Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole MUMBAI: A few months before the crucial assembly polls, MPCC president Nana Patole on Friday expelled party MLAs Jitesh Antapurkar and Zeeshan Siddique for anti-party activities, particularly cross-voting during the legislative council polls. Earlier, the same day, Antapurkar joined the BJP in Mumbai in presence of party’s state president Chandrashekhar…
Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole MUMBAI: A few months before the crucial assembly polls, MPCC president Nana Patole on Friday expelled party MLAs Jitesh Antapurkar and Zeeshan Siddique for anti-party activities, particularly cross-voting during the legislative council polls. Earlier, the same day, Antapurkar joined the BJP in Mumbai in presence of party’s state president Chandrashekhar…
MUMBAI: Maharashtra directorate of art had given approval only for a 6-ft statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji for Malvan’s Rajkot fort based on a clay model submitted by the sculptor, its director Rajiv Mishra said on Thursday. He said that once the nod was given, the directorate was not informed the statue would be 35-ft tall,…
MUMBAI: In much of rural India, families continue to light their kitchen fires with wood, dung and coal – a practice that exposes them to harmful smoke.Switching these families to exclusive use of LPG, a relatively clean energy, would save more than 1,50,000 lives a year due to reductions in both indoor and outdoor pollution,…
MUMBAI: An artist from Kalyan and a structural contractor from Kolhapur have been charged with attempt to murder and culpable homicide in connection with the collapse of the 35-ft statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at Rajkot fort in Sindhudurg. The statue, unveiled by PM Modi on Dec 4, 2023, collapsed on Monday afternoon, sparking a…
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…
AMBERNATH: Ambernath resident Bindeshwar Sharma dashed his Safari against his father’s Fortuner around 5pm on Tuesday, and ended up injuring five, two of whom are battling for their lives in a hospital. His father, Satish Sharma, a retired senior defence officer, had come to Ambernath to settle a dispute between his son and his daughter-in-law….
THANE: A rail roko caused a 10-hour train disruption in Badlapur on Tuesday when crowds of protesters answered a bandh call over the sexual abuse of two four-year-old girls at a school there and subsequent police delays in taking up the case.The police said around 2,000 men and women descended on the tracks and they…
People gather in huge number demanding justice after a school sweeper in Maharashtra’s Badlapur was arrested for assaulting two young girls. NEW DELHI: After two nursery students, four-year-old girls, were sexually abused by the sweeper of a reputed school in Thane district, protests erupted at Badlapur railway station on Tuesday where local trains were stopped…
In central Mumbai, a female resident doctor at LTMG Hospital was assaulted by a drunk patient early Sunday. The patient, who required stitches, became violent when the doctor removed some cotton from his injury. The Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) reported significant security lapses, urging immediate action. The police are investigating the incident, aiming…
