Satara (Maharashtra): Nationalist Congress Party chief and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has taken a dig at Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan for his poor handling of drought relief works in the state. Pawar said that eating lunch with farmers during a drought crisis review meeting would not help in tackling the problem. "The problems (like drought) won't be resolved by sitting under a tree and eating 'thecha' (a green...
01:14 PM, Apr 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Maharashtra government has recommended cricketer Sachin Tendulkar's name for the country's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan made the announcement in the Assembly on Wednesday. "We felicitated both players from the state after the World Cup. From that time plans were on to recommend the name of the son of the soil, the son of Maharashtra for the Bharat Ratna for his...
08:30 AM, Apr 05, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Wednesday said an inquiry would be conducted into the instances of politicians as well as several IAS and IPS officers from the state acquiring more than one flat from the government quota. "An inquiry in this regard will be conducted under the commission, probing the multi-crore Adarsh housing society scam after that probe gets over," Chavan told the Legislative Council. He was replying...
05:54 PM, Apr 04, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra government has requested the Centre to rename the Bombay High Court as the High Court Mumbai, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said on Tuesday. Replying to the budgetary demands of the Marathi language department in the Legislative Assembly, Chavan said the state government had so far written eight to nine letters to the Centre in this regard. "We will follow up the matter," he added. Chavan said the Marathi...
02:01 AM, Apr 04, 2012
Mumbai: A Shiv Sena legislator on Monday moved a breach of privilege notice against Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan for "misleading" the Assembly on a housing society promoted by top bureaucrats and police officials. The MLA, Subhash Desai, alleged that Chavan, who heads Urban Development portfolio, had given directives to regularise illegal constructions at Patliputra Housing Society in suburban Mumbai even as the Speaker had withheld the question when it...
05:44 PM, Apr 02, 2012
Mumbai: India will become "a great country" in the next 30-40 years on the strength of its human resources, knowledge and innovation, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has said. "The decade 2010- 2020 is the decade of evolution where the people have the ability to innovate, create new wealth, new jobs, grab new opportunities and take a route of entrepreneurship. The management skills, innovations and science will build new industries,"...
03:28 AM, Apr 02, 2012
Mumbai: Under pressure from all quarters including his own NCP, Maharashtra Finance Minister Ajit Pawar on Thursday announced a 2 per cent rollback of the proposed five percent VAT on LPG meant for domestic use. "The tax would be now 3 per cent, instead of 5 per cent," Pawar informed the state legislative council. On Tuesday, Congress legislators led by state unit president Manikrao Thakre had met Chief Minister Prithviraj...
11:31 PM, Mar 29, 2012
New Delhi: Taking a cue from the populist Budget presented by Goa, the Maharashtra congress has now decided to oppose the Value Added Tax in LPG. A delegation led by the Congress's Manikrao Thakre met Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday, asking him to review and roll back the VAT imposed on LPG. The Chief Minister in the Budget had imposed a 5 per cent VAT on LPG in Maharhstra....
03:41 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Wednesday appealed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to lift the ban on export of cotton, saying the move would severely affect farmers in the state. "Maharashtra is one of the largest cotton growing states. Most of the cotton in the state is cultivated under rain-fed conditions. It is grown in the backward region of Vidarbha and Marathwada, where a large number of suicides...
03:01 AM, Mar 08, 2012
Mumbai: Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi on Friday said that he was open to private investment for the purpose of modernisation and development of Indian Railways. Addressing a press conference here after holding a pre-budget meeting with Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and state MPs, Trivedi said private sector can be roped in for development of tracks, rolling stocks and signals. Stating that the railways was going through critical times, the...
03:46 AM, Mar 03, 2012
New Delhi: Press Council of India Chairman Justice Markandey Katju has sent a showcause notice to Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan over the recent attacks on journalists. Katju has threatened to recommend the dismissal of the government to the President. Katju has asked Chavan to reply to his letter within three weeks, after which he said he would take action. In the letter Katju said, "It seems to me that...
08:35 AM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: Press Council Chairman Markandeya Katju on Wednesday issued a show cause notice to Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan over attacks on journalists in the state and threatened to recommend to the President dismissal of the state government. "It is the duty of the state government to maintain law and order in the state but it seems to me that your government is neither able to maintain law and...
11:24 PM, Feb 22, 2012
Mumbai: What have we done to deserve a CM who did his masters from University of California, Berkeley, reads Rene Descartes, enjoys sushi and listens to the Doors and Bob Dylan? Must have been something very good, says Malavika Sangghvi after she met Prithviraj Chavan on the last day of electioneering at his residence late in the night for an insightful interview, free from grandstanding and hollow promises. With an...
08:38 PM, Feb 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress high command has reportedly sought a report from the Maharashtra Congress after its Brihan Mumbai Corporation (BMC) poll debacle. The Shiv Sena-BJP combine won the polls, managing to retain power in the prestigious civic body, the country's richest. This was the first civic elections in Mumbai where the Congress was contesting in an alliance with the NCP. An honest Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said on...
05:17 PM, Feb 18, 2012
New Delhi: In what came as a major setback for the Congress and the NCP, the first big electoral battle of 2012 has gone in favour of the Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) combine that managed to retain power in the prestigious Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the country's richest civic body. An honest Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said that the defeat in the BMC polls has come as a...
07:31 AM, Feb 18, 2012
New Delhi: Poll result for the country's richest municipal body, the Maharashtra Civic Polls, will be out on Friday. The Shiv Sena-BJP alliance took the initial lead in the richest civic body Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The counting has also begun for Thane and Pune Municipal Corporation. In Thane, NCP candidates Amit Sariya (Ward 13B) and Radhabhai Jadhav (Ward 14B) were on lead till 8 am. The NCP and the...
07:14 AM, Feb 17, 2012
Three days before the crucial Mumbai corporation elections, Bal Thackeray in an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN slams Sharad Pawar and Prithviraj Chavan for saying the Shiv Sena is on the decline. ...
12:07 PM, Feb 13, 2012
Mumbai: Hitting out at Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday said that he pitied him. "I feel pity for him. It is unfortunate that he is the Chief Minister of the state," Uddhav said. Chavan had on Wednesday said that Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray will become inconsequential after the February 16 Mumbai civic polls. Mentioning "piles of pending files" with the Chief Minister,...
03:47 AM, Feb 10, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has pitched the panchayat polls as the mid term elections that will change political equations in the state. The polling for as many as 27 zilla parishads and 305 panchayat samitis across the state takes place on Tuesday. Much is at stake for several Maharashtra bigwigs such as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari, Gopinath Munde, Narayan Rane and RR Patil in the...
08:54 AM, Feb 07, 2012
A high profile mix of politicians and filmstars were present at the Riteish-Genelia wedding. ...
09:02 PM, Feb 03, 2012
