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Bhima-Koregaon probe: Activists Varavara Rao, Sudha Bharadwaj, Vernon Gonsalves, among others, detained
Fp Staff • 7 years agoThe Pune Police on Tuesday conducted searches at the residences of prominent activists across the country for their suspected Maoist links.
Maharashta govt moots two-tier model to check implementation of schemes aimed at reducing malnutrition
• 7 years agoHe said the Maharashtra government has taken cue from a similar model of tribal development in Gujarat.
Maharashta aims to boost farmers income, considers giving livestock, ponds for fish farming on demand
• 7 years agoThe scheme to provide livestock on demand to farmers would be implemented at the village level, an official said. Similarly, ponds for fish farming on demand ('Magel Tyala Matysa Tale') scheme will be taken up under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGA) in Maharashtra
Bhandara district bypolls: Voters from 12 villages to boycott by-election after failing to get response over irrigation facilities
• 7 years agoResidents of nearly 12 villages in the district have decided to boycott the upcoming Bhandara-Gondia Lok Sabha bypoll, after failing to get a response over their demand for proper irrigation facilities.
Fire at Mumbai's Kamala Mills compound: Devendra Fadnavis expresses grief, directs BMC to conduct inquiry
• 7 years agoMaharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis expressed his grief over the fire in a central Mumbai building, in which 14 people were killed, in the wee hours on Friday.
Maharashta govt considering 'freedom fighter' status for those jailed during Emergency: Devendra Fadnavis
• 7 years agoDevendra Fadnavis said that the government was considering giving the status of 'freedom fighter' to those jailed during the Emergency in 1975.
Dawood Ibrahim's brother Iqbal Kaskar arrest brings focus to politician-underworld nexus as NCP neta comes under scanner
Fp Staff • 8 years agoThe arrest of Iqbal Kaskar on Tuesday seems to have uncovered an alleged underworld-politician nexus in the Thane region of Maharashtra.
Madhya Pradesh farmers' strike: RSS farmers’ union forewarned Centre in April about large-scale agitation
Debobrat Ghose123 • 8 years agoBharatiya Kisan Sangh had cautioned and foretold the Centre of a large-scale farmers' agitation that could spread across the country.
Maharashtra day 2017: Far from Maharashtra, Marathi flourishes Down Under
Ians • 8 years agoA group of migrant Maharashtrians, separated by some 10,000 km of oceans and nations, have joined hands to keep Marathi language, culture and traditions alive in far away Australia.
Quota politics: Religious leaders of all hues are creating fear among Muslims to further their own causes
Tufail Ahmad • 9 years agoIt suits some Hindu leaders in India to abuse the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to get the support of Muslims to advance their quota politics