Last Updated: September 29, 2023, 22:56 IST Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. (File photo/PTI) Shinde said officials have been directed to start 72 hostels for OBC students The reservation of Other Backward Classes (OBC) will not be touched while giving quota to the Maratha community, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said on Friday. During the…
The Women’s Reservation Bill is the latest bone of contention between the Eknath Shinde and Uddhav Thackeray factions. (PTI) In the notice, Gawali warned the MPs that the Chief Whip holds the authority to take necessary action against them for not toeing the party’s line The Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena has trained its guns on…
Ajit Pawar had played down the controversy and told his supporters not to pay heed to Gopichand Padalkar’s words. (PTI/File) BJP leader Gopichand Padalkar has not spared Ajit Pawar despite the latter breaking ranks with uncle Sharad Pawar and joining the Eknath Shinde-BJP government earlier this year. This is not surprising given the acrid history…
Last Updated: September 25, 2023, 16:36 IST Ajit Pawar joined the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance on July 2. (Image: PTI) Regarding his absence at Amit Shah’s programs in Mumbai, Ajit Pawar on Sunday said he had informed Shah’s office about his prior engagements in advance After his absence from Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s programme in…
Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan stole everyone’s attention with their ethnic look at Maharashta CM Eknath Shinde’s house for Ganesh Chaturthi 2023 celebrations Superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan paid a visit to Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s home to attend Ganpati puja on Sunday night, Septmber 24. The actors also posed with…
Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra Ajit Pawar. (File Photo/ANI File) Speaking at a meeting of the Minority Welfare Department at the state headquarters Mantralaya, Pawar said the five per cent educational quota for the minority community had not faced any legal hurdle (unlike the Maratha reservation) Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday said…
Padalkar has also asked chief minister Shinde to instruct the state government and its concerned department to review all the schemes announced and initiated for the Dhangar community. (File pic: PTI) In a two-page letter to the chief minister, Gopichand Padalkar has also asked him to formulate a separate law to protect the shepherds, as…
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde said on Sunday he hoped the Centre will provide financial aid for the ambitious water grid project in Marathwada, and announced that the state will implement an array of welfare measures to commemorate Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 73rd birthday. Shinde, who was speaking at an event in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar to…
Last Updated: September 17, 2023, 08:32 IST Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. (PTI) The decision to rename Aurangabad and Osmanabad was taken in the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government’s last cabinet meeting chaired by the then chief minister Uddhav Thackeray on June 29, 2022 just before he resigned The Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government has…
Last year, the Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government collapsed after a rebellion in the then undivided Shiv Sena with Eknath Shinde and several other MLAs teaming up with the BJP. (File pics/PTI) On Thursday, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader and whip Sunil Prabhu’s petition was taken up for hearing by Maharashtra assembly…