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The Government of Maharashtra today launched year-long initiatives to commemorate the 200th birth anniversary of the great social reformer and revolutionary icon, Mahatma Jyotirao Phule. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis paid tributes to Jyotirao Phule and Savitribai Phule by offering floral...

Mumbai, April 7 The Maharashtra government transferred 11 Indian Administrative Service officers on Tuesday.According to the government order, Rahul Ranjan Mahiwal has been appointed as Member Secretary of the Maharashtra Council of Agricultural Education and Research in Pune. He was...

Palghar, April 3 A 45-year-old employee from the Palghar Zilla Parishad in Maharashtra has been arrested for allegedly sexually harassing a minor girl under the pretext of providing information about a scholarship program, police said on Friday.The 17-year-old girl had visited the education...

Mumbai, April 2 In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, the Maharashtra Government on Thursday transferred 25 IAS officers, including several municipal commissioners and district collectors.The Municipal Commissioner of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, G Sreekanth, was appointed as the Chief Executive...

Beed, March 31 Authorities in the Beed district of Maharashtra have suspended eight teachers from various primary schools run by the Zilla Parishad for allegedly claiming government benefits by falsely claiming to have hearing impairments, officials said on Tuesday.These teachers are from...

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 29 Maharashtra NCP minister Aditi Tatkare apologized on Sunday for the conspicuous absence of photographs of former Deputy CM Ajit Pawar from a banner at a party event in Raigad recently.A felicitation ceremony for the newly-elected members of the Zilla Parishad and Panchayat...

Kolkata, March 26 – Kolendranath Mandi, a member of the Purulia Zilla Parishad belonging to the Trinamool Congress, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday.He formally joined the opposition at the state Bharatiya Janata Party's office in Salt Lake, Kolkata, in the presence of the party's...

Mumbai, March 25 – Both houses of the Maharashtra Legislature adjourned sine die on Wednesday after a month-long budget session.Legislative Council Chairman Ram Shinde and Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar announced in their respective houses that the monsoon session of the state legislature...

Mumbai, March 21 A day after Rupali Chakankar resigned as the head of the Maharashtra Women's Commission over her alleged links with a rape-accused "spiritual leader," Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar said her resignation alone was not enough and demanded action against the "powerful...

Bhubaneswar, March 19 – The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the Odisha Police has arrested a businessman for his alleged involvement in a multi-crore fraud case related to the embezzlement of funds from the District Mineral Foundation Trust (DMFT) in the Mayurbhanj district, a senior EOW...

Nashik, March 19 An executive engineer and an accountant from the Zilla Parishad were arrested by the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau in Nashik for allegedly seeking and accepting a bribe of Rs 50,000, an official said on Thursday.Executive engineer Vaishali Thakare (42) and senior...

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, March 18 The BJP won the posts of president and vice-president of the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Zilla Parishad in Maharashtra unopposed here on Wednesday, drawing the ire of ally Shiv Sena, which alleged betrayal.Avinash Galande was elected as the president, and...

Palghar, March 18 A contractual medical officer from the Palghar district of Maharashtra has been removed from service after being caught accepting a bribe of Rs 35,000, officials said on Wednesday.Dr. Vijay Manik Sangle was apprehended on Tuesday in Ashagad, Dahanu taluka, while allegedly...

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, March 18 The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured the posts of president and vice-president of the Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Zilla Parishad in Maharashtra unopposed here on Wednesday.Avinash Galande was elected as the president, and Jitendra Jaiswal as the...

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (Maharashtra), March 17 The nine elected members of the Zilla Parishad from the Shiv Sena (UBT) want to support the parties that are in a position to control the local body in Wednesday's election, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Ambadas Danve said here on Tuesday.Notably, the...

Mumbai, March 17 – The Legislative Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed the Maharashtra Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samitis (Second Amendment) Bill, proposing the appointment of co-opted members based on comparative numerical strength.Rural Development Minister Jaykumar Gore announced that...

Kolkata, March 14 – A local BJP leader in Galsi, East Burdwan district, alleged on Saturday that despite his name appearing on the list for the West Bengal government's Awas Yojana (Housing Scheme), the funds never reached his bank account.The BJP leader alleged that after going door-to-door...

Bhubaneswar, March 12 In a reshuffle affecting several IAS officers, the Odisha government appointed Prathamesh Arvind Rajeshirke as the collector of Malkangiri district on Thursday.According to a notification, Malkangiri collector Somesh Kumar Upadhyay has been transferred as director...

Beed, March 12 An unidentified person damaged eight CCTV cameras at a Zilla Parishad school in the Ashti taluka of Beed district, Maharashtra, according to an official on Thursday.The masked suspect also broke the locks of four classrooms, said Uddhav Sonawane, the headmaster of Kada Zilla...