Bollywood star Arbaaz Khan summoned by Thane Police in IPL betting scam
Thane: Hindi film actor and director Arbaaz Khan has been summoned by Thane police in connection with Indian Premier League (IPL) betting scam. According to media reports, Salman Khan's brother was summoned on Friday afternoon. Police have asked the Dabangg star...
BJP’s failure to create Vidarbha cost it Bhandara-Gondia: Ashish Deshmukh
Nagpur/Mumbai: Maharashtra BJP MLA Ashish Deshmukh today said his party lost the Bhandara-Gondia Lok Sabha bypoll because it "failed" to implement its electoral promise of carving out a separate Vidarbha state. Deshmukh, a staunch proponent of separate Vidarbha, alleged that the...
RInfra among 13 lowest bidders for Nagpur-Mumbai Expressway
Mumbai: The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) on Thursday announced the 13 lowest bidders out of 18 eligible for the Rs 46,000 crore Nagpur-Mumbai Super Communication Expressway (NMSCE). These 13 lowest bidders for the 13 packages of the 700-km Maharashtra...
Uddhav Thackeray asks Oppn to boycott elections if EVM row not resolved
Mumbai: Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray today asked opposition parties to "unitedly boycott" elections if controversies surrounding electronic voting machines (EVMs) are not resolved quickly. He also threatened to drag the Election Commission to court over the Palghar bypoll result...
Ramdev’s messaging app disappears from Google Play store
New Delhi: Baba Ramdev's swadeshi messaging app called Kimbho that aims to take on WhatsApp and WeChat has suddenly disappeared from Google Play Store. The app is still available for iPhones and iPads on the App Store. Several people who tried to...
JD-S to get finance portfolio, Cong gets Home in Karnataka
Karnataka CM and DY CM Bengaluru: If party sources are to be believed then the Janata Dal-Secular-Congress coalition in Karnataka has solved the cabinet tussle. The JD-S will get the finance ministry, while the Congress will get to keep the home...
Congress wins Karnataka’s Rajarajeshwari Nagar seat election
Representational Pic Bengaluru: Congress's N Muniratna has won the election from the Rajarajeshwari Nagar constituency in the Karnataka assembly polls. Congress's N Muniratna over his nearest BJP rival Tulsi Muniraju Gowda. Assembly elections across the state were held on May 12. However,...
RJD wins Bihar’s Jokihat seat, Tejashwi says ‘lesson for Nitish & BJP’
Patna: The counting of votes for by-elections to four Lok Sabha seats including politically-crucial Kairana in Uttar Pradesh, and 10 assembly constituencies is underway. The Lok Sabha seats which went for polls were: Palghar and Bhandara-Gondiya in Maharashtra; the politically-crucial Kairana...
Governor felicitates tribal students returning from successful Mt Everest Expedition
Mumbai: The Governor of Maharashtra CH. Vidyasagar Rao congratulated tribal students from Chandrapur District on their successful completion of Mount Everst Expedition at Raj Bhavan, Mumbai on Thursday (31st May). Impressed by the success of young tribal mountaineers who scaled...
Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali launches Kimbho Messaging App; will compete with WhatsApp
New Delhi: After launching Swadeshi Samriddhi SIM cards, yoga guru Baba Ramdev's Patanjali has launched a new messaging application called Kimbho. It seems to be aimed at giving competition to the most popular messaging app WhatsApp owned by Facebook. At the...
Mayawati sends Lucknow home keys by speed-post
New Delhi: Claiming compliance with a Supreme Court order, BSP supremo Mayawati vacated a government house but is holding on to a second sprawling bungalow which her party says is a memorial to their founder Kanshi Ram. Her personal secretary today...
CBI clarifies: No raid at Congress leader D K Shivakumar’s
CBI issues clarification, says, "No raids carried out at Congress leader D K Shivakumar's residence." Earlier in the day, there were reports that CBI had raided the Congress leader's house. The 56-year old Congress leader is given the credit of deftly managing...
CBI raids Congress leader’s D K Shivakumar’s house
Officials from the Central Bureau of Investigation have raided the residence of Congress leader D K Shivakumar. Reports state that a warrant for 11 people have been issued. The 56-year old Congress leader is given the credit of deftly managing to...
By-poll Results Live: NCP leading from Maharashtra’s Bhandara-Gondiya,Counting underway
10:56 AM IST By-poll Results Live News and Updates: TMC’s Dulal Chandra Das is leading by over 33,000 votes from Maheshtala assembly constituency, after tenth round of counting, BJP second. The Maheshtala seat was held by Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Kasturi...
Maharashtra Agriculture minister Pandurang Fundkar dead
Mumbai: : Maharashtra Agriculture Minister Pandurang Fundkar died on Thursday after a brief illness at a hospital here, an official said. He was 67. The senior state BJP leader was inducted in the Devendra Fadnavis ministry in July,...
Petrol price cut by 7 paise, diesel by 5 paise per litre
File Pic New Delhi: Petrol price was today cut by 7 paise a litre and diesel by 5 paise – the second reduction in as many days on the back of softening international oil rates. Petrol in Delhi now...
Maharashtra: Senior IPS Officers Transferred In Top-Level Reshuffle
Mumbai: In a key IPS reshuffle, CM Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday shifted joint commissioner (economic offences) Ashutosh Dumbre to lead the crime branch, while Nashik range inspector general Vinoy Choubey will head the economic offences wing (EOW). In IPS circles,...
Raghuram Rajan is not going to attend World Hindu Congress
New Delhi: The somewhat puzzling 'news' had been doing the rounds of many news stories recently that former Governor of Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan, whose tenure was not extended by present Modi government, was going to be attending...
Kerala To Reduce Price Of Petrol And Diesel By Rs. 1 From Friday
File Pic Kerala: With fuel prices at an all-time high, the Kerala government has decided that it will reduce the prices of petrol and diesel by Re 1 in the state from Friday, June 1. With this, Kerala becomes the...
MCOCA court convicts 11 in Farid Tanasha murder case
Mumbai: A special Maharashtra Control of organised Crime Act (MCOCA) court here on Wednesday convicted 11 people in connection with the murder of gangster Farid Tanasha, an aide of underworld don Chhota Rajan. The court imposed life imprisonment to six...
Rahul Gandhi terms 1 paisa petrol price cut as ‘prank, childish move’
New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the cut in petrol and diesel price. If this is your idea of a prank, its childish and in poor taste, he...
