The Maharashtra government on Thursday said the work on 22km-long sea link between Sewri and Nhava Sheva would start within the next six months.
'I reached Bhopal the day after the gas tragedy; the smell was still in the air. It was a professional hazard but I was not scared.'
The Maharashtra government has no immediate plans to shift Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, sentenced to death in the 26/11 attacks case, from the high-security Arthur Road jail to any other prison in the state.
There was no law or autonomous body governing digital content in India so far. Now, OTT and other platforms, including digital news websites, are expected to fall within a governmental framework of rules and regulations.
The immediate provocation for Rane's tirade against Deshmukh is apparently the approval of land allotment for Videocon group's Rs 8,000 crore Liquid Crystal Display panel manufacturing project in the state by the state cabinet on Tuesday.
Airtel has launched a new service -- Temple Offering -- for its subscribers in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. The service will help Airtel subscribers to make their donations to temples using their mobile phones.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh today demanded a special assistance from the Centre for the victims of the 1992-93 Mumbai riots. Speaking at a high-level meeting in Mantralaya, the chief minister directed the officials to write to the Centre regarding this.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the cabinet sub-committee on infrastructure, headed by Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, at Mantralaya. The Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation would undertake the project by devising a suitable financial model.
The BEST workers' union went on strike to press for their demands, including timely payment of salaries.
'Instead of doing ground work they are sitting and monitoring the drought through Mantralaya and trying to solve the problem with Aamir Khan.'
Singing of the national song in the Mantralaya or secretariat on the first working day of every month has been the norm since the time of erstwhile Shivraj Singh Chouhan government of the BJP.
Thackeray said not a single tree leaf will be cut till further developments.
Special prosecutors will be appointed, state CM tells activists
'We want the Commission to finish its work; the issue it is investigating is too crucial for its work to be left incomplete.'
The decision was taken to prevent crowding at shops and marketplaces amid the lockdown to contain the coronaviruspandemic, a statement from Thackeray's office said.
Ajay Singh Gangwar who was the Barwani district collector, was transferred on Thursday night as Deputy Secretary in the Secretariat in Bhopal. Gangwar had been promoted to the IAS cadre from the state service in 2005.
The post was reserved for a woman from Other Backward Classes
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said the Aussie skipper company had proposed to set up a township in the city on a "100 to 400 acre land".
So far, Patil said, 44 persons have been arrested and charged with murder in connection with the rape and murder of a Dalit family at Khairlanji village in Bhandara in September.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Tuesday visited Thane and adjoining areas affected by heavy rains since last week.\n
It will now be called the Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs.
Carrying placards, message boards and banners, the children will inform Mumbaikars of their fundamental rights to a safe, clean and modern city.
Altogether 26 persons have died due to high fever and about 250 others have contracted similar symptoms in Mumbai in the last two days in the wake of the recent deluge.
Immediately after the meeting, the commissioner went to Ramtek, the official residence of Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal.
Anyone with such experiences could have been expected to turn fundamentalist. But Shaheen Kadri is anything but that.
NCP ministers will have to spend four days a week in Mantralaya, while the remaining three days can be devoted to their constituencies.
Police seized dangerous chemicals and arms from the training centres following the arrest of six SIMI activists in the Mulund bomb blast case.
All municipal corporations have been directed to shut down swimming pools and not to provide water tankers for revellers.
Close friend Tarun Vijay pays tribute to the four-time Goa chief minister and former defence minister who passed into the ages on Sunday.
Rahul Gandhi is neither Congress president, office-bearer nor Congress leader in Parliament. This technical leeway provides adequate cover for Shiv Sena-Congress ties taking a nosedive, says Rasheed Kidwai.
The Centre's programmes of maternity benefit and Child Protection Services also got a major boost in the Budget.
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