Sangli, Maharashtra, July 26 (UNI) In the backdrop of rapidly increasing flood water in Krishna river in this district following heavy rainfall, Sangli district jail authorities on Friday shifted a total of 80 notorious prisoners including most wanted prisoners, to the neighbouring Kalamba central jail in Kolhapur district as a precautionary measure as there was…
Pune, Jul 21 (UNI) Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader, Amit Shah, on Sunday sounded a bugle for Maharashtra Assembly election, saying that Mahayuti should win big in the assembly election also. Addressing the state-level party convention here, he said that the party could win in the Lok Sabha election due to the hard…
Mumbai, July 18 (UNI) Vowing to make Gadchiroli district Maoist-free, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday lauded the district police for their operation in which 12 Naxals were killed in Wandoli village on the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh border on Wednesday. Shinde spoke to the Superintendent of Police, Inspector General of Police (Gadchiroli range), Inspector General (anti-Maoist…
Mumbai, July 18 (UNI) Manorama Dilip Khedkar, mother of controversial Indian Administrative Service-Probationary Officer Puja Khedkar, has been detained for allegedly threatening farmers in Pune with a pistol, officials said on Thursday. A team of Pune Rural police detained her from a hotel in Mahad town in Raigad early on Thursday, police said. Manorama, a…
Mumbai, July 16 (UNI) A Mumbai court on Tuesday remanded Mihir Shah, the prime accused in the Worli BMW hit-and-run case, to judicial custody till July 30. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (Sewri court) S P Bhosale sent Shah to 14-day judicial custody after he was presented in court at the end of his police custody. Shah…
Kolhapur, July 16 (UNI) Member of Parliament from Maharashtra’s Kolhapur and Congress leader Shahu Chhatrapati on Tuesday condemned the recent violence and attack by anti-encroachment activists on shopkeepers near the Vishalgad Fort here. “There is no space for violence in progressive Kolhapur and Sunday’s violence at historic Vishalgad Fort was unfortunate and unexpected,” he said…
Mumbai, Jul 15 (UNI) Jyotirmath Shankaracharya, Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati, on Monday met Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray at his residence ‘Matoshree’ in suburban Mumbai and expressed his solidarity with the latter, saying that he is a victim of betrayal. Swami Saraswati had turned down the invitation to the Ram temple consecration ceremony in Ayodhya….
Kolhapur / Ratnagiri, Jul 14 (UNI) Heavy rainfall continued to lash for third consecutive day on Sunday in Ratnagiri district, causing nearly all rivers in the district to overflow. With heavy rain, accompanied with gusty winds, lashing all parts of the district, the water level of all rivers in the district has reached up to…
Mumbai, July 12 (UNI) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a chargesheet before a Mumbai Special Court, naming two accused, including a Libyan national, in the ISIS terror conspiracy busted in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, an official said. The NIA has named M. Zoheb Khan of Maharashtra, who was arrested earlier this year (February 2024),,…
Mumbai, July 11 (UNI) Bharatiya Janata Party’s Member of Legislative Assembly Nitesh Rane was on Thursday issued summons by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Mumbai Police probing the death of celebrity talent manager Disha Salian four years ago. Salian, 28, had allegedly jumped to death from the 14th floor of the Galaxy Regent Building…
