Maharashtra Politics
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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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Electoral bonds: What we know so far, what we will know soon – and what we may never know
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India’s latest GDP growth numbers are ‘mystifying’, says former chief economic advisor
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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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Video
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Caught on camera: Container ship hits and knocks down gantry cranes while docking at a Turkey port
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Watch: Temple in Kochi gets a mechanical elephant to perform prayer rituals
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Watch: Srinagar hosts Formula 4 car show on the roads around Dal Lake
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Watch: Scenes of damage after four coaches of a Sabarmati-Agra train were derailed in Ajmer
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Adorable animals: Playful elephant calf keeps stopping cleaner from raking leaves
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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 Reel
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‘Adrishyam’ trailer: Eijaz Khan and Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya play undercover agents
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Prithviraj Sukumaran on what makes ‘The Goat Life’ special: ‘A deeply meditative character study’
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Start the week with a film: A riveting game of mind control in ‘The Manchurian Candidate’
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‘Crew’ trailer: Tabu, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Kriti Sanon play stewardesses involved in smuggling
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‘I wanted to land this film correctly’: Why actor Kunal Kemmu chose to direct ‘Madgaon Express’
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Maharashtra: Days after quitting Congress, Baba Siddique joins Nationalist Congress Party
The former Maharashtra minister said he was being used by the Congress to attract Muslim voters.
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Former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique resigns from Congress
He is the second Congress leader from Mumbai to leave the party this year, after Milind Deora defected to the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena.
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Sharad Pawar’s faction named ‘NCP – Sharadchandra Pawar’ by Election Commission
The poll body did not mention if the group had been allocated an election symbol.
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The Field
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WPL 2024: From captain Meg Lanning to rising star Shreyanka Patil – The Field’s team of the season
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Wrestling: IOA dissolves ad-hoc committee; elected body to take charge of national federation
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Hockey: Harmanpreet Singh to lead 27-member Indian squad for Australia tour
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IWL 2023-24: Odisha FC inch closer to title with win over East Bengal
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WPL 2024: Royal Challengers Bangalore deliver lesson on making comebacks to win first title