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
Sangli in Maharashtra remains tense, a day after two sugarcane farmers were killed in clashes with the police. They were part of a group of farmers led by MP Raju Shetty, who were demanding the government's intervention to increase the minimum support price of sugarcane. Backing the farmers now are activists Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal. Kejriwal will be meeting Shetty on Wednesday at Pune's Yerawada prison. ...
05:46 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
There is 'not a shred of evidence' that genetically-modified food is harmful to humans yet a committee appointed by the Supreme Court has advised a ...
09:39 PM, Nov 05, 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
New Delhi: IAC member and anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal's corruption allegations against Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra, BJP President Nitin Gadkari and NCP Chief Sharad Pawar have resulted in what many are calling the conspiracy of silence. Despite fresh allegations over the source of funding for Gadkari's firm, no politician is raising his voice against the BJP President. Is there a conspiracy of silence between parties on corruption...
08:31 AM, Oct 23, 2012
Pune: A steely resolve to fight cancer ultimately saw NCP supremo Sharad Pawar emerging triumphant in his battle against the deadly disease, which had also caused turbulence in his political career. "I got cured of cancer because of a strong will to fight the disease. If I had given up the fight and stopped working, cancer would have won," Pawar said in an informal chat with reporters at the two-day...
10:56 AM, Oct 21, 2012
In this week's episode of The Week That Wasn't, Cyrus Broacha also talks about Nitin Gadkari, Khap leaders and many more. ...
10:33 AM, Oct 21, 2012
New Delhi: Refuting former IPS officer YP Singh's allegations that he concealed information about Sharad Pawar, Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said he had raised corruption charges against the NCP chief earlier and there was no point in repeating it. Kejriwal said it was "not right" on part of Singh to allege that he had not revealed evidence against Pawar while targeting BJP chief Nitin Gadkari and pointed out that they...
03:56 AM, Oct 21, 2012
Pune: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar on Saturday said he has recommended the name of his party spokesman Tariq Anwar for a ministerial post in the proposed Cabinet reshuffle at the Centre. "In response to the Prime Minister's suggestion to submit name for the proposed reshuffle, I have recommended the name of Tariq Anwar on behalf our party," he told reporters in Pune. Pawar said the number of...
07:12 PM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: In a major political development, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief and Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Saturday announced that he would not contest elections any more. The veteran Maharashtra politician, however, said that he would continue to lead his party. This comes even as the NCP chief has refuted allegations in connection with the Lavasa land deal scam, insisting that the land on which Lavasa has been...
04:28 PM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has refuted allegations in the Lavasa land scam. Pawar insisted that Lavasa land was allotted as per the government policy. He has accused social activists of attempting t to discredit the country's institutions. Pawar and his family are under fire over the alleged allotment of land to a company in which Pawar's daughter owned shares. The allotment was made by the government when Pawar's...
02:55 PM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: India Against Corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said that it was wrong to say that IAC hid evidence against Agriculture Minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar. "We are very selective because we are very responsible," Kejriwal said. He also said that he cannot expose a minister till he has strong evidence against him. "We are taking the issues where we have proof, it is wrong to say...
01:49 PM, Oct 19, 2012
New Delhi: A day after former IPS officer YP Singh targeted Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar and his family alleging corruption in connection with the Lavasa land deal, Supriya Sule on Friday dismissed the claims saying the matter was sub-judice. Sule, the daughter of the NCP chief, said that these allegations had been levelled against her family on several occasions, but nothing could be proved as "everything was...
01:11 PM, Oct 19, 2012
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
Seeking to trash the allegations of land scam against BJP President Nitin Gadkari, NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Thursday came out in his defence saying he was working for the development of farmers. ...
11:49 PM, Oct 18, 2012
Targeting Sharad Pawar over Lavasa Corporation, YP Singh Singh claimed that the NCP chief was at the centre of the "real" scam. ...
11:37 PM, Oct 18, 2012
