NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday will lay the foundation for construction of the Vadhvan Port project, estimated to cost around Rs 76,000 crore, in Maharashtra‘s Palghar. Before departing for Maharashtra, PM Modi called the ‘Vadhvan Port project’ a “very special project”“A very special project that will contribute to India’s development. It will…
MUMBAI: A statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, unveiled by PM Modi at Rajkot fort in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg last year, collapsed on Monday. Terming the incident “unfortunate”, Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde said that “due to strong winds of around 45 kmph,” the statue “erected by Navy… fell and got damaged”. He promised to reinstall it. Opposition…
NEW DELHI: A private helicopter making a journey from Mumbai to Hyderabad crashed near Paud village in Pune district on Saturday. The helicopter, belonging to a private aviation company had four people on board. Authorities are currently assessing any injuries resulting from the crash. “Assessment of any injuries is being looked into,” said SP Pankaj…
NEW DELHI: A private helicopter flying from Mumbai to Hyderabad crashed near Paud village in Pune district on Saturday. The helicopter, owned by Global Vectra, had four people on board.“Among the 4 people who were in the helicopter, the captain sustained injuries and is hospitalised. The rest of the three persons are in stable condition,”…
NEW DELHI: Following the sexual assault against 2 minors in Thane district, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP-SCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday claimed that there is not a day in Maharashtra where there is no news of crimes against women. Pawar said that the Badlapur incident involving the alleged sexual abuse of two kindergarten girls has…
MUMBAI: Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray is protesting outside his party headquarters at Dadar along with his family and other party leaders against the Badlapur sexual abuse case, wearing black masks.Following the Bombay high court order on Friday, the MVA had called off its Saturday’s statewide bandh and decided that all its politicians would wear…
At least 27 people – 20 of them pilgrims from north Maharashtra‘s Jalgaon district, including a six-year-old girl – were killed when an Indian tourist bus that began its journey from UP veered off the highway and fell 150 metres into the fast-flowing Marsyangdi river near Tanahu district in Nepal, around 130km from UP’s Maharajganj…
LUCKNOW/GORAKHPUR: An Indian tourist bus ferrying 41 passengers from Maharashtra, along with a driver and a conductor, plunged more than 150 metres into the Marshyangdi River near the Aanbu Khaireni region of Tanahu District in the Himalayan nation of Nepal earlier in the morning. According to Indian embassy, as of now total 24 have succumbed…
NEW DELHI: Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi anguished by the “shameful” crimes against women, took strong exception to recent incidents that have raised serious concerns over women safety across the country. Referring to the latest Badlapur sexual assault, the Congress leader on Wednesday called for prompt justice to the victim and wondered why a FIR…
Pune-based Swapnil Kusale, who bagged India’s third shooting bronze at the Paris Olympics with the rifle 3P medal, sets his sights on an encore in LA 2028By his own admission, 29-year-old Swapnil Kusale shoots more bullets than the words he speaks on a normal day. The shy Kolhapur rifle shooter doesn’t plan to change this…
