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Only 19% cases chargesheeted by ACB in 2025: Data

India, Feb. 17 -- The arrest of a clerk attached to the Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration inside Mantralaya has once again brought to the fore the corruption within the state administration, ev... Read More


Minority status nods doled out just hours after Ajit Pawar death

PUNE, Feb. 17 -- For over 100 days, the Minority Development Department in Maharashtra, part of former deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar's portfolios, did not grant minority status to any institution. ... Read More


75 institutions got minority tag during state mourning

PUNE, Feb. 17 -- Seventy-five institutions across Maharashtra were granted minority status within hours of deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar's death in a plane crash at Baramati on January 28. These fi... Read More


Process to register cross FIRs against BJP, Cong workers underway: Pune police

India, Feb. 16 -- Pune police have initiated the process of registering two cross FIRs against workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Indian National Congress following clashes outside Co... Read More


Violence erupts outside Congress Bhavan in Pune over Sapkal remark on Tipu Sultan

India, Feb. 16 -- Violence broke out outside the Congress Bhavan in Pune on Sunday after Bharatiya Janata Party workers protested against a controversial remark by Maharashtra Congress president Harsh... Read More


Ruckus outside Cong office in Pune over Sapkal remark

PUNE, Feb. 16 -- Violence broke out outside the Congress Bhavan in Pune on Sunday after BJP workers protested against a controversial remark by Maharashtra Congress president Harshvardhan Sapkal, trig... Read More


Maha rose exports grew 8% in 2025 despite significant production stress

India, Feb. 14 -- Maharashtra's rose exports recorded an 8% growth in 2025 despite one of the toughest production cycles in recent times. Between January and November 2025, rose exports touched Rs.50 ... Read More


Auto driver held for stealing cash from elderly passenger

India, Feb. 14 -- The Pune police on Friday arrested a 36-year-old autorickshaw driver for allegedly stealing cash from an elderly passenger's luggage under the pretext of helping him alight from the ... Read More


Police comb Budhwar Peth for illegal activities, immigrants

India, Feb. 12 -- Following orders issued by police commissioner Amitesh Kumar, the police late Tuesday night carried out an extensive combing operation in the Budhwar Peth red-light area of the city.... Read More


EVM machines found at dhaba in Solapur district

India, Feb. 9 -- Two reserved Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) control units were discovered near a roadside dhaba close to Mohol in Solapur district late on Saturday night, leading to a controversy du... Read More