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Last week, Maharashtra Governor S M Krishna cleared the state's proposal to raise Rs 16,000 crore (Rs 160 billion) through bonds to finance incomplete irrigation projects.
Trouble started at around 0620 hours when some people saw that the statue of Ambedkar at Kanhaiya Nagar in the town allegedly garlanded with sandals.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday expanded his council of ministers, inducting 11 ministers, including 10 new faces, in the exercise which left Shiv Sena unhappy as it was denied a Cabinet berth.
Incidents of violence were reported from various parts of Mumbai and Maharashtra.
Devendra Fadnavis, a Nagpur-based legislator, told climate experts that climatic changes were causing the rains to strike at odd times or in the wrong places, with devastating effect.
First Look on an all-party condolence meet for Pramod Mahajan in Mumbai.
Modi said he was shocked that such voices are being raised for political gains in the land of Shivaji Maharaj.
The minister, who has won acclaim from international institutions for making the railways rake in profits, said the railway land and the space along the rail tracks could also be used for laying fibre optic cables to improve IT sector.
A report from Nashik said 7 farm workers, including at least three migrants from Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, were killed by lightening while working in the fields on Thursday.
A bomb squad was rushed to the spot. There was no prima facie evidence to suggest any terrorist angle in the incident, police said.
The death toll pounding Andhra Pradesh for the past three days rose to 62.
The Anti Terrorist Squad of the Mumbai police on Tuesday seized explosives and weapons from a place in Aurangabad city of Marathwada region, police sources said.
'He is not looking at the interest of farmers. He only wants to do the politics of elections.' 'This Budget is for the new super India. It is exploiting the villages of Bharat.'
This was not Sharad Pawar or Prithviraj Chavan speaking. It was Uddhav Thackeray, the undisputed chief of the Shiv Sena!
Bal Thackeray's absence at all party functions these days is proof, says Rane.
Two persons were killed in the violence, which also left more than 60 people, including police personnel, injured.
While the rain fury has subsided in several areas of the state, including Mumbai, the situation in Nanded district of Marathwada continues to be serious, with the Godavari river still flowing a metre above the danger level.
As per the India Meteorological Department many districts in Maharashtra recorded maximum temperatures of 40 degree Celsius or above in the last two days.
Several parts of north and west India reeled under scorching heat wave with the temperature touching 50 degree Celsius in Rajasthan's Churu district on Tuesday, even as the meteorological department predicted very heavy rainfall in Assam and Meghalaya till May 28.
Intense spells of rain are likely to continue in the districts of Thane, Raigad and Mumbai during next four hours, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
It will be held in Nanded on Saturday at 11am.
At least four persons were injured in two blasts in Jalna and Parbhani in Marathwada region of Maharashtra.
The power situation is expected to be normal by 1300 IST
The blast occurred at the Mohamadia mosque when the Friday 'namaz' was being offered.
Admiral Vishu Bhagwat is believed to have made some derogatory remarks about V D Savarkar.
The rains are expected to bring down the temperature to around 33° C, sources said.
Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Wednesday stoked a potential controversy when he called Arvind Kejriwal a Veda Mukhyamantri (mad chief minister), while recalling his own days in the police force.
The national capital battled weather conditions in the "red category" as the maximum temperature recorded at the Palam observatory was 46.1C,
A big fan of Aamir Khan, the eight-year-old was inspired after he made a donation to the chief minister's relief fund
"Overdrawing of power by neighbouring states and low voltage has led to power disruption," a senior Maharashtra State Electricity Board official said.
Restrictions on height of pyramids proved by a dampener
Several cities in Maharashtra, including Satara, Kolhapur and Sangli, were affected due to power breakdown.
He is now the first non-Congress chief minister to win a second term in office in the state, seen as a Congress bastion until just five years ago.
All municipal corporations have been directed to shut down swimming pools and not to provide water tankers for revellers.
'Over 50 crore Indians are currently suffering from a livelihood crisis, something to which the whole country had shut its eyes to for the past six months.' 'We woke up only after the IPL was affected.'
'Theirs is not a campaign for diffused issues like social justice and equity. They have three clearly articulated demands.'
Posters featuring Fadnavis and declaring 'ha shabda maza ahe (this is my word)' have been put up all over Mumbai to counter Sena posters.
