MUMBAI: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray has issued a stern warning to the educational institutions in the state not to support the Fadnavis government’s plan to impose the language that is “spoken in some northern provinces.“Thackeray asserted that if schools’ actions support the government’s “hidden agenda,” then MNS will consider it a “betrayal”…
NEW DELHI: Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Monday admitted that the state government made a “mistake” in extending financial benefits to all applicants of the Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana without sufficient scrutiny, attributing the lapse to time constraints ahead of last year’s assembly elections.“We made a mistake of giving the financial benefit…
Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) on Friday informed Supreme Court it had decided to scrap the tenders for the proposed Rs 6,000 crore Mumbai Elevated Road Project and the Rs 8,000 crore Road Tunnel Project.The matter reached SC after Larsen and Toubro challenged the decision of MMRDA to reject its technical bids for the…
PUNE: The Maharashtra government‘s language consultation committee has urged Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to revoke the decision of making Hindi a mandatory third language for students of classes 1 to 5. Fadnavis on Sunday dismissed concerns over the “imposition” of the Hindi language in the state, asserting Marathi will continue to be compulsory. The state…
Supreme Court Judgement : नागरिकों के अधिकारों की सशक्त पुष्टि और सरकारी उदासीनता की कड़ी निंदा करते हुए, भारत के सर्वोच्च न्यायालय ने महाराष्ट्र राज्य सरकार को दक्षिण मुंबई में दो रेसिडेंशियल फ्लैटों को खाली करने का आदेश दिया है, जो बिना किसी औपचारिक समझौते या कानूनी मंजूरी के आठ दशकों से पुलिस के कब्जे…
NEW DELHI: Maharashtra’s junior home minister Yogesh Kadam on Monday told the state assembly that the government would be checking call record details and bank statements of comic Kunal Kamra, who landed in trouble for indirectly calling deputy CM Eknath Shinde a “gaddar” (traitor) at a Mumbai show.“Call recordings along with CDRs, as well as…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Maharashtra government to file a response regarding the demolition of an illegal portion of Nagpur riot accused Fahim Khan’s house.The directive came in response to a contempt plea challenging the demolition. The petitioner alleged that the action was linked to an ‘anti-India slogan’ raised during a…
MUMBAI: Minister of state for home Yogesh Kadam Thursday told Maharashtra legislative assembly that the SIT probe into the Disha Salian death case would be fasttracked and “no one will be spared.” The statement was made after the assembly was adjourned for ten minutes after BJP and Shiv Sena MLAs demanded a thorough probe into…
Devendra Fadnavis, Uddhav Thackeray MUMBAI: Opposition MVA criticised Maharashtra govt over violence in Nagpur, with Uddhav Thackeray targeting CM and home minister Devendra Fadnavis even as MPCC chief Harshawardhan Sapkal rejected the demand of Mahayuti netas for an apology for his statement comparing Fadnavis to Aurangzeb.Uddhav asked, “Fadnavis’s house is in Nagpur. The RSS headquarters…
Union minister of social justice Ramdas Athawale described the demand for demolition of Aurangzeb’s tomb as “extreme” and urged the state govt to guard against a possible flare-up.“History cannot be altered by demolishing a tomb. For so many years, Aurangzeb’s tomb has been there, and now suddenly there is an extreme stand. (State) govt should…