb 17, 2012
New Delhi: Poll result for the country's richest municipal body, the Maharashtra Civic Polls, will be out on Friday. The Shiv Sena-BJP alliance took the initial lead in the richest civic body Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The counting has also begun for Thane and Pune Municipal Corporation. In Thane, NCP candidates Amit Sariya (Ward 13B) and Radhabhai Jadhav (Ward 14B) were on lead till 8 am. The NCP and the...
07:14 AM, Feb 17, 2012
Mumbai: Civic polls, to decide the fate of over 1,244 candidates in Mumbai and nine municipal corporations of Maharashtra began on Thursday. Polling was underway across 10 municipal corporations including Mumbai. But the turnout was a poor 22 per cent till 3 pm. In Pune, Suresh Kalmadi cast his vote with his wife Meera Kalmadi. The polls, seen as mini Assembly polls, is a triangular contest between the Congress-NCP combine,...
06:24 AM, Feb 16, 2012
Mumbai: MNS chief Raj Thackeray is Mumbai's most preferred leader according to an IBN Lokmat-GFK Mode opinion poll. He is followed by Uddhav Thackeray, who is a distant second. The octogenarian Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray made a fervent appeal to his supporters in the quest to salvage the Sena's last bastion. It's the battle for the Brihanmumbai Municpal corporation, the country's richest civic body. The question is what do...
08:58 AM, Feb 15, 2012
Responding to his uncle Bal Thackeray's invitation to him to rejoin the Shiv Sena, MNS chief Raj Thackeray said on Monday that he was ready to take a hundred steps for his uncle, but none for his son, Uddhav. ...
08:31 AM, Feb 14, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray, who parted ways with the Shiv Sena in January 2006, on Monday night said he was willing to "walk a hundred steps" for his uncle Balasaheb Thackeray and added that the doors of his party were always open for the Sena founder. "It hurt me when I left Shiv Sena. I respect Balasaheb and will continue to respect him. I am ready to...
06:49 AM, Feb 14, 2012
Mumbai: Hitting out at Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday said that he pitied him. "I feel pity for him. It is unfortunate that he is the Chief Minister of the state," Uddhav said. Chavan had on Wednesday said that Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray will become inconsequential after the February 16 Mumbai civic polls. Mentioning "piles of pending files" with the Chief Minister,...
03:47 AM, Feb 10, 2012
Mumbai: The 2012 Mumbai civic body election is being seen as a do-or-die election for the Shiv Sena and its executive president Uddhav Thackeray. With the Sena-BJP combine worried about the MNS factor, the question is - will tying up with the pro-Dalit RPI help bail out the Sena? With the Congress and NCP announcing an alliance for the Mumbai corporation polls for the first time, the Shiv Sena-BJP combine...
04:21 PM, Jan 12, 2012
Mumbai: In the past few days, BMC officials of the H (West) ward have been exhibiting uncharacteristic enterprise in examining and fixing intermittent mounds on the road. Officials will tell you that these difficult-to-negotiate tar layers are applied over manhole covers with the intention of keeping them in place and protecting them from theft. The sudden and unprecedented ardour to level them may have something to do with the fact...
04:26 PM, Jan 03, 2012
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