Consumers will be facing a tough time in Mumbai, as chemists have joined the strike by traders protesting against the issue of local body tax. Only the medical stores inside hospitals will be open. Druggists across the country are upset that retailers margins ...
Around 4000 resident doctors in Maharashtra are set to go on an indefinite strike from 8 AM as they claim that the government is not looking into their demands. Among their many demands, they had asked the government to increase their stipend. The doctors alle...
Centrestage | Abdul Qadeer Maulana has blamed the driver for mowing down a girl and injuring two other family members, despite proof against his son. His 17-year-old son and their car driver were released on bail by a local court, even as the politician denied...
Maharashtra NCP leader Abdul Qadeer Maulana, in a bid to cover up for his son, blames the driver for the accident. There are multiple witnesses who have seen the leader's teenaged son behind the wheel when the accident, that killed a two-year-old, took place.
The pro-panel which has been conducting an inquiry against the Maharashtra cop, who was assaulted by five MLAs, has taken a shocking decision in the legislative history. The panel has decided to let the MLAs off and penalise the traffic cop. Sources claim that...
The Maharashtra panel probing the case of the attack on API Suryavanshi gives the benefit of doubt to three accused MLAs and their suspension may be revoked by the end of the day. It has also claimed that the alleged cop misbehaved with an MLA on the Bandra-Wo...
Maharashtra NCP vice-president Abdul Qadeer Maulana has blamed the driver for mowing down a girl and injuring two other family members, despite proof against his son. His 17-year-old son and their car driver were released on bail by a local court, even as the ...
The Maharashtra pro-panel report has been tabled in the Assembly on API Suryavanshi's assault case, who was beaten by MLAs. The Speaker has clearly said that inappropriate language was used by the cop and an investigation should be conducted on that matter. Mo...
The Maharashtra pro-panel report has been tabled in the Assembly on the API Suryavanshi's assault case, who was beaten by MLAs. The report has given a clean chit to three of the five accused in the case, while saying that the API in question had allegedly misb...
The Maharashtra panel probing the case of the attack on API Suryavanshi gives the benefit of doubt to three accused MLAs and their suspension may be revoked by the end of the day. It has also claimed that the alleged cop misbehaved with an MLA at the Bandra-Wo...
A Maharashtra Assembly panel's report on the case of MLAs assaulting a Mumbai cop has been made public. According to the report, the cop, ASI Sachin Suryavanshi is at fault and not the MLAs who thrashed him. The panel also says that a departmental inquiry shou...
The Maharashtra panel probing the case of the attack on API Suryavanshi gives the benefit of doubt to three accused MLAs and their suspension may be revoked by the end of the day. It has also claimed that the alleged cop misbehaved with an MLA on the Bandra-Wo...
A Maharashtra Assembly panel, inquiring into the case of MLAs assaulting a Mumbai policeman, says that the assaulted cop, ASI Sachin Suryavanshi, misbehaved with the MLAs and was at fault. The panel, in its report has recommended revocation of three of the fiv...
Sources say that Maharashtra ASI Sachin Suryavanshi was assaulted as a result of 'mistaken identity'. According to the MLAs, Suryavanshi was confused with another cop who had made obscene gestures to the MLAs. According to the panel probing into the incident, ...
Farmers in Maharashtra, who are reeling under severe drought, stage a unique protest against the government which has failed to take the necessary steps to counter the drought in the state. The farmers register their protest by begging to the authorities.
Actor Sanjay Dutt, who has been awarded five years of jail term by the Supreme Court for his involvement in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, has urged the Apex Court to keep the sentence in abeyance till the Maharashtra governor decides on his plea. He has sought ...
Actor Sanjay Dutt, who has been awarded five years of jail term by the Supreme Court for his involvement in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, has urged the apex court to keep the sentence in abeyance till the Maharashtra governor decides on his plea. He has sought ...
The apology offered by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and a one-day fast have failed to yield any results as the Opposition continues to demand his resignation. Pressure now mounts of Pawar as the Opposition has threatened to stall the proceeding...
NCP chief Sharad Pawar says his nephew and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has already apologised for his crass remark. According to the senior Pawar, what Ajit did was wrong, but the media, too, has been misreporting about the drought and Ajit.
