Satara (Maharashtra), Feb 11 (IANS) A Social Security Officer of the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) in Maharashtra’s Satara district has been sentenced to one year of imprisonment along with a fine in a bribery case, officials said on Wednesday.The Special Judge for Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act cases, Satara, on Tuesday convicted Swapnil Jadhav, who was posted as Social Security Officer (SSO) at ESIC, Satara, at the time of the offence.According to the Central Bureau of I…
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Mumbai, Feb 9 (IANS) Amid the ongoing debate over the merger of two NCP factions, the alliance between Ajit Pawar-led NCP and the NCP led by Sharad Pawar has paid political dividends in rural Maharashtra. The decision to fight the Zilla Parishad polls jointly in Pune district and to coordinate seat sharing in at least 10 other districts appears to have helped both factions revive their performance in the rural belt, particularly in western Maharashtra, a region considered the NCP’s traditi…
Mumbai, Feb 2 (IANS) The political legacy of the late Yashwantrao Chavan, which was pivotal in the life of former Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, is now being upheld by his wife, Sunetra Pawar, the newly-appointed Dy CM of Maharashtra. On Monday, she visited Satara and Phaltan, where she paid her respects at the Pritisangam in Karad, the memorial (Samadhi) of the state’s first Chief Minister.Throughout his political career, Yashwantrao Chavan’s memorial and his ideologies held immense sign…
Mumbai, Jan 29 (IANS) Due to the three-day state mourning declared following the untimely death of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, the schedule for the remaining phases of the general elections for 12 Zilla Parishads and 125 Panchayat Samitis has been revised. Voting, originally scheduled for February 5, will now take place on February 7. Consequently, the counting of votes has been moved from February 7 to February 9, said the State Election Commission (SEC) in a statement.The SEC…
Mumbai, Jan 13 (IANS) The Maharashtra State Election Commission (SEC), on Tuesday, announced the elections to the 12 zilla parishads and 125 panchayat samitis on February 5. The counting of votes will take place on February 7.The 12 zilla parishads, which are well within the 50 per cent quota limit, include Pune, Satara, Sangli, Solapur, and Kolhapur, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Parbhani, Dharashiv, and Latur. The 125 panchayat samitis, which will go for the polls, …
Satara, Jan 2 (IANS) The 99th Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan (All India Marathi Literary Meet) was officially inaugurated on Friday in Maharashtra’s Satara, with the Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis present at the event.Addressing the gathering of writers and intellectuals, the Chief Minister emphasised the need to maintain a clear boundary between the world of politics and the sanctity of literature.Responding to the long-standing debate over political presence on literary platform…
Mumbai, Dec 29 (IANS) The Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) on Monday claimed that Maharashtra is witnessing an era of open “Gundaraj” (gangster rule), alleging that criminals have infiltrated the political parties led by Devendra Fadnavis, Eknath Shinde, and Ajit Pawar. The state, Uddhav Sena alleged, is increasingly being reduced to a “nourisher of criminals,” with rival gangs allegedly embedded within ruling parties and clashing across Mumbai and other parts of Maharashtra.In a s…