However, the Sena's demand for elevation of the existing ministers of state to the Cabinet rank was turned down by the chief minister.
The southwest monsoon season was deficient by 16 per cent.
The Bombay high court has directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to reinvestigate certain aspects of the Vishram Patil murder case in which President Pratibha Patil's brother has been sought to be made an accused
The CBI, which is probing the murder of a Congress leader Vishram Patil, wants to subject Leeladhar Narkhede and Damodar Lokhande to narco analysis, brain mapping and polygraph tests.
In one of the clips, an unknown person accompanying Mahajan is seen taking selfie video as they rode through water in parts of Kolhapur in western Maharashtra.
It alleged that Pratibha 'has been influencing and subverting the investigation of the case to shield her brother Dr G N Patil, also a Congress worker from Jalgaon'.
On the occasion of Women's Day, Vijay S Patil, 33, shares a beautiful story about his mother, who beat odds to educate her children.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi vacated the seat in the wake of office of profit controversy.
Farmers' organisations are demanding a hike of Rs 5 per litre in milk procurement price and have decided to suspend the supply to Mumbai and Pune from Monday.
Those arrested have been booked under IPC section 302 (murder) and the sections pertaining to rioting.
Trains between Ahmedabad and Mumbai have been cancelled as tracks are submerged near Vadodara.
Food packets and water bottles were being aerially dropped to marooned people, he added.
'It could rain about 200 mm in short span of time.'
'I have known Pratibhatai since I was five years old. Whatever I have achieved in life is because of her,' says Dr Kochure, a resident of Jalgaon.
An acquirer actually promises to scale up his domestic operations when he goes in for a small overseas acquisition, just to get a foothold in that particular market.
Five rapid response teams worked from Friday morning.
Counting of votes will be taken up on April 12.
out of the total 26 samples of dead chickens sent for testing, four had tested positive.
With SIMI leader Vakar-ul-hasan Muzaffar Hussain in Nagpur Central Jail after his arrest at New Delhi on August 9, 2001, most of the members in the district have been inactive, sources said.
Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray urged farmers to 'toss out' the Congress-led Democratic Front government for neglecting the cause of farmers.
While 9 lakh birds were officially claimed to have been culled, the cullers could actually account for only 2.9 lakh birds.
As per the India Meteorological Department many districts in Maharashtra recorded maximum temperatures of 40 degree Celsius or above in the last two days.
The alliance won 41 of the 48 seats leaving the Congress-NCP combine with just 5 seats.
Former India skipper Dilip Vengsarkar made a startling revelation, on Monday, about underworld don Dawood Ibrahim entering the Indian team's dressing room and offering the players cars if they beat Pakistan in the final of the Sharjah tournament in 1986.
There has been a whopping 164 per cent growth in assets of 216 members of Legislative Assembly, who are seeking re-election to the Maharashtra assembly, since the last polls, as per a study conducted by two Non-Governmental Organisations.
Nearly a month since he was compelled to quit after facing a string of allegations, former Maharashtra minister and Bharatiya Janata Party veteran Eknath Khadse has stirred a row, saying the whole country would "shake" if he opened his mouth.
The move comes following a recent verdict by the Supreme Court in this regard.
From linking innovation with supply of inputs to providing contract farming, the private sector can help agriculture move to the next stage of development.
Maratha outfits have announced that a mega rally will be held in Mumbai on August 9 in support of their quota demand.
Nationalist Congress Party will announce candidates for the Lok Sabha elections on January 21 and will retain majority of the sitting MPs, the party said on Monday.
In the video, which was allegedly shot and circulated by one of the accused, the Dalit boy can be seen sobbing and pleading for mercy.
In the third phase of the Lok Sabha election on April 23, 116 seats spread across 13 states and two Union Territories, will go to the polls.
Police arrested 11 people, including the main accused who is a 23-year-old school employee, the headmaster, staff and members of the school management, on Thursday night.
A 10-member Bharatiya Janata Party ministry led by Devendra Fadnavis was sworn-in at Wankhede on Friday.
market, was today seized from an illegal drug manufacturing unit in Jalgaon district in north Maharashtra and six persons were arrested, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence officials said.
He is in a spot over the purchase of a three-acre Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation land in Pune allegedly at a low price of around Rs 3.75 crore from its original owner in the name of his wife and son-in-law. The market value of the land is reportedly Rs 40 crore.
Hundreds of kilometres of national and state highways in states like Maharashtra, Himachal, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and others have turned into local, municipal or district roads, just a few days after a Supreme Court order banning liquor sale along highways.
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