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.
As many as 25,202 public charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs) have been installed in the country to date, the government said on Friday.
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.
Senior Congress leader and former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan on Thursday lashed out against Union Home Minister Amit Shah's recent remarks on Babasaheb Ambedkar.
The HSM which is a memorial of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) founder KB Hedgewar in Reshimbaug is situated here in the orange city.
A decision to reduce VAT on fuel will be taken in the state Cabinet, Shinde informed the Legislative House, while replying to a debate after he won the floor test.
Arvind Sawant demanded rebel MLAs' disqualification along with the new Assembly Speaker, Rahul Narvekar.
The floor test sealed his position as Maharashtra's 20th CM and is the big legislative victory for the Shinde government who was sworn-in on June 30 as CM along with Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, of the BJP.
Narwekar took charge as the speaker of Maharashtra assembly amid chants of "Jai Bhavani, Jai Shivaji", "Jai Sri Ram", "Bharat Mata ki Jai" and "Vande Mataram".
Deputy speaker Narhari Zirwal is presiding the same. Sena MLA Bhaskar Jadhav has objected to the voting.
