Mumbai, Dec 21 (ANI): Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh today said no action has been taken against officers responsible for the 26/11 terror attack lapses.
Just hours before the findings of the Ram Pradhan Committee that probed the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks was to be tabled in [...]
Ranchi, Dec 13 (IANS) Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan Sunday said that he was not in favour of a separate Vidarbha state.
‘I am not in favour of a separate state,’ said Chavan, responding to the demand for a separate Vidarbha state, while addressing a press conference here.
The Maharashtra chief minister was in Jharkhand to [...]
Ranchi, Dec 13 (IANS) Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan Sunday said his state was for every Indian and anyone could come there and live without fear.
‘Maharashtra is for everyone. Anyone can go to any state. Even Marathi speaking people live in the United States. We believe in the constitution and anyone can arrive in the [...]
New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) Lithuanian foreign minister Vygaudas Usackas, who is on his maiden visit to India, is looking at forging strong ties between the two nations, especially in tourism, business and infrastructure. He is scheduled to meet the Indian foreign minister S.M. Krishna Thursday evening.
Accompanied by the Lithuanian minister of economy Dainius Kreivys [...]
New Delhi, Nov 30 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to approach the Election Commission (EC) for indicting Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan of being involved in ‘electoral malpractices’.
The BJP wants an investigation to be ordered by the EC on the entire matter.
BJP Vice President Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said on Monday that [...]
Ranchi, Nov 29 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary Arun Jaitley Sunday questioned the efficiency of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) in probing the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, and noted that it was a US agency which had arrested two men allegedly involved in the attacks.
‘The NIA was constituted to investigate the 26/11 attack [...]
Mumbai, Nov 27 (IANS) The flurry of memorial services, blood donation camps, the moments reliving that terrible carnage a year ago are behind. Friday, Mumbai was its usual self, buzzing with activity and a confidence that no terror attack can quell.
Most students returned to their colleges, and workers were back to their routine schedules.
At [...]
Mumbai, Nov. 26 (ANI): A number of people on Thursday donated blood at Mumbai’s central train station, which was one of the venues that bore the brunt of 26/11 attacks that left at least 173 people dead and 308 injured.
At least 58 [...]
Mumbai, Nov 21 (IANS) Taking a strong stand on Friday’s twin attacks on the IBN-Lokmat and IBN-7 television channels in Mumbai and Pune, Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan said Saturday that the state government will consider legislation making any attacks on the media a non-bailable offence.
Speaking to a delegation of senior mediapersons which called on [...]
Mumbai, Nov 21 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Saturday assured the journalists delegation that strict actions will be initiated against the attackers of IBN Lokmat offices in Mumbai and Pune.
A journalist delegation led by Rajya Sabha member Vijay Darda and CNN-IBN Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai met [...]
New Delhi, Nov 19 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has said there is no controversy in the state over the use of Marathi and Hindi languages.
Addressing reporters here on Wednesday, Chavan said both Marathi and Hindi have equal importance, and therefore, respect should be paid to them.
“Hindi has same importance as Marathi, I [...]
Mumbai, Nov 6 (IANS) Maharashtra chief minister-elect Ashok Chavan Friday staked formal claim to form the next government with the support of 170 legislators. The new Democratic Front ministry will be sworn-in here Saturday evening.
‘We have submitted letters of support of 170 legislators, including the Congress, Nationalist Congress Party, Bahujan Vikas Aghadi, Rashtriya Swabhiman Paksh, [...]
New Delhi, Nov 6 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan today held discussions with Congress President Sonia Gandhi, a day after the party sealed a deal with its ally, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to form a government in the state.
Chavan is understood to have discussed the allocation of portfolios at the meeting. Senior [...]
Mumbai, Oct 26(ANI): Shiv Sena Executive President, Uddhav Thackeray, on Monday said the disappointing defeat in the Maharashtra assembly elections did not mean the end of the road for the party.
Addressing the media at Sena Bhawan in Mumbai, Thackeray said the Sena’s struggle against injustice would continue.
“This is not the defeat of Shiv Sena. [...]
New Delhi, Oct 25 (IANS) Set to take over as the Maharashtra chief minister for a second time, Ashok Chavan Sunday said the Congress party has more numbers than its ally, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), this time – making clear that the Congress would keep key portfolios with itself in the new government.
‘Our strength [...]
