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Two assailants were nabbed from Goa, one from Pune and the fourth from Shirdi, an official from Shirdi police station told PTI over phone.
Security at the famous Saibaba shrine in Shirdi has been beefed up after the temple authorities received a letter threatening to trigger a blast on November 9 as also the Thackeray residence in Mumbai, police said on Wednesday.
Dividing people in the name of religion, engineering riots and committing atrocities on Dalits is not Hindutva but to unite one human being with another is, he said in a veiled attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party while replying to a question at a summit organised by news channel Times Now.
Ahead of the elections, a lot had been spoken of the large number of leaders defecting from the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party to the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena. In fact, a month before the polls, more than two dozen Congress-NCP leaders quit and joined the BJP in hopes of riding high on the Narendra Modi wave. While for some the shift has brought in good fortune, for others it has brought loss. Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com analyses how these defectors have fared.
Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Monday promised free pilgrimage to various religious centres, including Ayodhya and Ajmer Sharif, if his party is voted to power in Goa in the assembly polls due in next February, which he said is a 'third guarantee' being given by AAP to Goans.
Fadnavis, the first Bharatiya Janata Party chief minister of the state, filed his papers from the Nagpur South-West constituency.
The actress was spotted with fiance Raj Kundra at Shirdi Saibaba's shrine recently. Her mother Sunanda and sister Shamita were also present.
Of the seven proposed airports, the one at Shirdi will be greenfield whereas in case of other six cities, airstrips exist already but there is no airport infrastructure, Sinha told PTI in an interview.
Pune-based St Laurn group will establish 11 business hotels in Pune, Bangalore, Jaipur, Shirdi and Ahmedabad in two years. The company has already set up two five-star hotels in Pune and is about to finish the work of a five-star hotel in Ahmedabad and a star resort in the pilgrim town of Shirdi.
The state-owned airport authority is conducting a techno-feasibility study.
A two-day-long 'Dharma Sansad' convened by the Shankaracharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati of Dwarka Peeth has passed a resolution that Sai Baba, the 19th century saint from Shirdi, should not be worshipped as a deity by the followers of 'Sanatan Dharma'.
'With his going, my relationship with the Kapoor family has ended.'
As the number of COVID-19 cases is witnessing a spike in India, religious places across the country remain closed to encourage social distancing, a key component in preventing the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
Sujay Vikhe Patil, son of senior Congress leader Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, joined the BJP in presence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and state BJP chief Raosaheb Danve.
High-profile figures Eknath Khadse and Vindo Tawde are missing from it.
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The reopening of the places of worship coincided with the Diwali 'Padwa', which is an important festival in the state.
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In his letter to Modi, the Rajya Sabha MP, whose party is a key ally in the Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi government, said he was pained by the erosion of standards of conduct by the high Constitutional office of the Honourable Governor.
Harshvardhan Rane is the main lead opposite three heroines--Sushma Raj, Nandini Rai and Avantika.
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The government had issued standard operating procedures for devotees and officials managing places of worship to ensure strict implement of coronavirus-related protocols and curb spread of the infection.
No reason was given for the cancellation which comes in the wake of reports that ailing Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray's condition has turned critical
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The Maharashtra government has served a show-cause notice to the trust managing Saibaba temple in Shridi for spending lakhs of rupees on a slew of projects without taking its permission, a Right To Information query has revealed.
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Protests rocked the Cauvery river basin district of Karnataka for the second day on Monday over release of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu with police taking about 100 people into custody after they squatted on tracks and detained the Mysore-Shirdi express at Gejjalagere village.
Whether to seek blessings for an upcoming release or personal happiness, often one catches glimpses of celebrity trips to places of worship in different parts of the country.
The diamonds -- of three and two carat each studded in a gold pendant -- valued at Rs 1.18 crore were found in a cash box on Tuesday, they said.
Former India skipper Ravi Shastri said veteran Sachin Tendulkar still has a lot of cricket left in him and a call on retirement will be entirely his prerogative.
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The film stars Mahat Raghavendra and Archana Kavi.
Nagarjuna plays a NRI in the film which is set to release in March.
At least 32 devotees were killed and more than 20 injured, some of them seriously, when their bus fell off a bridge in Osmanabad district of Maharashtra in the wee hours on Saturday.
Social activist Anna Hazare will undertake a month-long statewide tour from May 1 to create public awareness on the need for a strong Lokayukta legislation in Maharashtra.
Nagarjuna plays an asura who gets up after a deep sleep of 1000 years and wants to fight the gods.
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