After an investigative report showed that not just Ajit Pawar, his uncle and Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, too, was responsible for diversion of water to sugar mills, NCP leaders run for cover. Sharad Pawar and Supriya Sule evade questions, while Co...
According to an exclusive investigative report, not just Ajit Pawar, his uncle Nationalist Congress Party chief and Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, too, is responsible for diversion of water to sugar mills. Sources say Pawar senior, too, attended the ...
Centrestage | The sugar barons, who are close to NCP leader Ajit Pawar, are the main beneficiaries of Maharashtra's drought. It has been reported that agriculture minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar is the main person responsible for the drought in the Sholapu...
The Maharashtra police have been investigating into the illegal assets of former Maharashtra Congress chief Kripashankar Singh and has revealed startling facts, which include a staggering real estate empire. He is reported to own more than 40 flats in Mumbai w...
An encounter between CRPF personnel in Gadchiroli district kills four suspected Naxals and one jawan. According to reports, there has been a civilian casualty as well in the Maharashtra gun battle.
In what comes as a major embarrassment to the Maharashtra police, 36 police officers have been caught on camera, accepting bribe. In a quick move to save its face, the police department has suspended all the corrupt cops. But can mere suspension solve the prob...
After his crass comment about urinating in dams, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar finds himself in middle of another controversy. A Pune-based NGO has alleged that Pawar, during his tenure as the irrigation minister diverted water meant for irrigat...
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar is under the scanner again for his decisions as the Water Resources Minister as the information collated by a Pune-based NGO reveal that water meant for agricultural purposes was diverted to industries on Pawar's or...
Newshour | Having threatened to urinate in dams, should Ajit Pawar now resign for water scam? Can anything be worse that denying the poorest of the poor farmers, some water to just live? Why were there no consultations with those affected? Environmentalist Sun...
Centrestage | Gallons of water were used in Aurangabad to build a special helipad for a minister Patangrao Kadam, when thousands of farmers and other people in Maharashtra are waiting for a drop of water. An RTI filed by activist Chetan Kothari has revealed st...
Union Water Resources minister Harish Rawat comes out in support of deputy chief minister of Maharashtra Ajit Pawar in the water scam issue, says the matter is a state subject, hence no probe is needed.
Deputy chief minister of Maharashtra Ajit Pawar denies any wrongdoing during his tenure as the water resources minister between 2003 to 2011. He says water diversions were done according to the law.
The apology offered by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has failed to appease the Opposition which continues to demand his resignation over his crass, distasteful remarks. Nonetheless, the NCP has thrown its weight firmly behind its leader.
Centrestage | An acute shortage of drinking water has made daily lives impossible in Maharashtra. The state government had taken a decision that water from dams in Pune would first be taken to meet the drinking water needs in the state. However, an RTI query r...
Drought-hit farmers of Maharashtra have threatened to commit suicide outside Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar's residence if he doesn't tender an apology to them soon.
After Ajit Pawar's crass remarks, trying to make a joke out of Maharashtra's worst drought, all eyes are now on Chief Minister Prithviraj Chauhan, whether or not he will sack his deputy. Pawar's crude comment on urinating in dam to provide water has not sat we...
Under pressure, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has offered an apology admitting that he has made the biggest blunder in his career. However, the Opposition continues to demand his resignation over his insensitive and distasteful remarks. All eyes...
Newshour | During a rally in Maharashtra, deputy CM Ajit Pawar had asked if the leaders should urinate to supply water to the people and had said that children are being born at nights when there is no power as the people of his state have no other work to do....
The Deputy CM of Maharashtra Ajit pawar apologises and asks for forgiveness after making a joke on the drought situation in his state. He says that his crass and thoughtless comments on the water and power shortage in his state are the 'biggest mistake' of his...
Despite his apology, farmer groups and the Opposition are seeking Maharashtra deputy chief minister's ouster from the Cabinet. He has invited their ire by making a cruel joke on drought-hit farmers. Referring to a farmer on hunger strike demanding water be rel...
Ajit Pawar made an absolutely shameful remark on the water crisis in his state. Now an all-out political war has broken out in Maharashtra as the opposition demands his resignation.
