Kavitha Iyer
The Indian Express Group
Kavitha Iyer-
With NCP gunning for him, Patil could be next
Friday 24 August '12
After Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik''s transfer on Thursday, Home Minister R R Patil could also face the heat and an eventual ouster, Congress and Nationalist Congress Party sources said.Insurance over firefight in drought strategy
Wednesday 22 August '12
When Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan leads a delegation of his ministers to New Delhi to present Maharashtra''s case to the Empowered Group of Ministers on Drought, the thrust will be not just on get...'Muslim leaders defamed, police misled by rivals''
Thursday
16 August '12After the Mumbai Police served summons to 17 Muslim leaders who were on the stage at Azad Maidan on Saturday when violence broke out outside the venue, others in the community are now alleging that th...Latur, his base and biggest beneficiary
Wednesday
15 August '12Latur, home base of Vilasrao Deshmukh, may not be on tourist maps, but the late CM is credited with singlehandedly turning the sleepy town known only to oilseed merchants into a Tier-2 city that got a...Sarpanch to CM, Cong face in state
Wednesday
15 August '12Union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, who was also Maharashtra''s second longest serving chief minister, died in a Chennai hospital on Tuesday following multiple organ failure.Sarpanch to CM, Cong''s face in Maharashtra
Wednesday
15 August '12Union Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh passed away in a Chennai hospital following multiple organ failureLobbying resumes for MPCC, MRCC chief posts
Sunday
12 August '12lobbying has resumed for the Maharashtra Pradesh and Mumbai Region Congress Committee president posts, with three MPs from Mumbai reportedly seeking a meeting with party president Sonia Gandhi to disc...Cong-NCP meet today, all eyes on CM
Saturday
4 August '12When the reactivated coordination committee of the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party meets for the first timeClerk to policeman to home minister, humble, tenacious and always smiling
Thursday
2 August '12'Will happily go to wherever I am asked to go,' Shinde has always shown his gratitude to Cong leadership.This Week Maharashtra: Chavan does speed check, clocks himself at No. 1
Wednesday
1 August '12At a function where Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan finally broke his silence following a weeklong tussle between the Congress and the NCPRipples likely in state
Saturday
21 July '12Among the issues NCP chief Sharad Pawar reportedly raised with Congress president Sonia Gandhi at their meeting Friday was the "poor treatment" given to his party''s ministers by the Prithviraj Chavan...Divided Maharashtra front will feel ripples
Saturday
21 July '12Pawar''s nephew and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar also hinted at a deep rift, saying the pecking order in the UPA government alone could not be something Pawar would accord such significance to.Maharashtra Bill to set up real estate watchdog
Saturday
14 July '12The country''s first real estate watchdog will not only ensure that flat purchasers are compensated for delayed or abandoned building projectsWater crisis: Govt announces Rs 2,625-cr relief package
Thursday
12 July '12Starting at a serious water crisis in 2012-13 coming on the back of a drought-like situation persisting in some parts of the state, the state government has announced a Rs 2,625-crore package for wate...Ashok Chavan supporters walk out of CLP meet
Tuesday
10 July '12A Congress legislature party meeting on Monday ended with supporters of former chief minister Ashok Chavan walking out in a huff over what they said was the party''s poor support to the senior Congres...State seeks Rs 80 cr for repairs, relocation
Tuesday
10 July '12The bill for the June 21 fire that ravaged the top three floors of the Mantralaya building is finally in.Never expected this, says Chavan
Thursday
5 July '12Claiming that he was "surprised" at his name being included in the Adarsh chargesheet, former chief minister Ashok Chavan said the scamData can be recovered from only 5-15 hard disks: Experts
Tuesday
26 June '12Despite Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan''s hope that data from damaged hard disks can be recovered, officials revealed that experts expect successful data recovery only from five to 15 hard disks fro...'Fire audit of all govt buildings soon''
Tuesday
26 June '12Notwithstanding the officials sweating furiously in the absence of air conditioning, the elevators not working, some offices on upper floors of the annexe building smelling distinctly of soot and scra...Mumbai''s new slum rehabilitation policy may do away with developers'' proxy war
Monday
25 June '12But experts and activists warn that a piecemeal approach may delay the processGovt stumbles back to its feet
Saturday
23 June '12Even as the Maharashtra state government starts to rebuild its machinery following Thursday''s inferno that gutted three entire floors of the state''s central secretariat building leaving little more ...Unrest in Cong over leaders'' favourites
Wednesday
20 June '12Alongside the expected lobbying for nominations as polls to some seats being vacated in the Legislative Council near, the Congress is also facing a rising unrest against senior leaders nominating thei...Young, female and a march ahead
Tuesday
19 June '12With women''s youth wing, NCP upstages senior partner Cong, which remains male-dominated as everThis Week Maharashtra: On trial while a minister, a first in state
Wednesday
6 June '12On trial while a minister, a first in stateDrought of new ideas in old crisis
Wednesday
16 May '12Maharashtra spends more than ever on tackling a recurring problem, but the measures themselves haven''t changed
