The drought situation in Maharashtra has worsened with more villages being supplied water through tankers, an official said on Monday. The number of villages and hamlets depending on water tankers for survival went up to 7,075 from 6,488 last Monday. ...
05:05 AM, Mar 12, 2013
The budget session of the Maharashtra legislature started on Monday on a noisy note, with MNS boycotting the session and walked out when the Governor began his address. MNS workers protested outside the Vidhan Bhawan against the ongoing drought situation across the state. ...
01:02 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray lauded Diwan Zainul Abedin Ali Khan of Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti dargah in Ajmer for showing courage in opposing the visit by Pakistan Prime Minister Pervez Ashraf to the shrine on Saturday. "With his patriotic fervour and love of the country, the diwan has shown that he is a real "jewel" of the country and should be conferred the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour," Thackeray...
11:30 AM, Mar 11, 2013
Drought-stricken and desperate, Gadana village in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, is a sea of wells. It's a tragic contradiction since most of them are dry. Government rules specify only one well for drinking water at every 500 metres. The Gadana village has 18 wells - eight in a 60 metre area, and yet, they have no water. ...
08:56 AM, Mar 11, 2013
Opposition must keep their political differences aside and co-operate during the budget session commencing on Monday, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said on Sunday. "The debate on drought and other important issues will be held during the session. Therefore, they (opposition) should co-operate," Chavan told reporters. ...
06:25 AM, Mar 11, 2013
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Saturday said that his party would come to power in the state without allying with anyone - an indication that he would not tieup with his cousin and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray. ...
02:05 AM, Mar 10, 2013
Ten people were injured in a gas cylinder explosion in a scrap dealer's shop in Mumbai's Kandivali area on Thursday night. According to the sources the crap dealer had bought the cylinder from a hotel. ...
12:41 PM, Mar 08, 2013
Even as the entire world celebrates Women's Day on March 8, there are several people in India who have no qualms in killing a girl child or aborting a female foetus. ...
10:45 AM, Mar 08, 2013
Perturbed by the looming water crises in several parts of the state, Maharashtra Police has directed its personnel to remain prepared and handle possible water riots with "sensitivity", the state police chief said on Thursday. ...
02:31 AM, Mar 08, 2013
The CBI on Thursday arrested a Customs Commissioner and a Customs House Agent from Mumbai on the charge of receiving a bribe of Rs 19 lakh from a businessman for releasing his container. Manoj Krishna, an IRS officer of 1987-batch, was arrested by the agency in the allged graft case on the complaint given by a Rajkot-based businessman, CBI sources said. ...
08:12 PM, Mar 07, 2013
The central government has provided Rs 5.74 billion so far to help combat drought in Maharashtra, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said in Mumbai on Wednesday. ...
03:47 AM, Mar 07, 2013
The Maharashtra government had been losing a revenue of Rs 122 crore a year since 2008 due to the tax and other concessions given to the Indian Premier League (IPL) matches, state BJP spokesperson Madhav Bhandari said on Wednesday. ...
11:50 PM, Mar 06, 2013
The Mumbai police on Wednesday filed a chargesheet in 'a rave party' case, wherein IPL player Rahul Sharma, actor couple Apoorva Agnihotri and Shilpa Agnihotri, and others had been rounded up after a raid on a suburban hotel. South African cricketer Wayne Parnell has been showed as a wanted accused in the chargesheet. ...
11:08 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Two more persons were held in connection with the murder of builder SK Loharia, who was gunned down in the neighbouring Navi Mumbai, taking total number of arrests in the case to six, police said on Wednesday. Altaf Khan (38), a contractor from Mumbra, was nabbed on Tuesday while Mohammed Naseer Ansari (42), who is a real estate agent from Ambernath, was held today, police said. ...
07:39 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil on Wednesday said that the accused in the alleged rape and murder of three minor sisters in Bhandara district will be brought to book soon. "The culprits in the case will be arrested soon," Patil said when asked by reporters about the efforts being made by the government in the case. ...
05:33 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Terming as "bad in law" invoking of the charge of 'culpable homicide not amounting to murder' against him in the 2002 hit-and-run case, actor Salman Khan on Wednesday sought its quashing by a sessions court which questioned whether it had the jurisdiction to hear his plea. ...
05:07 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Twenty six-year-old Aijaz Mirza, who was released from jail after six months after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) found no proof against him in a terror plot is fighting to rebuild his reputation and reclaim his life after being sacked by the DRDO. ...
07:27 AM, Mar 06, 2013
A Mumbai sessions court on Wednesday will hear Bollywood actor Salman Khan's plea against a lower court's order to try him for culpable homicide and not amounting to murder in the 2002 hit-and-run case. ...
07:11 AM, Mar 06, 2013
Five party workers of the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) were arrested on Tuesday for beating up parents of north Indian students, police said. ...
01:47 AM, Mar 06, 2013
A 40-year-old man allegedly raped his own 12-year-old daughter between February 2012 and October 2012. Identified as Asif Sheikh Hamid Sheikh, he allegedly raped her at his residence in Wadsa Desaiganj in neighbouring Gadchiroli district and also at his another house in Kapsi Buzurg near the city, under the Kalamana police station. ...
08:30 PM, Mar 05, 2013
