There was uproar in the Maharashtra Assembly for the third consecutive day, the Opposition is demanding deputy CM Ajit Pawar's resignation over his controversial 'urine' comment. ...
11:59 PM, Apr 10, 2013
A week after the building collapse in Thane's Mumbra area claimed 74 lives, documents now in possession of Network 18 show that local NCP MLA Jitendra Awhad had prevented the Forest Department from demolishing illegal construction in the area despite a court order to do so. ...
09:33 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Mumbai: A sting operation by a social activist in Mumbai has revealed the nexus between police and illegal construction mafia. The sting, shot at a refugee camp in Kurla, showed around 15 policemen taking bribes to allow illegal construction to flourish in the area. The Mumbai Police has now initiated an enquiry. The sting comes just days after the worst building collapse in Maharashtra in a decade. The illegal seven-storey...
07:58 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Mumbai: Even as Maharashtra faces one of its worst droughts in four decades and people are forced to drink dirty water, thousands of litres of water was wasted during Maharashtra Forest Minister Patangrao Kadam 's visit to Marathwada region on Tuesday. Kadam visited Aurangabad on Tuesday to meet BJP leader Gopinath Munde, who is sitting on a fast against Maharashtra government's policy to tackle drought, and convince him to end...
03:38 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Thane: A week after a building collapsed in Thane's Mumbra area killing 74 people, Network 18 has accessed documents which show that local Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA Jitendra Awhad had prevented the Forest Department from demolishing illegal constructions in the area despite a court order. The documents reveal that the Forest Department had complained to the Chief Secretary of Maharashtra but no action was taken against Awhad. The seven-storey...
03:29 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Mumbai: There was an uproar in the Maharashtra Assembly for the third consecutive day as the Opposition demanded Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's resignation over his controversial 'urine' comment. The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena has hit the streets of Mumbai in protest urging Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan to sack Ajit Pawar. On Tuesday, the Maharashtra Speaker had rejected the Opposition's demand for a censure motion against Ajit Pawar. Meanwhile, a urinal...
02:57 PM, Apr 10, 2013
Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Tuesday alleged irregularities in all irrigation projects in Maharashtra, including the Tillari project bordering the state. "All irrigation projects in Maharashtra are scam. I am saying this on record," he told the State Legislative Assembly, while speaking on demands for grants. "We know about Tillari irrigation project. How much of cement is used and how much is soil cannot be ascertained." Parrikar claimed...
01:48 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Thane: Two engineers of Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) were on Tuesday arrested in connection with last week's building collapse, taking the number of those taken into custody for the tragedy to 13. Executive Engineer Subash Rawal and Deputy Engineer Ramesh Inamdar were arrested in connection with the building crash in which 74 people were killed, a Crime Branch officer told reporters here. He did not elaborate on their alleged role...
11:43 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Mumbai: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar may have admitted to making the biggest blunder of his political career over his 'urine' remark, however, residents of Patkul village in Solapur are incensed by his Marie Antoinette-like remark. "He wants us to drink urine? Is that what he is saying?" a resident asks. With taps and water pumps here having run dry two months ago, the water tankers, sighted once in...
09:47 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Thane: Two more persons including a journalist from Mumbra have been arrested in connection with the building collapse in Shil Phata area, which killed 74 people, taking the total number of arrests in the case to 11, police said on Tuesday. Farukh Abdul (59), an architect and journalist Rafiq Daud Kamdar (44), said to be a conduit for officers, was held on Monday by Thane crime branch, which is probing...
04:58 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Mumbai: Both Houses of the Maharashtra Assembly were adjourned on Tuesday as the opposition created a ruckus over Ajit Pawar's urine remark. The Lower House was adjourned after censure motion against Ajit Pawar was not accepted. The Upper House was adjourned after the opposition demanded resignation of Ajit Pawar, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, post lunch session. Ajit Pawar, while referring to a farmer on a hunger fast demanding water...
03:58 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Jalna: A urinal in Jalna has been named after Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra Ajit Pawar in retribution for his urine remark. A poster with Ajit's photograph was pasted there following which some activists named it after the politician. This comes three days after Ajit, while referring to a farmer on a hunger fast demanding water be released in dams, said that the only way of releasing water in dams...
02:20 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Noted Marathi writer and Padma Shri awardee Laxman Mane, who had been absconding, has surrendered after being accused of sexually exploiting 6 women. 63-year-old Mane allegedly raped and molested the women employees at a charity home where he was the working president. ...
10:29 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Nashik: The city unit of Shiv Sena on Monday demanded resignation of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar over his insensitive remarks over drought, which has ravaged over a dozen districts in the state. Sena activists staged a demonstration against the NCP leader and beat his posters with shoes to express their protest over the remarks made at a function in Indapur taluka of Pune district on Sunday. Party leaders...
03:15 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Satara: After being on the run for a fortnight, noted Marathi author and Padma Shri awardee Laxman Mane, booked in half a dozen separate rape cases, on Monday surrendered before the police here in western Maharashtra. Mane, who has rejected sexual assault charges levelled against him, went to Satara tehsil police station at around 4.00 pm and was arrested. "Mane surrendered in Satara rural police station. He has been arrested,"...
11:36 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Mumbai: South African cricket player Wayne Parnell who was a wanted accused in the Juhu 'rave party' case, on Monday surrendered before a local court and was immediately granted bail for Rs 10,000. He had earlier been shown as a wanted accused in the chargesheet of the case. Parnell hadn't joined his IPL team Pune Warriors yet but he should be able to do so after his bail on Monday....
11:00 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Maharahstra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar was forced to apologise for his callous comment asking whether he should urinate to provide water in dams at a rally in the drought-hit state. ...
10:29 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Mumbai: The Congress in Maharashtra on Monday asked its workers to gear up for Lok Sabha polls, amid speculations that the general elections will be held in November 2013. Addressing a meeting of the party's Mumbai unit where he handed over the charge of party's affairs in the metropolis to Janardhan Chandurkar, state Congress chief Manikrao Thakre said all party workers in Mumbai should start preparing for the Lok Sabha...
10:25 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Bhopal: Claiming that Madhya Pradesh was "ahead of Gujarat" in development, BJP Vice President Uma Bharti on Monday said the party would add to its tally in this year's assembly elections under leadership of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. In the past, Bharti had bitterly resented elevation of Chouhan as Chief Minister and had left the party in a huff eight years ago. Bharti and other newly-appointed members of BJP's...
10:18 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Thane: Arrested Thane Municipal Corporation Deputy Municipal Commissioner Deepak Chavan's counsel told a special court hearing the police remand application on Monday, that his appointment was not for carrying out demolition work at all. The statement by his counsel Rajan Salunke stunned those present in the chamber of special judge KR Warrier, who remanded all the nine arrested in connection with the recent building crash to police custody upto April...
09:24 PM, Apr 08, 2013
