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Sanjay Nirupam slams MNS activists for anti-north Indian actions

by ANI January 27, 2010 India News

Mumbai, Jan 27 (ANI): Congress MP Sanjay Nirupam has slammed Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) activists for distributing Marathi language alphabet books to north Indian taxi and auto rickshaw drivers as part of an exercise to teach them Marathi
Nirupam said, “This is all wrong. There is nothing wrong in learning Marathi but no person can threaten [...]

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Maharashtra Home Minister says Gafoor set to face action

by Sunita Bothra December 15, 2009 Breaking News

Mumbai: Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil has said that former Mumbai police commissioner Hasan Gafoor is set to face action for his statement about four senior police officers.

Gafoor. Patil came down heavily on the attitude of police officers making statements before the media.
Talking to the reporters in Mumbai, the minister said the responsibility would [...]

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Maharashtra steps up commando training

by ANI June 6, 2009 India News

The second phase of training for commandoes, similar to that imparted to the elite National Security Guards, commenced here.
Force 1, the new battalion for combating militancy, will be stationed at strategic locations like Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur after it becomes operational in October this year.
“Once they get trained, the idea is to place them in [...]

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23 killed in fire cracker factory blasts in Maharashtra

by Agencies April 10, 2009 India News

Twenty-three persons were killed and 48 injured as fire broke out at a fire cracker factory at Parola, around 60 km from Jalgaon in Maharashtra on Friday afternoon.
According to police, the explosion occurred in Savitri Fireworks factory, about three kms away from Parola town, at around 1700 hrs, leading to collapse of parts of the [...]

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Rane fires salvo at Bihar leaders

by Santosh Mishra November 2, 2008 India News

Pune: Maharashtra’s Revenue Minister Narayan Rane has fired anoter salvo at the Bihari leaders Lalu Prasad Yadav, Ram Vilas Paswan and Nitish Kumar over imposing President’s rule in Maharashtra.
Talking to reporters here, Rane said Maharashtra has a big heart and that is why people from all states have settled and thrived here.
“We even have north [...]

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21 die as bus falls into valley in Maharashtra

by Agencies November 1, 2008 India News

Twenty-one people died and 30 others injured as a Maharashtra State Transport bus fell into the valley in Mhasala taluka of Raigad district on Saturday morning.
The Thane-Diveagar bus went off the road on Ghonse ghat, apparently as the driver lost control of the vehicle, and fell into the valley near Karegaon village in Mhasala taluka [...]

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15 dead, 38 injured as bus falls into gorge in Maharashtra

by Indo-Asian News Service November 1, 2008 India News

At least 15 passengers were killed and 38 injured Saturday when a bus plunged into a gorge in Maharashtra’s Raigad district, a police official said.
The incident occurred around 11 a.m. when the government-run bus was negotiating a steep curve on the Ghonse ghat region of the Western Ghats in Mhasla sub-district, about 150 km from [...]

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PM raps Maharashtra on violence against non-Maharashtrians

by Indo-Asian News Service October 31, 2008 India News

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has rapped the Maharashtra government on the violence in Mumbai against non-Maharashtrians and conveyed the “sense of the cabinet” on the need to control this.
“The prime minister informed the cabinet that he had written a strongly-worded letter to the Maharashtra chief minister and that he would convey the sense of the [...]

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Manmohan wants tough action against Raj, writes to Deshmukh

by Santosh Mishra October 30, 2008 India News

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has asked Deshmukh Government of Maharashtra to take tough action agains MNS leader Raj Thackeray, in the wake his anti North Indian stand.
The Union Cabinet discussed the killings of north Indians in Maharashtra on Thursday night after ally Ram Vilas Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party insisted on a discussion.
And as the UPA [...]

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