Mumbai, April 16 (IANS) The Maharashtra government, in a minor reshuffle, transferred four bureaucrats on Thursday. G. Sreekanth (IAS: RR: 2009), Mission Director, Jal Jeevan Mission, Navi Mumbai, has been posted as Divisional Commissioner, Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar Division, Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar.Jitendra Papalkar (IAS: SCS: 2010), Divisional Commissioner, Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar Division, has been posted as Joint Commissioner, GST, Mumbai.Gangatharan D (IAS: RR: 2013) has bee…
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Mumbai, April 15 (IANS) The Maharashtra government, in a minor administrative reshuffle, on Monday transferred five IAS officers.Dr B.N. Patil (IAS: Non-SCS: 2014), Director, Tourism, Mumbai, has been posted as Project Director, RUSA, Higher and Technical Education Department, Mumbai.Mangesh Joshi (IAS: SCS: 2015), Deputy Director General, YASHADA, Pune, has been posted as Director, Tourism, Mumbai.Kuladeep Jangam (IAS: RR: 2020), Chief Executive Officer, Zilla Parishad, Solapur, has been posted…
Mumbai, March 26 (IANS) The Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) on Thursday said that Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has sparked a heated debate following his recent remarks in the Legislative Council, where he stated that directives from the Speaker or Chairperson are not “final” or “divine words (Brahmavakya)”.It labelled this stance as a matter of “political convenience”, pointing to contradictions in the government’s previous positions.The Thackeray camp in the party’s mouthpiece, ‘…
Mumbai, March 25 (IANS) Both houses of the Maharashtra Legislature adjourned sine die on Wednesday after a month-long budget session. Legislative Council Chairman Ram Shinde and Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar announced in their respective houses that the monsoon session of the state legislature will start from June 22 in Mumbai.During the budget session, 27 key bills were passed across both houses. Out of a total of 29 bills tabled during the session, one was withdrawn, and one remains pe…
Mumbai, March 4 (IANS) The internal process to reunite the two factions of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has come to a complete standstill following the untimely death of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar. Senior NCP (SP) leader Jayant Patil clarified that while a merger was nearing finalisation, the sudden “cruel twist of fate” has made it impossible to proceed with the discussions as originally planned. Jayant Patil told reporters that secret high-level meetings between the t…
Mumbai, Feb 24 (IANS) The second day of the Maharashtra State Legislature’s budget session witnessed a heated exchange over the mounting burden of non-academic duties imposed on school teachers. NCP legislator Vikram Kale in the state Legislative Council on Tuesday raised a poignant “Calling Attention” motion, highlighting the plight of educators who are increasingly being diverted from their primary role of teaching.The debate took a sharp turn when Kale alleged that teachers were recently assi…
New Delhi, Feb 17 (IANS) The Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) on Tuesday said that it is conducting a detailed and comprehensive probe into the Learjet 45 aircraft crash at Baramati on January 28, in full compliance with the Aircraft (Investigation of Accidents and Incidents) Rules, 2017 and international standards laid down under ICAO Annex 13.The accident had claimed six lives, including Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, after the aircraft crashed while landing near Ba…
Mumbai, Feb 14 (IANS) The Maharashtra unit president of Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Shashikant Shinde, on Saturday announced that the merger is a closed chapter now for the party as Ajit Pawar, who was negotiating it, is no more. “The decision regarding the merger of both parties was made while Ajit Dada was alive. Many people in his party are speaking about this. However, we have now closed this chapter. A narrative is being created that we are the ones pushing for this…
Mumbai, Feb 12 (IANS) Following the municipal elections, the BJP has achieved a decisive victory in the Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections. With this win, the party appears to have launched a massive exercise to achieve an ambitious goal of ‘Shat Pratishat BJP’ (100 per cent BJP) for the 2029 Assembly elections. This strategy seems to have been formulated in light of the appeal made by Union Home Minister Amit Shah.Although the next major election in the state is nearly three and …
Mumbai, Feb 9 (IANS) Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Monday said the Mahayuti alliance has created a record by achieving a “hat-trick” of victories in the zilla parishad and panchayat samiti elections.After initial successes in municipal councils and nagar panchayats, followed by municipal corporations, and now in the zilla parishad and panchayat samiti polls, Shinde said the Mahayuti has consolidated its position across all three tiers of local self-government.Reacting to…