Raut said it looks like some "bootlickers" have published the book to appease the prime minister.
As the festival began on Monday morning, idols of different shapes and sizes of the elephant-headed God, the son of Lord Shiva and Goddess Parvati and considered as a symbol of wisdom, prosperity and good fortune, were installed at the sarvanjik (community) mandals and at homes by devotees.
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Ruling out merger with the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray Tuesday said he had no intention of aligning with anybody.
The Bombay High Court has acquitted a science teacher of charges of raping a student at his house on the ground that the prosecution had failed to establish the guilt of the accused beyond reasonable doubt.
This financial scheme is based on a virtual currency and is propagated by Russian businessman and financier Sergey Mavrodi.
The street-fighter attitude is what keeps Rane going even at 69. The expectation is -- at least in the BJP camp -- that he will be itching for a battle royale with the Shiv Sena in its bastions.
Vishwas More, retired chief engineer of the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University labs, who proudly proclaims he is 'a life-long Republican', and a veteran of political conventions, will attend his fifth Republican National Convention this week in Tampa, Florida, as an alternate delegate.
Protests by sugarcane growers in western Maharashtra, demanding better price for their produce, intensified on Wednesday with agitators torching a police jeep in the sugar belt of Kolhapur, setting up road blockades and pelting stones. In Sangli district, the police retaliated by firing in the air.
"The amount was around Rs 1 lakh and it was the most needed help for me that changed my entire career," she said.
'I came here to witness the historic message this oath-taking ceremony has sent to the nation and Maharashtra.'
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Four convicts of the Best Bakery case have been shifted to the central jail in the city in Vadodra, official sources said on Monday.
Lata Mangeshkar releases Gautam Rajadhyksha's book of famous Indian faces.
The bribe contained 17 newly-introduced Rs 2,000 currency notes, ACB said.
Former Ranji cricketer B B Nimbalkar passed away on Tuesday due to age-related illness at his Nagala park residence in Kolhapur.
The BMC polls will be held on February 21, and results will be announced on February 23.
'Modi underestimated Pawar.'
Quite a few Hindi movies have explored different shades of the landlord-tenant relationship in passing or purposefully.
A bunch of enthusiastic riders participated in the twentieth edition of the Gulf Monsoon Scooter Rally 2009 in Mumbai on Sunday.
"The Opposition's mahagathbandhan is an alliance of corruption, negativity and instability. The Opposition has 'dhanshakti' (money power), we have 'janshakti' (people's power)," the prime minister said.
As means of transport or metaphor, the romance of trains is unmistakable in Hindi cinema.
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Arthur J Pais remembers the late superstar and a bottle of Johnny Walker Black Label that he found waiting in his Chennai hotel room, a gift from the late legend, as he prepared to meet a writer.
The hottest stars marked their attendance for Manish Malhotra's show at Lakme Fashion Week Winter/Festive 2016.
Conflicting views are emerging over the proposal to ban Sanatan Sanstha, a right wing group allegedly linked to the killing of Govind Pansare.
In New Delhi, state Congress president Anil Kumar and party workers were detained by police at a petrol pump near Parmanand hospital.
An earthquake of 4.1 magnitude on the Richter scale hits Rapar Taluka in Kutch, Gujarat. Mild tremors were felt in Mumbai, Pune and western Maharashtra.
The Kapoors prayed for the matriarch at a chautha.
Maharashtra, the country's largest cane and sugar producer after Uttar Pradesh, had, over the past few years, weathered adverse market dynamics brought about by a domestic and global sugar glut, mounting arrears and muted exports.
The film has some strong perfromances from Indrajith and the supporting cast.
The latest setback for the 20-year-old party came at a time when its top leadership is in talks with the Congress to finalise seat-sharing for the 288-member assembly.
While the overall pass percentage for the state is 74.46 per cent, maximum number of girls have passed from Konkan region.
The committee is scheduled to meet on Thursday.
A Mumbai-based pandal has designed an idol that reduces pollution and ocean waste and urges its visitors to contribute smartly towards a social cause.
Stepping up his attack on the ruling United Progressive Alliance coalition, Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani said the "corrupt" government has brought "disgrace" to democracy.
This was the second ceasefire violation by Pakistan in the past 24 hours.
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