The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the handing over of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport in Nagpur to a joint venture (JV) company for upgrading it to a multi-modal international passenger and cargo hub.
He said the government was committed to protecting their rights. It was committed to working on the path of development and asked them to educate their children.
Babasaheb Adhav, a sub-inspector at the Rabale police station, was killed outside the Maharashtra and Punjab Cooperative Bank in Airoli.
Offering the post of party president to Narayan Rane, Republican Party of India leader Ramdas Athavale has invited the suspended Congress leader and former Maharashtra revenue minister to join his outfit.
A live bomb was found on Saturday evening in a private nursing home in Dhantoli, police said.The sniffer dog of the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad identified the bomb which was wrapped in a plastic bag, police said.
Seeking to blunt Bharatiya Janata Party's efforts to 'appropriate' legacy of Ambedkar, Sonia said, "Congress had given Dr Ambedkar his dues by appointing him as chairman of the Draft Committee of Constitution."
"Some unknown persons had garlanded shoes on the statue of Ambedkar in Gopalpur village of Mohla Police station, about 165 km from state capital Raipur, on Sunday," Rajnandgaon District Superintendent of Police V K Choubey told PTI.
The Bombay Stock Exchange, the National Stock Exchange, the interbank foreign exchange market and overnight call money/government securities market will remain closed on Wednesday.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Saturday accused Mahatma Gandhi of dividing the country on caste lines and coining "an uncontitutional term" to denote Dalits.
Chief Minister Stalin seems to have drawn a line between his personal beliefs and those of others in the family, beginning with wife Durga Stalin, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
this is not Orissa or West Bengal or Haryana or any other part of India where villagers are protesting against acquisition of farmland for industry or special economic zones. This is Mayawati's Uttar Pradesh -- where the chief minister wants around 400 hectares from four villages to create the mother of all gardens. The strategic location of the green belt, locally referred as "picnic spot", will ensure that Mayawati's farmhouse, which she hasn't visited even once, wil
Modi said he was shocked that such voices are being raised for political gains in the land of Shivaji Maharaj.
Dr Jabbar Patel talks about knowing Vijay Tendulkar from his college days.
What we know -- what we have seen -- is that India can change. That is the true genius of this nation.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said the ED registered the case based on the high court directive.
Though Dalit organisations have not announced any formal protest in Mumbai but their annual convergence on December 6 has become a cause for concern in the wake of recent violence that rocked the state.
According to Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation officials, city buses are plying as usual.
The government of Maharashtra has decided to acquire the 2,050 sq ft three-storey house in London where Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar once lived.
Lying on bed number 15 of the post-operative ward of the intensive care unit on the third floor of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar hospital in Central Mumbai area of Byculla, Razia Shaikh is wondering why her husband Ayub has not yet to come to see her for last six days. What she does not know is that he is no more. He fell to terrorists' bullets at that night.
'You will still want to take all the necessary precautions, which is the right thing to do.'
The BJP had filed the notice last week.
Reservation bill passed in Maharashtra Assembly amid din over blasts
Two students, who had shouted slogans during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address at a convocation function in Lucknow, on Saturday said they took the step to ensure that no Dalit student faces the same fate as HyderabadUniversity's scholar Rohith Veluma.
The struggle for identity and economic freedom keeps the Dalits volatile.
The defence ministry is shooting to achieve an annual export target of $5 billion by 2025.
The Dalit anger may influence the January municipal corporation polls in 14 cities and 27 district councils elections.
The 73th edition of the annual awards were recently held in Mumbai.
Congress party sources claimed the three, "...are scheduled to join the party on Friday."
Earlier, three Rane supporters quit their assembly seat which they had won as Sena nominees in 2004 polls, and had joined Congress.
He poured kerosene on himself and tried to consume the poison but was overpowered by the members of both benches and the bottles were snatched.
When the House met again, BSP members trooped into the well demanding a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the matter.
Making it clear that there will be no change in the reservation policy for Dalits, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asserted that nobody can snatch their right even as he accused his opponents of spreading "untruths" on the issue.
Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Babasaheb Kupekar on Wednesday sought an explanation from 23 Shiv Sena legislators whose disqualification was sought by expelled Sena leader Narayan Rane through a petition.
As soon as the proceedings began, Speaker Babasaheb Kupekar urged Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Girish Bapat and Congress legislator Chandrakant Chhajed to remove their helmets and said the government has taken note of their protest.
'I cannot conceive of any reason than my unsparing criticism of government policies that the government picked me to send a message to many who dare to take it on.'
Nikalje in his application stated that he had gone to Chembur on November 30 to help pacify the mob and not to incite them as claimed by the police in the FIR against him.
The speaker said the problem of illegal Bangaldeshi migrants was not only limited to the metropolis but was spreading throughout the state.
Undeterred by the explosions, the devout went back to the mosque about one-and-half hours later to offer prayer.
