Maoists struck with impunity for the second time within a week in southeast Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district on Monday, killing two tribal villagers after branding them police informers.
An RTI activist who had filed a complaint against three trustees of Shirdi Sansthan for alleged misuse of Sansthan's vehicles, has now named additional three others in his supplementary statement to police.
Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar today refuted the allegation that NCP ditched Congress in the recent elections to the posts of Zilla Parishad chairman and vice-chairman in the state, saying it was Congress which had failed to honour the coalition 'dharma'.
President Pratibha Patil today said that Mahatma Gandhi was not just a person, but a "power" whose teachings can give the youth new strength and vision.
Abrar held with aide Shakir, Khuresi killed by ATS in Aurangabad; all 3 had SIMI, IM links.
Staggering challenges surrounding India’s Bt cotton are undoing initial gains from the genetically-modified crop in the world’s second largest exporter of the fibre, fresh studies suggest.
Noted Marathi poet Manik Sitaram Godghate, who wrote under the pen name ‘Grace’, died of prolonged illness on Monday morning. Godghate was suffering from throat cancer for the past two-and-a-half years and passed away at the Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital in Pune. He was 75.
In an embarrassment for Maharashtra government, the Aurangabad bench of Bombay high court on Friday granted interim stay to the appointment of members of the newly-constituted board of Shri Saibaba Sansthan (trust), which governs the famous shrine of Saibaba at Shirdi.
They wanted easy money and television showed them how to get it. Accordingly, three teenagers, students of a private school, allegedly abducted and strangled their schoolmate and picked up a ransom of Rs. 15,000 from his father.
The Coast Guard, on Thursday, commissioned a coastal station at Dahanu near Mumbai, the third in Maharashtra since November 2008, when terrorists used the sea-route to enter Mumbai and launch an attack. The other two Coast Guard stations have come up at Ratnagiri and Murud-Janjira.
In a dramatic betrayal, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the principal ally of the Congress-led Democratic Front government in the state, joined hands with the BJP-Shiv Sena combine to keep the Congress out of power in zilla parishads of the Vidarbha region.
Rajesh Chavan, 35 a clerk in the land records department at Gadhinglaj in Kolhapur district was sentenced to a year-and-a-half in prison and fined Rs. 2,000 for accepting a bribe to record land measurement details and give a copy of it to landowner Muralidhar Patil.
The first batch of students being tested on the new syllabus is sitting for Class 10 exams this season.
Life imprisonment will be inadequate, the crime needs harsher punishment to act as a deterrent, says court.