At least eight passengers were killed and 11 injured when a private luxury bus rammed into an oil tanker and caught fire on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway early Wednesday, police said. The accident took place when the Ahmedabad-bound bus was near Kuregaon village in Thane district’s Manor town, said Investigating Officer Sudhakar Yenare. According to preliminary […]
The BJP has given up its Rajya Sabha seat in Maharashtra to accommodate Ramdas Athawale, the chief of its junior ally, the Republican Party of India-A, a party official said here Monday. Athawale will file his nomination Tuesday, the last date for filing the nominations, on a ticket given from the BJP’s quota, said RPI […]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to garner the maximum vote share in the Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh if the Lok Sabha elections are held now, according to the CNN-IBN election tracker conducted by CSDS. In Gujarat, BJP is projected to secure a 53 percent vote share, the Congress 32 percent and […]
Korea South-East Power Company Limited (KOSEP), a subsidiary of government-run Korea Electric Power Corporation, Friday said it will invest $600 million in a thermal power project in Maharashtra. The Korean firm will develop the power plant in partnership with Jinbhuvish Power Generations, a Jinbhuvish Group Company. The two firms signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)for […]
Three candidates from Maharashtra are among the top eight scorers in the Common Admission Test (CAT) 2013, a CAT official said Wednesday. “Among the eight 100 percentile scorers, three are from Maharashtra and even in the 100 to 90 percentile score, the state is leading,” CAT convenor Rohit Kapoor told IANS. “From the national capital, […]
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Friday issued notices to the ministry of rural development and chief secretaries of seven states over reports of non-payment of wages under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). The NHRC took suo moto cognisance of a media report that seven families across Maharashtra and Jharkhand killed […]
The Maharashtra cabinet Thursday partially accepted the report on the probe into the Adarsh Housing Society scam after rejecting it a fortnight ago. The opposition cried foul and threatened to move court. Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan told media persons that the government will initiate action against 25 members who were “ineligible” and also prosecute those […]
At least 27 passengers were killed and 18 injured when a state transport bus fell into a 400 feet deep ravine in the Malshej Ghats here Thursday morning, police said. The accident occurred around 10.30 a.m. when the Thane-Ahmednagar bus belonging to Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) went off the road and plunged into […]