Maharashtra

Maharashtra, which went to the polls on November 20 to elect a new 288-member assembly, recorded a voter turnout of 65.02 per cent—the highest since the 1995 assembly poll that saw a turnout of 71.7 per cent. The turnout also surpasses the…
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Voting is underway in Maharashtra and Jharkhand for the assembly polls on Wednesday, November 20. In Maharashtra, the election is being conducted in a single phase for all 288 Legislative Assembly seats. However, in Jharkhand, polling is…
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If one looks at the tone and tenor of the election campaign in Maharashtra’s severely hit farm crisis regions, it would be difficult to discern that between January and June 2024, 557 farmers committed suicide in the state’s Amravati…
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The Election Commission of India (ECI) will announce the schedule for Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly elections at 3.30 pm on Tuesday, October 15. The term of 288-member Maharashtra Assembly will end on November 26, while the Jharkhand…
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Amid the political storm in Maharashtra over the collapse of the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj statue in Malvan, state Congress chief Nana Patole on Thursday claimed that the sculptor who made the statue was close to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak…
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Maharashtra on Friday, August 30, to lay the foundation stone of the Vadhvan Port project and several other projects in Palghar. He will also address the Global Fintech Fest (GFF) at the Jio World…
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At least two persons are feared trapped under the rubble after a three-storey building collapsed in Navi Mumbai's Shahbaz village on Saturday morning. Police, fire brigade and National Disaster Response Force team are present at the spot…
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The India Meteorological Department (IMD) in its latest forecast issued a red alert for parts of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa for Saturday amid predictions of heavy to extremely heavy rainfall in the area. IMD predicted that intense…
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The India Meteorological Department said monsoon has started shifting downwards and is set to coastal Kerala, Karnataka and Konkan Goa this week. Heavy rain and thunderstorms are predicted in these states in the coming days, said the IMD.…
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The Pune Rural Police has registered an FIR against Manorama Khedkar, Dilip Khedkar, the parents of controversial trainee IAS officer Puja Khedkar, and five others based on a complaint by a farmer who alleged that he was threatened by…
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