Mumbai: A Maharashtra government-appointed committee, which probed the assault on a traffic police officer by a group of legislators inside the assembly premises in Mumbai last month, on Tuesday submitted its report to the Speaker. The committee, headed by Ganpatrao Deshmukh, a veteran MLA of Peasants and Workers Party (PWP), comprised the entire panel of presiding officers belonging to different parties. The seven-member panel submitted its report to Assembly Speaker...
11:51 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Mumbai: A Samajwadi Party activist, who lost the last civic body election, was on Tuesday arrested for allegedly molesting a woman and rioting in suburban Andheri, police said. Arif Khan, the Samajwadi party candidate from Andheri in the last civic body elections in Mumbai, was arrested after his anticipatory bail was rejected by the Sessions Court in a case where he was charged for molestation and rioting among others, police...
06:58 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Mumbai: A police officer who went missing on Saturday was found trapped in a lift, which went out of service, for over 40 hours at his office building in south Mumbai. He was rushed to a nearby hospital in a weak and delirious state. Inspector Suresh Sonawane (46), an officer with Mumbai Police's Missing Persons Bureau, was found in the lift on Monday when technicians opened it for repairs at...
05:02 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Mumbai: A Shiv Sena worker was hacked to death allegedly by five goons near his residence at Antop Hill area in central Mumbai in the wee hours on Monday as he did not pay extortion money, police said. Raju Soni was attacked with sharp-edged objects at about 4.00 am when he stepped out of his house in Sangamnagar area to fill water from the taps, police said. Raju ran a...
10:14 PM, Apr 15, 2013
More than 12,000 villages in Maharashtra are battling acute drought. At such a time when they thought the state government will bring them some relief, the following statement of deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar has shocked all. 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 could one do that? We don't...
08:05 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Mumbai: Terming the registration of FIR against Home Minister RR Patil by Karnataka police as "wrong action", Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Monday said he would speak to his counterpart from the neighbouring state requesting him to drop the charges. Chavan was intervening in an impromptu debate in the Legislative Assembly here initiated by Labour Minister Hassan Mushrif condemning the Karnataka government on booking Patil for his alleged "provocative"...
05:25 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government faced fire in the Bombay High Court on Monday over its handling of the drought situation. Hearing a petition from two farmers in Solapur, the court said the drought situation has worsened due to government inaction. The court had last week asked the Maharashtra government to release water from two dams to the Ujni Dam. Although the government has started releasing water to the Ujni Dam,...
03:41 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Mumbai/Bangalore: Maharashtra legislators on Monday moved a privilege motion against Karnataka Home Minister R Ashok and the state DGP. This comes a few days after an FIR was filed against Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil by the Karnataka Police for allegedly promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race or language for his alleged provocative speech on Belgaum issue, a bone of contention between the two states. Patil...
02:25 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Mumbai: The Opposition stormed the Maharashtra Assembly as it reconvened after a week on Monday. Opposition leaders staged a walkout during question hour seeking the resignation of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar over his 'urine' remark. The Opposition also demanded a discussion on the issue. Earlier, Ajit Pawar made a gaffe while referring to a farmer on hunger fast demanding water to be released in dams, by saying that the...
12:25 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Mumbai: The rupee weakened by 26 paise to trade at 54.78 against the US currency on Monday over sustained dollar demand from banks and importers amid its higher value overseas. The rupee resumed lower at 54.65 per dollar as against the last weekend's level of 54.52 at the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) Market. It hovered in a range of 54.64 and 54.79 per dollar before quoting 54.78 at 10.40 am....
11:52 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Pune: Three years after the German Bakery blast killed 17 people and injured over 60, a Pune court come out with a crucial judgement on Monday. It was the first major terror strike in Pune that dented its tag of being a peaceful city. On February 13, 2010, a deadly blast ripped through Pune's famous eating joint German Bakery. Seventeen people died and 64 others were injured. A Pune court...
08:46 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Assembly will reconvene on Monday after almost a week of not operating. Both Houses of the Assembly were adjourned on April 9 after the opposition created a ruckus over Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's 'urine' comment. 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 post the lunch session....
08:08 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Satara: Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Sunday undertook a fast near Satara to repent for his widely flayed remarks on Maharashtra's drought. But the opposition was not impressed. "This is not a publicity stunt. I really mean it. I admit that all politicians should speak with responsibility," Pawar said after he started his fast. Agriculture Minister and Ajit Pawar's uncle, Sharad Pawar, on Saturday pulled up his nephew for...
05:57 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Mumbai: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Sunday sat on a day-long fast to repent his derogatory comment on the state's drought situation. Pawar is under Opposition pressure to resign over his crass "urinating-in-the-dam" statement over water scarcity being faced by farmers in drought-hit Maharashtra. Ajit Pawar is fasting near the 'samadhi' of Maharashtra leader Yeshwantrao Chavan in Karad of Sangli district. Opposition BJP and Shiv Sena have been...
11:37 AM, Apr 14, 2013
Thane: Noted prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam, who worked as a special public prosecutor in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case, on Saturday turned philosophical to take a dig at Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt whose conviction was recently upheld by the Supreme Court. "Neta ho ya Abhineta....Bogus Gandhigiri se parmatma ke ghar me koi apna pap nahi dho sakta (No one, whether an actor or politician, can get any solace from God by...
07:52 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Nashik: Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Jundal, a 26/11 mastermind and prime accused in a conspiracy case of attack on Maharashtra Police Academy in Nashik, has complained to a local court that he was tortured with electric shocks by police, a charge denied by the prosecution. Jundal, who was produced before a special court in Nashik on Thursday along with two others, filed an application alleging that after being deported...
07:18 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Mumbai: A 29-year-old youth shot his mother dead and later killed himself in Satara in Maharashtra on Friday. Reports said that Kunal Wadkar shot his mother with his gun and later shot himself. His mother was around 50-years-old and was suffering from paralysis. Kunal was a contractor by profession. He reportedly fired one round at his mother and three on himself. A suicide note was recovered from his house. It...
07:09 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Islamabad: A witness on Saturday identified one of the seven Pakistani men charged with involvement in the 2008 Mumbai attacks as the person who had bought inflatable boats used by the terrorists involved in the assault on India's financial hub. Prosecutors said the witness, whom they did not name for security reasons, had identified accused Shahid Jamil Riaz during proceedings conducted behind closed doors at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi by...
05:26 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar has called for the controversy surrounding his nephew and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar to die down. Ajit Pawar had ruffled feathers by his 'urine' remark on the Maharashtra drought situation. "As party president, I will say that Ajit Pawar's statement was improper and unfortunate. He should have been more careful given the position that he is in. Now that he has...
02:17 PM, Apr 13, 2013
Mumbai: The Securities Appellate Tribunal on Saturday adjourned to April 20 its hearing on Subrata Roy's plea against market regulator Sebi's attachment order of his bank accounts and other assets, along with those of two group firms and their top executives. After taking up the petition for its "preliminary hearing", the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) posted the matter to April 20 as the counsel for Sahara Group sought adjournment due...
11:35 AM, Apr 13, 2013
