NITI health report: Kerala, Punjab top; UP at bottom but improving
New Delhi: Kerala has topped the Health Index report prepared by NITI Aayog while Uttar Pradesh appeared at the bottom among larger states, though it has shown improvement in the recent past. As per the index report for large states, Kerala...
Amitabh Bachchan admitted to Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai
Mumbai ( maharashtra news) : On Friday, veteran Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan was admitted to Lilavati Hospital. Sources told that he was suffering from a gastrointestinal problem. He had been admitted earlier in 2012 for a 12-day stay post his abdominal surgery. Bachchan,...
Rahul-led delegation asks Prez to set up probe into Judge Loya’s death
New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi and members from opposition parties handed over a memorandum to President Ram Nath Kovind demanding a special investigation into the death of Judge Loya. Speaking to reporters later, the Congress president said, "A judge died...
ICC appoints Indra Nooyi as its 1st female director
New Delhi: The International Cricket Council on Friday appointed PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi as the ICC board's first independent female director. Nooyi will join the world cricket governing body in June 2018 to align with the term of...
Women MPs show the way as LS adjourns
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha adjourned today for nearly a month-long recess amid unrelenting protests by Andhra Pradesh members demanding more central assistance for the state. Members from the ruling NDA ally TDP and YSR Congress went on with their...
Javed Akhtar backs Sonu Nigam over loudspeakers at religious places
New Delhi: Veteran lyricist Javed Akhtar has voiced his support to singer Sonu Nigam and said loudspeakers should not be used at places of worships. Last year, Nigam had described the loud sermons from the loudspeakers as hooliganism in a...
Rahul’s mindset undemocratic: Amit Shah on PM’s speech disruptions
New Delhi: BJP President Amit Shah hit out at Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in his address to party leaders at the BJP parliamentary meeting. Never before in the parliamentary history was a prime minister's reply to the president's address disrupted...
Defamation case: Arun Jaitley to be cross-examined before single judge, says HC
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court today decided to transfer the ongoing cross-examination of Arun Jaitley before the joint registrar to a court in a defamation suit filed by him against AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and five other party leaders. Expressing...
Maharashtra Today: Easy access to be blamed for suicide at Mantralaya
Mumbai ( Maharashtra Today ): Mantralaya, the seat of the State government, has become a suicide point. There have been no less than six registered cases of attempt to suicide. These include the distressing case of Dharma Patil, a farmer...
Constable suffers heart attack in control room in Maharashtra Today, dies
Thane: In Maharashtra Today on Friday, an on-duty constable today died of a heart attack at Bhiwandi near here, police said. Suresh Salvi was on duty at the Bhiwandi police control room when he complained of severe chest pain at around...
In the name of Modi…Maharashtra Govt. spends lakhs on stocking his books in school libraries!
Mumbai Maharashtra: The government wants students to 'love' reading as a hobby; they want them to read other books apart from school curriculum so libraries were created in Govt. run schools. This scheme's real motive is now under a cloud of...
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...
Mumbai man who created fake Twitter account of Sachin Tendulkar’s daughter held : Maharashtra Today
Mumbai: In Maharashtra Today A 39-year-old engineer was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly creating a fake Twitter account of former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar’s daughter Sara and using it to tweet against NCP chief Sharad Pawar. Nitin Atmaram Sisode, the accused, wanted...
