Ajit Pawar and eight other NCP MLAs joined the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state on July 2, creating a split in the Sharad Pawar-founded party.
Korutla police busted a ganja circulation gang and arrested three of its members. 13 kg wet ganja, two motorcycles and two mobile phones were recovered from them.
Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Friday said the Union government has taken all necessary steps to ensure that onion farmers do not face any problems.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Friday asserted that there was no split in the party and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar continues to be its leader
Thirty students of an ashram school in Bhandara district of eastern Maharashtra were hospitalised due to suspected food poisoning, an official said on Friday
Sharad Pawar has said the 40 per cent duty on onion export must be revoked, and also claimed that the Union government might impose restrictions on sugar exports too
In order to meet domestic demand, there could even be a ban on exports, National Federation of Co-operative Sugar Factories Limited chairman Jaiprakash Dandegaonkar told PTI
A meeting of representatives of traders-exporters and farmers, chaired by district collector Jalaj Sharma, was held in Nashik city, but the traders were firm on their decision not to take part in auctions
Farmers took out a massive rally in Parbhani in Maharashtra and staged a peaceful demonstration demanding the implementation of the Telangana model to stop farmers' suicides that continued unabated in Maharashtra
The Nashik District Onion Traders Association had given the call to not take part in onion auctions indefinitely till the Centre rolls back its decision, sources said.
A gram panchayat in Latur district has passed a resolution stating that not taking care of elderly parents will result in their sons and daughters-in-law losing inheritance property rights.