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Youth from Gadchiroli not joining Naxal movement anymore, says Fadnavis

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadanvis on Monday said youth from the Naxalism-affected Gadchiroli district in Vidarbha are not joining the outlawed movement anymore and the new recruits are brought from Odisha and Chhattisgarh. Speaking in the Maharashtra Assembly, Fadnavis, who is also the state home minister, said his stand remains the same as was of former home minister R R Patil, who acted tough against the Left Wing Extremism. Today, the youth of Gadchiroli are not joining the Naxal dalams. They have to bring recruits from Chhattisgarh and Odisha, Fadnavis said. He was replying to queries raised by opposition members over Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA Dharamrao Atram getting threats from Naxalites demanding stopping of the Surjagarh mining project in Gadchiroli district. Leader of Opposition in the Assembly and NCP MLA Ajit Pawar demanded that Atram's security be enhanced in view of the threat. NCP leader Dilip Walse Patil said Naxalites have started ...

Youth from Gadchiroli not joining Naxal movement anymore, says Fadnavis
Updated On : 19 Dec 2022 | 5:58 PM IST

Maha being misled over 'fake' Twitter account issue amid border row: Chavan

Senior Congress leader Ashok Chavan on Monday claimed Maharashtra was being misled over the issue of Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai's 'fake' Twitter handle amid the boundary dispute between the two states. Talking to reporters in the Vidhan Bhavan complex here, Chavan asked why the Maharashtra government was silent in the matter and said it seemed the state government was helping Karnataka to brush aside the controversy over the issue of the 'fake' Twitter account from which "provocative comments" were made. Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde last week said tweets in the name of his Karnataka counterpart claiming some areas of Maharashtra were not actually posted by Bommai. Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who last week met the chief ministers of Maharashtra and Karnataka to defuse the border tensions between the two states, had said fake tweets in the name of top leaders also escalated the issue. The dispute centres on Maharashtra's claims on Belagavi and the ...

Maha being misled over 'fake' Twitter account issue amid border row: Chavan
Updated On : 19 Dec 2022 | 1:48 PM IST

Karnataka police disallow holding 'Maha Melav' by MES in Belagavi

The police have also vacated the stage erected by the MES at the Vaccine Depot area

Karnataka police disallow holding 'Maha Melav' by MES in Belagavi
Updated On : 19 Dec 2022 | 1:05 PM IST

Maha's winter session to begin in Nagpur; state to have Lokayukta law

Maharashtra will have a Lokayukta law on the lines of the Centre's Lokpal legislation which will also bring the chief minister and ministers under its ambit, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has said. Addressing a press conference on Sunday ahead of the winter session of the state legislature beginning Monday, Fadnavis said a bill in this regard will be introduced. The new (to be amended) law is important in terms of bringing complete transparency in the state, he said. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said the decision was taken in the interest of the people of the state. The draft to prepare the new Lokayukta law was passed by the Cabinet and we will be tabling it before the legislature. For the first time, the chief minister and a council of ministers have been brought under the ambit of Lokayukta, he said. Fadnavis said the existing Lokayukta law did not include the Anti-Corruption Act. "So the Anti-Corruption Act has been made part of this Act (new law)," he added. Fadna

Maha's winter session to begin in Nagpur; state to have Lokayukta law
Updated On : 19 Dec 2022 | 9:35 AM IST

CM, Cabinet to come under Lokayukta law: Maharashtra Deputy CM Fadnavis

Maharashtra will have a Lokayukta law on the lines of the Centre's Lokpal law which will also bring chief minister and ministers under its ambit, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Sunday. Addressing a press conference on the eve of the winter session of the state legislature, he said a bill in this regard will be introduced. The recommendations of a panel led by social activist Anna Hazare have been accepted completely. He said the Lokayukta will be a retired chief justice of the High Court or a Supreme Court (judge). "The chief minister will be brought under the ambit of Lokayukta and so will the ministers (of the state Cabinet)," Fadnavis added.

CM, Cabinet to come under Lokayukta law: Maharashtra Deputy CM Fadnavis
Updated On : 18 Dec 2022 | 11:44 PM IST

Tata Power seeks regulator nod to raise tariffs and offset fuel cost surge

A spike in coal prices has increased cost of generation

Tata Power seeks regulator nod to raise tariffs and offset fuel cost surge
Updated On : 18 Dec 2022 | 10:42 PM IST

Uddhav Thackeray to attend Maharashtra winter session, says Ajit Pawar

Former Maharashtra chief minister and MLC Uddhav Thackeray will attend the winter session of the state legislature beginning here on Monday, opposition leader Ajit Pawar said. Thackeray, who heads the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) faction, had not attended the monsoon session of the state legislature held in Mumbai. Uddhav Thackeray will be present for the winter session (of the Maharashtra legislature), Pawar said while responding to a query from reporters. Interestingly, after announcing his decision to quit as the chief minister in June this year, Thackeray said he would also resign as a member of the Upper House of the state legislature. The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government led by Thackeray collapsed following a rebellion led by Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde and several MLAs against the party leadership. Subsequently, Shinde took oath as the chief minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Devendra Fadnavis as his deputy.

