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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 1 (ANI): Singer Arpit Bala has finally spoken out after a video from his Hyderabad concert went viral, showing him indulging in an on-stage altercation with a fan. The incident took place during his show on March 28, when a bottle was thrown towards the stage while he was performing. The video shows the singer reacting angrily, pointing at the person, throwing the bottle back, and asking security to remove the attendee. Also Read | Malayalam Director Ranjith ...Read More >
Ernakulam (Keralam) [India], April 1 (ANI): Prominent Malayalam director-producer Ranjith was arrested following an alleged sexual assault complaint filed against him by a young actress, as per police officials. The complaint was filed by an actress who is part of his latest directorial venture, with the alleged incident said to have taken place during the shooting of the movie. Also Read | Raja Shivaji Teaser Out: Riteish Deshmukh Directorial Chronicles Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's Journey t ...Read More >
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 31 (ANI): The makers of Riteish Deshmukh directorial and starrer Raja Shivaji has finally released the teaser of the film, offering a glimpse into an extraordinary legacy of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj through grandeur cinema. After its exclusive theatrical preview alongside Dhurandhar The Revenge, the teaser has now made its digital debut, amplifying the buzz around a film that promises to tell the story of one of India's greatest warrior kings. Also Read | ...Read More >
Reacting sharply to the BJP's protest and the ensuing violence, Sapkal accused the ruling party of twisting his words to divert attention from pressing national and state issues. "Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj is our deity, our pride, and our honour. His valour is unparalleled. We do not need the BJP to teach us about Shivaji Maharaj," Sapkal said. "The BJP has distorted my statement and is trying to incite riots in the state. This was evident today in Pune." The controversy stems from Sapkal's c ...Read More >
Mumbai, Feb 16 (PTI) The Shiv Sena (UBT) on Monday said Maharashtra Congress president Harshwardhan Sapkal, by equating Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj with Tipu Sultan, has unnecessarily provided the BJP an issue. In an editorial in Shiv Sena (UBT) mouthpiece Saamana, the party said the BJP, as always, has given a Hindu-Muslim colour to the Tipu Sultan controversy. Tipu Sultan is considered a hero in Pakistan, but the Bharatiya Janata Party does not find it condemnable to allow an India-Pakistan ...Read More >
Mumbai: The political row over Maharashtra Congress President Harshvardhan Sapkal's remarks comparing Tipu Sultan with Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj intensified on Monday, February 16, with the Congress leader alleging that his statement had been "distorted" and ruled out any apology. Speaking to ANI, Sapkal clarified that he had merely said there was "no problem" in placing portraits of the two historical figures together, and insisted that his comments were being misrepresented. Responding to C ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Union government on Tuesday introduced a bill that seeks to guarantee 125 wage days of rural work a year and replace the two-decade old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) in the Lok Sabha amid strong objections by the opposition to the removal of the father of the nation's name from the scheme. The House witnessed an uproar soon after Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan introduced the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Missi ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Congress on Tuesday protested both inside and outside Parliament against the "anti-people" G RAM G bill, with its MP Shashi Tharoor - who the party has accused of being soft on BJP - taking a dig at the governmentt in Lok Sabha by recalling an old Bollywood number - "dekho o deewano (tum) ye kaam na karo, Ram ka naam badnam na karo".Sounding the bugle of "sansad to sadak" fight against the rural employment gurantee bill, Congress's Rahul Gandhi alleged that PM Narendra Modi wants to t ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Congress on Tuesday protested both inside and outside Parliament against the "anti-people" G RAM G bill, with its MP Shashi Tharoor - who the party has accused of being soft on BJP - taking a dig at the governmentt in Lok Sabha by recalling an old Bollywood number - "dekho o deewano (tum) ye kaam na karo, Ram ka naam badnam na karo".Sounding the bugle of "sansad to sadak" fight against the rural employment gurantee bill, Congress's Rahul Gandhi alleged that PM Narendra Modi wants to t ...Read More >
New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor took a sharp dig at the BJP-led Centre on Tuesday while opposing the VB-G RAM G Bill in the Lok Sabha, recalling the 1971 hit Bollywood number -- "Dekho o deewano (tum) ye kaam na karo, Ram ka naam badnaam na karo".The MP from Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram asserted that the bill is not merely an administrative tweak but an "assault on the very spirit and philosophical foundation of this crucial programme". The Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika M ...Read More >
