Faisal Malik

The Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA), a three-party coalition of Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress, enforced a Maharashtra bandh (statewide shutdown), which they termed a 100% success, on Monday, protesting the killing of farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh

The Maharashtra government failed to achieve the target of vaccinating 1.5 million Covid vaccination doses for the second day in a row of ‘Mission Kavach Kundal’, a special drive, which was launched from October 8

Malik alleged that a total of 11 individuals were detained from the raid conducted at the cruise ship but three were let off

The Maharashtra government has declared to launch “Mission Kavach Kundal”, a seven-day special campaign to boost its Covid-19 vaccination drive, starting from October 8

Income Tax department officials said simultaneous searches at sugar mills and real estate groups directly or indirectly linked to Ajit Pawar or his kins were being carried out.

NCP leader Nawab Malik said Aryan Khan, who was arrested by NCB on Sunday in an alleged drugs case, is being framed to create a perception that the entire Bollywood is in nexus with drug dealers.

Districts such as Ahmednagar continue to be a cause for concern for Maharashtra by reporting 400 to 500 cases a day

BJP said before blaming it for the incident, Pawar should have considered the fact that four BJP workers had also died in the violence

Maha recorded 2,401 fresh Covid infections pushing the count to 6,564,915 on Tuesday. The tally of active cases further reduced to 33,159 as 2,840 recoveries were reported in the last 24 hours.

Sharad Pawar’s comments came a day after Ashish Mishra, the son of India’s junior home minister, Ajay Mishra Teni, was booked for murder and criminal conspiracy for Lakhimpur Kheri violence

The Maharashtra government has prohibited garba, dandiya and other cultural celebrations for Navratri, to be celebrated between October 7 and October 15

Uddhav Thackeray said reopening schools in Maharashtra was not an easy decision and the government sought guidance from a task force

The Covid-19 situation in Maharashtra is under control as the average daily cases are on a decline for the past few months. In September, the daily average of new infections came down to 3,368 cases against 4,944 in August, 7,737 in July and 10,542 in June

Shirdi airport is located at Kakadi in Kopargaon, which is 14-km from Shirdi and is spread over a 350-hectare area

Pune, Ahmednagar and Satara are also among the nine districts in Maharashtra with higher weekly positivity rate than the state’s average of 2.11%

The recruitment exams to fill up vacant positions in the Class C category will now be conducted on October 24 and for the Class D category it will be held on October 31, Maharashtra health minister Rajesh Tope announced on Monday

Chhagan Bhujbal, a senior NCP minister in the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, said if the government doesn’t want to do anything then we will approach the Supreme Court for OBC reservation through their outfit

The Uddhav Thackeray-led Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government is facing ire after it postponed recruitment exams to fill up over 6,000 vacant posts in the state health department at the eleventh hou

As the Covid active cases went lowest in the last seven months, the Maharashtra government has decided to reopen all the religious places from October 7 after a gap of five months

The Maharashtra government on Friday promulgated an ordinance to ensure reservation to Other Backward Class (OBC) candidates of rural local body elections six months after the Supreme Court struck down the 27% reservation available stating that it breached the cap mandated by the apex court.

Maharashtra took a step closer to resolving the knotty quota issue that has plagued it since March after the Governor on Thursday approved an ordinance that permitted reservation for OBC candidates in local body polls even as the Centre refused to share data from the Socio Economic Caste Census (SECC) 2011, stating that the data was “unusable” for official purposes” because of “mistakes and inaccuracies”

The decision was taken in response to the query raised by the governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, who refused to clear the ordinance saying that the state government should inform the Apex court in advance, as the reservation of the OBC community was scrapped by it

Maharashtra governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) are engaged in a letter tussle over the Sakinaka rape and death case with chief minister Uddhav Thackeray telling Koshyari his move to join the opposition in demanding a special session of the state legislature to discuss the incident is “lethal for parliamentary democracy”.

A delegation of BJP women MLAs had requested the governor to direct the Maharashtra government to convene a two-day special session of the assembly to discuss violence against women in the backdrop of rape and murder of a woman at Saki Naka in Mumbai

Maharashtra recorded 2,583 fresh Covid infections on Monday, pushing the state’s count to 6,524,498. The number of active cases reduced to 41,672 as 3,836 recoveries were reported in the past 24 hours

The tally of Maharashtra’s active cases reduced to 41,672 as 3,836 recoveries were reported in the past 24 hours. It was for the first time in the past seven months when active cases dipped to below 42,000 since the second wave of Covid-19 hit the state

The Maharashtra government has opposed the proposal to bring petrol and diesel in the ambit of the goods and services tax (GST). The GST Council in its meeting on Friday discussed the proposal in order to bring down fuel prices.

Maharashtra govt’s suspension order was issued as Palande remained under arrest for more than 48 hours

Maharashtra state election commission (SEC) chief UPS Madan on Thursday said they are holding the local body bypolls following the directives of the Apex court and that too under open category. He added that any change in the category can be made only by the Apex court only.

Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar said his request to attend the GST Council meeting online is yet to be accepted. also indicated that Maharashtra will oppose any attempt to encroach on the state’s power while adding more provisions, such as petrol and diesel, to GST.