Uddhav Thackeray to attend Maharashtra winter session, says Ajit Pawar
Updated On : 18 Dec 2022 | 6:29 PM IST

For Maharashtra's overall development, Fadnavis should become CM: Bawankule

Maharashtra BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Sunday suggested that as long as he is the party's state unit chief, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis should become the chief minister for the "overall development" of the state. The statement comes months after Bawankule's predecessor Chandrakant Patil, who is now a cabinet minister, had said that the party decided with a heavy heart that rebel Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde should become the state's chief minister instead of Fadnavis. Bawankule's remark gave ammunition to the opposition parties, with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) saying that it showed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had no value for current CM Shinde. Speaking at a public event in Nagpur, Bawankule said, "...As long as I am the state unit president (of the BJP), Fadnavis should become..." The BJP leader left the sentence incomplete and took a pause as he waited for response from the audience. After a couple of persons from the audience shouted .

For Maharashtra's overall development, Fadnavis should become CM: Bawankule
Updated On : 18 Dec 2022 | 4:32 PM IST

PM mediates in Ukraine war but ignores Maharashtra-Karnataka issue: Raut

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday said that on the one hand Prime Minister Narendra Modi mediates in the Russia-Ukraine war, while on the other he turns a blind eye to the simmering Maharashtra-Karnataka border dispute, which is "not a sign of a good politician". In his weekly column 'Rokhthok' in the party mouthpiece Saamana, Raut also said that the border dispute between Maharashtra and Karnataka was a struggle for humanity, and not a fight between people and governments of the two states. Maharashtra has been long claiming Belagavi and surrounding border areas in north Karnataka as they have a sizable Marathi-speaking population. The decades-old border dispute resurfaced again after Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai recently claimed that some villages in Sangli district in Maharashtra have passed a resolution to become a part of the southern state owing to lack of basic facilities there. "The struggle of the Marathi-speaking population in Belagavi and nearby ..

PM mediates in Ukraine war but ignores Maharashtra-Karnataka issue: Raut
Updated On : 18 Dec 2022 | 11:26 AM IST

Talks with Amit Shah on border dispute should be made public: Ajit Pawar

Maharashtra Leader of Opposition Ajit Pawar on Saturday said that Karnataka and Maharashtra CMs' talks with Union Home Minister Amit Shah regarding the border issue should be made public

Talks with Amit Shah on border dispute should be made public: Ajit Pawar
Updated On : 18 Dec 2022 | 8:28 AM IST

Maharashtra's Kavalapur cultivates carrots on 450 acres every year

Kavalapur village in Miraj taluka of Sangli district is known as "Carrot village" because the villagers cultivate carrots on hundreds of acres here

Maharashtra's Kavalapur cultivates carrots on 450 acres every year
Updated On : 17 Dec 2022 | 11:48 PM IST

Integrated soil waste management plant to be built by Maha civic bodies

An integrated soil waste management project worth Rs 148.68 crore has been sanctioned for Ambernath, Ulhasnagar and Badlapur towns in Maharashtra's Thane district, local Lok Sabha MP Shrikant Shinde said on Friday. This is the first instance in the state where three civic bodies have come together to build such a "cluster project", claimed Kalyan MP Shinde, who is Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's son. Addressing a press conference, he said the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) will contribute Rs 128.88 crore, while the rest of the project amount would be shared equally by the civic bodies of Ambernath and Ulhasnagar. The Badlapur civic body will not have to shell out money as it has given 23.80 acres of land for the project, he added. "The population of the three towns is 12.50 lakh at present and will rise to 17 lakh by 2037. The integrated soil waste management plant will have a capacity to treat 600 tonnes per day when it starts operations. This can be raise

Integrated soil waste management plant to be built by Maha civic bodies
Updated On : 16 Dec 2022 | 7:29 PM IST

PILs increasingly used to target infrastructure projects, says SC

Public interest litigation (PIL) matters are being increasingly used to target infrastructure projects, the Supreme Court observed on Friday while refusing to entertain a plea challenging the re-development of a plot of land in Mumbai. "The PILs could become an instrument of blackmail when it is an issue of an infrastructure project. This actually makes a plank to target such projects. The (Bombay) High Court has actually smelled the rat here. This is happening across Delhi, Mumbai....," a bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justice P S Narasimha said. The top court was hearing an appeal against the dismissal of a plea by the Bombay High Court challenging the redevelopment of a plot of land at Mumbai's Worli. It concurred with the high court's findings that the PIL was filed to target the project. "When a particular property is targeted in a PIL, the high court is often aware why the party has approached it. The idea is to target one project and the high court often knows wh

PILs increasingly used to target infrastructure projects, says SC
Updated On : 16 Dec 2022 | 6:17 PM IST

