Zeeshan Shaikh

The 29-year-old actor, a resident of Pune, has had a penchant for making controversial statements and has had brushes with the law for such statements on social media.

In Maharashtra, where politics revolves around Chhatrapati Shivaji, and hence his rivalry with Aurangzeb, the Mughal Emperor is seen as the very antithesis of Maharashtrian pride and Maratha valour. The Sena, on the other hand, has built itself as a repository of both.

Patole’s broadside against the NCP further strained their relations which have been fraught in the backdrop of the Congress's eroding support base vis-a-vis the NCP, with the latter carrying on with its bid to poach the grand old party's leaders.

At the heart of the incidents were the husband and wife duo of MLA Ravi Rana and MP Navneet Rana — Independent legislators used to never being far from the limelight, from sharing the silver screen with southern heroes to Baba Ramdev playing Cupid at their wedding at a mass ceremony.

On Saturday evening, hours after the Ranas announced they were giving up the plan, police arrested them on the charge of “creating enmity between different groups”, amid high drama.

This past week, the couple find themselves at the centre of calls, which first rose from the MNS camp, to recite Hanuman Chalisa in public if mosques continued to use loudspeakers for azaan and other announcements.

The sister of Munde's former live-in partner was arrested on Thursday for allegedly trying to extort money from him.

To speed up the commute to and from South Mumbai, the BMC is building a coastal road along the city’s sprawling waterfront. However, the civic body’s initiative to build an expressway is being questioned by a group of architects who want the agency to alter its plans to make the project and the areas around it more “citizen-friendly”

While Sharad Pawar has been vociferous in denying any role in the day-to-day functioning of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, the 83-year-old Maratha stalwart remains the fulcrum of this coalition government.

INS Vikrant, the first aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy, was scrapped in November 2014. BJP leader Kirit Somaiya had launched a money collection drive to save the ship. Here is why he and his son Neil have been booked now.

The MNS chief, who is trying to reverse his party’s decline, has been growing closer to the BJP in recent months.

However, such an alliance would have to keep out the Shiv Sena, which is an ally of the Congress and NCP, the AIMIM has said

A day after Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse-Patil claimed that phones of four elected representatives were tapped between 2015 and 2019 in the garb of drug peddlers, three of the four leaders were guarded in their criticism of the then BJP-Sena government between 2014-19 when the tapping took place.

An emergency meeting was held between NCP chief Sharad Pawar and Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday to discuss the BJP's win, and reportedly to formulate a strategy to insulate the MVA from the fallout.

The most evident sign of this concern was an emergency meeting held between NCP chief Sharad Pawar and Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday to discuss the BJP's win, and reportedly to formulate a strategy to insulate the MVA from the fallout.

The government is also concerned about the negative impact of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine and the problems it may create for recovering economies around the world, including India.

This allocation has been done as the many critically injured patients have to go to private hospitals as there is no level-1 government trauma care unit outside Mumbai.

During the kharif season of 2021-22, sowing was completed on 155.15 lakh ha, as against 159.48 lakh ha in the state during the previous year.

The 2.99 crore two-wheelers in Maharashtra account for nearly 73.18 per cent of the state’s vehicular population.

The industry sector is also expected to grow by 11.9 per cent which, again, is the highest in a decade. The previous highest growth registered by the sector was in 2014-15 when it registered a 9.1 per cent.

MAHARASHTRA’S ECONOMY is set to grow by 12.1 per cent, substantially higher than the 8.9 per cent growth rate that the Indian economy is expected to touch. The revival comes against the backdrop of the 8 per cent shrinking that the state economy suffered due to the impact of the pandemic last year. As per […]

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A tax official said the search on Kanal was a "fallout" of its probe into the alleged hawala transactions by Yashwant Jadhav, chairman of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) standing committee.

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