Mumbai: Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray has said that he will not take over the position of "Shiv Sena pramukh" (supremo) which will always belong to his late father Bal Thackeray. "There will not be another Sena Pramukh," Uddhav said in an interview to his party mouthpiece 'Saamana'. He said Bal Thackeray, who passed away on November 17, will always be Shiv Sena "pramukh" and "Hinduhriday samrat". "These titles...
02:58 PM, Dec 02, 2012
Mumbai: The controversy over the Bal Thackeray memorial is unnecessary said his son and Shiv Sena Working President Uddhav Thackeray in his first interview after the Sena supremo's death. Uddhav in an interview to Sena's paper 'Saamna' said that the Sena will continue fighting for 'Marathi Manoos' and 'Hindutvavaad'. Shiv Sena party workers have been demanding for a memorial at Shivaji Park but the Maharashtra government is yet to respond...
08:06 AM, Dec 02, 2012
Mumbai: After mourning Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's death, his son and party executive president Uddhav Thackeray will tour Maharashtra to interact with party activists, a party official said in Mumbai on Saturday. Thackeray's tour will start on December 3 in western Maharashtra's Kolhapur, where he will meet party workers and elected representatives from local bodies to Parliament. Similar meetings for various regions shall be held on December 5 in...
11:06 AM, Dec 01, 2012
New Delhi: The Attorney General is expected to give his opinion to the Supreme Court on Friday on a petition challenging the controversial Section 66(A) of the Information Technology Act. This, even as politicians and cyber experts say the section should be re-written. The petition challenging the controversial Section 66(A) was filed by a Delhi University student. Even as the debate over Section 66(A) continues, Mumbai's Joint Police Commissioner, Himanshu...
07:48 AM, Nov 30, 2012
"Don't insult me by calling me a politician. I am a political cartoonist!" warned Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, lighting up a pipe, a glass ...
12:03 AM, Nov 30, 2012
A youth on Wednesday was detained for allegedly posting defamatory comments about Raj Thackeray. ...
08:32 PM, Nov 29, 2012
The Supreme Court has asked the Attorney General to respond to a petition challenging the controversial Section 66A in the IT Act. ...
07:06 PM, Nov 29, 2012
New Delhi: No less than a police officer of a rank of DCP will be allowed to permit registration of a case under provisions of the Information Technlogy Act that deals with spreading hatred through electronic messages, following uproar over recent arrests under the controversial law. In the case of metropolitan cities, such an approval will have to come at the level of Inspector General of Police. "... the concerned...
06:32 PM, Nov 29, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has directed the petitioners to serve a copy of the petition challenging Section 66(A) of the Information Technology Act to the Attorney General. The A-G has been summoned to respond to the petition on Friday. A Delhi student has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court challenging Section 66(A) of the Information Technology Act which was invoked to arrest two girls in...
03:06 PM, Nov 29, 2012
New Delhi: The government has modified rules under the controversial Section 66(A) of the Information Technology Act in the wake of its alleged misuse in recent few cases. This comes a day after a 19-year-old boy was questioned by the police in Palghar over an alleged Facebook post against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray. This also comes amidst the row over the arrest of two girls in Palghar over...
01:05 PM, Nov 29, 2012
Mumbai: The DGP has hinted at dropping charges against the two Palghar girls who were arrested and released over a Facebook post on late Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray. The DGP has said that the police will file a closure report if the Facebook post didn't warrant penal provisions. A report submitted by the IG of Konkan said the charges against the girls were unjustified. The Shiv Sena had called...
12:16 PM, Nov 29, 2012
Mumbai: In another Facebook row in Palghar, a 19-year-old boy has spoken out after his Facebook account was allegedly hacked and used to abuse Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray. The boy maintains that he never wrote the controversial post but believes it was written to create enmity in Palghar where a large number of North Indians live. "I never wrote that comment. A friend came asking me in the...
11:35 AM, Nov 29, 2012
New Delhi: A Delhi student has filed a public interest litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court challenging Section 66(A) of the Information Technology Act which was invoked to arrest two girls in Palghar, Maharashtra after they posted a comment on the bandh in Mumbai after Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's demise. The petition wants the offence under Section 66(A) of the Information Technology Act to be made non-cognizable. The Supreme...
11:19 AM, Nov 29, 2012
Mumbai: The 19-year-old boy who was questioned for allegedly posting offensive comments against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Facebook has now been let off. The boy was handed over to the police by MNS workers on Wednesday to explain the comment posted about Raj Thackeray. The party's student wing president also filed a complaint. Police sources say that the boy's Facebook account was hacked before the alleged offensive...
08:29 AM, Nov 29, 2012
Mumbai: As the controversy over late Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's memorial rages on, a large number of Shiv Sainiks are guarding the place at Mumbai's Shivaji Park where the leader was cremated. Shiv Sainiks have also put up barricades at the cremation ground and declared that Bal Thackeray's memorial should be built there. Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut called the memorial an emotional issue and also warned the Maharashtra...
12:32 PM, Nov 28, 2012
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena has called for bandh in Palghar on Wednesday to protest against the action on the policemen in the Facebook arrest case. The Thane Superintendent of Police and Palghar police station Sub-Inspector were suspended on Tuesday for disobeying the orders of superiors while arresting two girls for a Facebook post on Sena chief Bal Thackeray. The girls were arrested on the November 19 and released only after...
08:53 AM, Nov 28, 2012
Mumbai: Leaders cutting across political parties paid rich tributes to Bal Thackeray on Tuesday evening, with BJP veteran LK Advani describing the late Shiv Sena chief as "a rare, unique and original" leader. "I have seen a lot of leaders. I am in politics since the first general elections in 1952. But I have not seen anyone like Balasaheb. He was a rare, unique and original leader," Advani said. The...
04:39 AM, Nov 28, 2012
Pune: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Tuesday defended the suspension of two police officers over the arrest of two girls for their posts on Facebook regarding the bandh observed for Bal Thackeray's funeral. He said Thane SP Ravindra Sengaonkar and Senior Inspector Shrikant Pingle had acted against the directions given by their seniors while arresting the girls in Palghar, about 100 km from Mumbai. "The state government has demonstrated...
10:20 PM, Nov 27, 2012
Dr NK Kalia has asked the Centre to take up the matter with the international court of justice against Pakistan. ...
09:19 PM, Nov 27, 2012
A week after two girls were arrested in Palghar for their remarks on Bal Thackerey's death, the state administration has finally taken some action. ...
09:05 PM, Nov 27, 2012
