Maharashtra

Maharashtra, which went to the polls on November 20 to elect a new 288-member assembly, recorded a voter turnout of 65.02 per cent—the highest since the 1995 assembly poll that saw a turnout of 71.7 per cent. The turnout also surpasses the…
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Voting is underway in Maharashtra and Jharkhand for the assembly polls on Wednesday, November 20. In Maharashtra, the election is being conducted in a single phase for all 288 Legislative Assembly seats. However, in Jharkhand, polling is…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday called the Maha Vikas Aghadi – the opposition’s alliance comprising Congress, NCP (SCP) and Shiv Sena (UBT) – the biggest khiladi (player) in corruption. Addressing a public meeting in Maharashtra’s…
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The Election Commission of India (ECI) will announce the schedule for Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly elections at 3.30 pm on Tuesday, October 15. The term of 288-member Maharashtra Assembly will end on November 26, while the Jharkhand…
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At least two persons are feared trapped under the rubble after a three-storey building collapsed in Navi Mumbai’s Shahbaz village on Saturday morning. Police, fire brigade and National Disaster Response Force team are present at the spot…
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The Pune Rural Police has registered an FIR against Manorama Khedkar, Dilip Khedkar, the parents of controversial trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar, and five others based on a complaint by a farmer who alleged that he was threatened by…
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The Centre on Wednesday issued an advisory to all states in view of Zika virus cases from Maharashtra and urged the states to maintain a constant vigil through screening of pregnant women for the virus. The states have been also advised to…
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The Bharatiya Janata Party and its ally in Maharashtra, the Nationalist Congress Party led by deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, on Thursday engaged in a war of words over an article in Organiser, a weekly known to be close to the Rashtriya…
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BJP’s number of seats will come down in Haryana, Rajasthan, Karnataka, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said in his roadshows in the Capital on Saturday — a day after he came out of…
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On Wednesday, prime minister Narendra Modi will be in Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra on the second and final day of his visit to three states – Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Maharashtra. In his first engagement of the day, PM Modi laid the the…
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