Maharashtra: Fire breaks out at a chemical factory
May 26, 2016, at 07:29 pm
Mumbai, May 26 (IBNS): A fire broke out at a chemical factory in MIDC Phase 2 in Dombivli area in Maharashtra's Thane area on Thursday.
Maharashtra : Indecent behaviour with bar dancers likely to be punishable offence
Mar 30, 2016, at 08:23 pm
Mumbai, Mar 30 (IBNS) The new draft dance bar regulation bill of Maharashtra proposes to make any indecent behaviour with the dancers including showering money or coins on them a punishable offence, a CNN-IBN report says.
Maharashtra: Women activists denied access to temple
Jan 27, 2016, at 01:29 am
Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, Jan 26 (IBNS): In a near unprecedented incident, about 500 women activists, who were trying to enter into a temple forcibly, were stopped en route by some 1000 villagers and the local police.
Farmer's daughter commits suicide, urges bank to not bother her father for money
Oct 26, 2015, at 07:11 pm
Mumbai, Oct 26 (IBNS): With no money left with her parents to pay for her bus ride pass to school, a Class 11 student in Maharashtra's Latur has committed suicide, leaving a suicide note for a bank and private money lenders to not bother her father, reports said.
Maharashtra: Maoists pushed against the Wall
Oct 05, 2015, at 09:46 pm
Research Assistant, Institute for Conflict Management A 'central committee' (CC) member of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), Sridhar Srinivasan alias Krishnan Srinivasan alias Vijay alias Vishnu, who was active in Mumbai, Pune and Vidarbha regions of Maharashtra, died of a heart attack on August 18, 2015, a CPI-Maoist press statement released on September 21, 2015 disclosed. Paying tribute to the deceased CC member, the CPI-Maoist said, "Comrade Sridhar's martyrdom is a major blow to the movement". Srinivasan was arrested by Maharashtra ATS in 2007 and after being convicted and serving a six year jail term, was released in August 2013. According to the press release, he continued to work for the outfit and he died on his way to meet his comrades.
For Maharashtra's drought-hit farmers Rs. 400 crores from villager to films star
Oct 03, 2015, at 04:28 pm
Mumbai, Oct 3 (IBNS) The people of Maharashtra have donated a whopping a whopping Rs. 400 crore for the state government's Jalyukt Shivar Abhiyan to make the 25,000 villages in the state drought-free by 2019, reports said.
Three booked for slaughtering calves in Maharashtra
Mar 26, 2015, at 09:17 pm
Nashik, Mar 26(IBNS) : Three people have been booked for allegedly slaughtering calves in Nashik in Maharashtra in one of the first incidents of crackdown after the state government declared a total ban on beef in the state.
Maharashtra: Maoists: Weakening Base
Feb 03, 2015, at 06:11 pm
Research Assistant, Institute for Conflict Management On January 22, 2015, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres burnt around 14 vehicles of an Andhra Pradesh-based private company engaged in road construction on the Gharanji-Pustola stretch in Dhanora tehsil (revenue unit) of Gadchiroli District of Maharashtra. The Maoists also roughed up a few labourers during the attack. Eight tractors, two trucks, one road roller, two JCB machines, a pickup van and two motorcycles belonging to the workers were among the vehicles which were set on fire.
Maharashtra CM likely to expand his council of ministers
Dec 04, 2014, at 06:47 pm
Mumbai, Dec 4 (IBNS): Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is likely to will expand his council of ministers on Friday, media reports said.
Maharashtra, Haryana Results: Tally at 2 PM
Oct 19, 2014, at 07:39 pm
Mumbai/Chandigarh, Oct 19 (IBNS): As the counting in the Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly polls proceeded, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leading in both the states.
Maharashtra, Haryana Results: Tally at 12 noon
Oct 19, 2014, at 06:08 pm
Mumbai/Chandigarh, Oct 19 (IBNS): As the counting in the Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly polls proceeded, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leading in both the states.
Over 30% polling in Maharashtra, Haryana till noon
Oct 15, 2014, at 08:40 pm
New Delhi, Oct 15 (IBNS): Moderate polling has been recorded both in Maharashtra and Haryana till noon with with voters queuing up in front of booths to exercise their franchise.
Brisk polling in Maharashtra, about 13 percent in Haryana till 10 AM
Oct 15, 2014, at 06:13 pm
New Delhi, Oct 15 (IBNS): Brisk polling has been seen in Maharashtra Wednesday morning with voters queuing up in front of booths to exercise their franchise.
Shiv Sena advises Modi to focus on border, not Maharashtra
Oct 08, 2014, at 07:05 pm
Mumbai, Oct 8 (IBNS): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s former ally Shiv Sena in Maharashtra has advised Prime Minister Narendra Modi to focus on the firing from Pakistani side along the border in Jammu and Kashmir instead of poll-bound Maharashtra.
Maharashtra, Haryana Assembly polls on October 15: EC
Sep 12, 2014, at 10:45 pm
New Delhi, Sept 12 (IBNS): Maharashtra and Haryana will go into Assembly polls in mid-October.