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MUMBAI MENACE

Wednesday 22 October '08

Mumbai is no stranger to the violence that has been unleashed in the metropolis the last few days...
Seat gone, Athawale now plans to revive former militant outfit

Monday 20 October '08

With his constituency lost to delimitation, a jittery Lok Sabha MP and Dalit leader Ramdas Athawale—who controls...
Bhujbal plays a political gimmick

Tuesday 7 October '08

NCP leader and PWD Minister Chhagan Bhujbal’s unexpected withdrawal of a defamation case filed against his former mentor...
Minister wants 4 pc Muslim quota in Maharashtra

Wednesday 24 September '08

In a letter written to Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh last week, Maharashtra Minister for Dairy Development Haji Anees Abdul Majid Ahmed...
I won’t be a Deshmukh puppet: new MPCC chief

Saturday 30 August '08

In his first interview since taking over as Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee President, Manikrao Thakre debunked the perception in political circles...
The reality show and a reality check

Thursday 21 August '08

Maharashtra takes pride in being one of the most industrialised and socially vibrant states that has a tradition of saints and reformers.
Rane meets NCP’s Patel, may float own party

Wednesday 20 August '08

Tired of waiting for the Congress high command to take a decision on his resignation from the Vilasrao Deshmukh...
1992-93 riots: Maha Govt may appoint panel to examine role of Sena leaders

Tuesday 5 August '08

With the conviction of only one politician - Shiv Sena leader Madhukar Sarpotdar - for perpetrating communal riots...
Offered MP ticket last time, he hesitated. He had no money

Friday 25 July '08

When the Shiv Sena decided to nominate Tukaram Renge-Patil for the last Lok Sabha elections from Parbhani...
In trust vote heat, cracks appear in NCP-BJP ‘Pune Pattern’

Saturday 19 July '08

At a time when affiliations are getting a re-look, the aftershocks are being felt in Pune where a unique arrangement...
Sarpotdar provides teeth to SENA TIGER'S ROAR

Thursday 10 July '08

The first senior Shiv Sena leader to be convicted for the 1992-93 communal riots in Mumbai...
Maharashtra’s Dalit leaders in a mood to give up alliances with ‘secular’ parties

Saturday 5 July '08

In what might turn out to be a watershed in Dalit politics in Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar’s home state, Maharashtra...
Sena switches over to culinary politics

Monday 23 June '08

Ahead of the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls, the Shiv Sena has devised a novel concept to strike a chord with the Marathi manoos.
Maha mess in Congress

Saturday 21 June '08

The public show of dissent against Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh and ugly protests at a party conclave in Mumbai...
The taming of Narayan Rane

Monday 2 June '08

When the former chief minister of Maharashtra, Narayan Rane, crossed over to the Congress from the Shiv Sena in 2005...
Munde leaves to stay ahead

Tuesday 22 April '08

It is perhaps unfair to attribute much of Gopinath Pandurang Munde’s success as a senior BJP leader in Maharashtra...
Shaky ground under Deshmukh’s feet

Wednesday 9 April '08

Like anyone else who has played a long innings, Vilasrao Deshmukh has a string of statistics to show...
Dalit parties root for Maya model of alliance

Monday 7 April '08

In what might lead to an unprecedented shift in Dalit politics in Maharashtra, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar’s homestate...
Maharashtra set for India’s first housing regulator

Friday 4 April '08

Maharashtra became the first state in the country today to approve a regulator for the housing sector which would have sweeping powers...
Raj likely to revive his anti-migrants tirade with vigour

Saturday 29 March '08

Though Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray has taken a break after the violent campaign against north Indian migrants in Mumbai...
...likely to skip Vidarbha during Maharashtra visit

Wednesday 12 March '08

Although the Congress has been staking claim on the loan waiver package to the farm sector, the majority of farmers in the “suicide belt...
Tribal girls trained as air hostesses: Govt plan crashlands

Saturday 9 February '08

The plan was to help tribal girls become air hostesses. But now, almost a year after the Maharashtra government...
2 yrs ago, he sang inclusive tune, what’s different now

Tuesday 5 February '08

Is the violence against north Indians in Mumbai a case of overambitious Maharashtra Navnirman Sena...
‘I thought of suicide but that is against my film’s message’

Thursday 17 January '08

Moved by the plight of Vidarbha’s debt-ridden farmers, Arun Kachare made a film on a farmer’s family which...
Politics over monk’s death in Mumbai

Wednesday 16 January '08

A week after the mysterious death of monk Bhante Sanghraj Mahathero...
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