Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Tuesday visited Thane and adjoining areas affected by heavy rains since last week.\n
Sonia asks CM to launch massive flood relief operations in Maharashtra
The new housing policy will be implemented by the next month and for aspects of the policy like creating a housing regulator which needed a consent from state legislature, Bill will be introduced in the monsoon session of the state legislature.
The remarks follow reports that Salman boasted of underworld links.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has rejected the demand for booking MNS leader Raj Thackeray, whose party has targeted North Indians in the state, under the National Security Act saying he did not agree with this.
Though no decision was taken by the EGOM as it was the first meeting of the EGOM, environmental groups and those in possession of the land have raised their ante against such a plan.
The government is making all efforts to minimise the power crisis in Maharashtra by augmenting generation and purchase from other sources, Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said on Tuesday.
Armed with plans announced in the rail and general budgets, Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said on Friday the only mantra to make Mumbai a world- class city in next few years was to improve infrastructure.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh Friday gave a clean chit to the two ministers whose names have figured in the taped conversation between criminals.
The Maharashtra government on Thursday repealed the three-decade-old Urban Land Ceiling and Regulation Act (ULCRA) at its Assembly session in Nagpur. The repeal, done after months of delay and debate, could free up as much as 500 hectares (1,234 acres) of land available for development, Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said.
Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh moved the resolution, which was passed by a voice vote amidst slogan shouting by Shiv Sena members in the House. It was passed after a two-day discussion in a special sitting of the Lower House during the third Assembly session. While the members of BJP remained silent during the reply, those from treasury benches welcomed the resolution by thumping desks.
Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and other ministers like to boast that of the 450 SEZs coming up in the country, nearly 120 are in Maharashtra. However, since most of the SEZs are single product or IT SEZ, land acquisition is not much of an issue. But in the case of six SEZs, which are multi-product SEZs and where over 1,000 hectares of land have to be acquired, it is proving to be an albatross around the state government's neck.
Bowing to the demand of industry, Maharashtra government is likely to take a decision on abolishing the state tax octroi in next two-three months. "We are in the final stages of taking a decision on the the issue....maybe within the next two-three months we will take a decision," Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said on Wednesday.
An image of Sonia Gandhi at a rally in Mumbai.
Seeking a stay on the BMC's move, former minister and Congress MLA from Kurla Naseem Khan met Deshmukh on Wednesday and submitted a memorandum.
Khan said Deshmukh gave the assurance to the delegation, which met him at Vidhan Bhawan office in Nagpur and handed over a memorandum.
Maharashtra has a progressive image, Deshmukh said adding, the media and TV news channels should exercise restraint.
Petrol Pump owners in Maharashtra call off their three-day old strike.
Besides Deshmukh, Union Textiles Minister Shankersinh Vaghela, who also spoke at the function on Sunday, face flak for his remarks against farmers in Vidarbha where thousands of debt-ridden farmers have committed suicide
The PIL, filed by Subhash Jadhav, questions the concession granted by Rane in a land-sale transaction.
Deshmukh sent the list of portfolios to Maharashtra Governor Mohammad Fazal on Friday morning.
The two Nationalist Congress Party leaders were administered oath of office by Governor Mohammed Fazal at a function at Azad Maidan in south-Mumbai.
Deshmukh was replying to a question by Sanjay Dutt during Question Hour on Wednesday. Laine, who authored the controversial book Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India has in the past expressed a desire to come to Maharashtra.
The Lok Sabha speaker also expressed shock and sorrow over the loss of innocent lives in the explosions.
The Maharashtra Cabinet on Thursday approved setting up of the company for development of Nagpur airport's Cargo Hub Project.
Old building residents allowed to stay till Ganesh festival
Food packets and water bottles were being aerially dropped to marooned people, he added.
This is the third time in a month when a building has collapsed in Mumbai.
Retail traders oppose ban on plastic bags
The Maharashtra government is working out a package for the worst-affected villages of the state in the recent floods, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said in Narsingwadi on Saturday.\n\n
Over 2 lakh people have been evacuated from various flood affected areas of Maharashtra and provided with relief and temporary shelter, state CM Vilasrao Deshmukh said.
Honour inter-state treaties: Deshmukh to Karna CM
The Maharashtra government will send a permanent memorandum to the Centre elaborating the long-term steps that need to be taken in the state to combat natural calamities, Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said on Wednesday.
Noted defence lawyer Majid Memon who has defended the accused in Ghatkopar blast case, on Thursday said he was ready to be the prosecutor in the Mumbai train blasts case if the Maharashtra government appoints him.
The government on Sunday announced closure of schools, colleges and other educational institutions in Mumbai, Thane and Raigad on Monday and formed a committee to monitor relief and rehabilitation work in the affected areas.
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