Kolhapur, Feb 17 (UNI) Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday trained his guns on former chief minister and Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray for allegedly refusing to provide him security even though he got threats from naxals, raising a doubt whether Thackeray wanted to have him eliminated by insurgents. Addressing a national convention…
Mumbai, Feb 14 (UNI) Maharashtra Rajya Sabha biennial elections, may be a uncontested walk through for all the six candidates, as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided against fielding a 4th candidate for the elections. BJP state President Chandrashekhar Bawankule has on Wednesday told media persons that all the parties in the fray have their…
Mumbai, Feb 13 (UNI) Former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan, who resigned from the Congress party and as an MLA on Monday, joined BJP in the presence of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and state party president Chandrashekhar Bawankule here. “I am starting a new political career,” said Chavan after joining BJP. He attended BJP…
Gondia, (UNI) Vice-president Jagdeep Dhankhar said on Sunday that the dream of building a developed India by 2047 can be realised only if the health of all the countrymen is good, then the country can become fully powerful. Speaking at groundbreaking (bhoomipujan) ceremony of a new building of Government Medical College here, he appealed everyone…
Mumbai, Feb 8 (UNI) Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar instructed senior officials to construct high-quality, sophisticated facilities like bridges and buildings that last for 100 years at the ‘Deputy Chief Minister’s Project Monitoring Unit’ (PMU) meeting in Mantralya. The meeting of the ‘Deputy Chief Minister’s Project Control Room’ was held under the chairmanship of Deputy…
Mumbai, Feb 3 (UNI) A Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from neighbouring Kalyan city was arrested for allegedly shooting and injuring a leader of the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena group and his assistant over a land dispute, a police official said on Saturday. Talking to media persons, Additional Commissioner of Police Dattatrya Shinde said that…
Mumbai, Feb 2 (UNI) The Mumbai Police was on alert and launched a search operation on Friday after its control room received a message saying bombs were placed across the city. Mumbai police control room this morning received a threat message from an unknown person stating that explosives were placed at six locations in the…
Mumbai, Jan 30 (UNI) Former Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar — a close aide of Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray family — on Tuesday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials following ED summons in ongoing investigation into an alleged scam related to the purchase of body bags by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) during COVID-19…
Mumbai, Jan 30 (UNI) Sandeep Raut, the brother of Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut, on Tuesday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate officials for his involvement in alleged scam of distribution of khichdi to migrant labourers during the Covid lockdown. Sanjay Raut dropped his brother, Sandeep Raut, off at the ED office and then left….
Mumbai, Jan 27 (UNI) Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Sarturday said that the conduct of public representatives should be in accordance with parliamentary decorum. Speaking after inaugurating the 84th All India Presiding Officers’ Conference (AIPOC) in Maharashtra Legislature premises here, he expressed concern over incidents of indiscipline, disruption of proceedings and unparliamentary conduct in…
