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A day after switching sides from Shiv Sena (UBT) and joining the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, MLC Sachin Ahir was on Wednesday elected unopposed as Deputy Chairman of the Maharashtra Legislative Council after the Maha Vikas Aghadi withdrew its candidate J M Ab
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday announced that retired state police dogs would no longer be put up for external adoption after 10 years of service. Fadnavis announced that a dog who had served in the police forces for the stipulated pe
Mumbai: Senior NCP (SP) leader Eknath Khadse, set to celebrate his 75th birthday with a grand event at Muktainagar in Jalgaon on August 30, has invited Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to attend the celebrations. If the chief minister accepts the invitation, h
With the Opposition sensing an opportunity following the youth-led protests in Delhi and Ranchi and the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) launching the School Thik Karo (Fix Rural Government Schools) campaign, the BJP-led Maharashtra government is working on a stra
Welcome to The Daily Catch-Up, your three-minute evening briefing from The Indian Express. The Tata group is entering a new phase following N Chandrasekaran s decision to step down as Tata Sons chairman
The Maharashtra government on Monday admitted it will miss its June 30 deadline for rolling out the Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Shetkari Karjmafi Yojana, with Agriculture Minister Dattatray Bharane announcing in the Legislative Assembly that loan waiver amoun
The Mahayuti-led Maharashtra government has framed new rules empowering the Chief Minister, Devendra Fadnavis, to override a decision taken by any minister, provided that the CM s action is in public interest and the reasons for doing so are recorded in writin
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has put his weight behind state Food and Drug Administration (FDA) chief Tukaram Mundhe s aggressive food safety clampdown, targeting iconic restaurants and eateries across the state, saying the crackdown will conti
As protests intensify over the proposed change in reservation of the Neville D Souza football ground in Bandra, civic records show the land s reservation has been altered multiple times over the past decade before the latest amendment. Last week, the Brihanmum
For decades, the Air India building at Nariman Point was synonymous with the airline s identity, from the bust of JRD Tata and the iconic Maharaja mascot to its distinctive marble fa ade. Now, with the Maharashtra government having taken over the 105-metre, 23
The dispute over Nashik s guardian minister has resurfaced after a Simhastha Kumbh Mela booklet described BJP leader Girish Mahajan as the Maharashtra district s Guardian and Kumbh Mela Minister , despite the ruling Shiv Sena continuing to oppose his appointme
MUMBAI: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has backed the dimagi naxals (intellectual naxals) remark made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that while armed naxalism has been brought under control, dimagi naxalwad (intellectual naxalism) is even more dange
A Pune court on Monday extended the police custody of Siya Goyal and her alleged lover Chetan Chaudhary in the Ketan Agarwal murder case till July 3. After the police produced both before the court at Vadgaon Maval, Judicial Magistrate First Class A M Vibhute
After the recent protests by the youth at Jantar Mantar, New Delhi, and various parts of the state against the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak and other instances of governmental apathy, the ruling Mahayuti in Maharashtra is positioning itself to capture the loyalty o
Maharashtra's Opposition MLAs staged a walkout on Monday stating that the government failed to provide a concrete response on the alleged leak of the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) question paper, which led to the postponement of the exam scheduled for Sunday
Minutes after the Maharashtra State Council of Examination (MSCE) postponed the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) scheduled for Sunday following an alleged paper leak, the Opposition launched a sharp attack on the Devendra Fadnavis government, accusing it of fail
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Saturday slammed newly appointed Nagpur Police Commissioner Vishwas Nangare Patil over his speech praising the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), saying that his loyalty should lie solely with the police
A felicitation ceremony organised by SARTHI for successful UPSC, MPSC and other competitive examination candidates in Pune on Friday witnessed an awkward moment after BJP Rajya Sabha MP Medha Kulkarni walked off the stage, alleging that her caste had been brou
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday expressed shock over the allleged murder of businessman Ketan Agrawal and said that society must consider what kind of environment needs to be created so that such cruel thoughts do not develop in children
Nearly four in every 10 women enrolled under Maharashtra s flagship Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana have been removed after a state-wide verification exercise, with government records reviewed by The Indian Express showing that over 92 lakh beneficiaries
Rescue teams have recovered the bodies of all eight people trapped inside a collapsed waste-to-energy plant building in the Moshi area of Pimpri-Chinchwad, bringing the total death toll from the disaster to nine. The last body was retrieved from the rubble ear
Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut and NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar Saturday triggered fresh political speculation over Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis s possible move to Delhi. Neither leader claimed that Fadnavis was certain to move to the Centre, but b
Addressing a press conference, Pawar claimed there was a "politician-contractor nexus" behind the government's defence of the Missing Link project despite concerns raised after recent landslides near the project site. KYB and KYC: Every stock has a business be
Satellite imagery shows that the distance between a collapsed garbage mound under which 8 people were still trapped till Friday evening and the office of a waste to energy plant on which it fell, was around 16-17 metres, and not 30 metres as Pimpri Chinchwad M
