States urge Union Finance Ministry to ease their borrowing limits

States urge Union Finance Ministry to ease their borrowing limits

New Delhi: Several states, including Kerala, Telangana, Karnataka and Maharashtra, have approached the Union finance ministry, seeking easing of their borrowing limits that now factor in dues to power distribution companies, unspent central funds, contribution to the guarantee redemption fund and off-budget borrowings, ET has learnt. While the Centre says it imposed the borrowing limits … Read more

Congress appoints senior leaders as coordinators for 2026 Maharashtra legislative council polls

Congress appoints senior leaders as coordinators for 2026 Maharashtra legislative council polls

Congress Leader Balasaheb Thorat. File | Photo Credit: ANI The Maharashtra Congress on Tuesday (September 30, 2025) appointed senior party leaders as coordinators for elections to the Graduates’ and Teachers’ constituencies of the State legislative council scheduled to be held in 2026. Party veteran, former Minister and Congress Working Committee (CWC) member Balasaheb Thorat has … Read more

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar will become country’s EV capital: Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar will become country’s EV capital: Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday (September 17, 2025) said Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar will become the country’s Electric Vehicle (EV) capital as it is a favourite investment destination. He was speaking at the Marathwada Mukti Sangram memorial at Siddharth Garden in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, located in the Marathwada region. September 17 marks the anniversary of Marathwada’s … Read more

Why are thousands of small and marginal farmers in Maharashtra rejoicing about India-U.K. FTA?

Why are thousands of small and marginal farmers in Maharashtra rejoicing about India-U.K. FTA?

In Nilwande village, 50 kilometres away from Nashik city, 35 years old Chhaya Thete wakes up early morning to send her two children to a private English medium school around an hour away from her village. Tiffins packed, meals cooked, she then heads to her farm to see if the stems in her vineyard have … Read more

Woman tourist from Maharashtra still missing in landslide-hit Uttarakhand: Minister

Woman tourist from Maharashtra still missing in landslide-hit Uttarakhand: Minister

Army personnel during a search and rescue operation after a flash flood in the Kheer Ganga river, in Uttarkashi. File | Photo Credit: ANI A woman tourist from Maharashtra has remained untraceable since the landslide and flash floods hit the Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand, State Disaster Management Minister Girish Mahajan said on Saturday (August 9, … Read more

Bombay HC gets 4th Bench at Kolhapur; sittings from August 18; Maharashtra CM hails move

Bombay HC gets 4th Bench at Kolhapur; sittings from August 18; Maharashtra CM hails move

An outer view of Bombay High Court in Mumbai on February 08, 2021. | Photo Credit: Vivek Bendre The Bombay High Court will get a new bench at Kolhapur district in western Maharashtra, which will be the fourth HC Bench in the State, and its sittings will commence from August 18. A notification in this … Read more

‘Urban Naxals’ with overseas funding are stalling development projects in Maharashtra, says Devendra Fadnavis

‘Urban Naxals’ with overseas funding are stalling development projects in Maharashtra, says Devendra Fadnavis

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis addresses the gathering during the inauguration and foundation stone laying ceremony of various projects of Lloyds Metals and Energy, in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, Tuesday, July 22, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Days after the Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill was passed in the State Assembly, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on … Read more

Maharashtra govt stays on order allowing homoeopathy doctors to practice modern medicine

Maharashtra govt stays on order allowing homoeopathy doctors to practice modern medicine

The Maharashtra government has put a temporary stay on the earlier order of the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC), allowing homoeopathy practitioners to practice modern medicine. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The Maharashtra government has put a temporary stay on the earlier order of the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC), allowing homoeopathy practitioners to practice modern medicine. … Read more

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Maharashtra doubles honorarium of Emergency-era prisoners

Maharashtra doubles honorarium of Emergency-era prisoners

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis introduced the ‘Gaurav Yojana’ policy during his first term as CM in 2018 to provide a monthly honorarium to such individuals. | Photo Credit: PTI The Maharashtra cabinet, in a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday (June 17, 2025), doubled the monthly honorarium given to individuals from … Read more