MNS leader, Raj Thackeray once again plays the Marathi card. This tine around, he claims that the builders of the apartments that collapsed on Thursday were from Uttar Pradesh. Raj Thackeray has always been known politicise any issue in Maharashtra.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar faces the wrath of Opposition and people for making fun of the drought situation in Maharashtra. The apology of Pawar and his assurance that his government is committed to drought relief have failed to cut any ice a...
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has stirred a hornet's nest with his crude humor and distasteful remarks. The Deputy CM, who trivialized drought in the state with a joke that sounded more insensitive than funny, has also offered a bizarre theory f...
Five people have been detained by crime branch in connection with the Thane building collapse which claimed over 70 lives. Deep rooted corruption is said to be the cause for this disaster as the building was illegal and the material used was of inferior qualit...
The Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan orders a probe into the building collapse that claimed 49 lives. He says that the additional chief secretary will be in-charge of the probe, and also adds that the deputy municipal commissioner has been sacked for criminal ...
Reacting to the news that Bombay blasts accused Zaibunnisa Kazi's daughter has sought appointment with Maharashtra Governor, seeking pardon for her mother, Press Council of India chairman Justice Markandey Katju says that an appeal has to be filed with the Pre...
Bombay blasts convict Zaibunissa Anwar Kazi's daughter, who is fighting for pardon for her mother, has sought an appointment with Maharashtra Governor. She is also planning to file a review petition in the Supreme Court. However, the Governor hasn't so far giv...
Keeping in mind the extreme drought condition in Maharashtra, Indian TV has begun an initiative to save water. In this special programme, focus is on Pune University, where a new method of conserving water has been undertaken and has helped to keep the campus ...
The Bombay High Court has directed the BCCI, Maharashtra Cricket Association, VCA, and IPL franchises to pay the huge dues they owe to the Maharashtra state government for security cover given by the police. The BCCI affiliates and IPL franchises owe the state...
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has said the state will not allow wastage of water during the IPL matches. At a time when the state is facing severe drought, tonnes of litres of water would be diverted to maintain the stadium.
The deposition of Mumbai policeman, assistant police inspector Sachin Suryavanshi before the Maharashtra Assembly committee has ended. MLA Kshitij Kumar would be deposing next. The ASI had deposed before a seven member MLA panel.
MLA Kshitij Thakur will be appearing before the probe panel, which is the committee that was set up by the Maharashtra Assembly Speaker. The deposition of Mumbai policeman, assistant police inspector Sachin Suryavanshi, is currently in process before the Mahar...
Maharashtra is the pitch for IPL's latest controversy, this time over the usage of water for the maintenance of pitches. Maharashtra Opposition leader Vinod Tawde has objected to the use of water in stadiums in the drought-hit state.
Two of the six Maharashtra MLAs who are probing the assault on the cop in the Assembly have themselves faced charges of using criminal force against a public servant.
Maharashtra is the pitch for IPL's latest controversy, this time over the usage of water for the maintenance of pitches in a drought-hit state. The MLAs in the state argue that if Asaram Bapu could face the law for wasting water during Holi celebrations and su...
Mumbai traffic cop Sachin Suryavanshi who was assaulted by MLAs in the Assembly premises and was later suspended is now summoned before a House panel, probing the incident. He is likely to be questioned about his alleged indecent behaviour. After his depositio...
Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil has disparaged the significance of the CCTV footage which reveals the MLAs thrashing the police officer, calling the footage unclear. However, the Maharashtra police have dismissed the claims made by RR Patil, saying that the...
The fact-finding team which has been empanelled to find out the sequence of events when Assistant Sub-Inspector Sachin Suryavanshi was assaulted by a group of Maharashtra MLAs seems to be making a concerted effort to implicate the injured officer. According to...
The Mumbai police says that the CCTV footage from Assembly premises is crucial evidence and cannot be ruled out as inconclusive. This despite the Maharashtra home ministry calling the footage 'unclear' and inconclusive. On March 21, a group of MLAs thrashed As...
The team investigating into the Mumbai cop's assault case now seeks the phone call records of the assaulted police officer, Sachin Suryavanshi. The probe team is also expected to question the security in place at the Assembly premises where Suryavanshi was ass...
Three suspended Maharashtra MLAs, Pradeep Jaiswal, Jaikumar Rawal and Rajan Salve, have been asked to appear before the inquiry committee looking into the assault on a police officer case on Tuesday. Meanwhile the state home ministry has suggested that the CCT...
