Onion prices have shot up by 57 per cent to Rs 22 per kg in the last one month in the wholesale market of Nashik - a major producing centre - on higher demand forcing the government to consider steps to control prices. The price rise is, however, more than five-fold compared to the same month in 2012. In most retail markets across the country, onion is selling at Rs...
09:38 PM, Feb 01, 2013
As protests continued in Hyderabad for separate statehood for Telangana, the United Progressive Alliance key ally the Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar raised the issue with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saying a delay in decision on the issue would not be helpful. ...
07:00 PM, Jan 31, 2013
With a severe drought looming over parts of the state, Maharashtra has spent Rs 4.14 billion to combat the situation, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said Wednesday. ...
03:25 AM, Jan 24, 2013
The central government on Thursday released an aid of Rs 778 crore as drought assistance to Maharashtra from National Disaster Response Fund, an official statement said. ...
02:38 AM, Jan 11, 2013
Former ICC chief Sharad Pawar feels the talent pool has never been wider, but upcoming players need time to become world class. ...
04:19 PM, Jan 09, 2013
Maharashtra's Marathwada region is in the grip of severe drought with Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar's constituency Madha facing acute water shortage. The water level is decreasing, rivers, streams and taps have run dry with even the government-supplied water not able to meet the people's requirement. ...
07:26 PM, Jan 03, 2013
Taking a dig at Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar for his remark that the party might reconsider continuing its alliance with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in 2014 elections to Lok Sabha and state Assembly, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday said it was fine if the party had decided to sit in opposition. ...
09:19 PM, Jan 01, 2013
Miffed at the way it was treated by the Congress in the just concluded Gujarat assembly elections, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has hinted that it would have to rethink on its alliance with the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and assembly polls. ...
12:21 PM, Dec 31, 2012
The Maharashtra government on Monday agreed to conduct a SIT probe into the irrigation scam in the state. The team will be headed by water expert Madhav Chitale and modalities will be finalised by December 30. ...
03:06 PM, Dec 17, 2012
NCP chief and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar in Thane on Sunday defended state School Education Minister and his party colleague Fauzia Khan with regard to controversial pictures showing her with hunted animals. ...
02:21 AM, Dec 17, 2012
The NDA is dealing with issues over who will be the Prime Minister if it wins the 2014 General elections. Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi has added a new twist in the debate over who will be the NDA's Prime Ministerial candidate. ...
10:10 AM, Dec 12, 2012
Senior Shiv Sena leader Manohar Joshi on invited NCP President Sharad Pawar to join NDA, saying "he would be able to end quarrels within the BJP-led alliance and could also become Prime Minister". Hailing the Maratha strongman's political skills, Joshi, who attended a function organised on the eve of Pawar's birthday on Wednesday, told reporters "Pawar should join NDA to end quarrels within the alliance and bring together all factions....
11:03 PM, Dec 11, 2012
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar, who had resigned as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra over the irrigation scam, will be re-inducted into the state Cabinet and take oath on Friday. Pawar will be taking oath at 9:30 am on Friday at the Governor's residence. ...
08:09 AM, Dec 07, 2012
New Delhi: A strong plea for adjourning the Lok Sabha on Thursday in memory of late Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray was made at an all-party meeting convened by Speaker Meira Kumar in New Delhi on Wednesday on the eve of the Winter Session of Parliament. Shiv Sena leader in the Lok Sabha Anant Geete made the request to the Speaker and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath after the issue...
09:48 AM, Nov 22, 2012
New Delhi: Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar is expected to deliberate with Rural development Minister Jairam Ramesh the views of the GoM members on fresh changes proposed in the draft Land Bill including raising of the consent percentage of land owners for acquiring land. Pawar-led Group of Ministers (GoM) had cleared the draft Bill on October 16. However, the GoM had proposed some more changes, particularly on increasing land owners' consent...
06:03 AM, Nov 15, 2012
Mumbai: A day after two farmers died and buses were torched following violence in the sugarcane belt of Maharashtra, a political slanging match is on. Anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare on Tuesday hit out at Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, blaming him for provoking violence over the minimum support price for sugarcane in Sangli, Kolhapur and Satara districts. "It is because of Sharad Pawar's comments that the violence erupted. what has he...
07:46 PM, Nov 13, 2012
Mumbai: Condemning the firing incident in which a farmer was killed in Sangli district, the Shiv Sena on Tuesday flayed NCP president Sharad Pawar over his remarks about a prominent farmers' leader in Maharashtra. Senior Sena leader Diwakar Raote said, "Farmers anywhere do not have caste." Pawar's remarks are "a ploy to split the farmers' agitation," he alleged. Raote's comments came in the wake of Pawar's remarks in Baramati on...
06:44 PM, Nov 13, 2012
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Wednesday decided to provide three additional subsidised LPG cylinders to those with an annual income of less than Rs 1 lakh. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting. The three subsidised cylinders will be in addition to the six cylinders to be provided by the Centre. The central government has put a cap on the number of subsidised cylinders at six. Congress had asked...
09:36 PM, Nov 07, 2012
New Delhi: Fresh changes have been made in the draft Land Acquisition Bill under which the level of consent of landowners for acquiring land for private purpose has been made stiffer following a suggestion from UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi. The percentage of land owners, whose consent is a must for acquiring land for private purpose, has been raised from 67 per cent to 80 in the proposed bill. Disclosing the...
09:41 PM, Oct 29, 2012
Mumbai: Addressing his partymen and supporters through a pre-recorded tape, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Wednesday took potshots at Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Union Ministers Sharad Pawar and Sushilkumar Shinde and other leaders. Shiv Sena brought out a huge rally attended by over a lakh at Mumbai's Shivaji Park in Dadar in central Mumbai. The ailing Thackeray, however, did not attend but addressed the gathering through the tape that...
11:17 PM, Oct 24, 2012
