The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court on Wednesday gave another breather to Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray, staying his arrest till the next hearing. Earlier, on February 4, the court had stayed Raj's arrest till February 17. Raj's lawyer argued in front the bench comprising Justice A V Potdar that his client was arrested by the Mumbai police from Ratnagiri, when a state transport bus was pelted with stones in Badnapur tehsil of Jalna district.
The use of Plaster of Paris to make huge Ganesha idols has been a bone of contention amongst devotees, organisers and ecologists. Nithya Ramani finds out that for the common man, it is more a question of faith and his pocket than environment when it comes to choosing his Ganesha murti.
A moderately intensity earthquake, measuring five on the Richter scale, hit Mumbai and parts of western Maharashtra on Saturday evening with Koyna as its epicentre.
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Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Monday surrendered before a local court in Jalgaon in a case of rioting registered against him in 2008 and was later released on bail.
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As many as 24 people including eight fishermen were on Wednesday rescued by the navy and coast guard from the rough Arabian Sea in Maharashtra.
"The monsoon has reached Ratnagiri over the country's west coast. It will remain there for the week before moving on. This year's monsoon will be 96 per cent normal, with an error margin of 5 per cent," Indian Meteorological Department director B P Yadav said.
The government on Tuesday cleared nine fresh proposals for setting up special economic zones, most of which are related to IT and ITES, followed by the bio-technology sector.
There are 60 MPs below 39 in the current Parliament of 543 elected members.
The government had this month more than doubled RGPPL's allocation from KG-D6 to 5.67 million standard cubic meters per day that will help generate about 1,000 MW of electricity.
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said people living in the coastal belt would be shifted to safer places.
It is looking to invest over Rs 20,000 crore (Rs 200 billion) for a greenfield project in Raigad or Ratnagiri districts of Maharashtra.
the terminal will not be used to run the Dabhol power plant and would be supplied entirely to other domestic companies
'Absolute non-violence is not only sinful, but immoral.' 'This doctrine of non-violence benumbed the revolutionary fervor, softened the limbs and hearts of the Hindus, and stiffened the bones of enemies.' A revealing excerpt from Vikram Sampath's Savarkar (Part 2): A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966.
'If they were really serious (about conferring the Bharat Ratna on Savarkar) what were they doing for the last five years?' 'Why do they have to take so long?' 'Gandhi himself never got the Bharat Ratna so it does not really matter.'
Nilesh, son of former Maharashtra Chief Minister Narayan Rane, surrendered before the Chiplun police in Ratnagiri district at around on Friday.
The government has asked Reliance Industries to supply natural gas from the company's eastern offshore D6 fields to the beleaguered Dabhol power plant, a segment that gets top preference for gas allocation along with fertiliser units.
The company has four lenders -- State Bank of India, IDBI, ICICI and Canara Bank. According to the Reserve Bank of India norms, these loans would be declared as NPAs if the project is not financially restructured by March 31, 2009. The restructuring exercise includes a 50 per cent hike in the tariff for sale of power from the project, to be allowed by the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission. The project is expected to become viable after this.
The Maharashtra government has offered some respite for the troubled Dabhol Power Project by agreeing to provide a guarantee for a Rs 300 crore
The Maharashtra government is tightening its noose on Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray as it filed four more cases at different places in the state against him.
The ad hoc exemption was given to Ratnagiri Gas and Power Private Ltd to import as well as re-import components, parts and materials required for revival of its Power block I under 'Adhoc Exemption Order 24/2007' issued on May 5, 2007. The finance ministry has not accepted the request of power ministry for considering extension of ad hoc exemption.
'This is a long haul, god knows where it will end.' 'So it is best to conserve all the funds right now for fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.'
This supply is likely to start in the next few weeks. A proposal to hive off the terminal was turned down by the government last year after it was opposed by NTPC Ltd and Gail, which hold 28 per cent each in the project. The terminal has an LNG regassification capacity of five million tonnes per annum. It will, however, be fully operational only after the completion of the breakwater facilities in 2011.
This was decided at a meeting between State Energy Minister Dilip Walse-Patil and executives of General Electric, which had supplied power equipment to the erstwhile Dabhol Power Company. During the meeting, GE executives assured the minister that by the end of this month, the Block-I, currently lying defunct, would start generating around 600 Mw.
"There are eight companies (who have put in expression of interest)... RNRL is one of them," said A K Ahuja, managing director, Ratnagiri Gas and Power Pvt Ltd, the company that operates the nation's biggest gas-fired power plant and the adjacent LNG import facility. Others in the fray include state power utility NTPC and GMR. Ahuja said RGPPL will frame the bidding criteria and call for financial bids by next month.
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A scuffle broke out between at least 40 accused, allegedly involved in the 7/11 serial train bomb blasts, Malegaon blast and arms and ammunition seizure case of Aurangabad, and Arthur Road jail authorities while they were being transferred to prisons in Maharashtra. Defence advocate Shahid Azmi said the accused were being transferred to Nagpur, Ratnagiri and Kolhapur prisons last Saturday.
"The plant is producing 900 MW of power now. This will come down to 300 MW as we are shutting down two units for maintenance inspection," an official in Ratnagiri Gas and Power Pvt Ltd, the company that runs the Dabhol plant, said.
Dabhol is part of Ratnagiri Gas and Power Pvt Ltd.
Armed Somalian pirates on Friday released three Indians and 26 other members of the crew on board a hijacked cargo ship after keeping them in captivity for more than one and half months.
The Dabhol plant in Maharashtra, run by Ratnagiri Gas and Power Pvt Ltd and which was running at a capacity of 1,100-1,200 MW, is now generating 900 MW. The capacity was to be scaled up to 1,880 MW.
The Dabhol power plant of the Ratnagiri Power and Gas Company is in trouble once again with problems in the recently commissioned second unit and delays in commissioning the third.
The Ratnagiri Gas and Power Project, earlier known as the Dabhol project, will be dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the coming year, chairman of the Empowered Group of Ministers said.
Karnataka handed Maharashtra an inninges defeat to finish their Ranji Trophy campaign for the year.
The BCCI is not happy with his decision to skip the Ranji Trophy match between Maharashtra and Karnataka.
Karnataka, replying to Maharashtra's modest first innings tally of 276, made steady progress before finishing 37 runs behind the home team's score on the second day of the Elite Division Group A Ranji Trophy match in Ratnagiri on Wednesday.
Medium pacers Vinay Kumar and Narvanda Aiyappa shared seven wickets to skittle out Maharashtra for a meagre 276 on the first day of the Ranji Trophy Elite Division Group A tie.
Ratnagiri Gas and Power Pvt Ltd, the joint venture of state-run GAIL India and NTPC Ltd which owns the 2,150-MW power plant and the adjoining LNG import terminal, plans an IPO to raise Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion), company Chairman R K Goel told reporters in New Delhi. The Dabhol plant will be fully operational by next month when the third generating unit is commissioned, he said adding that currently, two units were generating about 1,100 MW electricity.
