Politics

Mumbai, Dec 4 (PTI) No one has the fundamental right to harass public officers with repeated complaints on the same issue, the Bombay High Court has said refusing to quash the BMC’s circular declaring four individuals as ‘persona non-grata’. A division bench of Justices A S Gadkari and Kamal Khata on Tuesday said while it was not in any way …

A three-day special session of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly will be held in Mumbai from December 7 to enable newly-elected MLAs to take oath and elect a speaker, legislature sources told news agency PTI on Wednesday. The winter session of the state legislature will be held in Nagpur from December 16 to 21. The sources told PTI that newly-elected MLAs …

During today’s meeting, Fadnavis’ name was proposed by former state minister Sudhir Mungantiwar and received unanimous support from the newly-elected MLAs. Ending the long-standing suspense over the next Maharashtra CM, in the core committee meeting of BJP Wednesday, former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis was elected as leader at the Vidhan Bhavan. Fadnavis, along with other Mahayuti leaders, is expected to …

Maharashtra Navirman Sena president Raj Thackeray celebrated his 55th birthday by cutting a cake with a picture of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb imprinted on it. Raj Thackeray cut the cake amid cheers and clapping by his supporters. MNS workers from Raigad arrived in Mumbai with a cake with a picture of Mughal emperor Aurangzeb and a loudspeaker.

The crime branch on Sunday arrested a 34-year-old IT engineer from Pune for allegedly posting a threat against NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Facebook. The accused, who was identified as Sagar Barve, was produced in the court on Sunday and remanded in police custody till June 13.Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule had filed a complaint with the Mumbai police chief after …