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SC to hear plea of Maha cop suspended for keeping beard
New Delhi: The Supreme Court agreed to consider hearing a plea raising an issue whether suspension of a Muslim person from a police force for keeping a beard violates the fundamental right…
- India
Pawar assures Oppn’s support if Centre takes initiative on quota cap removal
Pune: Amid the Maratha-OBC quota tussle in Maharashtra, NCP (SP) leader Sharad Pawar on Monday said the opposition will cooperate if the Centre brings a policy to remove the Supreme Court-mandated 50…
- India
Day after facing Maratha protesters’ ire, Pawar meets community leaders
Pune: Members of a Maratha organisation on Monday met with NCP (SP) leader Sharad Pawar at his residence in Pune and asked him to clear his stand on the quota issue, a…
- Delhi
Delhi Police arrests three cyber fraudsters from Maharashtra’s Jalgaon
New Delhi: Delhi Police has arrested three cyber fraudsters from Maharashtra for allegedly cheating a woman of Rs 36.27 lakh on the pretext of share market investment, police said on Sunday. The…
- India
Pawar, Uddhav using Maratha quota stir to trigger riots ahead of polls: Raj Thackeray
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Saturday alleged Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray were trying to use the Maratha quota stir to trigger riots ahead of the state assembly…
- Telangana
Neither Assembly nor CM, only Governor can resolve tribal issues: Ch Vidyasagar Rao
Hyderabad: Strongly asserting that the Governors had the full authority over the fifth schedule areas where the Adivasis live, former Maharashtra Governor Ch Vidyasagar Rao said that neither the Assembly nor the…
- India
Would have brought along entire party had CM’s post been offered: Ajit Pawar
Thane: Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Wednesday said he would have brought the entire Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) with him had the BJP and Shiv Sena offered him the chief…
- India
OBCs should be alert, Maha parties didn’t back Mandal Commission report: Ambedkar
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: VBA chief Prakash Ambedkar on Wednesday urged Other Backward Class communities to be alert ahead of the upcoming Maharashtra polls, saying the political parties in the state didn’t support the…
- India
US woman found in Maha forest tells police she had chained herself to tree
Mumbai: The 50-year-old American woman found tied to a tree with an iron chain in a forest in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg district has now told police she had shackled herself and no one…
- India
Raj Thackeray flays quota row, seeks ‘100 pc jobs for locals’ in Maharashtra
Solapur: Eyeing the upcoming state Assembly elections, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) President Raj Thackeray slammed the ongoing caste controversy while demanding jobs for all the locals in the state, here on Monday.…
- India
Uddhav’s remarks show he is member of Aurangzeb fan club: Fadnavis
Nagpur: Uddhav Thackeray’s remarks against Union Home Minister Amit Shah have established the Shiv Sena (UBT) leader’s credentials as a member of the “Aurangzeb fan club”, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said…
- India
BJP indulging in ‘power jihad’: Uddhav Thackeray
Pune: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of indulging in “power jihad” by breaking political parties to be in government. Countering Union minister Amit…
- India
Maharashtra police rescue woman with US passport tied to tree with chains
A 50-year-old woman with a United States (US) passport and an Aadhaar card was rescued after she was found tied to a tree with chains in Maharashtra’s Sindhudurg district. According to police,…
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World Tiger Day: Calculated showcasing of Big Cat will help India conserve wildlife
Photographs and text are by N Shiva Kumar Having visited numerous tiger sanctuaries over the last 40 years starting with Tadoba in Maharashtra, Periyar in Kerala, and Corbett in Uttarakhand in 1984,…
- India
Man held for luring 20 women into marriage, duping them of valuables
Palghar: The police in Maharashtra’s Palghar district have arrested a 43-year-old man who allegedly married more than 20 women across the country and duped them of their valuables, an official said on…
