Continuing its association with the Aam Aadmi, the Congress's slogan for the 2009 Lok Sabha poll, which was unveiled on Friday, banks heavily on the common man. 'Aam admi ke badte kadam, har kadam par Bharat bulund', is the Congress' theme to woo the common man. Interestingly, the new slogan for the Parliamentary election has been penned by Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anand Sharma and senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid.
A sessions court today awarded life sentence to suspended State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) officer Manohar Kadam in 1997 Ramabai firing case after observing that the convict had "knowledge of the consequences" of opening fire at a mob that had resulted in killing of 10 persons.
Five days after their building came crashing down, bringing down their world along with it, the survivors wait in hope for definite answers from the authorities, reports Hemant Waje/Rediff.com.
'Dalvi, you are saying you asked a question, but don't remember the answer?' asks Pasbola incredulously. 'Yes.' 'You are lying.'
'We told the victims this was the only opportunity for them to get their story recorded.' 'If they did not recount their version the other side would concoct their own theory about what happened at Bhima-Koregaon.'
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Stepping up its campaign against Narendra Modi, the Congress on Tuesday released video clips of alleged "hate speeches" of several Bharatiya Janata Party, Sangh Parivar and Shiv Sena leaders and demanded their arrest for "trading in the politics of poison" by committing the "sin" of "stoking communal fire".
Suryavanshi had been allegedly beaten up by some MLAs in the Maharashtra Assembly premises, after he stopped and fined Bahujan Vikas Aghadi MLA Kshitij Thakur for speeding his vehicle on the Bandra-Worli sea link in March this year.
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When the Maharashtra government first announced to send a 'water train' to drought-hit Latur in 2015, one would have remotely imagined that it would reap a major political success for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Congress pocket borough.
Two persons were on Wednesday killed and nine others injured when a chemical-laden tanker fell from the Mumbra bypass here over hutments in an adjoining slum area.
After placating sitting MP Suresh Kalmadi who was sulking over denial of ticket, the Congress managers are confronted with a tough task of retaining the Pune Lok Sabha seat by overcoming the main challenge from a resurgent BJP in a quadrangular contest which is on cards.
At least 18 people were killed and 24 others injured on Saturday when a private bus plunged into the Beas river near Vindravani in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh.
An FIR has been registered against Shiv Sena MLA Prakash Bala Sawant for allegedly threatening to "strip and thrash" a woman following an argument over a fight with regards to the redevelopment of a housing society in suburban Bandra, police said on Thursday.
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Opposition legislators, including those of the BJP and the Shiv Sena, will submit a petition to Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Babasaheb Kupekar, seeking the removal of expelled Sena leader Narayan Rane from the post of leader of oppn.
A scene of a play and a conversation between two key characters were snipped from the first episode Tanashah, a day after the cast and crew of the nine-part starry political saga on Amazon Prime Video once again apologised and said they had decided to implement changes to address the concerns raised.
At least 20 other persons are feared trapped under the debris of the building in Navi Vasti locality.
Over 90,000 people in Sangli and Kolhapur districts have been evacuated due to flooding, Maharashtra Cooperatives Minister Patangro Kadam said on Wednesday.\n
A professor of Delhi University was arrested by the Maharashtra police on Friday for his alleged links with Maoists, after questioning him more than four times in the last six months.
In a video posted after the alleged attack, Goswami said he was told by his security guards that the attackers were allegedly Youth Congress workers. However, there was no confirmation of the same by either police or the youth outfit.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Gopinath Munde ended his hunger strike on Tuesday afternoon in Aurangabad after Maharashtra Forest Minister Patangrao Kadam's assurance that his demands would be discussed and fulfilled.
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Two Maharashtra legislators, who allegedly assaulted traffic police sub-inspector Sachin Suryawanshi, in the state assembly premises, on Thursday surrendered before the police in Mumbai.
A Mumbai court on Wednesday remanded six bookies, arrested in connection with the alleged IPL betting syndicate, in judicial custody till June 5.
In an online chat with Get Ahead readers Dr Anil Bansal, Chief Cardiologist at Columbia Asia Hospital, answered queries related to heart ailments.
The letters were reportedly recovered after the anti-Naxal operations in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli, in which 39 Maoists were killed, in April.
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Two Maharashtra members of Legislative Assembly accused of assaulting a police officer will have to spend at least three days in jail after a court on Friday reserved its order on their bail plea till Monday even as both Houses of legislature were adjourned amid ruckus over their suspension and conduct of police in the episode.
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As the news spread, several party workers assembled outside his residence, `Matoshree', in suburban Bandra, where security has been stepped up.
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A witness in the 2002 hit-and-run case involving Salman Khan on Tuesday retracted his police statement in a court, saying he had not said that the actor had got down from the driver's seat of his vehicle and ran away after the accident occurred in suburban Bandra.
An Election Commission panel has held Congress candidates Milind Deora and Sanjay Nirupam among four Lok Sabha election candidates in Maharashtra guilty of resorting to paid news. In all, 84 complaints of paid news were received by a committee specially set up to keep a watch on paid news.
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