Wednesday’s cabinet meeting was marred by a verbal fight between the relief and rehabilitation minister Patangrao Kadam and home minister R.R. Patil.

The Maharashtra Congr-ess has organised an Olympic-style event on December 28, the party’s foundation day. A torch will be carried by Congress leaders and workers in a relay from Lajpat Hall, where the first session of the Congress was held in 1885, to Somaiya Ground (about 20 km away) where the main flame will be lit.

After the Winter Session of the state legislature got over, some factions in the Congress have once again become active to unsettle chief minister Prithviraj Chavan. A senior leader from the party told this newspaper that some chief ministerial aspirants from the party have fuelled the latest drive against the CM.

After the winter session of the state legislature got over, some factions in the Congress have once again become active to unsettle chief minister Prithviraj Chavan. A senior leader from the party told this newspaper that some chief ministerial aspirants from the party have fueled the latest drive against the CM.

Forget the loadshedding-free Maharashtra that was promised, the state is in the danger of facing its biggest power crisis due to shortage of water, increasing coal prices in international market and d

The Maharashtra government has ruled out the Opposition’s charge that migrants from other states were involved in a maximum number of criminal cases. Home minister R.R. Patil has said that there is no reason to take any action against the migrant population, as there is no record to suggest that influx from other states is the root cause of increase in crime in Maharashtra.

Maharashtra minister of state for school education Fauzia Khan has been dragged into a fresh controversy after photographs of her posing with dead animals were posted on the Internet. The Opposition has demanded her resignation. However, the minister she had not killed the animals, and that the photographs were taken in South Africa, where hunting is legal.

The Shiv Sena on Saturday began mobilising hundreds of its cadres “to protect” a temporary platform built at Shivaji Park where Bal Thackeray was cremated. As soon as the Sena got a whiff that the state home minister R.R. Patil had called for additional police force that might be needed in case the structure was removed from the ground, hundreds of Sena workers across Mumbai and Thane gathered at Shivaji Park on Saturday to prevent the authorities from taking any action against the structure.

The question at the top of everyone’s mind following the death of Balasaheb Thackeray is this: Will the Shiv Sena still be a force to reckon with after his time?

The question at the top of everyone’s mind following the death of Balasaheb Thackeray is this: Will the Shiv Sena still be a force to reckon with after his time?

Though the Shiv Sena remains a power