New Delhi: The rift within the National Democratic Alliance over Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi seems to be growing. After the Janata Dal (United), now the Shiv Sena has hinted that it wants the Bharatiya Janata Party to decide on its Prime Ministerial candidate. "Narendra Modi was not in the PM race when Sushma Swaraj met Bal Thackeray. Let the BJP decide on the PM candidate first, we will decide...
01:59 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Nashik: The city unit of Shiv Sena on Monday demanded resignation of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar over his insensitive remarks over drought, which has ravaged over a dozen districts in the state. Sena activists staged a demonstration against the NCP leader and beat his posters with shoes to express their protest over the remarks made at a function in Indapur taluka of Pune district on Sunday. Party leaders...
03:15 AM, Apr 09, 2013
Mumbai: Maharshatra Assembly witnessed an uproar on Monday over last week's horrific building collapse in Thane. Shiv Sena MLAs demanded the arrest of Thane Municipal Commissioner RA Rajeev. Seventy four people have died and more than 60 were injured after a seven-storey building collapsed in Mumbra last week. Thane Police on Saturday arrested seven people including builders Jameel Qureshi and Saleem Shaikh, the Suspended Deputy Commissioner of Thane Municipal Corporation,...
02:08 PM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: The Opposition has questioned the Congress over the latest revelations by US cables WikiLeaks naming late former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in a scandal. The Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded that the Congress comes clean on it. "Today, the WikiLeaks revelations are serious. They are connected to the first family of Congress. All defence deals have some relation with the Congress's first family. They should come clean on...
11:02 AM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's resignation for his 'urine' remark on the drought in the state. The BJP's women wing will hold a protest in Mumbai on Monday. At a rally on Sunday, Ajit 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...
10:24 AM, Apr 08, 2013
New Delhi: A former Shiv Sena leader has complained that he was attacked by four people, including a woman, here following an argument over parking, said police on Sunday. Dhruva Pathak, 46, a resident of Vishnu Garden in west Delhi, was thrashed by autorickshaw driver Mohan and three others around 10.45 pm on Saturday in west Delhi's Rajouri Garden area, police said, quoting from the victim's complaint. Mohan lived close...
06:50 PM, Apr 07, 2013
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Monday accused Shiv Sena of "misleading" people from the coastal Konkan region on the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power project. "Investment to the tune of Rs one lakh crore is being made in the Jaitapur nuclear power project. However, the party is misleading people to oppose the project," Pawar said without naming Shiv Sena, which is reportedly opposing the project. ...
02:01 AM, Apr 02, 2013
Mumbai: Shiv Sena on Monday opposed the move to pardon Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt stating that it would send a wrong message to the society. Speaking in the Legislative Council during a debate on Law and Order scenario in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena MLC Neelam Gorhe said, "There should not be a rethink on the Supreme Court's judgment. It will send a wrong message to the society if Dutt is pardoned."...
05:53 PM, Mar 25, 2013
Mumbai: As the clamour grows for pardoning actor Sanjay Dutt in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, the Shiv Sena has said that it will oppose any such move. Speaking in the Maharashtra Assembly, Sena leader Neelam Gorhe says pardoning Sanjay Dutt will send the wrong message. It is a surprising turn considering it was late Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray who supported Sanjay Dutt in the case initially. On Sunday,...
01:35 PM, Mar 25, 2013
The Shiv Sena protested at the premises of the Dr Antonio De Silva School where three six-year-old students were chained, paraded and made to clean toilets as punishment. Shiv Sena leaders met the trustees of the school saying the teacher should be suspended pending inquiry. ...
01:25 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Shiv Sena and Hindu Sena activists protest against Pakistani Sufi singer Sanam Marvi. ...
12:46 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Suspected activists of Shiv Sena and Hindu Sena on Saturday night disrupted a performance by Pakistani Sufi singer Sanam Marwi here before staging a protest against the participation of the artistes from the neighbouring country at the Sufi festival in New Delhi, police said. ...
12:32 AM, Mar 17, 2013
A Shiv Sena MLA on Wednesday requested the Maharashtra Assembly Speaker to direct the state government to withdraw from circulation a Marathi book, saying it was promoting "gender bias". Vivek Pandit made a special mention on the floor of the Lower House seeking a ban on the book titled "Mulgach Kasa Hoil" (How to get a male baby?) by VV Chowdhary. ...
09:18 PM, Mar 13, 2013
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Saturday said that his party would come to power in the state without allying with anyone - an indication that he would not tieup with his cousin and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray. ...
02:05 AM, Mar 10, 2013
Union Public Service Commission's decision to scrap regional language test in its exams has led to a controversy and the BJP and the Shiv Sena are calling the decision anti-people. ...
11:59 AM, Mar 07, 2013
Shiv Sena leader Suresh Prabhu cancelled his visit to Wharton University to protest against cancellation of Narendra Modi's address at the university. "To deny an entry and to insult a person like this, I think is something which is an extremely odd behaviour and that is why I thought I will also not go there," Prabhu said. ...
04:20 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Shiv Sena leader Suresh Prabhu has decided to cancel his visit to Wharton as a mark of protest against the cancellation of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's keynote address at the Wharton Indian Economic Forum. Prabhu, a former NDA power minister, is a member of the India Economic Forum at Wharton. Prabhu said he regards the university's volte-face on Modi an insult to the country. ...
12:15 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Bollywood actor Nana Patekar has appealed to estranged cousins, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and MNS boss Raj Thackeray, to patch up and work together. ...
06:12 PM, Mar 01, 2013
Targeting Shiv Sena on its opposition to Jaitapur nuclear power project in Ratnagiri district, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeray on Friday asked the people of Konkan not to encourage petty politics obstructing the progress and development. ...
09:29 PM, Feb 15, 2013
That he belongs to a party which has often slammed Valentine's Day celebrations, did not come in the way of a local Shiv Sena corporator who entered into wedlock on Valentine's Day in Mumbai on Thursday. Corporator from Borivli, Abhishek Ghosalkar, son of party MLA Vinod Ghosalkar, tied the knot with Tejasvee Darekar, an IT professional, in suburban Borivli on Thursday afternoon. ...
08:47 PM, Feb 14, 2013
