On Thursday, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced that an appropriate investigation will be conducted regarding the First Information Report (FIR) that was filed regarding an alleged attempt to bribe and blackmail his wife, Amruta Fadnavis.
Fadnavis spoke about the matter in the Assembly after it was raised by Leader of ...
The police found dead a 44-year-old software professional, his wife, and their eight-year-old son in their flat in the Aundh area of Pune city on Wednesday (March 15).
Prima facie, it appeared that the man first killed his wife and son and then hanged himself, they said.
The police identified the deceased as Sudipto Ganguly, his wife Priyanka...
"The Maharashtra government on Thursday (March 16) will hold another round of talks with a delegation representing thousands of farmers and tribals. They are walking towards Mumbai in a bid to address their demands," said former MLA Jiva Gavit spearheading the long march.
"They will hold talks with Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Deputy CM Devendr...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday (March 15) questioned then Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari’s role in calling the trust vote that toppled the Uddhav Thackeray government in the state last year.
“The Governor must be conscious that calling for a trust vote may lead to the toppling of the government,” the Supreme Court said while hearing ...
Rajput leader and Karni Sena founder Lokendra Singh Kalvi passed away at a state-run hospital in Jaipur on Tuesday (March 14).
Family sources said he suffered a cardiac arrest late in the night and breathed his last. Kalvi was admitted to the Sawai Man Singh Hospital for the past few days.
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Bustling Mumbai recorded for a second time this month the highest maximum temperature in India at 39.4 degrees Celsius on Sunday (March 12) due to absent or delayed sea breeze.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned of a heat wave for Monday.
The Santacruz observatory and the Colaba observatory recorded 39.4 degrees Celsius and ...
A foot march of farmers and workers spearheaded by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) to draw the governments attention towards various demands of these sections began from Dindori town in Maharashtras Nashik district to Mumbai on Sunday.
The organisers said that thousands of farmers and unorganised sector workers are taking part in the Long...
Six people were killed on Sunday (March 12) after their car met with an accident on the Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra’s Buldhana district.
Buldhana SP Sarang Awhad said the incident occurred at 8 am near Shivni Pisa village when the Maruti Ertiga, carrying 13 passengers aboard was travelling from Aurangabad to Shegaon.
“The driver of th...
A 28-year-old woman and a nine-year-old girl died after an iron rod from an under-construction building fell on them while they were travelling in an auto-rickshaw in suburban Jogeshwari on Saturday (March 12) evening.
According to an official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), the incident took place near Shalyak Hospital on the W...
On Saturday, the Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Ashok Gehlot, held a meeting with a group of war widows from various parts of the state who expressed their support for the current policies of the government regarding the families of martyrs.
This meeting took place amidst a continuing protest by the widows of three CRPF jawans who lost their lives...
The Eknath Shinde government on Friday (March 10) was left fumbling for words after the Opposition demanded to know why Maharashtra farmers were being asked to furnish their caste for the mere purchase of fertilisers, on an online portal run by the central government. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has assured rectification in the system.
Shinde, ...
Presenting Eknath Shinde-led government’s first budget, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday announced ₹36,000 crore for major infrastructure projects in the state, apart from extending ₹6,000 annual cash benefit to 1.15 crore farmers on the lines of PM Kisan Yojana.
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Fadnavis, who also holds the f...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese on Thursday morning (March 9) reached the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad and took a round of the massive sports arena on a golf car before the start of the fourth Test match between India and Australia.
Modi and Albanese handed over Test caps to their respective tea...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted on Wednesday (March 8) that he was looking forward to deliberations with his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese to further the friendship between the two countries.
Albanese, who is on a four-day trip to India, arrived in Ahmedabad on Wednesday afternoon along with a delegation of ministers and business ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese will watch the first day of the fourth Test match between the two countries at the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad on March 9, said officials.
The two leaders are on a two-day visit to Gujarat from Wednesday (March 8).
While PM Modi will arrive late evening, Alban...
The Gujarat government on Tuesday announced a Rs 330-crore package for onion and potato cultivators for transportation and storage amid a fall in rates.
Agriculture Minister Raghavji Patel said in Gandhinagar that Gujarat was likely to produce seven lakh tonne of red onions this year.
"Marketing yards in Saurashtra region are likely to receiv...
Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat has given his assent to a Bill brought by the state's BJP government in the ongoing Budget session to curb recruitment exam paper leaks which prescribes jail up to 10 years to those involved in such malpractices and fines of up to Rs 1 crore.
The Gujarat Public Examination (Prevention of Unfair Means) Bill, 2023 ...
Effluents from petrochemicals units, refineries, thermal power plants, cement and rayon factories and ship-breaking facilities have polluted the seas close to the coastline
Claiming that the people in Maharashtra are seeking change, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar said he will ensure that the constituents of Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) will contest the upcoming Assembly and Lok Sabha elections together.
Pawar was speaking to reporters after the newly-elected Congress MLA from Kasba Peth Assembly con...
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday (March 5) asserted that the abrogation of Article 370, which revoked Jammu and Kashmir's special status, was merely symbolic and motivated by the Bharatiya Janata Party's political agenda.
In his weekly column Rokthok in party mouthpiece Saamana, Raut said Kashmi...
The residents of a housing complex with five buildings in Dombivali in Maharashtra's Thane district was evacuated after some of its slabs started crumbling and pillars developed cracks, fire brigade officials said on Sunday (March 5).
The loose slabs and cracked pillars were noticed at 11pm on Saturday, after which fire brigade, police and civic...
Actor Sheezan Khan, an accused in the Tunisha Sharma suicide case has been granted bail by a Vasai court in Maharashtra’s Palghar district.
In his order of Saturday (March 4), details of which were made available on Sunday (March 5), Additional Sessions Judge RD Deshpande said there was no need to keep Khan in jail since the probe was complete a...
The Gujarat government on Saturday opposed the interim bail sought by Oreva Group promoter Jaysukh Patel to pay compensation to the kin of victims of last year’s Morbi suspension bridge collapse that left 135 dead.
Patel sought to be let out on bail for 15-20 days to complete the formalities required to recompense the families of the dead and th...
On Saturday, Vasundhara Raje, a BJP leader and former chief minister, criticised the Congress government in Rajasthan. She accused them of allowing corruption to thrive under their rule and stated that the power struggle between CM Ashok Gehlot and his former deputy Sachin Pilot has set the state back.
Addressing a publ...
