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Hyderabad: The Cyberabad police have reportedly nabbed three persons who were allegedly involved in a burglary at the house of a realtor at Kukatpally on Tuesday night. A Nepali couple, who worked as domestic helps, along with another person, had allegedly stolen Rs.30 lakh and gold and silver ornaments worth Rs.25 lakh from the house […]

Mumbai: In a relief, the Maharashtra government has slashed VAT on petrol and diesel by Rs 5 per litre and Rs 3 per litre respectively, Chief Minister Eknath Shnde announced here on Thursday. This would entail a burden of Rs 6,000 crore on the state exchequer but will lead to reducing the inflation, Shinde said, after […]

Hyderabad: The overflowing water from Manjeera River prompted the district administration to close the road and restrict the traffic movement between Telangana and Maharashtra borders. The district registered heavy rains damaging crops and roads. The national highway 63 was temporarily closed as Sriramsagar project was receiving heavy inflows. The main road between Armoor and Nizamabad […]

Amaravati: Five people died of cholera in the Amravati district of Maharashtra and as many as 181 patients have been diagnosed with the disease, the state public health department confirmed. Among the deceased, two were women and three were men. Three of these patients were in the age group 24 to 40 years and two […]

Warangal: With the incessant rains battering many parts of erstwhile Warangal district, mainly Bhupalpally and Mulugu districts, streams and rivulets are overflowing and road connectivity for many villages was cut off in the Agency area. Low-lying areas were inundated causing hardships to the people living those areas. Keeping this in view, the officials of the […]

Hyderabad: The surge of Covid infections driven by different variants of Omicron has just become even more complicated with geneticists reporting Covid infections due to BA.2.75, the new Omicron variant in different States including Telangana. Between March and June 7, the average daily Covid infections in Telangana hovered between 55 and 65. Since then, there […]

Hyderabad: The Tukaram Gate police arrested 8 persons from Maharashtra who were allegedly cheating the public on the pretext of selling electronic gadgets at cheap prices by advertising on social media platforms. The arrested persons were Nilesh (24), Satyam Kalyan (20), Vinod Parte (22), Ashutosh Talpe (23), Pratik (21), Omkar Bhalchim (21), Ganesh Manohar (21) […]

Nashik: In a shocking crime, a refugee Sufi cleric from Afghanistan was sprayed with bullets in the Yeola town of Maharashtra’s Nashik district, police said here on Wednesday. According to the Investigation Officer, the incident occurred around 7.15 p.m. on Tuesday in an open deserted plot near the MIDC industrial zone in the town. Preliminary […]

Mumbai: Days after the formation of the Eknath Shinde-led government in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Tuesday said that the party is “still hopeful” of the rebel MLAs’ returning to former chief minister Uddhav Thackeray’s side. The leader said that they were “always in talks” with the rebels and exuded confidence that they […]

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Narcotics Enforcement Wing (HNEW) along with the SR Nagar police arrested three persons and seized 30 grams of MDMA drug valued at Rs.3 lakh from them. Acting on a tip off, the team caught Navanath Anoop (32) of Maharashtra, allegedly the main supplier. Two others Mohd Abdul Nadeem (29), who transported the […]

Karimnagar: BC Welfare and Civil Supplies Minister, Gangula Kamalkar has asserted that it was not possible for the BJP to topple the State government, since Telangana Rashtra Samithi, which is ruling the state, has emerged from hearts of the people. “TRS is not only a political party. It is a party that is formed by […]

Mumbai: As expected, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s government supported by the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday won the critical ‘vote of confidence’ in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. In the final tally with a division of votes, the government secured 164 votes and the Opposition got only 99 votes in the 288-member Lower House. This is […]

Mumbai: Eknath Shinde, while making his first address on the Floor of the Maharashtra Assembly as a Chief Minister on Sunday, said that the decision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to let him lead the government despite having more members than his side has “opened the eyes of many”. […]

Mumbai: On expected lines, Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Rahul Narwekar was elected the new Speaker of Maharashtra Legislative Assembly here on Sunday. He defeated his sole rival – the Maha Vikas Aghadi-backed Shiv Sena candidate Rajan Salvi – with a comfortable margin. The elections were held by a division of votes on the first of the […]

Like how a buyer on an e-commerce portal adds items to the cart before checking out, the BJP has just added Maharashtra to its political cart in yet another display of mastery in the toppling game. After multiple twists in the suspense-filled drama, the saffron party has decided to join the government headed by Shiv […]

Mumbai: As the fate of the Maharashtra government hangs in balance, the state cabinet on Wednesday approved the renaming of Aurangabad city as Sambhajinagar, and that of Osmanabad city as Dharashiv. The decision on the emotive issue of renaming of the historical central Maharashtra city of Aurangabad came even as the Shiv Sena, which heads […]

Mumbai: Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari has asked the Uddhav Thackeray government in the state to prove his majority on the floor of the House on June 30. The Governor has written to the state Assembly secretary to convene a special session of the State Assembly tomorrow with the only agenda of a trust vote […]

Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray will hold a cabinet meeting at 5 pm today, informed Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) on Tuesday. As per the sources, Maharashtra CM and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar will not be physically present in the Cabinet meeting today. “CM will chair the meeting virtually and Deputy CM is likely to […]

Guwahati: Rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde on Tuesday said he will soon return to Mumbai, and rubbished Shiv Sena’s claim that as many as 20 MLAs of his group are in touch with the Uddhav Thackeray-led party. Talking to reporters outside the luxury hotel where he and his group of MLAs are lodged since […]

Mumbai: Amid the political turmoil in Maharashtra following a rebellion by MLAs of the ruling Shiv Sena, senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday left for Delhi along with a legal counsel, a party functionary said. The Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in Maharashtra is facing a crisis as many of its MLAs, […]