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Mumbai, March 30 Two months after the tragic death of then deputy chief minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Ajit Pawar in a plane crash in Baramati, two NCP leaders have expressed support for the merger of the party, now headed by Sunetra Pawar, with the Sharad Pawar-led NCP...

Mumbai, March 27 – Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis warned on Friday of appropriate action if a video allegedly showing Food and Drug Administration Minister and Nationalist Congress Party leader Narhari Zirwal with a transgender woman is found to be authentic.The Chief Minister's...

Mumbai, March 27 Shiv Sena leader Shaina NC said on Friday that Maharashtra minister Narhari Zirwal, whose video with a transgender person has landed him in a controversy, should resign on moral grounds.However, she maintained that it was her personal opinion.Her statement comes amid the...

Mumbai, March 26 Maharashtra minister Narhari Zirwal has landed in a controversy after a video showing him with a transgender person surfaced on social media, leading to calls for his removal.The minister, who belongs to the Nationalist Congress Party, claimed on Thursday that it was a...

Mumbai, March 26 Maharashtra Legislative Council Chairman Ram Shinde has said that his deputy Neelam Gorhe's order to suspend Satara SP will be forwarded to legal and constitutional experts for their opinion, and only then a decision will be made.Shinde made these remarks in the Upper House on...

Mumbai, March 25 – In a fierce verbal attack, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Maharashtra state president and MP Sunil Tatkare accused political rivals of attempting to interfere in party affairs, calling them "opportunistic scavengers" driven by a sinister desire to seize control.Tatkare was...

Mumbai, March 25 Maharashtra Minister Yogesh Kadam said on Wednesday that there was no delay in registering an FIR in connection with the death of former Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar in a plane crash, nor was there any laxity in the related investigation.Kadam, a Minister of State for...

Mumbai, March 23 Maharashtra minister and Shiv Sena leader Shambhuraj Desai alleged on Monday that the BJP exerted political pressure during the Satara Zilla Parishad president election last week, leading to irregularities in the voting process."Democracy was murdered" during the election...

Mumbai, March 21 A day after Maharashtra State Women's Commission chief Rupali Chakankar resigned over her links with rape-accused Ashok Kharat, opposition leaders on Saturday demanded that "big fish," including ministers who allegedly patronized the self-proclaimed godman, should be...

Mumbai, March 21 NCP chief and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar on Saturday said she has forwarded Rupali Chakankar's resignation as chairperson of the state women's commission to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for acceptance.Chakankar, a leader of the Nationalist Congress...

Mumbai, March 20 As opposition parties targeted Maharashtra State Women's Commission chairperson Rupali Chakankar over her alleged association with rape accused "spiritual leader" Ashok Kharat, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday asked her to resign.Chakankar, a leader of the...

Beed, March 20 Nationalist Congress Party leader Dhananjay Munde has claimed that some "top leaders" in Maharashtra tried to end his political career during the recent municipal council elections.While Munde did not name any specific person, sources said he was referring to leaders within his...

Mumbai, March 12 Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA Sunil Shelke demanded in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday that a transparent and open discussion be held regarding the plane crash involving the late Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and the ongoing investigation into the incident...

Mumbai, March 10 – The family of Pinky Mali, a flight attendant who died in the Baramati plane crash, has alleged that the owner of the charter company involved in the incident attempted to pressure them to stay away from speaking to the media.According to the family, V.K. Singh, the owner of...

Mumbai, March 5 Six candidates from the Mahayuti alliance, including Union Minister Ramdas Athawale and BJP leader Vinod Tawde, along with opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi nominee Sharad Pawar, filed their nominations on Thursday for the seven Rajya Sabha seats from Maharashtra that will become...

Mumbai, March 4 Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar is set to get a fresh term in the Rajya Sabha after the Congress on Wednesday declared support to him as the opposition bloc's candidate from Maharashtra for the lone seat it can win in the March 16 polls to the Upper House of...

Mumbai, March 4 The Congress declared its support for Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar as the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) candidate for Rajya Sabha elections from Maharashtra, where the opposition bloc is in a position to win one of the seven seats falling vacant.AICC general...

Mumbai, March 4 Senior NCP (SP) leader Jayant Patil ruled out the possibility of a merger between the two factions of the Nationalist Congress Party on Wednesday and admitted that talks had stopped after NCP chief Ajit Pawar was killed in a plane crash.He asserted that the issue of...

Mumbai, March 4 – The internal process to reunite the two factions of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has come to a complete standstill following the untimely death of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. Senior NCP (SP) leader Jayant Patil clarified that while a merger was nearing...

Mumbai, March 3 Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) working president Supriya Sule and senior leader Jayant Patil met Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray in Mumbai on Tuesday and discussed the contentious issue of the single Rajya Sabha seat that the opposition alliance is assured of winning in...