The Sangh Parivar, particularly the RSS sarsanghachalak Mohan Bhagwat, reportedly expressed strong displeasure over the recent unceremonious ouster of senior Sangh cadre Sanjay Joshi from the national executive of BJP. Pradip Kumar Maitra reports.
Anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare and his team came under attack for a second time in Nagpur on Wednesday as unknown miscreants pelted stones at one of the cars in his convoy. HT reports.
The badly injured tiger that was rescued from a poacher's trap in Chandrapur’s Tadoba tiger reserve in April is suffering from renal failure. Veterinary experts at Nagpur, who are treating the adult tiger at the Seminary Hill wildlife orphanage, say its health is deteriorating.
The Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court dealt a severe blow to the Maharashtra minister for employment Nitin Raut and some other influential political leaders who had involved in illegal constructions on public utility land.
A 43-year-old NCP leader was shot dead allegedly by five armed naxalites in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, police said today.
Five people died on the spot while one person was injured when a trailer crashed into a luxury car, coming from opposite direction, near Talegaon on Nagpur-Aurangabad Express Highway, some 150 kms from Nagpur today.
Maharashtra home minister RR Patil has denied there was any intelligence alert on Tuesday’s brutal Maoist attack that left 12 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers dead and another 28 injured.
At least 12 CRPF troopers were killed on Tuesday when their vehicle was blown up in a landmine blast engineered by Maoists at Pushtola in Gadchiroli district, about 275 km southeast of Nagpur.
The police in Amravati booked Congress MLA Yashomati Thakur (38) after she, along with her party colleagues, assaulted a constable on Saturday when her vehicle was stopped for allegedly violating traffic rules. Pradip Kumar Maitra reports.
Three women were charred to death and at least two others sustained burn injuries in forest fires which are raging in famous Tipeshwar wildlife sanctuary since Wednesday afternoon in Yavatmal district, bordering Andhra Pradesh.
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh today said the revolt by BS Yeddyurappa seeking reinstatement as Karnataka CM was "very serious", even as the BJP president Nitin Gadkari went into a huddle with Mohan Bhagwat and other top leaders of the organisation.
Two police jawans were injured, one of them seriously, in an encounter with the naxalites of CPI (Maoist) near Jimalgatta on Allapalli-Sironcha road in tribal district of Gadchiroli in eastern part of Maharashtra today morning.
The Congress -NCP combine today retained the Amravati Municipal Corporation by winning the posts of mayor and deputy mayor in straight fight against the Janvikas Congress floated by former Maharashtra minister Sunil Deshmukh and Shiv Sena nominees.
Diluting the sangh parivar’s strong stand on ‘minorityism’, BJP president Nitin Gadkari has succeeded in getting the two Muslim League corporators’ membership in the BJP-led front in the Nagpur Municipal Corporation. Pradip Kumar Maitra reports.
The increasing might of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the virtual fall of Republican Party of India (RPI) in its stronghold in Vidarbha, particularly in Nagpur have raised many eyebrows in the region after the local bodies’ elections. Pradip Kumar Maitra reports.