Category: MAHARASHTRA

• MUMBAI
• AURANGABAD
• PUNE
• Thane
• Ahmednagar
• Kolhapur
• Dhule
• Nagpur
• Gadchiroli
• Ratnagiri
• Raigad
• Jalgaon
• Latur
• Buldhana
• Palghar
• Nanded
• Nashik
• Jalna
• Satara
• Beed
• Silvassa
• Yavatmal
• Pimpri-Chinchwad
• Sindhudurg
• Amravati
• Wardha
• Solapur
• Nandurbar
• Washim

In a shocking incident, a bereaved family here was allegedly assaulted by a group of men after they objected to playing DJ music during a Ganeshotsav celebration and procession, the Pune Police said on Friday.

The sleepy pilgrim town of Nanded in Maharashtra witnessed some thrills when a notorious absconder criminal was shot and caught by the police after a Bollywood-style case, officials said here on Thursday.

In a bolt to the sulking Bharatiya Janata Party leader Pankaja Munde, the GST Department swooped on a sugar factory controlled by her and seized certain assets to recover Rs 19-crore worth of GST dues, official sources said.

In a potentially controversial move, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Monday mooted a proposal for giving 5 per cent reservations for Muslims in education, raising eyebrows in the ruling establishment.

The RBI in its draft master directions issued on Thursday has proposed that lenders should label defaulting borrowers as 'wilful defaulters' within six months of an account turning non-performing asset (NPA).

As the Ganeshotsav festival commenced, Maharashtra was rocked by seven farmers suicides in the past 72 hours from the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, a top farm activist said here on Wednesday.

Five people were arrested in Maharashtra's Palghar district for allegedly repeatedly raping a 35-year-old woman for several years as part of a "black magic" ritual "for the family's peace and success", police said on Sunday.

Moving ahead in the investigations, the Mumbai Police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) has frozen another 11 banks accounts and five prime properties purportedly owned by absconding scamster couple Ashesh Mehta and his wife Shivangi Lad-Mehta, officials said on Monday.

The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) has joined the Chicago Quantum Exchange at the University of Chicago as an international partner – among only five globally - for a new collaborative science and technology initiative between the two renowned academic institutions.

The Maratha groups’ agitation for reservations continued for the 7th day in Jalna even as Congress’ Leader of Opposition (Assembly) Vijay Wadettiwar demanded a Special Session of Maharashtra Legislature to discuss and finalise the quotas for the community here on Monday.

A special PMLA court here on Saturday remanded Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal to Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody till September 11 in connection with a case of bank fraud of Rs 538 crore and money-laundering.

A day after the Marathas quota stir violence rocked some parts of the state, the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) suspended a majority of its ST bus services in at least four districts and certain other routes as a precautionary measure on Saturday, officials said.

“Hindustan (India) is a Hindu Rashtra and this is a fact. Ideologically, all Bharatiyas (Indians) are Hindus and Hindus mean all Bharatiyas. All those who are in Bharat (India) today are related to Hindu culture, Hindu ancestors and Hindu land, nothing other than these.”

In a shocking incident, an auto-rickshaw driver has been arrested for allegedly killing and chopping a teenage boy who he suspected was flirting with his wife and sister-in-law.

Setting the tone for the two-day I.N.D.I.A. Conclave starting here on Thursday, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar said on Wednesday that “the people of the country want a change”, for which the Opposition leaders are gathering here.

In a Raksha Bandhan day tragedy, a four-member family including two minor sons, perished in a major fire that broke out in an electrical hardware shop in Pimpri-Chinchwad early on Wednesday morning, police said.

The district police have nabbed four of the six accused who allegedly stripped, spat and assaulted four Dalit youth in Ahmednagar, all workers of the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA), activists said here on Monday.

Four Dalit activists of the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) were allegedly stripped, urinated upon, hung from a tree and brutally assaulted on rumours of stealing goats and pigeons in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar, police said on Sunday.

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) President Sharad Pawar on Friday again set Maharashtra politics in a flutter by claiming that his party has “not split” -- 55 days after the breakaway group led by his nephew Ajit Pawar walked out to join the state government.

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As the country looks skywards at the moon-landing this evening, a disturbing development has hit the Vidarbha region of eastern Maharashtra with virtually one farmer committing suicide daily since June 1, in the Yavatmal district, activists said here on Wednesday.

In a horrible incident in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, a woman was allegedly raped by an individual. The accused has also recorded the heinous acts and circulated the video on social media platforms.

India's top industrialist and philanthropist Ratan Tata was bestowed with the esteemed 'Udyog Ratna' award by the Maharashtra government in a noteworthy ceremony held at his residence here on Saturday.

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) President Raj Thackeray on Monday confirmed that he has got an offer to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), but he has not yet taken a final call on it, here on Monday.

At least 18 people have died in last 24-hours at the government-run Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Memorial (CSMM) Hospital in Thane’s Kalwa sparking a wave of public and political outrage in Maharashtra.