The Latest Breaking News from Maharashtra

Two brothers from Odisha held for smuggling ganja; 465 kg ganja seized

After the Maharashtra BJP chief urged party workers to “take journalists out for tea” to make sure they only filed “positive” stories, journalists across the state have demanded that he apologise.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said he had held a meeting with the State Minorities Department Minister and officials and would raise the Muslim quota issue with Chief Minister Eknath Shinde to find a road ahead.

KRONOS 2K23, a literary and cultural fest, will be held at Belagavi's St. Paul's High School on Oct 30-31. Over 1,000 students from 30 schools in Karnataka, Maharashtra and Goa will participate. Theme: “Transcending Beyond Cosmic Contemplation”. Organised by students, for students. 8 editions held since 2012. 11 events incl.…

The Supreme Court grants interim protection to man accused of rape, citing earlier decisions that consensual sex following a ‘genuine’ but unfulfilled promise to marry does not amount to rape. The Supreme Court Bench gives 6 weeks for Maharashtra to respond to the contention, citing 2022 & 2019 orders that…

Keeladi excavation yields two carnelian beads, confirming Tamil country's trade links with western India. Found in an urn at a burial site in Konthagai, the beads were traced at 17.5 cm and 20 cm depths. One bead was etched with a wavy pattern and lines, 1.4 cm long and 2…

Nurul Hasan, a young engineer who was soon to be a father, was killed by a mob inside a mosque in Maharashtra’s Satara district. The trigger for the mob violence were social media posts to which Nurul had no connection. Abhinay Deshpande reports on yet another tragedy in a State…

Speaker Narwekar visits Delhi to discuss disqualification petitions of both Sena factions; Thackeray faction accuses him of delaying ruling to save Shinde's chair. SC rebukes Narwekar for delaying adjudication, directs him to announce date for ruling within a week. Narwekar says he held meetings with legal experts to decide how…

September is Big Butterfly Month across India- a citizen science, awareness and conservation exercise centered on butterflies and to a certain extent moths. We take a look at what this means.