In a major jolt to the Maharashtra government, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court has cleared the way for hearing petitions that have demanded a CBI or court-monitored probe into the mega irrigation scam in the state. Pradip Kumar Maitra reports.
Panic prevailed in forest villages surrounding the famous Tadoba tiger reserves in the eastern Maharashtra district of Chandrapur when a leopard mauled and killed a 50-year old woman today morning. Pradip Kumar Maitra reports.
Yakub Memon, the only convict in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case whose death sentence was confirmed by the Supreme Court, has been awarded a master's degree in English literature by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).
Suspected Maharashtra Navnirman Sena activists vandalised the office of business conglomerate Indiabulls at Camp area in Amravati, some 150 km from here in western Vidarbha, on Monday.
The Nagpur unit of Aam Admi Party lodged a complaint against the former BJP president Nitin Gadkari for allegedly threatening the income tax sleuths who are investigating into “dubious” funding by some firms that invested in Purti Group, floated by Gadkari, Pradip Kumar Maitra reports.
The newly elected BJP president Rajnath Singh has set the tone for the party’s stake for rule at the centre in the 2014 parliamentary elections.
Pradip Kumar Maitra reports.
Gandhian philosopher and economist Thakurdas Bang passed away at his residence in Wardha early on Sunday, family sources said.
“Mard hoon, dekh loonga. I-T department yad rakhe, BJP ki sarkar ayegi tab kahan jaoge?” The warning — reminiscent of the time when “angry youngmen” ruled Bollywood, was sent out by Nitin Gadakri, still seething over his last-minute exit from the race for the BJP chief's post.
There is some fresh trouble for BJP chief Nitin Gadkari ahead of his re-nomination as the party’s national president with income tax authorities investigating against him and some associated companies for alleged tax evasion,
Pradip Kumar Maitra reports.
In a major success, the state police gunned down six suspected naxalites, including a divisional committee member and two women activists near Jimalgatta forest in Gaddchiroli district, some 300 kms from Nagpur on early Sunday morning.
In a major success, the state police claimed to have gunned down six suspected naxalites, including a divisional committee member and two women activists near Jimalgatta forest in Gaddchiroli district,
Pradip Kumar Maitra reports.
BJP national president Nitin Gadkari on Sunday renewed his party membership by enrolling himself as an 'active member' at an enrolment drive which was launched at his residence in Nagpur.
The victim was constantly harassed by the accused Chandrakant Borkar (35), an auto dealer who used to pass indecent remarks whenever the girl used to go for tuition.
The Shiv Sena demanded today that the state government book a minister for the "murder" of 113 tribal children who died in the tribal regions of the state in the past decade.
The opposition once again disrupted the proceedings of the state assembly over what they claimed to be a multi-crore irrigation scam. Pradip Kumar Maitra reports.