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New Delhi: In a relief to rebel Shiv Sena lawmakers, the Supreme Court on Monday kept in abeyance the disqualification proceedings before the Deputy Speaker of the Maharashtra Assembly till July 11 and sought responses to pleas by rebel MLAs questioning the legality of notices seeking their disqualification. The top court, however, refused to pass […]
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New Delhi: Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) leader and state minister KT Rama Rao on Monday lashed out at the Narendra Modi government at the Centre for creating trouble in Opposition-ruled states and said that Telangana will raise its voice against Centre’s dictatorship in the coming days. While speaking to an ANI on the political situation […]
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Mumbai: Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance has lost the majority in the house as 38 of the members of the Shiv Sena Legislature Party have withdrawn their support thus bringing it below the majority in the house, said Maharashtra Minister Eknath Shinde in his petition filed in Supreme court. Amid the political crisis in Maharashtra […]
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Hyderabad: Maharashtra bagged the top honours in the U-14, U-19 and 19 plus singles, doubles and mixed doubles of the 7th National Pickleball Championship held at the LB Stadium, Hyderabad on Sunday. Meanwhile, Mumbai won the gold in U-40 and U-60 categories. Telangana’s Saryu was adjudged as the emerging player of the tournament. Later, L […]
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Bhupalpally: The forest officials have identified pugmarks of a tiger near KTK1 mine in the Bhupalpally mandal in the district on Sunday. The forest staff are on the job of tracking the tiger movement following the sight of a tiger crossing the national highway (Warangal-Kaleshwaram) near CR Nagar (Bambulagadda) on Saturday around 11 pm by […]
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Bhupalpally: Mahadevpur police arrested three persons for allegedly circulating the counterfeit currency notes. They also seized fake currency with a face value of Rs 2,98,300 from them. Disclosing the details with the media persons on Saturday, Superintendent of Police SP J Surender Reddy said that the arrested persons wanted to earn easy money and took […]
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Mumbai: The Maharashtra Congress on Saturday ruled out the possibility of President’s Rule in the state currently in the grip of a major political crisis that has shaken the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi government. “There is no reason presently to impose President’s Rule in the state. The MVA experiment is going to be a success,” […]
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Mumbai: Amid the continuing political crisis in Maharashtra due to revolt in the Shiv Sena MLAs, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has called a meeting of the party’s national executive committee on Saturday at 1 pm. The meeting will be held in Shiv Sena Bhavan which the Chief Minister will join virtually. Earlier on Friday, […]
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Mumbai: Police authorities in Maharashtra have issued an alert across the state as Shiv Sena supporters are likely to stage angry protests following senior leader and minister Eknath Shinde’s rebellion, an official said on Friday. A couple of incidents of Sena workers targeting the hoardings or boards featuring rebel MLAs who are with Shinde have […]
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The political drama in Maharashtra, following the shocking rebellion by senior Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde, is unfolding as per the script and direction of the BJP which has been waiting in the wings to take revenge against its former ally. The potboiler carries the imprint of the toppling template followed by the saffron party […]
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Mumbai: NCP president Sharad Pawar on Thursday said the fate of the Maha Vikas Aghadi government in Maharashtra will be decided on the floor of the Legislative Assembly, and the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress coalition will prove its majority in a trust vote. Addressing a press conference amid the turmoil caused by the rebellion by Sena minister […]
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Mumbai: Despite being a party of committed cadres with unflinching loyalty to leadership of the day, the Shiv Sena has been vulnerable to rebellions in its ranks and it has seen revolts by prominent figures on four occasions, three of them under the watch of its charismatic founder Bal Thackeray, with Eknath Shinde becoming the […]
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Mumbai: Two suspected turncoat Shiv Sena MLAs made a dramatic escape from the rebels’ camp – led by senior Minister Eknath Shinde and others who had pitched tent in a five-star hotel in Surat, Gujarat – and reached Maharashtra safely in the past 24 hours. The Sena MLAs who ‘escaped’ are: Kailas Patil from Osmanabad […]
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Guwahati: Rebel Shiv Sena Minister Eknath Shinde on Wednesday claimed that 40 MLAs have accompanied him to Guwahati and they are devoted to Balasaheb Thackeray’s ‘Hindutva’ ideology. Shinde and 32 Shiv Sena MLAs and seven other legislators belonging to smaller parties and independents arrived in Guwahati on Wednesday and are now staying at a luxury hotel […]
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Guwahati: Shiv Sena MLA Nitin Deshmukh, who arrived here along with fellow party MLAs on Wednesday from Surat, returned to his home state of Maharashtra with five other partymen within hours, sources said, as rebel Sena legislators remain encamped at a hotel here. Deshmukh, who arrived at Guwahati early this morning in a chartered aircraft […]
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Mumbai/Surat: Maharashtra Cabinet Minister and Shiv Sena strongman Eknath Shinde plunged the ruling alliance in the State into a political crisis on Tuesday as he rebelled against his party and landed in a Surat hotel along with some Sena MLAs, putting a huge question mark on the stability of the two-and-a-half-years old MVA dispensation. Though […]
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Sangli: Nine members of a family were found dead in their house in Maharashtra’s Sangli district on Monday, police said, adding that they suspect it to be a case of suicide. The bodies were found in a house at Mhaisal in Sangli district, located over 350 km from the state capital Mumbai. “We have found […]
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New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met Sharad Pawar at his residence in Delhi on Tuesday ahead of the Opposition leaders’ meeting tomorrow to discuss Presidential polls. “Our honorable chairperson @MamataOfficial met Shri @PawarSpeaks today. Two stalwart leaders set the stage for the meeting of all progressive opposition forces; set to happen tomorrow […]
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Thane: The Thane city police commissionerate’s website was allegedly hacked on Tuesday, with a message appearing on it apparently directed towards the Indian government and demanding an apology to “Muslims all over the world”. A senior police official here confirmed that the website has been hacked. “We have contacted the agencies concerned for necessary action. […]
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Aurangabad: A group of men aggrieved with their wives held an agitation here in Maharashtra, demanding laws against “injustice” they face at home, and took 108 anti-clockwise rounds around a peepal tree, praying not to get the same life partner again. Some men not happy with their spouses formed a ‘patni peedit’ ashram in Aurangabad […]