Mumbai, Oct 25 (IANS) For Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, his birthday Wednesday will be extra special. Three days before he turns 51, the Congress offered him a rare gift – the powerful post of chief minister for a second time.
With this, he becomes only the fifth among the state’s 14 chief minister in the [...]
Mumbai, Oct 23 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has said that Congress high command deserves the credit for the victory of the Congress-NCP alliance for the third consecutive term in Assembly polls.
Talking to reporters here on Thursday, Chavan said: “I will credit this win to Sonia Gandhi who always helped works in Maharashtra and [...]
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) Senior Congress leader and central minister Vilasrao Deshmukh Thursday refused to give credit to Chief Minister Ashok Chavan for the win in the assembly elections by the Congress-Nationalist Congres Party (NCP) combine.
Chavan ‘hardly got six months’ to govern the state, Deshmukh told NDTV.
The former Maharashtra chief minister, however, said Chavan [...]
Thane (Maharashtra), Oct 18 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Sunday announced a Rs.200,000 compensation to the kin of each of six firemen, who lost their lives while on duty in Thane.
The six firemen working with the Thane fire service died from suffocation after getting stuck in a lift in a housing complex where [...]
Mumbai, Oct 13 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan cast his vote here today.
After casting his vote, Chavan asked the people to come out and use their right to vote for their candidate.
Besides Chavan, Anil Ambani, Poonam Mahajan and Ajit Pawar also cast their votes.
Meanwhile, Shiv Sena workers alleged that Congress MLA Janardhan [...]
Panvel, Oct 8 (ANI): Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi said on Thursday that it’s only his party would ensure better governance for people of Maharashtra.
Addressing a election rally adjacent to a hospital, here Rahul said that the past five years of Congress rule [...]
Mumbai, Oct 2 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Friday said that termed Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar’s apology to MNS chief Raj Thackeray as a ‘filmi stunt’.
Karan apologized to firebrand MNS chief on using the word ‘Bombay’ instead of ‘Mumbai’ in his new film ‘Wake Up Sid’ was nothing but
Chavan further said that Maharashtra [...]
Mumbai, Oct 1 (IANS) Anupam Ahuja was ‘overwhelmed’ and ‘extremely relieved’ after her actor-husband Shiney Ahuja was granted bail Thursday after three months of judicial custody on charges of raping his domestic help.
‘This decision by the court has been overwhelming. I am so happy that our daughter has got her father back, Shiney’s parents have [...]
Mumbai, Sep. 30 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Tuesday announced that the Congress would take action against party rebels within two days.
Congress rebels from some constituencies withdrew their nominations from the upcoming assembly election.
From the Kavthe [...]
New Delhi, Sep 30 (IANS) The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Wednesday asserted it would not yield to pressure from alliance partner Congress in deciding the next Maharashtra chief minister if the party gets more seats in the assembly election, while the latter said its focus was to win the polls.
‘This time, the numbers will decide [...]
New Delhi, Sep 30 (IANS) The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Wednesday indicated it would not yield to pressure from alliance partner Congress in deciding the next Maharashtra chief minister if the party gets more seats in the state assembly election.
‘This time, the numbers will decide the chief minister,’ NCP general secretary D.P. Tripathi told reporters [...]
New Delhi, Sep 27 (IANS) Rakhi Sawant chose her fiance, Canada-based businessman Elesh Parujanwala, from among 16 prospective grooms on a TV show, but the item girl now says her would-be husband has ‘an egg-like face’.
Rakhi and Elesh are part of a new reality show ‘Pati, Patni Aur Woh’ on NDTV Imagine, where they will [...]
Mumbai, Sep 24 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Thursday said that Congress party member Sunil Deshmukh could face disciplinary action if he contests forthcoming Maharashtra State assembly elections against President Pratibha Patil’s son Rajendra Singh Shekhawat.
Deshmukh, who has been winning seats [...]
Mumbai, Sep 20 (ANI): Senior Shiv Sena leader and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Manohar Joshi’s house was ransacked here on Sunday by some party workers who were agitated over the neglect of their favourite local leader during ticket allocation for the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections.
According to sources the outrage was over demand of ticket [...]
Mumbai, Sep 20 (ANI): Senior Shiv Sena leader and former Maharashtra Chief Minister Manohar Joshi’s house was ransacked here on Sunday by some party workers who were agitated over the neglect of their favourite local leader during ticket allocation for the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections.
According to sources the outrage was over demand of ticket [...]