New Delhi: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor took a sharp dig at the BJP-led Centre on Tuesday while opposing the VB-G RAM G Bill in the Lok Sabha, recalling the 1971 hit Bollywood number -- "Dekho o deewano (tum) ye kaam na karo, Ram ka naam badnaam na karo". The MP from Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram asserted that the bill is not merely an administrative tweak but an "assault on the very spirit and philosophical foundation of this crucial programme". The Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 16: Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday criticised the Centre's move to rename the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), saying she did not understand the government's obsession with changing the name of the flagship rural employment scheme. Reacting to the proposal to rename MGNREGA as the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Grameen) (VB G RAM G), Priyanka Gandhi said the move involved unnecessary expenditure and risked d ...Read More >
Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday announced that Pune's Kondhwa area will soon be connected to the city's Metro network, improving connectivity with other parts of the city. He also assured that the long-pending Katraj-Kondhwa road project would be completed at the earliest. Fadnavis said approval has been granted for the Shivajinagar-Yewalewadi Metro corridor, while the Swargate-Katraj Metro line will be extended up to Kondhwa. The proposed corridor, for which a detailed project ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 15 (ANI): TMC MP Sagarika Ghose on Monday said that the Central Government's draft bill to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (MGNREGA) is an "insult" to Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindra Nath Tagore and West Bengal. This comes as the government is set to introduce the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevil Mission (Gramin) Bill, 2025, to replace the MGNREGA scheme. Sagarika Ghose said, "The Narendra Modi government is renaming the ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], December 15 (ANI): Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday called the Central Government's draft bill to replace the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme (MGNREGA) "unfortunate", saying that the concept of Gram Swaraj and the ideal of Ram Rajya were never competing forces. This comes as the Central government is set to introduce the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevil Mission (Gramin) Bill, 2025, to replace the MGNREGA scheme. Tharoor ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 14 (PTI) A Delhi court on Friday allowed the ED 14 days' custody of Gurugram builder and director of the Ocean Seven Buildtech Pvt Ltd (OSBPL), Swaraj Singh Yadav, in an alleged money-laundering case. Yadav was produced at the residence of Additional Sessions Judge Shefali Barnala Tandon around 2:25 am on Friday after being arrested in a money-laundering case linked to allotments made under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), the Union government's flagship scheme. The agency sai ...Read More >
Gujarat: Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's grandson Gautam Patel, on the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary, celebrated as Rashtriya Ekta Diwas, stated that the young generation will remember Sardar Patel through the Statue of Unity. "It was nice to see history. New generations will learn about him (Sardar Patel). Those who didn't see him will see and remember him through this (statue of unity). Very little has been written about what happened in India at that time... Gandhiji convinced everyone ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 28 (PTI) Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta launched a special clean-up drive at Vasudev Ghat on the Yamuna, hours after the conclusion of Chhath Puja on early Tuesday morning. Delhi Mayor Iqbal Singh said that the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) carried out extensive sanitation drives, deploying special teams at more than 1,100 ghats across the city in view of the Chhath Puja celebrations. Accompanied by Culture and Tourism Minister Kapil Mishra, the chief minister collected ...Read More >
Mumbai: A row has broken out within the ruling Mahayuti coalition in Maharashtra, as allies have slammed a BJP MP who held a "purification ceremony" at Shaniwar Wada, after a video showed Muslim women offering namaz at the Pune fortress that was the seat of the Peshwas. The Nationalist Congress Party and the Shiv Sena criticised Megha Kulkarni for her action and asked the BJP to restrain their Rajya Sabha MP from Pune. "We are asking the BJP to rein in her. We are also asking the police that s ...Read More >
