Maharashtra relaxes Covid restrictions in some districts; malls, gyms to reopen
Aug 03, 2021, at 05:54 am
Mumbai/IBNS: The Maharashtra government on Monday relaxed the restrictions put in place to curb the COVID spread and allowed shopping malls, gymnasiums and salons to reopen for functioning.
Jul 28, 2021, at 06:25 am
Mumbai/IBNS: The Anti-Corruption Bureau is investigating former Mumbai Police chief Param Bir Singh's involvement in corruption and issued a lookout notice against a bar owner in south Mumbai in this connection, said media reports.
Maharashtra: Three including film producer arrested for sex racket
Jul 21, 2021, at 02:50 pm
Thane/UNI: The Mira Bhayander Vasai Virar (MBVV) police arrested three persons including a film producer for alleged sex trade the police said on Tuesday.
Maharashtra: Governor wishes people on Bakri Eid
Jul 21, 2021, at 02:46 pm
Mumbai/UNI: The Governor of Maharashtra Bhagat Singh Koshyari on Wednesday greeted the people of Maharashtra on the occasion of Bakri Eid (Eid Ul Zuha).
Sharad Pawar meets PM Modi amid strains in Maha Vikas Aghadi govt
Jul 17, 2021, at 07:08 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar Saturday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here at a time the Maharashtra government, of which his party is a key entity, is facing trouble.
Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole calls Sharad Pawar 'remote control' of state's coalition govt
Jul 16, 2021, at 12:27 am
Mumbai/IBNS: In his latest dig at the allies of Maharashtra's Maha Vikas Aghadi government, state Congress chief Nana Patole described NCP president Sharad Pawar as "the remote control" of the coalition.
Fully vaccinated people no longer need to carry COVID negative report on arrival at Mumbai
Jul 14, 2021, at 06:15 am
Mumbai/IBNS: Passengers flying to Maharashtra's capital Mumbai, who have received both shots of COVID-19 vaccine, will no longer need to carry negative RT-PCR test reports, the government announced on Tuesday.
Maharashtra: 40 tribal children died due to malnutrition in Palghar in April, May
Jul 07, 2021, at 12:09 pm
Palghar/UNI: The district administration on Tuesday confirmed that there were as many as 40 deaths of tribal children in Maharashtra's Palghar district in the months of April and May due to malnutrition.
Agriculture Minister Narendra Tomar welcomes Sharad Pawar's statement on farm laws
Jul 03, 2021, at 07:53 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar has welcomed Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar's statement where he reportedly said the Centre's contentious farm laws need to be amended and not entirely rolled back.
Maharashtra: Sikh women stage sit in demonstration
Jun 29, 2021, at 03:08 pm
Nanded/UNI: Sikh women staged a sit-in protest on Monday demanding withdrawal of the charges filed against the innocent people in connection with the Halla Bol (mock attack).
Delta Plus variant: Maharashtra tightens anti-COVID-19 lockdown norms in state
Jun 28, 2021, at 06:16 pm
Aurangabad/Mumbai/UNI: The Maharashtra state government has decided to tighten the existing COVID-19 curbs from Monday onwards in view of Delta Plus variant and the warning of a possible third wave.
Mumbai to continue under 'Level 3' restrictions despite fall in Covid-19 cases
Jun 27, 2021, at 05:40 am
Mumbai/IBNS: Mumbai will continue to remain under Level 3 of the Maharashtra government's phased unlock plan, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has said.
Maharashtra: BJP stages protest over OBC quota issue in Nagpur
Jun 26, 2021, at 08:32 pm
Nagpur/UNI: The Other Backward Classes (OBC) reservation is turning into a hot political issue in Maharashtra as Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday staged a 'Rasta Roko Andolan' (road blockade) in Nagpur and across state to press the demand to provide justice to the community.
Maharashtra: Major accident leads to fire, disrupts highway traffic
Jun 14, 2021, at 10:25 pm
Palghar/UNI: An oil tanker and a container were totally destroyed in a fire that broke out on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway in the early hours of Monday.
Shiv Sena MLA forces contractor to sit on waterlogged road, dumps garbage on him
Jun 14, 2021, at 07:23 am
Mumbai/IBNS: A Shiv Sena lawmaker made a contractor sit on a waterlogged road and asked people to dump trash on him as a punishment for allegedly not getting the drains cleaned properly.
