The Maharashtra government will examine if the controversial outfit Hindu Rashtra Sena could be banned in the wake of Pune techie Mohsin Shaikh's murder, Home Minister R R Patil said in Mumbai.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Miniser R R Patil said in rape cases, the state government would set up a special court.
Replying to a question in the state assembly, Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil said a similar law introduced in Tamil Nadu recently is being studied carefully.
Confident that Maharashtra will get some respite from the present power crisis, the state government on Friday said the Dabhol power plant was generating 300 MW of power and that production would touch 630 MW by May 15.
Since the allotted extra day could not be used during the Ganesha festival, it will be for Navratri.
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Rahul Gopal was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau on Monday.
Heavy rains continued to pound Raigad district of Maharashtra on Monday with authorities evacuating 800 people from three villages as a precautionary measure.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil on Sunday ordered the administration in Mumbra in Thane district to immediately start distributing foodgrains and Rs 5000 to each family affected by last week's rain and flood.\n\n
The Maharashtra government on Friday said it will make a statement in the Legislative Assembly on July 20 on the controversy surrounding the audio tape conversation purportedly between actor Salman Khan and actress Aishwariya Rai.
Central leaders and those from Maharashtra attended the meeting at Pawar's residence in Delhi.
Police have registered a first information report under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code against the duo.
Under the new ordinance, no establishment set up as an eatery or liquor bar can hold dance display or performances in their premises.
Bhujbal's son Pankaj will contest from Mazgaon in central Mumbai.
The union demanded that the government resolution banning the bars be postponed for three months.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister R R Patil said dance bars, which had flourished in various parts of the state, had adverse effect on the youth, 'damaging' the cultural texture of the state.
The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Maharashtra government to implement its earlier order on dance bars.
Shouting anti-Pakistan slogans, dozens of Shiv Sena activists on Tuesday disrupted the press conference of a Sufi music band from that country at the Mumbai Press Club, the police said.
Several parts of Maharashtra are reeling under a severe drought.\n\n
NCP ministers will have to spend four days a week in Mantralaya, while the remaining three days can be devoted to their constituencies.
In a letter addressed to the Deputy Chief Minister R R Patil, the NCW said that the team would like to meet the victim on May 3.
Asian Development Bank has sanctioned $313.6 million for various railway projects in the country, while the World Bank has provided $463 million for an urban transport project.
The resignation letter states he is resigning as MLA of Mandya constituency, without assigning any reason.
A legislator on Wednesday created a flutter in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly by telling Home Minister R R Patil that he could "break into" Pune's Yerwada Jail for Rs five lakh.
Two weeks after Sanjay Dutt was granted a month-long parole, the Bollywood actor was on Saturday released from Pune's Yerwada Jail.
Mumbai Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria on Monday submitted a report containing information on his meeting with the former Indian Premier League boss Lalit Modi to the Maharashtra government.
Pawar has occupied the post since he founded the party in 1999.
In a bold move, Devendra Fadnavis-led Bharatiya Janata Party government has decided to downgrade security of top politicians of Congress and Nationalist Congress Party and their kin, including former chief minister Prithviraj Chavan and his then deputy Ajit Pawar.
In 2014 too, the Congress had lost all the 26 seats in Gujarat.
Nine ministers of cabinet rank and four ministers of state were inducted at the swearing in ceremony at Raj Bhavan with Governor Vajubhai Vala administering the oath of office and secrecy.
Admitting shortage of railway police personnel to guard women compartments in suburban trains, Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil has said he has apprised Union Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge about it.
Under fire from the opposition in the wake of gang rape of a 23-year-old photojournalist in Mumbai, Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil is personally supervising the probe into the case round the clock.
A day after Nationalist Congress Party extended unsolicited "outside support" to Bharatiya Janata Party in government formation in Maharashtra, party president Sharad Pawar on Monday said it was the "best alternative" to usher in a "stable" dispensation.
'Am I going to take my money with me when I die tomorrow?' asks Kadar Shaikh when asked about the money he spent to develop two COVID-19 isolation centres with 145 beds by spending more than Rs 1 crore.
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