Maharashtra Today: Maharashtra budget to be announced on March 9
Mumbai: In Maharashtra today the Maharashtra Budget 2018-19 will be presented on March 9 by the Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar. This will be the fourth budget of the finance minister. The month-long budget session of the Maharashtra legislature will begin on February...
Maharashtra Today: Murder convict on parole commits suicide at Mantralaya
Mumbai: In Maharashtra Today a murder convict, out on parole, jumped down from the fifth floor of the high-security Mantralaya, the Maharashtra government headquarters here on Thursday evening, police said. Identified as Harshal Suresh Raote, 45, he was rushed in a...
Maharashtra Today: Maharashtra court issues arrest warrant against ex-AAP leader
Jalgaon: In Maharashtra Today a court here on Thursday issued an arrest warrant against anti-corruption activist and former Aam Aadmi Party leader Anjali Damania in a defamation case filed by the local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists. Raver Court Judge D....
He is my boss too, let there me no doubt about that says Sonia Gandhi about son Rahul
New Delhi: "We have a new Congress president and on your behalf and my own I wish him all the best. He is now my boss, too. Let there be no doubt about that," Sonia Gandhi, former Congress President said...
Former B’desh PM gets 5-year-jail for graft
Dhaka: A Dhaka court has sentenced opposition leader Khaleda Zia to five years in jail after convicting her of embezzling money meant for an orphanage: Bangladesh Media. The Daily Star reports, "Wearing an off-white sari, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, offered her...
Next hearing in Ayodhya case on March 14
Karnataka: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar met Muslim clerics, including Maulana Syed Salman Husain Nadvi and Zufar Faruqui, in Bengaluru on the Ayodhya issue. The Supreme Court has set the next hearing in the case for March...
Renuka Chowdhury to file privilege motion against Kiren Rijiju
New Delhi: Congress' Rajya Sabha MP, Renuka Chowdhury has said she will file a privilege motion on Kiren Rijiju for posting a video of PM Modi's remarks on her in the Rajya Sabha yesterday. A news agency reports that Union Minister...
Maharashtra Today: Action hinted against 42 PIs giving political recommendations for transfer
Nagpur/Aurangabad: According to ABP Majha report in Maharashtra Today the police officials may land in trouble for getting political recommendation for their transfer. The State Home Ministry has indicated action against the 42 police inspectors who have got recommendations. These police inspectors...
5 arrested for shootout in Srinagar hospital
Srinagar: Five people have been arrested for the shootout and the escape of a Pakistani prisoner at the SMHS hospital in Srinagar. While Pakistani terrorist Naveed Jhatt escaped from police custody two policemen died in the incident. The police said...
MP Renuka Chowdhury accuses PM of ‘denigrating the status of a woman’
New Delhi: 'What else do you expect from him?' It was the Congress Rajya Sabha MP Renuka Chowdhury's reaction over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's dig at her during his speech in the Upper House of Parliament. "PM made a personal remark, what...
SC Grants Protection From Arrest to Milind Ekbote in Bhima Koregaon Violence
Pune: The Supreme Court today protected Milind Ekbote, the prime accused in the Bhima Koregaon violence in Maharashtra, from arrest. The violence on January 1 had left one person dead. A bench headed by Justice Kurain Joseph granted Ekbote interim protection from...
Sexual assault case filed against actor Jeetendra by his cousin
A case of sexual complaint has been filed against veteran actor Jeetendra by his cousin who has claimed that the Bollywood actor had sexually abused her when she was 18 years old. According to his cousin, the alleged case of...
Modi spoke for 1 hour but said nothing about Rafale deal, farmers or unemployment: Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his Vote of Thanks speech in Lok Sabha, saying he spoke for over an hour but said nothing about important issues of the country....
Major fire at cloth mill near Mumbai’s Oberoi Mall, no one injured
Mumbai: A major fire broke out at a cloth mill in the Italian Industrial Estate near the Oberoi mall in suburban Goregaon this morning, an official said. No injury or casualty was reported so far in the blaze which broke out...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s wife Yashodaben injured in an accident
Chittorgarh: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's wife Yashodaben has been injured in an accident in Rajasthan, the police have said. One person has reportedly died in the accident, which took place on the Kota-Chittor highway. Yashodaben has suffered head injuries, the police say. Yashodaben...
‘Rafale deal is a scam’: Rahul questions Modi govt for not sharing details
New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday called the Rafale deal with France a scam after Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in Parliament that details of the agreement for 36 jets could not be disclosed as it was classified...
Anupam Kher, Ram Madhav’s Twitter accounts hacked, pro-Pak messages posted
New Delhi: Some Twitter accounts, including those of actor Anupam Kher, Rajya Sabha member Swapan Dasupta and BJP general secretary Ram Madhav were hacked today, allegedly by pro-Pakistani Turkish hackers. Kher, who is in Los Angeles right now, said he...
Why should I quit BJP, let the party throw me out : Yashwant Sinha
New Delhi: Dissenting BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said today he has no intention of quitting the BJP, which can throw him out if it so wants. Sinha said he had been trying for an audience with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and...
Rahul Gandhi now more than a match to Narendra Modi: Moily
New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi has emerged as "more than a match" to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the aspiration of the party and youth is to see him as the country's PM, senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily said. Asked about...
Bombay HC stays revoking of meat-sellers’ licence over suspicion of selling beef
Representational Pic Mumbai: In a relief to meat-sellers in the neighbouring Palghar district, the Bombay high court today stayed a notice issued to them by the civic body concerned asking them to shut shop on suspicion that they had been...
Beware, drinking very hot tea may increase risk of Oesophageal Cancer
Representational Pic New Delhi: Drinking extremely hot tea may increase the risk of oesophageal cancer by up to five times, especially if a person also consumes alcohol and is a smoker, a study has warned. The research, published in the journal...
