Maharashtra Home Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis. File | Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal Maharashtra Home Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday condemned the statements made against Mahatma Gandhi by Hindutva leader Sambhaji Bhide. “I strongly condemn statements made by Sambhaji Bhide. Mahatma Gandhi is the Father … Read more
Maharashtra Governor Ramesh Bais congratulates the newly sworn-in State Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar during a ceremony, as State Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis looks on, at Raj Bhavan, in Mumbai on Sunday. | Photo Credit: ANI The Opposition parties came down heavily on the Bharatiya Janata Party accusing it of engineering the split in the … Read more
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde (L) with Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha. Photo: Special Arrangement Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on June 11 met Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha and requested him to provide land in Srinagar for the construction of ‘Maharashtra Bhavan’. The meeting took place in Srinagar during which … Read more
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. | Photo Credit: PTI Targeting former Chief Minister and Shiv Sena (UBT) faction leader Uddhav Thackeray, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on May 25 said that all top authorities in his administration moved in the field to solve people’s problems unlike the ex-CM who “conducted his government over Facebook.” Speaking … Read more
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde spoke to the media regarding the deaths and hospitalisation of people after suffering from heatstroke during the Maharashtra Bhushan Award ceremony in Navi Mumbai’s Kharghar, on April 17, 2023. | Photo Credit: ANI A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Bombay High Court seeking criminal action against … Read more
‘Waris Punjab De’ chief Amritpal Singh being brought to Dibrugarh Central Jail following his arrest from Punjab’s Moga, in Dibrugarh. | Photo Credit: PTI Amritpal shifted to Assam on Centre’s directive, to be in solitary confinement The Punjab government has decided to shift pro-Khalistan propagator Amritpal Singh to a jail in Assam, more than 2,600 km away … Read more
The BJP’s Maharashtra unit believes the State’s governance record under Eknath Shinde and Devendra Fadnavis may take a while to translate into a feel-good factor. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Central leadership is mulling a proposal from its Maharashtra unit to advance the Assembly elections in the State from October 2024 … Read more
Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Abdul Sattar. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Abdul Sattar has said the farmers ending their lives is not a new issue and such incidents have been happening for many years. He was responding to a query by reporters who sought his comment on the death of farmers in … Read more
Mumbai: Maharashtra Finance Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday presented the first budget of the Eknath Shinde-BJP government. The populist budget had plenty of sops for farmers and women. The ₹16,211-crore revenue deficit budget was slammed by the opposition as an election gimmick done with an ‘eye on early assembly polls’. Fadnavis said his budget was … Read more
Congress candidate Ravindra Dhangekar’s supporters celebrate his victory in the Kasba Peth Assembly bypoll, in Pune on March 2, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI In a setback to the ruling coalition in Maharashtra, the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance emerged triumphant in the Kasba Peth Assembly bypoll, unseating the BJP for the first time from … Read more