Rhetoric and People Overflow at Bal Thackeray’s Thane Speech
Crowds in Thane who had turned up to attend Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray’s campaign for his candidates for the forthcoming elections did not disappoint the leader by their presence in numbers. Thackeray did not disappoint them either. At the Shiv Sena chief’s Central Maidan address on February 11, for the upcoming civic polls, about [...]
Political slugfest over potholed roads
Opposition parties in Thane have seized Uddhav Thackeray’s remarks on the roads, to lambast the ruling party of the Thane Municipal Corporation. On the event of Thackeray’s road show on Monday, he had said, “Some roads are very good. But we ignore them”. This is against the backdrop of Maharshtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan’s allegations [...]
ख़ुफ़िया रिपोर्ट की बातें एक मुख्यमंत्री कैसे सार्वजनिक कर सकता है?: किरीट सोमैया
भाजपा के राष्ट्रीय सचिव डॉ. किरीट सोमैया ने आज एक प्रेस वार्ता में कहा कि गुप्तचर विभाग की किसी रिपोर्ट में लिखी गयी बातें एक मुख्यमंत्री कैसे सार्वजनिक तौर पर कह सकता है, यह आचार संहिता का उल्लंघन है| डॉ. सोमैया आज भाजपा के नरीमन पॉइंट स्थित पार्टी कार्यालय में एक प्रेस वार्ता को संबोधित [...]
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Rhetoric and People Overflow at Bal Thackeray’s Thane Speech
Crowds in Thane who had turned up to attend Shiv Sena leader Bal Thackeray’s campaign for his candidates for the forthcoming elections did not disappoint the leader by their presence in numbers. Thackeray did not disappoint them either. At the Shiv Sena chief’s Central Maidan address on February 11, for the upcoming civic polls, about [...]
Political slugfest over potholed roads
Opposition parties in Thane have seized Uddhav Thackeray’s remarks on the roads, to lambast the ruling party of the Thane Municipal Corporation. On the event of Thackeray’s road show on Monday, he had said, “Some roads are very good. But we ignore them”. This is against the backdrop of Maharshtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan’s allegations [...]
ख़ुफ़िया रिपोर्ट की बातें एक मुख्यमंत्री कैसे सार्वजनिक कर सकता है?: किरीट सोमैया
भाजपा के राष्ट्रीय सचिव डॉ. किरीट सोमैया ने आज एक प्रेस वार्ता में कहा कि गुप्तचर विभाग की किसी रिपोर्ट में लिखी गयी बातें एक मुख्यमंत्री कैसे सार्वजनिक तौर पर कह सकता है, यह आचार संहिता का उल्लंघन है| डॉ. सोमैया आज भाजपा के नरीमन पॉइंट स्थित पार्टी कार्यालय में एक प्रेस वार्ता को संबोधित [...]
I promise to protect open spaces in Mumbai: CM
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan addressed students from about 15 colleges of Mumbai on Monday. He urged the youth to vote in the upcoming Bombay Municipal Corporation (BMC) Elections scheduled on the 16th of this month, in his speech at Kishinchand Chellaram College, Churchgate. While answering a question on lack of open spaces in Mumbai [...]
Sena-BJP and Allies release Manifesto
Mumbai, 9 February: The coalition of Shiv Sena, BJP and RPI (Mahayuti) released their BMC election manifesto last week, at the Shiv Sena Bhawan in Dadar. Uddhav Thackeray, President of Shiv Sena; Sudhir Mungantiwar, State President of the BJP; Ramdas Athawale, President of RPI ; Namdev Dhasal of the Dalit Panthers were present at the [...]
6-year-old in highway accident, no more
Six-year-old Arundhati Anand, who had sustained grievous injuries to her head in the car accident that took place on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, expired two days after the accident. Arundhati was travelling to Pune when a car, in which senior journalist and Shiv Sena MP Bharat Raut was travelling, crashed into them in the Pune Mumbai [...]
Mayor Shraddha Jadhav’s Ward “Worse than Hell”
The BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) ward no. 169 may be under Mayor Shraddha Jadhav but, according to its residents, the condition of the ward is “worse than hell”. The open-category ward comprises of C.G.S. Colony Sector VII, Antop Hill. The residents say that the area near the mayor’s residence is clean and blossoming, but the [...]
MSRTC Prepares For Safer Travel
MSRTC is keen on conducting psychoanalysis on over 37, 000 state transport drivers and bring in changes, to ensure safer travel for commuters. The decision was taken after an incident in Pune, in which a reportedly mentally unsound person drove the bus out of a depot injured people on his way and killed eight. The [...]
