Mumbai: The Maharashtra political class seems to have closed ranks behind BJP President Nitin Gadkari. The latest has been support from Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray, who has said that the corruption charges against Gadkari were the result of a conspiracy hatched by India Against Corruption activists Arvind Kejriwal and Anjali Damania. In an editorial in 'Saamna', Shiv Sena's mouthpiece, Thackeray claimed the charges of land grabbing in Vidarbha were...
11:16 AM, Oct 19, 2012
New Delhi: Former IPS officer YP Singh came all guns blazing on India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal and accused him of hiding facts about Agriculture Minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar. However, IAC denied hiding any facts and issued a statement saying, "This is wrong to say that we did not raise alleged corruption of Sharad Pawar, we did raise this in our July agitation and we have uploaded...
08:03 AM, Oct 19, 2012
Defending BJP President Nitin Gadkari, NCP chief Sharad Pawar said that all the agro-based projects of Gadkari have benefitted farmers. Pawar said he and the BJP chief are political opponent but both are committed to the development of Maharashtra. ...
08:24 PM, Oct 18, 2012
Mumbai: Despite allegations by India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal, the BJP has been saying that its President Nitin Gadkari is at no fault. But a CNN-IBN report, too, had found irregularities in an irrigation project in lower Penganga. And interestingly, Gadkari's close aide Ajay Sancheti was in the midst of it. Weeks before Ajit Pawar resigned as Maharashtra's deputy chief minister, he made public his efforts to get national...
08:51 AM, Oct 18, 2012
Mumbai: The Congress party on Monday swept away the elections for Nanded Municipal Corporation of the state by winning 41 out of the total 81 seats. The Congress, which shares power with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) at the state level, went alone in elections to the 81-member Nanded Municipal Corporation, held on Sunday. While NCP secured 10 seats, Shiv Sena got 14 and BJP won on two seats. Reacting...
03:49 PM, Oct 15, 2012
Parbhani: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar, who recently quit as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, said his party was prepared to face scrutiny of allegations with regard to the irrigation sector. "The party is prepared to face any results that will come out after scrutiny in connection with irrigation and the allegations made against me. Electronic media has made the matter murky," Pawar said in Parbhani on...
08:54 PM, Oct 12, 2012
Vadodara: Sharad Pawar-led NCP will fight the upcoming Gujarat Assembly elections in alliance with Congress with an aim to dislodge the ruling Narendra Modi government. "Our party will have seat sharing arrangements with Congress for upcoming Gujarat assembly poll as we want to prevent division of votes and defeat BJP in the poll," Pawar said at the opening session of the 5th National Convention of his party at Atladara on...
02:21 AM, Oct 11, 2012
Vadodara: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was called a "publicity stunt expert" on Wednesday by the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) whose leader and Union Minister Sharad Pawar accused him of misguiding people on expenses towards Congress president Sonia Gandhi's foreign tours. "Despite Prime Minister's Office issuing a statement that Centre has not spent anything on her (Sonia's) visits and treatment, the Chief Minister (Modi) is spreading lies and misguiding people...
08:02 PM, Oct 10, 2012
Vadodara: Congress allies are putting the party on notice without actually pulling out of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). A day after Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati asked her party to get ready for an early Lok Sabha election; Nationalist Congress Party supremo and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar joined her chorus. Addressing the NCP conclave in Vadodara, Pawar asked his party leaders and workers to be ready for a...
12:27 PM, Oct 10, 2012
Vadodara: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will be holding its national convention on Wednesday in Vadodara. Sharad Pawar, who was elected party chief for the fifth time, will formally take charge on Wednesday. Top leaders including Ajit Pawar, Sharad Pawar, Praful Patel and Supriya Sule will also be present at the convention. The recent strain in ties with the Congress and the upcoming Gujarat Assembly elections will be discussed on...
08:21 AM, Oct 10, 2012
Mumbai: Weeks before he resigned as Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar made public his efforts to get national status accorded to the Lower Penganga irrigation project in Yavatmal. What Pawar did not dwell on, was how the project in limbo since 1997 was revived by him hurriedly, just ahead of the 2009 Assembly elections. The awarding of tenders, most of them in one single...
03:19 PM, Oct 09, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress and its allies are out in full force to defend Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra against allegations of "illegal" financial transactions with realty major DLF levelled by social activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal. Hours after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar backed Vadra, it was the turn of Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram to come out in defence of the Congress President's son-in-law....
01:13 PM, Oct 08, 2012
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) Chairperson Shanta Sinha said the rapes in Haryana were not just a shame for the state but for the country as a whole. "It is shocking that so many rapes and gangrapes took place within a month. There needs to be some effort from the government's part. It is a shame for Haryana and for the country as a whole," she said. ...
09:33 AM, Oct 08, 2012
Raipur: Union Minister Sharad Pawar on Sunday came out in support of Robert Vadra, the embattled son-in-law of Congress President Sonia Gandhi and dared social activist Arvind Kejriwal to approach court if he felt that his allegation against Vadra had any substance. "Of late, this is becoming a trend that anyone levels allegations, then keeps mum and later asks the government to conduct a judicial probe. But in such cases,...
10:01 PM, Oct 07, 2012
New Delhi: Concerned over a spurt in incidents of rape of teenaged girls in Haryana, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Sunday said it will seek explanation from the state government in each case, including action taken against culprits. The Commission also said the recent incidents with regard to women in Haryana have emphasised the need to focus on several issues, including the skewed sex ratio...
05:23 PM, Oct 07, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has ordered an enquiry against 45 senior officials of the Vidarbha Irrigation Development Council (VIDC) in connection with the multi-crore irrigation scam. Chavan, who was in Thane on Sunday, confirmed that he had approved the probe while denying that there was a delay of two years in taking the decision. The engineers, including VIDC's former chief executive director DP Shirke, will now face probe...
04:05 PM, Oct 07, 2012
Mumbai: An enquiry has been ordered against 45 senior officials of the Vidarbha Irrigation Development Council (VIDC) in connection with the multi-crore irrigation scam, sources said on Sunday. The sources added that the 45 included the ex-director of the VIDC, DP Shirkhe. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and nephew of party chief Sharad Pawar, Ajit Pawar resigned late last month after being charged with giving clearances to as many as...
11:32 AM, Oct 07, 2012
Jalna: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and Maharashtra Higher and Technical Education Minister Rajesh Tope's wife Manisha was among 34 people booked on Saturday for allegedly forging land documents, police said. A case has been registered under various sections of Indian Penal Code against Manisha Tope and others, including developers from Jalna, Hyderabad, Mumbai besides officials of department of Land Records who allegedly sanctioned the construction activity on the 13-acre...
11:21 PM, Oct 06, 2012
Mumbai: The NCP on Saturday demanded a CBI probe into the 900-point 'flash crash' of National Stock Exchange (NSE) index Nifty, which had halted trade on the exchange for about 15 minutes. NCP spokesperson Nawab Malik said a CBI probe was necessary to find out the "conspiracy" behind the incident. "This was a conspiracy to destabilise the economy which was looking good after the Centre's reform measures. Small investors have...
01:17 PM, Oct 06, 2012
Mumbai: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar called on Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan in Mumbai on Friday night, the first time after Pawar quit as the Deputy Chief Minister last week. The nearly two-hour-long meeting took place at Chief Minister's official bungalow 'Varsha'. Chavan confirmed on Friday that Ajit Pawar met him, and termed it a courtesy call. This came a day after Pawar had called a meeting...
09:31 PM, Oct 05, 2012
