Mangaluru : Bharatiya Janata Party national general secretary C.T. Ravi said the Congress appeared not to have learnt its lesson from the Emergency and was trying to curb the freedom of the press again. The Maharashtra government will meet the same fate the Congress met after the Emergency, following curbs on the media, he said, […]

Pune : A group of locals held a rally in Nanar area of Ratnagiri district on Monday, demanding that a shelved oil refinery project be revived. But the ruling Shiv Sena said the refinery could not be planned at the original site, though it could be relocated somewhere else in the Konkan region. “The project […]

Aurangabad : Congress president Sonia Gandhi had sought a written undertaking from the Shiv Sena that the new government in Maharashtra would work within the ambit of the Constitution, former chief minister Ashok Chavan has said. Sonia Gandhi had given clear guidelines that the state government must work within the frame of Constitution, the state […]

New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid tributes to Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray on his birth anniversary, saying he never hesitated from raising issues of public importance. Thackeray was born in 1926 in Pune. “Tributes to the great Balasaheb Thackeray on his jayanti. Courageous and indomitable, he never hesitated from raising […]

Mumbai : After giving the opposition meet called by Congress to discuss the issues of Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens a miss, the Shiv Sena on Monday declared that CAA in its current form would not be implemented in Maharashtra. Putting to rest rumours that were sparked by the Sena’s flip-flops on […]

New Dehli : BJP national general secretary Arun Singh on Friday said people would ensure the defeat of those opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act. Singh said the unrest was being spread by some segments on the CAA but there was overwhelming support for it among the masses. “People have realised the protests are the conspiracy […]

Mumbai : A day after the BJP skipped the Uddhav Thackeray-led ministry’s expansion ceremony, the Shiv Sena on Tuesday slammed its former ally for constantly hitting out at the fledgeling Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi alliance government “just for the sake of opposing” The Shiv Sena said now that the state has a “full government”, the opposition […]

Mumbai : Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday congratulated the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-led Opposition alliance for registering victory in the Assembly polls in the eastern state. Thackeray, who is also the Shiv Sena president, extended best wishes to the new government for all-round development of Jharkhand, a tribal-dominated state where the BJP has been […]

Nagpur : Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday night said the Shiv Sena will remain “Hindutva-vadi” (pro-Hindu) and that it has not “converted”, as far as the ideology is concerned. Addressing a gathering of Shiv Sena workers in Nagpur, Thackeray, who heads the party, said the BJP-led Central government seemingly had no idea on […]

Mumbai : Ahead of the Maharashtra Cabinet expansion, the Shiv Sena on Monday said old guards are not ready to give up ministerial berths for young leaders and they should come out of the illusion that the state government cannot do without them. Without naming anyone, an editorial in Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ also underscored the […]