Decision in Tanushree’s case was inappropriate, but can’t help now: CINTAA
Cine and TV Artists Association said on Tuesday it did not "address" Tanushree Dutta's sexual harassment allegation against Nana Patekar in 2008 but it extends support to the actor now. Dutta had filed a complaint with CINTAA a decade...
Lokpal: Hazare calls of hunger strike after talks with Maha minister
Mumbai: Social activist Anna Hazare, who was scheduled to go on hunger-strike from today, postponed the agitation after talks with Maharashtra minister Girish Mahajan. He was to sit on hunger over demand for appointment of Lokpal and welfare measures for...
Farmers’ march turns violent in Delhi; cops use water cannons, tear gas
New Delhi: Violence has broken out as farmers marching towards Delhi. The police are using water cannons and tear gas to push back the protesting farmers. Thousands of farmers are marching towards Delhi over demands ranging from farm loan...
Anna Hazare set to begin hunger strike over Lokpal issue
Ahmednagar: Noted Gandhian activist and anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare is set to begin an indefinite hunger strike from October 2 to protest against the Centre's alleged dilly-dallying on the issue of appointing a competent anti-corruption ombudsman or Lokpal. Hazare...
Contaminated Polio Vaccines Given To Kids In Maharashtra
New Delhi/Nagpur: Some vials of the oral polio vaccines contaminated with the type-2 polio virus were administered to children in Maharashtra and Telengana, besides Uttar Pradesh, Health Ministry officials confirmed. The vials were manufactured by a Ghaziabad-based pharmaceutical company. The ministry has...
Bombay HC issues notice in petition challenging self-defeating, impractical provisions
The Bench of Justices Bhushan Gavai and Rohit Deo of the Nagpur Bench issued notice to the Centre, the state governments, the Attorney General for India, and the Advocate General for Maharashtra in the petition filed by Advocates Rahul Kishnani...
SBI halves daily ATM withdrawal limits to Rs 20,000
Mumbai/Nagpur: The nation's largest lender State Bank of India has slashed the daily withdrawal limit from ATMs to half from Rs 40,000 to check fraudulent transactions. The new limit will be effective from October 31 for the bank customers who number...
Bhima Koregaon Case: Delhi High Court Ends House Arrest of Activist Gautam Navlakha
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Monday set aside the transit remand of Gautam Navlakha, one of the five rights activists arrested in connection with Bhima-Koregaon case. The Delhi HC decision comes days after the Supreme Court extended the...
Never Supported PM Modi on Rafale, Would Never do That: Sharad Pawar
New Delhi: Amid growing rumblings in Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), over his alleged support to Narendra Modi on Rafale jet deal issue, NCP chief supremo Sharad Pawar on Monday clarified that he did not support the Prime Minister and...
Maha govt withdrew rioting cases against Bhide, reveals RTI
MUmbai: Maharashtra government dropped a decade old three cases against Sambhaji Bhide, claims a Mumbai-based Right to Information (RTI) activist. Bhide, also a suspect in this year’s Bhima Koregaon violence, is the founder of Shri Shivpratishthan, Hindusthan that...
Fire Breaks Out at Powerhouse in Thane’s Savarkar Nagar, no Casualty
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Mumbai: A fire broke out at the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) powerhouse in Thane’s Savarkar Nagar. Four fire tenders were rushed to the spot to douse the flame. However, no casualty or injury...Governor to inaugurate Indian Jewellers Festival in Zaveri Bazar
Mumbai: The Governor of Maharashtra CH. Vidyasagar Rao will inaugurate the 'Indian Jewellrs Week' organized by the India Bullion and Jewellers Association Limited at Zaveri Bazar, Mumbai at 1200 hrs on Monday, 1st October 2018 . Raj Purohit,...
LPG cylinder price hiked by Rs 59; subsidised gas to cost Rs 2.89 more
Subsidised cooking gas price on Sunday hiked by Rs 2.89 per cylinder to Rs 502.4 per cylinder. The price of non-subsidised LPG at Delhi will increase by Rs 59.00 per cylinder in October 2018 mainly due to change...
RSS affiliate seeks to build a ‘Bharatiya’ Internet with data centre in Nagpur
Research for Resurgence Foundation (RFRF), a wing of the RSS’s Bharatiya Shikshan Mandal, has launched its own local language email domain as the first step to create several Indian-centric technological products, including an Indian search engine. The emails will be...
Vivekananda was a torchbearer of India’s freedom movement: Maha Governor
The Governor of Maharashtra CH. Vidyasagar Rao today described Swami Vivekananda as the torchbearer of Indian Freedom movement, who inspired several generation of freedom fighters in the country. “If the French Revolution was inspired by French philosophers like Voltaire, Rousseau and...
Hazare firm on hunger strike at his village from Oct 2
Ahmednagar : Saying that the BJP-led government at the Centre came to power because of the Lokpal agitation, social activist Anna Hazare has said he is firm on his decision to launch a hunger strike from October 2...
Mumbai to Goa cruise will start on 11 October; tickets may start from Rs7,000
No, you haven’t missed the boat. The Mumbai to Goa cruise service, which some reports claimed was starting in August, will launch on 11 October, as confirmed by Angriya Sea Eagle Pvt Ltd, the company running the service. Mumbai to...
Sharad Pawar has not given clean chit to anybody on Rafale: NCP
Nationalist Congress Party leader Praful Patel on Friday said party president Sharad Pawar has not given a "clean chit to anybody" in Rafale deal. Patel's statement came after NCP general secretary Tariq Anwar quit the party and announced that...
No SIT probe,. house arrest of activists extended: SC on Bhima-Koregaon case
Bhima-Koregaon case: The Supreme Court begins pronouncing its verdict on the plea challenging the arrest of the 5 rights activists by the Maharashtra police. Justice AM Khanwilkar and CJI Dipak Misra delivering a concurring judgment. Justice Chandrachud is dissenting...
Tariq Anwar Resigns from NCP After Sharad Pawar’s ‘Support’ for PM Modi in Rafale Deal
New Delhi: Nationalist Congress Party MP Tariq Anwar has resigned from the party in protest against party president Sharad Pawar’s statement defending Prime Minister Modi in the Rafael deal. “I resigned after being hurt by Pawar Saheb’s comments. There...
SC lifts ban on women entering Sabarimala
New Delhi: The Supreme Court in a majority verdict (4:1) has lifted the ban on the entry of women to Sabarimala. Four judges have the same opinion in the Sabarimala temple case; one dissenting opinion by Justice Indu Malhotra. CJI Dipak Misra...
