The Supreme Court verdict on 1993 Mumbai blasts tomorrow will be keenly watched by Bollywood as fate of one of its superstars Sanjay Dutt, who was sentenced to six year jail term by a TADA court, will be decided. The apex court will pronounce its verdict on a bunch of appeals and cross-appeals filed by and against 100 people including Dutt who were convicted by the special TADA court in...
08:37 PM, Mar 20, 2013
The Supreme Court will on Thursday pronounce its verdict in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts in which 100 people were convicted out of which 12 were awarded death penalty and 20 were given life sentence by a TADA court. A bench of justices P Sathasivam and BS Chauhan will also decide the appeal of Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt challenging his conviction and six years imprisonment awarded to him for being in...
07:45 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Five MLAs have been suspended till December 31 by the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly for assaulting a policeman in the Assembly building. Police has booked 16 MLAs for assault and is likely to make some arrests as well. ...
06:56 PM, Mar 20, 2013
The five Maharashtra MLAs who beat up Assistant Police Inspector Sachin Suryavanshi have been suspended till December 31. The incident took place outside the State Assembly on Tuesday. ...
03:39 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Caught in a battle between their teachers and the government, Himanshu Phalak and Yojit Sharma are among thousands of students in Maharashtra whose scheduled exams hang in the balance. Second year B.Com student Himanshu Phalak said, "I don't even know what my exam timetable is like." ...
10:14 AM, Mar 20, 2013
NCP supremo Sharad Pawar on Tuesday night asked the Maharashtra government to take stern action against a group of legislators who beat up a police officer inside the Vidhan Bhavan, an incident that shocked the state. "I appeal to the Maharashtra government that those who are responsible for the offence should be dealt sternly as per law so that a message goes out that there is rule of law in...
12:18 AM, Mar 20, 2013
Expressing surprise over the wastage of water during a pre-Holi celebrations at Self-proclaimed spiritual leader Asaram Bapu's ashram, Maharashtra's Home Minister RR Patil said this was shocking since the state is suffering its worst drought in over four decades. ...
09:35 AM, Mar 19, 2013
At least 37 people were killed when a bus on its way from Goa to Mumbai fell into a river near the Khed junction in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra on Tuesday morning. ...
08:17 AM, Mar 19, 2013
Meanwhile, the Shiv Sena has demanded IPL franchisees to contribute Rs 500 crore towards drought relief in the state. ...
11:59 PM, Mar 18, 2013
LeT operative and key 26/11 attacks handler Abu Jundal's plea that he must not be kept in the barrack where hanged terrorist Ajmal Kasab was kept was on Monday rejected by a local court. "The court rejected the application in which we had sought that he should not be kept in Kasab's barrack as Jundal was hallucinating about him," said his lawyer Ejaz Naqvi. ...
08:40 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Self-proclaimed spiritual leader Asaram Bapu has come under flak for indulging in pre-Holi celebrations wasting tonnes of water even as Maharashtra reels under its worst drought in over four decades. "Water was not misused as claimed by media, we used very less quantity of water. Media has been misguided by an NGO. Our people have not manhandled media," said Asaram. ...
08:07 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Two commandos were injured in an encounter with Maoists in forest area near Marartola village of the east Maharashtra district, police said on Monday. ...
02:18 PM, Mar 18, 2013
The Shiv Sena protested at the premises of the Dr Antonio De Silva School where three six-year-old students were chained, paraded and made to clean toilets as punishment. Shiv Sena leaders met the trustees of the school saying the teacher should be suspended pending inquiry. ...
01:25 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Spiritual leader Asaram Bapu has denied any wastage of water in Nagpur in Maharashtra, saying more water is used to have a bath. In a statement, Asaram said, "Only one tanker of water was used by thousands of people, so each person used only a minimal amount of water. We use far more to have a bath. We will continue to play Holi with water in other places and states...
12:00 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Self-proclaimed spiritual leader Asaram Bapu has come under flak for indulging in pre-Holi celebrations wasting water. Even as the state of Maharashtra is reeling under its worst drought in over four decades, the spiritual leader and his followers used tonnes of water. ...
09:36 AM, Mar 18, 2013
With a view to study and understand the mindset of the netizens for the purpose of providing better safety and security in the metropolis, Mumbai police launched a social media laboratory. With this, Mumbai police have arguably become the country's first police force to open such a lab. ...
04:09 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare on Sunday claimed to have sufficient proofs of alleged irregularities committed in the farmers's loan waiver scheme of the Centre which was brought out by CAG report recently. ...
02:37 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Maharashtra Government has served a showcause notice to the trust managing Saibaba temple in Shirdi for spending lakhs of rupees on a slew of projects without taking its permission, an RTI query has revealed. Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust, which spent the money on providing basic amenities like roads in Shirdi town, has been served the notice by Law and Judiciary Department, Sandeep Kulkarni, RTI activist who filed the query related...
04:59 PM, Mar 16, 2013
After spending almost Rs 70,000 crore, the government's irrigation plan for Maharashtra seems to reaped no results. CNN-IBN's Smitha Nair travelled to the Nimna Dhudhna irrigation projects site set up in 1979, which is still incomplete despite a 50 time cost jump. ...
10:45 AM, Mar 15, 2013
Maharashtra is suffering its worst drought in 40 years, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday said that better planning and implementation would have lessened the impact of the drought in the state. ...
06:35 AM, Mar 15, 2013