A prolonged and intense summer led to a steep hike in domestic electricity bills across the state, Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said in the state legislative assembly on Friday. Fadnavis added, Domestic power consumers were crossing the 300 unit threshold
The UCC will be implemented after receiving the report, he added. The Maharashtra government is positive about the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code
The Shiv Sena (UBT) led by Uddhav Thackeray and MNS chief Raj Thackeray on Thursday criticised Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis over his remarks following the Missing Link landslide incident. Objecting to the language used by Fadnavis in the Assembly, Raj Thac
Days after a worker died in a mishap on the set of Sanjay Leela Bhansali s directorial Love & War, All India Cine Workers Association (AICWA) has now written to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to initiate strict action against the filmmaker. While
Nationalist Congress Party (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday held a meeting with Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde at the latter s official office in the legislative campus. The meeting took place after Pawar attended the high- power committee meeting on
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said that the BJP was not getting any new party into the NDA alliance. Our doors are not open for new parties and we are working with our alliance partners who are part of NDA in Maharashtra, Fadnavis sai
Mumbai s tree fall crisis has spiralled into an unprecedented public safety emergency, with 1,100 trees collapsing in the first six days of July, already 29 per cent more than the 855 tree fall incidents reported during the entire monsoon in 2025 and far excee
Hours before the illegal four-storey structure collapsed onto adjoining shanties in Mumbai s Mankhurd on Sunday night, killing six people, including a woman and her four children, it had begun tilting, prompting the three families living inside to evacuate. Re
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray, whose party suffered a body blow with the defection of six Members of Parliament to the ruling Shiv Sena, alleges that the BJP wants to shore up the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government s numbers to push throu
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has ordered a stay on the Maharashtra Right to Information Rules, 2026, days after social activist Anna Hazare threatened an indefinite hunger strike against the new provisions. The rules, notified on June 12, had t
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis declared "Operation Tiger" successful, indicating defections from the Shiv Sena (UBT) to the Eknath Shinde-led faction. Deputy CM Shinde affirmed his commitment to completing operations
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday said that the state government will bring a bill in the Monsoon Session of the state legislature to give legal status to women farmers. Addressing a press conference on the eve of the Monsoon Session of th
Shiv Sena (UBT) mouthpiece Saamana on Saturday hit out at BJP minister Girish Mahajan, who allegedly claimed that the Uddhav Thackeray-led party would merge with the Congress, pointing out that the BJP was rolling out the red carpet to Congress leaders while h
In a move aimed at protecting government land and preventing unauthorised claims of ownership, the state government on Friday ordered a statewide overhaul of land records for all properties given on lease. Under a decision taken by Revenue Minister Chandrashek
The BJP-led Mahayuti is aiming for a clean sweep in the elections to 17 local authorities constituencies of the Maharashtra Legislative Council, with polling held for 12 seats on Thursday. The ruling alliance has already secured five seats unopposed and claims
If six out of the nine Lok Sabha MPs of the Shiv Sena (UBT) eventually switch to the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, it would be Shinde s second big blow to his former boss Uddhav Thackeray, the first one being the 2022 rebellion that split the Sena and brought d
NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar ended his hunger strike Sunday night after Maharashtra Water Resources Minister Girish Mahajan assured him that the state government would convene a meeting before June 22 to address farmers demands on the contentious loan waiver schem
While inspecting the ongoing Mumbai Coastal Road Project, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis Sunday said the north section of the project will be completed by December 2028. Following the inspection, Fadnavis also stated that once the project is comp
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, in the wake of the controversy surrounding comedian Pranit More, has said that stand-up comedy should remain unrestricted but warned that crossing...
Reacting to the recent controversies surrounding stand-up comedian Pranit More s viral videos, Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis Friday said the Constitution should be respected and not abused.
In a first-of-its-kind initiative to strengthen urban tree conservation, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) on Wednesday launched an artificial intelligence (AI) and LiDAR-based Smart Tree...
The Maharashtra government is considering widening the scope of the Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Shetkari Karjmukti Yojana 2026 to include around 5.75 lakh farmers who were left out of the farm loan...
The Mumbai Water Tankers Association called off its indefinite strike on Tuesday evening after Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis directed Mumbai s suburban and city district collectors to withdraw...
In a significant political development, Maharashtra Minister for Water Resources Girish Mahajan on Friday became the first representative of any state government to attend the Operation Blue Star...
The controversy over Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde allegedly not being invited to the unveiling of a Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj bust at Navi Mumbai International Airport escalated...
As several candidates from the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) withdrew from the upcoming June 18 Maharashtra Legislative Council elections, giving unopposed victories to the ruling Mahayuti, a...