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Ministers yet to get portfolios even as Maha Assembly session ends

The six-day winter session of the Maharashtra Assembly, which ended on Saturday ,has gone down in the annals of India's and Maharashtra's political history as unprecedented as not a single BJP-dominated Mahayuti minister's portfolio was announced even as the session ended.

Fadnavis faces Oppn ire after Maharashtrian family gets assaulted

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday announced that senior Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) official Akhikesh Shukla whose goons allegedly assaulted his Maharashtrian neighbours with iron rods in a suburban Kalyan-based housing society, has been suspended with immediate effect.

Not so sweet

Global food protectionism is likely to see a new chapter being written this year as India, which in recent years had emerged as a significant sugar exporter, braces for a drop in production. Already, the government has capped exports for the ongoing production cycle at 6.1 million tonnes, and global sugar prices have seen a surge in recent days.