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Sunetra Pawar faces a crucial test in selecting the NCP candidate for Maharashtra Legislative Council polls amid internal pressure and factional loyalties. The decision is seen as key to asserting her leadership and balancing competing interests within the party

Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Sunetra Pawar on becoming Maharashtra’s first woman Deputy Chief Minister. He expressed confidence in her leadership and dedication to public welfare. Pawar was elected NCP Legislature Party leader and sworn in by the Governor

Trends from 210 Mumbai municipal corporation wards show BJP-Shiv Sena alliance leading, poised to cross majority in BMC. Congress retained Latur, while NCP lagged in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad. Voter turnout was 52.94%, lower than 2017 elections

Badlapur whistleblower Sangeeta Chendvankar, who exposed the 2024 school sexual assault case, joined the Ajit Pawar-led NCP ahead of Maharashtra civic polls, saying the party offers her a better platform to serve citizens

A fire broke out at actor Sayaji Shinde’s Sahyadri Devrai plantation in Beed, Maharashtra, damaging trees. No casualties occurred. Shinde criticized the government’s plantation claims and highlighted the environmental loss caused to trees and soil microorganisms

Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar alleged that the Maharashtra government’s recent GR on Maratha quota harms OBC interests, fuels unrest, and spreads communal tension in Marathwada. He also criticised NCP leaders for hypocrisy and demanded government accountability over the reservation issue

We have held discussions, and the discussions will continue. You will get to know when we take a final decision, says outgoing Chief Minister Eknath Shinde

Police form 15 teams and probe is on to identify who provided logistical support to the shooters, say officials

Condemning the attack, Ajit Pawar said, "The agencies are investigating the murder, two people have already been detained and police have been sent to five different states."

Following the leader's death, an old video of Salman Khan is going viral. In the video Salman can be seen appealing to people of Bandra to vote for Baba

The former Maharashtra Minister probably died before being shifted to the medical facility, says a doctor

Leaders cutting across party lines condoled the death of Siddiqui, with some from opposition parties expressing concern at law and order situation in Maharashtra

The stage has been set for opening the project gates on Monday to discharge the flood flows benefiting the Pulichintala project where the water level was critically low

Pawar told the media that in INDIA bloc, Congress has bagged the highest number of seats and would be entitled to the LoP post.

Owing to the export ban, falling onion prices and agrarian crisis is a key poll issue in the area where BJP and Shiv Sena (Shinde) leaders are facing farmers' ire during the poll campaign.

Earlier, the top court had directed that the Election Commission's order of February 7 allotting 'Nationalist Congress Party-Sharadchandra Pawar' as the party name for the Sharad Pawar faction will continue till further orders.

In July 2023, Sharad Pawar-led group filed disqualification petitions against eight MLAs for anti-party activities after Ajit Pawar split the party and joined the coalition government in Maharashtra as Deputy Chief Minister.

During the virtual meeting, the INDIA bloc leaders discussed various aspects of the alliance and the preparations for the Lok Sabha elections due in April-May.

Patel, who is the working president of a rival NCP group, took to X to inform about the health condition of 64-year-old Pawar

Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar on Saturday said that the PM should give statements keeping his constitutional stature in mind