Maratha reservation: Uddhav Thackeray requests Modi to lift 50 per cent ceiling on quota
Jun 08, 2021, at 08:47 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to lift the 50 per cent ceiling on quota to allow the Maratha community to avail reservations, media reports said.
Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray to meet PM Modi today, to discuss Maratha reservation
Jun 08, 2021, at 04:34 pm
New Delhi/IBNS: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray will hold a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss a number of issues including the Maratha reservation, media reports said.
18 killed, several missing as massive fire breaks out at Pune chemical factory
Jun 08, 2021, at 02:47 am
Pune/IBNS: At least 18 employees have been killed and several are missing in a chemical factory in Maharashtra's Pune in a massive fire that erupted in the sanitizer-manufacturing unit of the firm on Monday, said media reports.
COVID-19: Maharashtra records 12,557 fresh cases, 233 deaths
Jun 07, 2021, at 03:59 am
Mumbai/UNI: Maharashtra on Sunday reported 12,557 fresh cases of COVID-19, taking the total case tally up to 58,31,781 as per the latest health bulletin from the state government.
Maharashtra: Gas leak at Badlapur in Thane dist
Jun 04, 2021, at 03:18 pm
Thane/UNI: Residents of around three kms radius were affected at Badlapur in Thane district on Thursday night following a gas leakage from an industrial unit, the district officials said on Friday.
Maharashtra announces 5-level unlock plan to lift restrictions
Jun 04, 2021, at 02:00 am
Mumbai/IBNS: Maharashtra, the worst Covid-hit state in the country, announced a five-phased unlock strategy on Thursday with the rate of infections from the virus slowly receding.
'Significant adverse effects' unlikely : Centre says after vaccine doses mixed in UP and Maharashtra
May 29, 2021, at 04:08 am
New Delhi/IBNS: After over a dozen villagers in an Uttar Pradesh village were given a different coronavirus vaccine from their first dose, the Centre has said "significant adverse effects" are unlikely but also called it an oversight as no instruction to administer a cocktail of vaccines was given.
Maharashtra govt to give compensation to cyclone 'Tauktae' hit victims
May 26, 2021, at 01:43 am
Mumbai/UNI: Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday declared that the government will give compensation to the cyclone 'Tauktae' affected victims from the coastal districts of the state on the lines of previous cyclonic storm 'Nisarg'.
Maharashtra: Thirteen Naxals killed in encounter with police in Gadchiroli
May 21, 2021, at 08:01 pm
Mumbai/UNI: At least 13 Naxals were killed in an encounter with police in the Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra early Friday, police said.
Cyclone Tauktae kills 3 in Gujarat, 6 in Maharashtra
May 18, 2021, at 06:27 pm
New Delhi/IBNS/UNI: Three people in Gujarat and six others in Maharashtra were killed in Cyclone Tauktae, which made landfall last night, media reports said.
Cyclone Tauktae makes landfall in Gujarat, Army called in for rescue ops
May 18, 2021, at 03:28 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Cyclone Tauktae, which has been categorised as 'extremely severe' in nature, made landfall in Gujarat on Monday evening, the Indian Meteorological Department informed in a tweet.
Maharashtra govt faces backlash after allocating Rs 5.98 cr for Dy CM's publicity
May 14, 2021, at 12:13 am
Mumbai/IBNS: The Maharashtra government will hire public relations agencies for the office of the Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar to relay his announcements through social media platforms and SMS, a move that has been severely criticised by the opposition.
Maharashtra likely to extend lockdown till May 31, says Minister Rajesh Tope
May 13, 2021, at 03:55 am
Mumbai/IBNS: Maharashtra is likely to extend its lockdown till May 31, Health Minister Rajesh Tope said on Wednesday following a cabinet meeting amid a continuous rise of Covid cases despite infections slowing down in the past few days.
Sachin Waze, accused in Mukesh Ambani security scare case, sacked permanently by Mumbai Police
May 12, 2021, at 02:36 am
Mumbai/IBNS: Sachin Waze, the suspended police officer who is under probe over his alleged role in planting explosives outside industrialist Mukesh Ambani's Mumbai house, has been permanently sacked.
ED files case against ex-Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh
May 12, 2021, at 01:05 am
Mumbai/UNI: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) spokesperson and Minorities Minister Nawab Malik on Tuesday said the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a money laundering case against former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh for political motives and conspiracy to defame him.