The ashes of Bharatiya Janata Party leader and former union minister Gopinath Munde were on Sunday immersed in the Godavari river.
'It is perplexing to see the leader of the First World with a first rate medical infrastructure come up short on its foresight to handle the pandemic,' notes Group Captain Murli Menon (retd).
'For a Dalit boy to reach the PhD stage, it requires a lot of pain and hard work. He was a scholar, an intelligent student.' 'This is not about the loss of just an individual, but the loss of this nation.'
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Ambika Soni and Oscar Fernandes have also been nominated to contest the June 28 biennial elections.
The UP government turned down the Centre's offer to send a water-train to the state's drought-hit Bundelkhand region.
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday.
A big fan of Aamir Khan, the eight-year-old was inspired after he made a donation to the chief minister's relief fund
Raking up the December 16 gang rape case and the infamous Tandoor murder case, Narendra Modi on Friday attacked Sonia Gandhi over the issue of security of women and said women are not even safe in the Congress.
Anurag Thakur set to meet Mumbai Indians , Pune to discuss Maharashtra crisis.
Lakhs of people, including men and women, students, working professionals, lawyers and doctors from the community, participated in the march, under the umbrella of 'Maratha Kranti Muk Morcha'.
In the second such exercise in four days, the Prithviraj Chavan led Congress-Nationalist Congress Party ministry in Maharashtra was expanded on Monday with the induction of two Congress ministers.
'The package is for the distressed farmers who are committing suicide due to the severe drought,' Nitin Gadkari tells Arup Roy Choudhury and Sanjeeb Mukherjee.
Senior advocate A M Singhvi, appearing for Dev, said that the poll panel has passed 'unreasoned' orders while dismissing complaints of MCC violations against Modi and Shah and moreover, there have been reports of dissent by one of the election commissioners in passing some of the decisions.
In the purported conversation she allegedly said she can buy anyone she wishes from the money provided for '25-15' -- a scheme meant for funding small works in rural areas.
In a shocking first in Maharashtra's history, a mob attacked a police station last week, assaulted two policemen, dragged one of them out, paraded him with a saffrom flag and made him chant, 'Jai Bhavani, Jai Shivaji.'
'In this season of inspired mean-spirited campaigning, it still seemed remarkable that we are more likely to learn civics lessons from school children than our leaders,' says Rahul Jacob.
In an apparent reference to the snooping scandal, Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday attacked Narendra Modi alleging that the Gujarat chief minister, who spoke about women empowerment, was "tapping" phones of women in the state.
The deceased jawan was identified as 20-year-old Sepoy Mustapure Shubham Suryakant, a resident of Konerwadi village in Parbhani district of Maharashtra.
Dwivedi, son of BJP's district unit president of Allahabad Ramraksha Dwivedi, had reportedly announced a reward of Rs 1 crore for chopping off the tongue of Owaisi and called the AIMIM chief a 'traitor' who has no right to live in India.
'The DGCA, the ministry of civil aviation, Air India, the Airports Authority, all of them together form what I call an organised syndicate' 'In India, it is a fashion to blame the pilot because then nobody asks questions about the incompetence and grave negligence of this State-run syndicate.'
In the second phase on April 18, 97 seats,spread across 13 states and one Union Territory, will go to the polls.
He also sought to know if Modi, during his recent meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, asked the latter about the 2017 Doklam standoff.
Sugarcane, which is grown by no more than 1.1 million farmers, consumes 70 per cent of water available in Maharashtra for irrigation. In contrast, about 10 million jowar, pulses and oilseeds farmers get only 10 per cent of irrigation water, points out Abhishek Waghmare.
Party also plans over 35 virtual rallies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Smriti Irani will reprise her electoral battle with Rahul Gandhi from Amethi.
"In the last four years, the government has made serious efforts to provide proper houses to the poor living in shanties."
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday committed a faux pas when he apparently referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi as "opposition leader".
Andhra Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu likely to be India's most water-scarce states this summer
AIMIM MLA Waris Pathan was suspended from Maharashtra assembly for refusing to say 'Bharat mata ki jai'.
The final figure of polling could increase and it will be available on Tuesday, officials said.
'If I'm not having a good day, I look at Nisha and she gives me that big smile and everything that's wrong with the world doesn't exist.'
Hundreds of kilometres of national and state highways in states like Maharashtra, Himachal, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and others have turned into local, municipal or district roads, just a few days after a Supreme Court order banning liquor sale along highways.
The PM treaded sensitive ground by asking first-time voters to dedicate their first vote to those who carried out air strike in Balakot.
'We missed 21 months of Nisha's life. We don't want to miss another second.'
Water scarcity condition in Maharashtra has become "critical" due to deficit rainfall, Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan said on Wednesday while asking citizens to save water and use electricity carefully.
Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan's driver has been arrested for allegedly raping a minor maid servant on the pretext of getting her a job at the actor's residence after she was sacked by an actress, who is the wife of an cricketer-turned-politician, police said on Thursday.
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