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Cow urine sprinkled to ‘cleanse’ Maharashtra temple after MLA Abdul visit
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: A group of Hindutva youth, along with temple management, on Monday, February 16, sprinkled cow urine inside the Nageshwar Mahadev temple after Shiv Sena MLA Abdul Sattar visited the temple…
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Pune: 9 injured after Congress-BJP workers clash over praise of Tipu Sultan
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers confronted Congress activists in Pune while protesting against Congress leader Harshwardhan Sapkal’s remarks “equating” Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj with Tipu Sultan, with the Opposition party alleging stone pelting…
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Hyderabad: Pro-Palestine activists protest against Trump’s Board of Peace
Hyderabad: Several pro-Palestine activists held a protest on Sunday, February 15, in Sundarayya Park in Baghlingampally, Hyderabad, denouncing United States President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” and Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s upcoming…
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BJP’s youth wing vandalises Bangladeshi-themed food stall at Pune college
Pune: Members of Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) youth wing on February 10 reportedly vandalised a Bangladeshi-themed food stall, setting it on fire at a private university in Maharashtra’s Pune district. The incident…
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Humanity the only religion: Maharashtra sarpanch declares village caste-free
Mumbai: Soundala village in Maharashtra‘s Ahilyanagar district convened together and declared itself “caste-free,” claiming to live as per the Preamble of the Constitution. At a special Gram Sabha on February 5, sarpanch…
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MBT files complaint over assault on Imam in Hyderabad
Hyderabad: The Majlis Bachao Tehreek (MBT) spokesperson, Amjed Ulla Khan, on Thursday, February 12, lodged a complaint with the railway police in Telangana after a man was attacked by miscreants on a…
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Man-eating bear captured after killing one on Telangana-Maharashtra border
Hyderabad: The Maharashtra Forest Department, on Thursday, February 12, tranquillised and captured a man-eating bear that attacked eight people residing along the Telangana-Maharashtra border. One victim died on the spot. According to…
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Bengali migrant worker killed in Pune, Mamata claims xenophobic attack
Kolkata: A Bengali migrant worker was killed in Pune, Maharashtra, in what West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee described as a “barbaric murder” for speaking in Bengali. Twenty-four-year-old Sukhen Dhiren Mahato was…
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Uddhav Thackeray’s Sena corporator Syed Iqbal elected Parbhani Mayor
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Shiv Sena (UBT) corporator Syed Iqbal was on Thursday, February 12, elected the new Mayor of Parbhani city in central Maharashtra with Congress support, defeating his BJP rival Tirumala Khillare…
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Maharashtra: DGCA launches investigation into Ajit Pawar plane crash
Pune: A four-member team of senior Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) officials on Wednesday, February 11, the site of the plane crash that killed Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar and four…
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Mob attacks passenger with beard, wearing skull cap at Hafeezpet station
Hyderabad: En route to Latur in Maharashtra, a passenger named Mohammed Imran was allegedly attacked by a group of men for his religious identity. A video of the Muslim man recounting the…
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Thane court dissolves Canada-based couple’s marriage via video conferencing
Thane: A Thane court has granted divorce by mutual consent to a Canada-based couple by conducting the proceedings via video conferencing for the overseas residents. The parties had voluntarily moved the petition…
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Maharashtra HC grants bail in Siddique murder case, cites lack of evidence
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Monday, February 9, granted bail to Akashdeep Karaj Singh, an accused in the murder of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader and former MLA Baba Siddique, making…
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Counting underway for Zilla Parishad, Panchayat Samiti polls in Maharashtra
Mumbai: Counting of votes for elections to 12 Zilla Parishads and 125 Panchayat Samitis in Maharashtra began on Monday morning. The elections, originally scheduled for February 5, were held on February 7…
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Women win both Mayor and Deputy Mayor posts in Malegaon
Nashik: Sheikh Nasreen Khalid, a woman candidate of the ISLAM party, was elected the mayor of Malegaon Municipal Corporation (MMC) in Maharashtra’s Nashik district on Saturday, February 7. Shaan-e-Hind Nihal Ahmed, also…