NEW DELHI: CM-designate Devendra Fadnavis visited Varsha – the chief minister’s official residence, on Wednesday evening to once again persuade caretaker CM Eknath Shinde to join govt as deputy chief minister and finalise the power-sharing formula. Sources said that Shinde agreed to take oath as deputy CM with Fadnavis’s assurance that the portfolio allocation would…
NEW DELHI: CM-designate Devendra Fadnavis visited Varsha – the chief minister’s official residence, on Wednesday evening to once again persuade caretaker CM Eknath Shinde to join govt as deputy chief minister and finalise the power-sharing formula. Sources said that Shinde agreed to take oath as deputy CM with Fadnavis’s assurance that the portfolio allocation would…
Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar NEW DELHI: Even as Congress and other parties latched on to Vice-President and Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar’s statement on Tuesday that farmers were in distress, Dhankhar turned down the opposition’s adjournment notices on the farmers’ issue in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday and accused them of doing “drama” by pointing…
MUMBAI: Right through the 2019 assembly election campaign, Devendra Fadnavis had kept saying ‘Mee Punha Yein’ (I’ll be back). With the MVA forming its govt, however, the remark was thrown at him repeatedly as a taunt by his rivals. They also rubbed it in when he became Eknath Shinde‘s deputy 2.5 years ago. But he…
NEW DELHI: Travelling in a night bus in the dacoit-infested Banda district of Uttar Pradesh nearly four decades ago, a station officer of UP police single-handedly fought a gang of armed dacoits which had waylaid the vehicle.When the dacoits fired at him, Ram Yadav whipped out his service revolver and fired at the gang, killing…
NEW DELHI: SC on Wednesday lashed out at former West Bengal education minister Partha Chatterjee, seeking bail in a money laundering case related to the teachers recruitment scam, for arguing that while bail has been granted to all other co-accused, he has been behind bars for more than two years.“Do not seek parity with other…
Devendra Fadnavis, a seasoned RSS swayamsevak, is set to begin his second term as Maharashtra Chief Minister. His journey has been a rollercoaster, marked by electoral triumphs, political betrayals, and personal attacks. Fadnavis navigated a complex political landscape, playing a key role in toppling the MVA government and enduring a period as deputy CM. Source…
NEW DELHI: The Maha political drama over the chief minister’s post in Maharashtra’s Mahayuti finally ended today with Eknath Shinde proposing the name of BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis as the next leader of the ruling coalition. However, it is still not clear if Shinde will join the government as deputy chief minister.It took Shinde 11 days…
‘Meant to influence the high court’: Siddaramaiah slams ED’s communication to Lokayukta in MUDA case Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday criticized the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) communication to the Lokayukta police regarding a case involving the Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) and site allotment. Siddaramaiah described the ED’s actions as “prejudicial,” “politically motivated,” and an…
NEW DELHI: An army jawan on leave was injured after being shot at by terrorists in the Tral area of Awantipora in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, official sources said.The jawan, who had returned home while on leave, was shot in the leg. He was immediately rushed to a hospital where his condition is reported…