BENGALURU: Rural Development and Panchayat Raj and Information and Biotechnology Minister Priyank Kharge here on Saturday said that permission has been given to issue e-asset certificates against 95,75,935 properties by amending the Karnataka Gram Swaraj and Panchayat Raj Act, 1993, as No Objection (NOC) licence, taxes, fees and rates within the Gram Panchayat have been fixed. According to the rules, technical changes will be made in the software within a fortnight and facilities will be provid ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Oct 2 (PTI) Punjab Governor and Chandigarh Administrator Gulab Chand Kataria on Thursday paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on their birth anniversary. A commemorative ceremony was held at Punjab Raj Bhavan on the occasion, an official statement said. After offering floral tributes to both the great leaders, Governor Kataria said, "Mahatma Gandhi was not just a saint, social reformer, politician, and visionary, but truly a world-transformi ...Read More >
Mumbai: The probe into the embezzlement of Rs 16.1 crore from the accounts of 127 Bank of India customers has found that the accused official, who has since been suspended and arrested by ED, lost most of the money to futures and options trading as well as online gambling, said officials.Sources said the accused, Hitesh Singla (32), had transferred Rs 1.5 crore to one of his colleagues, which he took back and invested in futures and options trading, but ED's attempt to trace the money trail has ...Read More >
Pune: Police on Wednesday invoked stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) provisions against gangster Suryakant alias Bandu Andekar and 12 others named in the revenge killing of Ayush Komkar (18) in Nana Peth on Sept 5. So far, eight out the 13 accused have been arrested. Ayush was shot dead by two assailants in the basement parking of his building in Nana Peth to avenge his uncle and former NCP corporator Vanraj Andekar's murder on Sept 1, 2024, in which Ayush's father, Gan ...Read More >
Bengaluru, September 12: The Congress party's INDIA bloc ally, Shiv Sena(UBT), has submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to rename the Metro Station in Bengaluru's Shivajinagar locality after Chhatrapati Shivaji, even as the Karnataka government is mulling over the Saint Basilica Church. Anand Dubey, the Shiv Sena(UBT) spokesperson, stated that Shivaji Maharaj is not confined to Maharashtra; he is the founding father of the Swaraj movement in the entire subcontinent and a great ...Read More >
New Delhi, Aug 14 (PTI) Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Thursday launched the Delhi government's "Helmet Wearing Consequences" campaign at Connaught Place, urging people to see road safety and civic responsibility as forms of patriotism. The initiative, aimed at reducing road accidents and promoting the habit of wearing helmets, seeks to highlight not only the importance of this safety measure but also the dangers of neglecting it, according to a statement. Speaking at the event, attended by Tra ...Read More >
Mumbai: Centuries-old Maratha military forts, which are the emblems of courage, strategic brilliance, and architectural ingenuity, have now earned global recognition. Out of hundreds of them, 12 of these iconic forts have been officially inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage list, spotlighting the Maratha Empire's formidable defence infrastructure and cultural legacy. This international honour was not easily won. The nomination journey, as intricate as the forts themselves, was initiated by Maha ...Read More >
Lucknow, Jul 17 (PTI) To curb illegal mining and transportation, the Uttar Pradesh government is deploying advanced technologies under the Integrated Mining Surveillance System (IMSS), a release said on Thursday. Mining activities are already being monitored through drones, geo-fencing, RFID tags, and AI-powered check gates. Now, the state is set to introduce 'Weigh-In-Motion' (WIM) technology to accurately track vehicle overloading. Also Read | 'Arvind Kejriwal Used Government Funds to Buy Mo ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], July 17 (ANI): National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) Director Professor Dinesh Prasad Saklani defended the content of the Class 8 Social Science textbook on Thursday, asserting that the historical facts included are grounded in well-established and authentic sources. 'All the historical facts and evidence mentioned in the Class 8 Social Science textbook published by NCERT are based on historical sources and texts like Baburnama, Banaras Gazetteer, Maas ...Read More >
India added another feather to its cultural cap as the Maratha Military Landscapes of India have been officially inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The announcement was made on July 12 during the 47th session of the World Heritage Committee in Paris, marking a major milestone in recognising the Maratha Empire's military ingenuity and fortification architecture.This inclusion brings India's tally of UNESCO-recognised heritage sites to 44, spanning cultural, historical, and natural impor ...Read More >
Mumbai: Political parties across the spectrum expressed their happyness, following the inclusion of 12 forts constructed by Maratha King Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in the Unesco World Heritage List. Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and deputy CM Eknath Shinde extended their gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for facilitating the achievement. The BJP planned to commemorate the occasion with Shiv Aarti events throughout Mumbai during the weekend, including at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Mahara ...Read More >
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