Maha MLAs assault cop | Maharashtra home minister RR Patil says that the state police will not press for the CCTV footage from the Assembly premises because the evidence might be inconclusive. Patil says it might not be possible to identify the MLAs assaulting...
After the all-party meeting on the Supreme Court's decision on the Babli river project, being built by the Maharashtra government, TDP leader Kadiam Srihari wants the central water commission to keep an eye on the inflows into the reservoir levels in the two s...
At the all-party meeting on Supreme Court's judgment about Maharashtra's Babli project, it was decided that the state would file a review petition. The state government also decided to seek further legal opinion on the dam being built across river Godavari by ...
The TDP has identified five leaders from its party who would be attending the all-party meeting on the issue of the Babli river project across the Godavari. Kadiam Srihari and Mandava Venkateswara Rao are part of the team.
Newshour | Top lawyers Mahesh Jethmalani and Markandey Katju fight it out and debate the issue of pardoning Sanjay Dutt. Sources close to Dutt reveal that the actor might surrender a few days before his deadline. In the meanwhile, Katju has been filing petitio...
Sources close to Sanjay Dutt reveal that the actor might surrender a few days before his deadline. He has been found guilty of possessing arms and ammunition in connection with 1993 Bombay blasts case.
Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy has lashed out at Press Council of India chairman Markandey Katju for pressing for pardon for actor Sanjay Dutt and has said that he will now present a petition to Maharashtra Governor, asking him to reject the mercy pl...
Centrestage | Assistant sub inspector Sachin Suryavanshi is assaulted brutally and then suspended for doing his duty. The tormentor MLAs are let out on bail and get to openly blackmail the government into acting against the honest cop. Watch how the Maharashtr...
News Night | Watch how the system in this country works largely to serve the rich and powerful. Assistant sub inspector Sachin Suryavanshi is assaulted brutally and then suspended for doing his duty. The tormentor MLAs are let out on bail and get to openly bla...
Expelled Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh and Lok Sabha MP from Rampur Jaya Prada today met Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan, to seek pardon for actor Sanjay Dutt. According to them since Sanjay has already served 18 months of his jail term and is the ...
An entire brigade of politicians and those from the Bollywood film industry are fighting, demanding that actor Sanjay Dutt be pardoned on humanitarian grounds but no one is doing the same for the other accused in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case Zaibunissa Kazi. On...
Activist and lawyer Abha Singh has written to the Maharashtra Governor to not get swayed by PCI Chairman Markandey Katju's letter seeking pardon for actor Sanjay Dutt.
Maharashtra Governor has gone through the letter written by Justice Katju seeking a pardon for Sanjay Dutt. The Governor is likely to consult the state government on the issue.
Mumbai police inspector Sachin Suryavanshi has been suspended by the state government citing rude and inappropriate behaviour towards the member of the state legislature. In reality Sachin Suryavanshi only did his duty by fining the legislators for speeding. D...
Adding insult to injury, a Maharashtra traffic policeman, Assistant Sub-Inspector Sachin Suryavanshi, has been suspended for fining two MLAs for speeding. This after the policeman was assaulted by the two MLAs. While the MLAS roam free, as they were granted ba...
The chorus to grant pardon to Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt is growing louder. People who demand that the actor be pardoned claim that Dutt has suffered enough. Dutt's friends Amar Singh and Jaya Prada are set to meet Maharashtra governor with this demand. But i...
Single-handedly he made the acronym CBI known to even the ordinary unlettered villager in the most remote villages of Andhra Pradesh. Whether it is son of a former CM, power mining don and his henchmen, top businessmen, ministers, IAS officers, this IPS office...
After the arrest of YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, the CBI joint director VV Lakshminarayana became a household name. His fan clubs sprouted across the state. He became a hero among the common man for bringing the high and mighty to books. But he faced bouquets and bri...
CBI's joint director in Hyderabad VV Lakshminarayana is handling a variety of cases. Cases as high-profile as Jagan Mohan Reddy's disproportionate assets, OMC mining case, Emaar case, Sohrabuddin encounter case, Satyam Ramalinga Raju case - the joint director ...
Newshour | Top lawyers Mahesh Jethmalani and Markandey Katju fight it out and debate the issue of pardoning Sanjay Dutt/. Does the law permit the Governor to pardon a person accused of carrying illegal arms and ammunition, which were later used for a terror at...
