Ratnagiri Gas and Power Pvt Ltd, the new owner of Dabhol power plant, will restart generation in October after a three-month gap, but the cost of power will jump to about Rs 6.25 per unit from Rs 4.25 earlier.
Speaking on the sidelines of a foundation stone laying ceremony of at Trishundi in Amethi, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Thursday disapproved of Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament Chandan Mitra's demand of stripping economist Amartya Sen of the Bharat Ratna and went on to endorse the views of the Nobel laureate against Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Saturday sought to defend the joint opposition by the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party to introduction of Janlokpal Bill in Delhi Assembly and accused Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal of violating his oath of the chief minister's office.
R S Sharma has decided to go on leave from Friday.
Immediately after the meeting, the commissioner went to Ramtek, the official residence of Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal.
The former Maharashtra minister and staunch Congressman was 85.
Top Maharashtra politicians on Thursday called on Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and sought Rs 6,000 crore assistance for an ambitious infrastructure development project for Mumbai.
Anna Hazare had leveled allegations of corruption against four Maharashtra ministers.
Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal, Home Secretary U K Upadhyaya, Chief Secretary Ajit Nimbalkar, Director General of Police O P Bali and Commissioner R S Sharma are expected to attend the meeting.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has said that most of the bureaucratic hurdles for investments from Non-Resident Indians and US businessmen have been removed.
Four ministers of Cabinet rank were among those dropped, including former chief minister Shivaji Patil-Nilangekar.
Allaying fears of industrialists over the issue of 52 per cent job reservations in the private sector, Maharashtra Chief Minister Sushilkumar Shinde on Monday said, "We are willing to discuss the matter with the captains of industry."
The Maharashtra government has decided to cut entertainment tax on live shows such as western music, dance programmes, exhibitions and fashion shows.
The meeting, scheduled for late afternoon, will also be attended senior armed forces officers.
Does your party stand for the secularism of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru? a group of Mumbai residents asked in a telegram to Sonia Gandhi.
The Centre has convened a three-day conference of directors general of police from December 19 to draw a road map for the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
Promising Indian tennis ace Karan Rastogi says though he didn't play a game in the Davis Cup match against New Zealand, all the same it was a great learning experience.
In an attempt to provide relief to Mumbai commuters, the Maharashtra government may consider introducing the state-of-the-art skybus project in the metropolis.
No sooner than Fazal arrived from a visit to the national capital, Shinde rushed to the Raj Bhavan and was closetted with the governor for nearly half-an-hour, official sources said.
Chinese film Warriors Of Heaven And Earth, will begin the sixth International Film Festival of Mumbai (IFFM), from November 20-November 27.
Shinde, who returned from Delhi on Tuesday morning, headed straight for the Raj Bhawan. The chief minister was earlier scheduled to meet the governor in the afternoon.
Shinde was summoned by Gandhi after the Congress suffered a humiliating defeat in a by-poll in the chief minister's home constituency, Solapur.
The chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation expressed satisfaction at the Foundation's programmes in the state on AIDS.
The formula was proposed by private institutions.
'It is apparent that they have been planned and executed by anti-national forces,' the Congress chief said in her condolence message.
Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi and Chief Minister Sushilkumar Shinde performed the dhwajarohan (flag-hoisting) ceremony at Ramkunda on the banks of Godavari River.
The Democratic Front government in Maharashtra on Wednesday decided to lift ban on recruitments, and fill over 50,000 of nearly one lakh vacancies in open category in various government departments and offices.
