Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after quitting the Congress. Chavan’s decision comes just a day after he resigned from the Congress and the Assembly.  It is speculated that Ashok Chavan may be offered a Rajya Sabha seat, which could explain his quick move to join the BJP. ...

Gujarat Police and DRI, a government agency, recently did a big operation. They raided a factory in Maharashtra. This factory was making illegal drugs. The police and DRI found drugs and materials worth more than ₹500 crore. This happened in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra. Two people got arrested. One of them is the main ...

Farmers in Maharashtra have protested the Indian government’s plan to levy a 40% export duty on onions, which has prompted both the ruling alliances in Delhi and Mumbai to take action to defuse the situation. In an effort to allay worries and give relief to the farmers who are protesting, the National Cooperative Agricultural Marketing ...

All seven of the Nationalist Congress Party’s (NCP) MLAs in Nagaland have written letters of support for the Ajit Pawar faction, another setback for NCP leader Sharad Pawar. All seven of the NCP’s MLAs in Nagaland’s northeastern state sent a letter on Thursday morning in support of Ajit Pawar, the state’s deputy chief minister, according ...

On Sunday, BJP workers carried out protests in Nagpur and Pune decrying the involvement of Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh in a corruption case. The allegation against the NCP leader was made by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh. Days after his transfer to Home Guards, Singh wrote a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister ...

On Friday, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut stated that Maharashtra’s Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government’s strong allegations regarding some ministers won’t affect our party’s stability. A lady has alleged rape charges on NCP’s Social Justice Minister Dhananjay Munde. Munde had denied the accusations saying that he was in a relationship with the lady since 2003. ...

On Thursday, because of the rising Covid cases and air contamination, the Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal ordered a total ban on the buying, selling, and bursting of firecrackers, including the green crackers during this Diwali. The restriction will be in place from 7 to 30 November, ANI reported.  Kejriwal requested residents of Delhi to celebrate Diwali by ...

The veteran BJP leader from Maharashtra had quit the party last week complaining of harassment. Eknath Khadse, seven-time MLA and architect of BJP’s rise to power in the state, quit the party last week and joined the Nationalist Congress Party. This comes after several months of outbursts against the party and accusations of being targeted ...

On Wednesday, PM Narendra Modi in a video conference urged the Chief Ministers of seven covid affected states’ to do a critical evaluation of the 1-2-day lockdowns that few other states have been implementing and the disadvantageous of this on economic activity. He stressed that the states should strengthen their contact tracing strategies to contain ...

With the last phase (Unlock 4) of post-pandemic reopening of the economy coming to an end on September 30, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with the chief ministers of seven states that are worst affected by COVID-19. On Wednesday, chief ministers of Delhi, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Punjab ...