Maharashtra government employees on strike for Old Pension Scheme

Maharashtra government employees on strike for Old Pension Scheme

Lakhs of employees of the Maharashtra government went on strike on March 14 seeking restoration of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS), a move that could hamper the functioning of the State administration and affect many services. Paramedics working in hospitals run by the State government and civic bodies, sanitation workers, and teachers have also joined […]

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Jalyuk Shivar project’s second phase to start soon in Maharashtra: Devendra Fadnavis

Jalyuk Shivar project’s second phase to start soon in Maharashtra: Devendra Fadnavis

File photo of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. He announced that the water conservation project will begin soon in the State. | Photo Credit: PTI The second phase of the Maharashtra Government’s ambitious water conservation project called ‘ Jalyukt Shivar’ will start soon, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on March 12. The ‘Jalyukt […]

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Amit Shah visits Deekshabhoomi, Dr Hedgewar Smruti Mandir in Nagpur

Amit Shah visits Deekshabhoomi, Dr Hedgewar Smruti Mandir in Nagpur

Union Home Minister Amit Shah being welcomed by Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, in Nagpur. | Photo Credit: PTI Union Home Minister Amit Shah on February 18 visited Deekshabhoomi monument and Dr. Hedgewar Smruti Mandir at Reshimbagh area in Nagpur. Mr. Shah visited Deekshabhoomi, where Dr. B. R. Ambedkar converted to Buddhism along with […]

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Our govt. with BJP formed legally, says Maha CM Shinde; Raut asserts Thackeray faction is ‘real’ Sena

Our govt. with BJP formed legally, says Maha CM Shinde; Raut asserts Thackeray faction is ‘real’ Sena

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde | File Photo | Photo Credit: PTI Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, who heads a faction of the Shiv Sena, on Friday said his party believes in judiciary and expects that the Supreme Court will give its verdict in the case related to the June 2022 Maharashtra political crisis based […]

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Rebel MLAs have no right to sit in the Assembly, says Aaditya Thackeray

Rebel MLAs have no right to sit in the Assembly, says Aaditya Thackeray

He jeered at the MLAs outside the Assembly by raising slogans that they had “sold out.” He jeered at the MLAs outside the Assembly by raising slogans that they had “sold out.” Dubbing the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena faction and the BJP as a government of traitors, Sena leader and MLA Aaditya Thackeray said the […]

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Shinde allocates portfolio to newly-appointed ministers

Shinde allocates portfolio to newly-appointed ministers

Mr. Fadnavis gets Home; Mr. Shinde to handle Urban Development Mr. Fadnavis gets Home; Mr. Shinde to handle Urban Development Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde announced portfolio allocation to newly appointed ministers in the state cabinet. BJP received plum portfolios with Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to hold Home, Finance and Planning, Law and Justice […]

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Maharashtra Cabinet expansion | Nine ministers each from BJP, Shiv Sena’s Shinde faction sworn in

Maharashtra Cabinet expansion | Nine ministers each from BJP, Shiv Sena’s Shinde faction sworn in

Maharashtra Cabinet expansion takes place 40 days after Eknath Shinde and Devendra Fadnavis formed government Maharashtra Cabinet expansion takes place 40 days after Eknath Shinde and Devendra Fadnavis formed government The much-awaited expansion of the Maharashtra Cabinet of the BJP-Shiv Sena government led by Eknath Shinde took place on Tuesday in Mumbai with 18 legislators […]

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Morning Digest | Bhadrachalam in Telangana reels under severe flood threat; India-China military talks to be held on July 17, and more

Morning Digest | Bhadrachalam in Telangana reels under severe flood threat; India-China military talks to be held on July 17, and more

Godavari at 71 feet nears highest-ever level As the Godavari touched the second highest flood level of 71 feet after 32 years and inched towards the highest ever flood level of 75.6 feet of 1986 at Telangana’s Bhadrachalam on Friday night, the State government requisitioned the services of the Indian Army to aid the civil […]

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Fadnavis missing at BJP’s celebration of return to power in Maharashtra

Fadnavis missing at BJP’s celebration of return to power in Maharashtra

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was conspicuously absent during a celebration held at the State BJP headquarters here on Friday. The program at the party office in south Mumbai was meant to celebrate its return to power in Maharashtra after two-and-half years following the collapse of the Uddhav Thackeray-led MVA government. Mr. Fadnavis, who […]

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Maharashtra crisis: Supreme Court agrees to sit after court hours today to hear challenge to floor test

Maharashtra crisis: Supreme Court agrees to sit after court hours today to hear challenge to floor test

‘Floor test cannot be held when the disqualification proceedings against several MLAs are pending,’ says senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, for Thackeray loyalist Sunil Prabhu. ‘Floor test cannot be held when the disqualification proceedings against several MLAs are pending,’ says senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, for Thackeray loyalist Sunil Prabhu. Amidst the frenzy of political […]

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