Single-handedly he made the acronym CBI known to even the ordinary unlettered villager in the most remote villages of Andhra Pradesh. Whether it is the son of a former CM, power mining don and his henchmen, top businessman, minister, IAS officers, this IPS off...
The two MLAs Ram Kadam and Kshitij Thakur, who were among the several who had beaten assistant sub inspector Sachin Suryavanshi in the Maharashtra Assembly, received only three days of judicial custody and one day of police custody as punishment. The two MLAs ...
The Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil suspends assistant sub inspector Sachin Suryavanshi, who was beaten by several MLAs in the premises of the Maharashtra Assembly, earlier last week. The reason given for suspending him is that he used 'unbecoming' language...
Politicians Jaya Pradha and Amar Singh have sought an appointment with the Maharashtra Governor to plead for actor Sanjay Dutt's pardon. The Supreme Court had earlier sentenced him to a five year imprisonment for the possession of illegal arms during the 1993 ...
The Maharashtra Home Minister RR Patil suspends assistant sub inspector Sachin Suryavanshi, who was beaten by several MLAs in the premises of the Maharashtra Assembly, earlier last week. He has been suspended till an inquiry is done in the case where he had is...
After attacking Indiabulls' property in Mumbai yesterday, MNS workers attacked another office of the company in Amravati. The attacks happened soon after MNS chief Raj Thackeray accused the Maharashtra government of diverting drinking and irrigation water mean...
After former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju, wrote a letter to the Maharastra Governor requesting him to review Sanjay Dutt's case and pardon him for the same, many political parties have also come forward in support of the actor. According to many politi...
Former Supreme Court lawyer and PCI chief, Markandey Katju writes a letter to Maharashtra Governor, K Sankarnarayanan requesting him to look into Sanjay Dutt's case and pardon him for the illegal possession of arms and ammunition in the 1993 Bombay bomb blasts...
Former Supreme Court lawyer and PCI chief, Markandey Katju provides Sanjay Dutt and his family with a glimmer of hope. He has written to the Maharashtra Governor K Sankarnarayanan to be pardon Sanjay Dutt for the possession of illegal arms and ammunition durin...
The two Maharashtra MLAs, who assaulted a traffic police in the state Assembly premises, are likely to surrender today. The traffic policeman had allegedly stopped the vehicle of one of the MLAs on the Bandra-Worli Sea Link when the MLA was on his way to atten...
Under pressure to prevent the Maharashtra government from completing Babli and other dams across the river Godavari, the state government has assured a TDP delegation led by Errabelli Dayakar Rao of holding an all-party meeting on the issue on March 26. The S...
Four Maharashtra MLAs have shamed the government by assaulting a police officer. A case has been registered against the four MLAs and eight others in connection with the case. Although the Maharashtra government has promised to initiate stern action against th...
Newshour | Assistant police inspector Sachin Suryavanshi was beaten up by several MLAs across party lines inside the Maharashtra Assembly after MLA Kshitij Thakur moved a Breach of Privilege motion against the policeman for stopping him for speeding the previo...
Centrestage | Assistant police inspector Sachin Suryavanshi was beaten up by several MLAs inside the Maharashtra Assembly after MLA Kshitij Thakur moved a Breach of Privilege motion against the policeman for stopping him for speeding the previous day and issui...
St George hospital in Maharashtra released a statement that assistant police inspector Sachin Suryavanshi, who was beaten up by several MLAs in the State Assembly, has suffered major internal injuries. The hospital has said that he has sustained injuries on hi...
Maharashtra speaker apologises to the police after assistant police inspector Sachin Suryavanshi was beaten up by several MLAs inside the Maharashtra Assembly. The Speaker hits out at the MLAs and says an inquiry would be constituted. The assault was caught on...
In an early morning accident on the Mumbai-Goa highway, a bus fell down into a stream below, killing 37 people. The accident occurred near the Khed town in the Ratnagiri district. At least 15 have been seriously injured. The bus was travelling from Goa to Mumb...
37 people have reportedly been killed in a bus accident that took place near Khed on the Goa-Mumbai highway. The bus, which was carrying 60 people, lost control and plunged into a river. Rescue operations are fast underway.