New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's resignation for his 'urine' remark on the drought in the state. The BJP's women wing will hold a protest in Mumbai on Monday. At a rally on Sunday, Ajit Pawar said, "Somebody is there on a fast for 55 days now. His name is some Deshmukh. He is asking us to release water from dams. How...
10:24 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Mumbai: There has been an uproar over Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's statements at a rally where he tried to joke about someone on a fast in the drought-hit state asking 'how to release water from dams, by urinating?' He has been forced to apologise. This was Pawar's question to drought stricken farmers, "Somebody is there on a fast for 55 days now. His name is some Deshmukh. He...
08:59 AM, Apr 08, 2013
Indapur: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar has apologised for his 'urine' remark and said the government was committed to provide relief to people in the drought-affected regions of the state. "I humbly apologise to the people of Maharashtra for having hurt their sentiments. The state govt is committed to providing every kind of relief for drought-affected regions," he said. The minister had, earlier...
09:57 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Nagpur: Former BJP national president Nitin Gadkari has equated Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with one of the three monkey's of Mahatma Gandhi. On the occasion of party's foundation day, Gadkari on Saturday quoted an SMS received on his cell phone saying Gandhiji had asked Chitragupta from his heavenly abode as to how his three monkeys were doing on earth. Gadkari said the blindfolded monkey is like the blind law in...
08:40 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Mumbai: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) came out in defence of its party leader and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who has sparked a controversy with his "urine" remark while speaking about the drought situation in the state. The NCP spokesperson claimed that Pawar's statement was a "sarcastic" remark and has been "blown out of proportion". "The whole comment has been blown out of proportion and linked in an...
07:34 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Thane: Two days after 72 people died and over 60 were injured in Maharashtra's worst building collapse in a decade, the police on Saturday arrested two builders, Jameel Qureshi and Saleem Shaikh, of the illegal building. While one of them was arrested from Siddharthnagar in Uttar Pradesh, the other was arrested in Thane by the Thane Crime Branch. Earlier in the day, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) completed its...
05:14 PM, Apr 06, 2013
Thane: In one of Maharashtra's worst building collapses in a decade, 58 people have died and 61 have been injured after a seven-storeyed building in Laxmi Compound in Mumbra, a suburb of Thane, crashed down like a pack of cards into a heap of rubble on Thursday evening. However, even after a day, authorities are struggling with rescue operations. A population spurt in the Mumbra-Kalwa belt in Thane district has...
07:59 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Mumbai: Amidst scathing criticism of corruption and negligence, the Maharashtra government on Friday assured a probe by the Additional Chief Secretary into the Thane building collapse and also suspended the deputy commissioner of the municipality. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan further told the state assembly that if the building was found constructed on forest land, action would be taken against the Range Forest Officer and also against police officers if...
06:42 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Thane: The Tarapur Atomic Power Station, located in Thane barely 15o km from Mumbai, is the first atomic power project of India. While the government has been promoting and building more nuclear power plants, the Tarapur Atomic Power Station has allegedly become a reason for deaths of villagers where it is located. Ghivli village is situated very close to the atomic power station and its residents allege that incidents of...
05:48 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Mumbai: Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan has sent 60 representations and petitions received by him from various individuals and organisations, both seeking and opposing clemency for Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt to the State Home Department. In a letter dated April 4, 2013 addressed to the Additional Chief Secretary to Government of Maharashtra, Home Department, the Secretary to the Governor Vikas Chandra Rastogi has sent copies of all the representations received by...
04:46 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Mumbai: As Maharashtra faces one of its worst droughts in four decades and is facing acute shortage of drinking water, the people living in the affected areas are forced to consume polluted water. The use of polluted and dirty water has led to several water-borne diseases in the area. In Dhule district, which is one of the worst drought-hit area, the people are not only facing grappling with shortage of...
03:03 PM, Apr 05, 2013
Mumbai: Capital market regulator Sebi has allowed Coimbatore Stock Exchange (CSX) to exit equity trading business. Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) said that CSX has substantially complied with the conditions for its exit as per the regulator's framework and therefore "is a fit case to allow exit". According to an order issued on Wednesday, Sebi said CSX complied with the regulator's exit guidelines and made payment of necessary...
08:40 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Mumbai: The proposal to charge overweight air passengers more may not have gone down well with some, but a majority of respondents in a recent survey voiced support to the idea. Fifty-nine per cent of the respondents favoured the "fat tax", a survey by global travel search portal Skyscanner revealed. "An independent online poll of 1,000 adults revealed that the majority (59 per cent) of international travellers were in favour...
07:14 PM, Apr 04, 2013
Thane: A 41-year-old man was arrested from the powerloom town of Bhiwandi for allegedly subjecting his mentally-challenged step-daughter to sexual abuse, police said on Thursday. "Kasim Hamid Shaikh allegedly used to rape the 14-year-old repeatedly at his house in Evai village in the district over a period of time," a police official said. He was apprehended on Wednesday after the girl lodged a complaint against Shaikh with the help of...
11:21 AM, Apr 04, 2013
Thane: In a courageous act, a national-level kabaddi champion got two men arrested when they tried to molest her, police said on Thursday. The incident took place at Satis skywalk on Tuesday night when Harshala More and her friends were returning after daily practice when the duo passed lewd comments at them, they said. The duo were identified as Ramesh Thorat (24) and Pritesh Gharat (26). Unfazed, Harshala managed to...
10:33 AM, Apr 04, 2013
Nagpur: In a shocking incident, a man shot dead a professor whose daughter he had been stalking for some time. The professor was shot dead early on Wednesday morning. The man also attacked the girl's mother with an iron rod. She is said to be in a critical condition. The accused has been arrested. Further investigations are on. ...
11:26 PM, Apr 03, 2013
A sessions court held Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation driver Santosh Mane guilty on Wednesday for mowing down eight people and injuring 28 others in January 25, 2012. ...
09:11 PM, Apr 03, 2013
A fire broke out on Wednesday in a residential complex at Marol in suburban Andheri, fire officials said. The blaze erupted on the 10th floor of the multi-storeyed Raj Paradise building at around 12:20 pm, they said. ...
01:42 PM, Apr 03, 2013
Protectors of law - beaten and abused. The assault on API Suryavanshi and a cop in Dhule has shocked the nation. But the fact is, a circular issued by the Mumbai Police Commissioner in 2012 following similar attacks on policemen, was never followed. ...
10:04 AM, Apr 03, 2013
Authorities on Tuesday told the special MCOCA court that they are contemplating shifting the suspected LeT operative and key plotter of 26/11 terror strikes Abu Jundal from Arthur Road jail to a facility at Taloja in Navi Mumbai. ...
09:03 PM, Apr 02, 2013