Residents of Maha-Telangana border say they enjoy benefits from both states

The ongoing Maharashtra-Karnataka row may have brought the border dispute between states under focus, but people living in 14 disputed villages along the Maharashtra-Telangana border appear to be unmoved by this debate as they are enjoying the benefits of schemes implemented by both neighbouring states. The residents of these villages say that they have no problem in going with any of the two states if the local government awards ownership of their farmlands to them. All these 14 villages - located in Jiwati taluka of Chandrapur district (according to Maharashtra map) - figure in the voters list of both the states and people there enjoy dual identity, entitling them to take benefits of all the basic facilities including political status from both Telangana and Maharashtra. Earlier Andhra Pradesh, and now Telangana (after division) claimed that these villages fall under their territory. However, the issue has remained unresolved so far. Waman Pawar, former sarpanch of Paramdoli gram

Residents of Maha-Telangana border say they enjoy benefits from both states
Updated On : 16 Dec 2022 | 5:14 PM IST

After Buldhana villages seek merger into MP, Maha govt builds new roads

Days after residents of four villages in Buldhana district of Maharashtra demanded merger of these places into neighbouring Madhya Pradesh alleging lack of facilities at the local level, the state government has initiated the process to build new roads there. People residing in these four villages - Bhingara, Gomal-1, Gomal-2 and Chalistapari - in Jalgaon Jamod taluka of Buldhana had made the demand for merger in a letter written to the district administration last week, in which they also claimed that they have been struggling to get their rights since the last 75 years. Their demand came against the backdrop of Karnataka Chief Minister recently claiming, amid tension over a border dispute, that some villages in southern Maharashtra's Sangli district once wanted to be part of Karnataka because of their acute water problem. The letter, written on December 6 by Bhingara sarpanch Rajesh Mohan, said among other things, that the residents of these villages find it difficult to get the .

After Buldhana villages seek merger into MP, Maha govt builds new roads
Updated On : 16 Dec 2022 | 4:54 PM IST

AIMIM seeks 5% quota for Muslims; plans march during legislature session

The Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM will take out a march during the upcoming winter session of the Maharashtra legislature in Nagpur to demand five per cent reservation for Muslims in the state, a party leader said. All India Majalis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) MP from Aurangabad and its state unit president Imtiaz Jaleel gave this information by tweeting a poster of the planned march. "The AIMIM will take out a march on 21 December from Indora Ground in Nagpur to Vidhan Bhawan during the session of the Maharashtra legislature," it said. Apart from seeking five per cent reservation to Muslims, the AIMIM will also highlight the demand of removal of encroachments from the Waqf land, the tweet said. Provision of Rs 1,000 crore subsidy to Maulana Azad Minorities Financial Development Corporation Limited; awarding ownership of slum land to residents; financial assistance to hand-loom and power-loom workers are some other demands which the party will raise during the march, it added. The

AIMIM seeks 5% quota for Muslims; plans march during legislature session
Updated On : 16 Dec 2022 | 1:52 PM IST

Reports of pro-Marathi group damaging vehicle in Belagavi false, say police

Reports that a pro-Marathi group had attacked a Bank of Karnataka vehicle in Belagavi is concocted, say police

Reports of pro-Marathi group damaging vehicle in Belagavi false, say police
Updated On : 16 Dec 2022 | 10:46 AM IST

Maharashtra Oppn to stage protest on Dec 17 regarding border row and more

He said that all like-minded parties have agreed upon the agenda of the protest rally and would like to request people to join us in large numbers

Maharashtra Oppn to stage protest on Dec 17 regarding border row and more
Updated On : 16 Dec 2022 | 8:09 AM IST

Hinduja group to invest Rs 35,000 crore in Maharashtra across 11 sectors

The Maharashtra Government on Thursday said the Hinduja group will be investing Rs 35,000 crore in the state. The Chief Minister's Office tweeted that an MoU was signed between the state government and Hinduja group in the presence of Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. G P Hinduja and Ashok Hinduja of the Hinduja group were present on the occasion. An official said the group has identified 11 sectors for investment in the state, including infrastructure, biotech, Electric Vehicles, manufacturing and health. The Shinde government had come under fire earlier this year when Maharashtra lost some big-ticket projects including Vedanta-Foxconn semiconductor plant to other states.

Hinduja group to invest Rs 35,000 crore in Maharashtra across 11 sectors
Updated On : 15 Dec 2022 | 10:39 PM IST

Border row: Delhi meet achieved nothing, favoured Karnataka, claims Uddhav

Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday said that nothing came out of Union Home Minister Amit Shah's meeting with the chief ministers of Maharashtra and Karnataka over the border dispute. Speaking at a press conference after a meeting with his Maha Vikas Aghadi allies Congress and NCP, he also said it was difficult to believe that some tweets from the verified handle of Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on the issue were not actually posted by him. "What was achieved by yesterday's meeting of Union home minister Amit Shah with chief ministers of Maharashtra and Karnataka? It was rubbing of salt into our wounds. As always, the deliberations favoured Karnataka," Thackeray said. The former chief minister demanded to know why Karnataka holds legislature sessions in Belagavi (the north Karnataka city which is the main bone of contention between the two states) and accorded it the status of second capital when the border dispute was before the Supreme Court. ''Belagav

Border row: Delhi meet achieved nothing, favoured Karnataka, claims Uddhav
Updated On : 15 Dec 2022 | 8:55 PM IST