Sea link gets into land row

Friday 7 November '08

A five-hectare piece of land has started a tug-of-war between the state government and the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT).

State plans monorail on Trans Harbour Link

Saturday 1 November '08

In a bid to ensure better connectivity, with the proposed international airport at Navi Mumbai and the growth centers in Raigad district...

Govt comes to the rescue of city’s textile mill workers

Wednesday 1 October '08

In what may come as a welcome step for the workers of the now defunct textile mills of Mumbai...

Rental housing policy will seek to provide alternative to slums

Sunday 28 September '08

To streamline plans to increase the rental housing stock in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), the state government is framing a rental housing policy to deal with issues like method of construction...

Cong’s Mumbai chief takes up Marathi cause

Saturday 27 September '08

The Congress seems all set to steal the thunder from the Shiv Sena and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena...

Linking up, by road & rail

Friday 19 September '08

The State government is planning to provide an approach to the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL), which will link Sewri in mainland Mumbai to the Nhava across the creek...

Change regulation zone rules for Navi Mumbai airport: state

Saturday 13 September '08

In a bid to get the ambitious Greenfield international airport at Navi Mumbai on track, the state government has sought modifications in the coastal regulation zone (CRZ) rules to enable the airport’s construction.

RGPPL to provide extra 600 MW to Maharashtra

Saturday 13 September '08

In a relief to power deficit Maharashtra, the Ratnagiri Gas and Power Private Limited project is expected to pump...

Maha Govt takes lead, plans to levy green tax

Friday 22 August '08

Taking a leaf out of Forest Department programmes of some other countries, the Maharashtra Government has decided to levy taxes...

Munde’s ex-secy, Sena MP stay away from vote

Wednesday 23 July '08

In a major jolt to the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance in Maharashtra, two MPs from the saffron alliance —Tukaram Renge Patil and Harisingh Rathod remained absent from the UPA Government’s crucial trust vote...

MNS tells Bollywood to use ‘Mumbai’ not ‘Bombay’, stop ‘distortion’ of Marathi culture

Saturday 5 July '08

The Maharashtra Navanirman Sena's pro-Marathi campaign has turned its attention on Bollywood.

Cong factions fight it out at Sonia’s rally

Friday 20 June '08

Just when the ruling Congress in Maharashtra had thought that it had sewed up the cracks in the party...

State Govt undecided on action against Raj

Thursday 8 May '08

The Maharashtra government sent mixed signals on Wednesday over whether it had a case against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena...

Govt, Sena scratch heads as Raj headache returns

Monday 5 May '08

The fresh outburst by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray against north Indian migrants has brought back a political headache...

Funny, Raj has another uncle trick up his sleeve: a cartoon weekly

Saturday 22 March '08

Borrowing yet another trick from his estranged uncle and mentor Bal Thackeray, Maharashtra Navanirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray is planning to launch a Marathi cartoon weekly...

In Marathwada, Sonia talks of lifting waiver ceiling

Tuesday 18 March '08

Days after AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi demanded that land ceiling for farmers to get loan waiver scheme...

Why Nashik was epicentre of MNS campaign

Sunday 17 February '08

For all those who believe that the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena and its finger-wagging chief Raj Thackeray is the new voice of Marathi pride...

Tears in nation’s onion capital as frightened migrants flee

Saturday 16 February '08

The impact of Raj Thackeray’s campaign against north Indian migrants has begun to hit Maharashtra where it hurts.

‘To respect my brother, stop hate campaign’

Friday 15 February '08

Ambadas Haribhau Dharrao and Vinod Singh have little in common.

Harried commuters look forward to Lalu’s budget

Tuesday 15 January '08

Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav’s recent announcement in Mumbai about making provisions in the forthcoming Railway budget...

Now, power bills with photo of meter reading

Thursday 18 October '07

In a first in the country, MahaVitaran, Maharashtra’s power distribution utility, has started a photo meter billing system...

Oppn ‘weakening’, but Deshmukh has promises to keep

Wednesday 15 August '07

After months of speculation that the Congress might opt for a mid-term change of guard in Maharashtra, incumbent Vilasrao Deshmukh seems to have got the high command’s support, for now.

Fast-track courts to be set up for riots cases: Deshmukh

Tuesday 14 August '07

The Maharashtra Government will set up fast-track courts to try pending riot cases named in the Srikrishna Commission report.

Deshmukh govt does it again, ULCRA repeal on hold for another 5 months

Friday 3 August '07

Bringing to the fore the Deshmukh government’s reluctance to repeal the Urban Land Ceiling (Regulation) Act despite a Central direction,...

‘Tai may become President, what about us who have been cheated?’

Saturday 30 June '07

Her UPA handlers may try to distance their Presidential nominee Pratibha Patil from the fraud in the bank she founded and its liquidation saying