Senior Bharatiya Janata Party legislator Haribhau Bagade was on Wednesday unanimously elected as the Speaker of the Maharashtra assembly.
Former Maharashtra Revenue Minister Narayan Rane, whose suspension from Congress was revoked recently, was today inducted into the over two-month-old Ashok Chavan led Congress-NCP ministry.
Krish [Radhakrishna] Jagarlamudi's first Telugu film Gamyam created history when it ran for more than 100 days in Andhra Pradesh. Now, the director is back with his next film Vedam starring Allu Arjun, Manoj and top heroine Anushka.
Four persons were killed and another one was injured when a car lost its control and ran over them in Indiranagar area in Bangalore on Saturday morning.The victims included three morning joggers and a cyclist, they said, adding that the driver of the car fled the scene, leaving the vehicle behind.A driving license issued in the name of Karthik Somaiah was found in the car, they said.
Radhakrishna Jagarlamudi's on the success of his directorial Telugu debut Gamyam, which is making waves in Andhra Pradesh.
The youth were demanding right to quality education, provision of trained interpreters for deaf students and preventing fraudulent distribution of disability certificates to able-bodied individuals among others.
The series of low-intensity bomb blasts had occurred from August 12 to December 6, 1993, in the wake of the demolition of Babri Masjid in December 1992.
A court on Friday ordered that an FIR be filed against Board of Control for Cricket in India chief Sharad Pawar and three others for alleged misappropriation of funds during the fifth India-Australia ODI in Hyderabad.
Vikhe Patil, who was leader of opposition in the state assembly, resigned from the Congress recently.
Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha, who joined the Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha election, lost to Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad from Patna Sahib constituency in Bihar by 2.84 votes.
Orissa Steelers beat Hyderabad Sultans by a solitary goal in the second phase of the Premier Hockey League.
I will help, 100 per cent. Come (to me) with your parents, the MLA said.
Government is not able to decide on liquor ban as Eid-e-Milad is falling on the eve of Christmas.
The seer had spent two months in custody in connection with a murder case.
Two MLAs each from the BJP and the JD(U) were among the five who were inducted into the Cabinet.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and several of his cabinet colleagues figure in the list of 118 Congress candidates for the October 15 Assembly polls announced by the AICC late on Wednesday.
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NCP leaders Ajit Pawar, Chhagan Bhujbal, Congress leaders and former chief ministers Ashok Chavan, Prithviraj and former speakers Dilip Walse Patil (NCP) and Haribhau Bagade of the Bharatiya Janata Party were among the members to take oath early.
The ninth Metropolitan Magistrate in Hyderabad on Thursday granted bail to six officials of Tata Indicom.
Her great grandfather began sugar co-operatives in Maharashtra. Her grandfather was an eight time MP. Her uncle is currently leader of the Opposition in the Maharashtra assembly. Her cousin joined the BJP on Tuesday, March 12. Nila Vikhe Patil, who could one day become prime minister of Sweden, unravels her India connections in an e-mail interaction with Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel.
There's no telling how long this government will last or how cordial the relations between the alliance partners will be, but it tells us that while constancy and fealty pay, timing is everything, points out Aditi Phadnis.
Adille Sumariwalla was re-elected unopposed as the president of Athletics Federation of India (AFI) for a second term at its Annual General Body Meeting in New Delhi on Friday.
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The alliance won 41 of the 48 seats leaving the Congress-NCP combine with just 5 seats.
Maharashtra Education Minister Vinod Tawde on Monday said the engineering "degree" he obtained from a Pune institute in 1984 is not bogus as claimed by a television news channel.
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.
He was accompanied by his father, Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray, and mother Rashmi while filing nomination papers.
Jaivardhan Singh, the United States-educated son of Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh, and Bhuwaneshwar Singh, son-in-law of late leader Arjun Singh, figure in the second list of 82 party candidates for the Madhya Pradesh assembly polls announced by the All India Congress Committee on Tuesday night.
'I am happy Sanjay Raut and Sharad Pawar changed the game of Maharashtra politics.'
Terming the BJP-led Maharashtra government a "total failure", Congress accused Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis of giving clean chits to several tainted ministers.
Meru Cabs' founder says they were a traditional company.
The Maharashtra CM is known to choose the right time to hit back at people he considers a threat, says N Suresh.
At the height of the agitation against Tata Motors and after, the decibel level at Singur has always been high. The coronavirus scare, however, appears to have tempered it. The lockdown has hit Singur's inhabitants hard in more ways than one, reports Ishita Ayan Dutt.
17,695 songs gives the legendary singer the Guinness record!
The safety net for passengers is focused solely on the terms and conditions for the radio taxi scheme issued by the transport department.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf lists seven states where the Grand Old Party suffered a severe setback.
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