Pune: National security adviser Ajit Doval will be conferred with the Lokmanya Tilak National Award for his contribution to boosting national security.The award will be presented by home minister Amit Shah on the 106th death anniversary of Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak in Pune on Aug 1.The ceremony will be held at Kataria High School ground…
Pune: Though NCP (SP) working president and Baramati MP Supriya Sule has indicated that the party could support the Centre’s proposed delimitation bill if it guarantees a uniform 50% increase in parliamentary seats for all states, her nephew and party MLA from Karjat-Jamkhed, Rohit Pawar, struck a more cautious note.On the eve of Parliament’s monsoon…
Union minister Nitin Gadkari and CM Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday lay the foundation stone for three elevated road corridors in Pune district in the presence of deputy CM Sunetra Pawar and ministers Chandrakant Patil, Shivendrasinhraje Bhosale and Madhuri Misal Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said officials had been directed to study the feasibility…
Pune: Kumar Saptarshi, socialist thinker, former MLA and founder of Yuvak Kranti Dal, passed away in the city on Saturday. He was 82.The president of the Maharashtra Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, Saptarshi followed Gandhian principles throughout his life. He remained actively involved in social movements for several decades, leading and participating in numerous agitations on issues…
NCP’s Rajya Sabha member Parth Pawar Pune: NCP’s state deputy chief Udaykumar Aher wrote a letter to the party chief, Sunetra Pawar, claiming that some members within the outfit were trying to malign the image of her elder son, Rajya Sabha member Parth Pawar, through spreading rumours about his maturity.Aher sent the letter to Sunetra…
Pune/Mumbai: The rift in the NCP leadership showed signs of widening as just two days after the party’s working president Praful Patel and state chief Sunil Tatkare met CM Devendra Fadnavis without the knowledge of party chief Sunetra Pawar, her elder son and Rajya Sabha MP Parth Pawar met the CM on Thursday.Amid speculation that…
A fresh controversy has emerged over the election of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar as the national president of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), after a senior leader questioned the validity of the process and sought a fresh poll. Sachchidanand Singh, a senior leader and national secretary of the party, has sent a notice…
Amadea’s appeals before the joint IGR and the IGR were rejected in December 2025 and May 2026, respectively Pune: Revenue minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Friday said the impact of a Pune civil court order declaring the Amadea Enterprises LLP sale deed void ab initio on the Rs21 crore stamp duty demand would be decided by…
The rescue operation in progress at the waste-to-energy plant site in Moshi on Saturday night Pune: The rescue teams on Saturday recovered seven more bodies from the debris of the administrative building at the PCMC’s waste-to-energy (WTE) plant in Moshi, taking up the death toll to eight.One person remained missing, more than 79 hours after…
The Maharashtra Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed the Women Farmers Empowerment Bill, aimed at recognising women farmers and creating a framework to ensure their access to government welfare schemes, institutional credit, agricultural services and Women Farmer identity cards. The bill will now be tabled in the legislative council. Described as the first such proposed legislation…
