Maharashtra Politics
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Maharashtra: We will grant funds if you choose ruling alliance in polls, Ajit Pawar tells voters
We expect you to vote for our candidate so that I will feel good about giving funds, otherwise my hand will be restricted, he said.
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SC allows Sharad Pawar faction to use name ‘NCP – Sharadchandra Pawar’ for Lok Sabha elections
The Ajit Pawar-led faction was ordered to issue a public notice clarifying that the use of the party’s ‘clock’ symbol is being adjudicated by the court.
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Maharashtra: Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi offers support to Congress in seven Lok Sabha seats
Prakash Ambedkar criticised Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena faction and Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party group for sidelining his party in their alliance.
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Trending
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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‘They built the Ram temple. That is bigger than providing jobs.’
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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How Karnataka’s once-powerful Janata Dal Secular was reduced to a Hindutva offshoot
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Naga group lifts shutdown in 6 districts after responding to Election Commission notice
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Supreme Court asks Ajit Pawar-led NCP faction to not use Sharad Pawar’s name, image on posters
The court also asked the Nationalist Congress Party faction led by the Maharashtra deputy chief minister to use a symbol other than the ‘clock’ for the polls.
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Lok Sabha elections: Ajit Pawar’s wife Sunetra Pawar to contest from Baramati, says NCP leader
The constituency is held by Ajit Pawar’s cousin Supriya Sule, who is a leader of the rival Nationalist Congress Party faction led by Sharad Pawar.
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Communal slurs, retaliation: BJP has perfected tactics Shiv Sena’s Manohar Joshi was criticised for
In a strange twist, the Shiv Sena today has distanced itself from the hardcore Hindutva politics its sainiks, including its first chief minister, proudly owned.
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Video
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Eco India, Episode 258: Is repurposing waste saving the environment from further degradation?
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Watch: This fan-made trailer imagines Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie starring in a James Bond film
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Watch: Mount Ruang erupts in Indonesia, spewing columns of ash and lava
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Election Commission allots ‘man blowing turha’ symbol to Sharad Pawar’s NCP faction
The party said that the ‘turha’, a symbol linked to Maratha king Shivaji, would ‘shake Delhi’s throne’.
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Sharad Pawar seeks urgent hearing in SC against EC verdict on NCP name, party symbol
This comes a day after the Maharashtra Assembly speaker held that the faction headed by Ajit Pawar constituted the real Nationalist Congress Party.
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Maharashtra Speaker says Ajit Pawar faction is real NCP, rejects all disqualification petitions
Rahul Narwekar held that going against the wishes of Sharad Pawar was dissent expressed within the party and did not amount to leaving it.
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The Reel
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Watch: Five directors shoot on iPhones for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival initiative
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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‘Civil War’ review: An urgent film about a barely-distant future
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Day after quitting Congress, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan joins BJP
He has denied that the Centre’s white paper on alleged economic mismanagement before 2014 – which mentioned the Adarsh scam – prompted his exit from the party.
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Sharad Pawar moves Supreme Court against EC order recognising Ajit Pawar’s faction as real NCP
The poll body had recognised the Ajit Pawar-led group as the real Nationalist Congress Party based on ‘legislative majority’.
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Former Maharashtra CM Ashok Chavan quits Congress, resigns as MLA
He is the third prominent leader to have left the party in the past month after Milind Deora and Baba Siddique.
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The Field
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Vinesh, Anshu, Reetika secure Paris 2024 quotas for India
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Watch, highlights ISL 2024: Odisha FC through to semi-final after beating Kerala Blasters in playoff
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IPL 2024: KL Rahul, Quinton de Kock power Lucknow to comfortable win over Chennai
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Aman loses in semi-final as Indian men fail to win Paris quotas
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Shooting, Indian Olympic trials: Esha Singh, Bhavesh Shekhawat lead in respective 25m pistol events