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Monday, July 18, 2016
With its silent manouevres the BJP holds its cards close to its chest, rendering a round of anxiety to Mahrashtra's CM Fadnavis ... More
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Monday, July 11, 2016
A look at the weekly turn of events, the rights and the ruses on the political scene... More
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Monday, July 04, 2016
That is exactly the feeling that the cadres of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Maharashtra are feeling right now after the state leadership, in a bid to downplay Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray’s aggression has gone over the top to accommodate him.... More
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Monday, June 27, 2016
Director Ramesh Sippy had vehemently argued that he was against the remaking of his 1975 cult classic ‘Sholay’.... More
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Monday, June 20, 2016
As the Shiv Sena turned 50 last week, we take a look at some of the several ups and downs in its long chequered political history.... More
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Monday, June 13, 2016
So finally Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has cracked the whip on his “errant” cabinet colleagues asking them to take heed of the Khadse episode and fall in line.... More
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Monday, June 06, 2016
For a party that boasted of it being a “Party with a difference”, one which wanted to ensure “Congress Mukta Bharat” and Prime Minister Narendra Modi who recently boasted of not a blemish of corruption being levelled against his government, today finds his party's state government in Maharashtra rocked by the allegations of corruption and dubious selection of rank outsiders as candidates for Legislative Council elections.... More
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Monday, May 30, 2016
An interesting game of Political Chess is being played out in Maharashtra politics as of now with Political Parties and rivalries both inside the party and between parties and allies.... More
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Monday, May 23, 2016
Little would have Eknath Khadse imagined that the biggest slur of corruption would have hit him in his long political career. In politics the traditional terms of friends and foes does not always hold true. There are different connotations to the terms.... More
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Monday, May 16, 2016
Last week the Fadnavis government yet again reintroduced the system of direct elections to the Municipal Council President.... More
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Monday, May 02, 2016
The manner in which the courts have begun dispensing justice of late in cases of abject corruption and the way the government appears to be abdicating its primary role of governance and the apex court questioning the legalities of the laws enacted by the government in the legislature suggests a huge Deficit in Polity. But is it so?... More
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Monday, March 14, 2016
When the government starts taking decisions like regularizing illegal constructions in urban areas with a penalty and auto-rickshaw permits are given in Mumbai, a slugfest ensues over location of Metro car shed in Aarey Milk Colony, threats are issued to burn auto-rickshaws of non-Maharashtrians, all of which seems to have an unmistakable stamp of the fast approaching Mumbai and other civic body elections in Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). ... More
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Monday, March 07, 2016
Social activist P Sainath may have once famously said “everybody loves a good drought”, because of the monetary spin offs that a drought generates for some. ... More
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Monday, February 22, 2016
There were several names given to the mega Investment summit at Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC), for the Centre it was the “Make In India Week”, for the State it was “Magnetic Maharashtra” and for the Shiv Sena it was Sena centric. ... More
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Monday, February 15, 2016
THESE days you 'Land' in a controversy if you are not familiar with the Land Revenue Code or Land Policy. A land allotment policy of 1976 formulated during previous Congress regime that granted government lands at throwaway prices to public charitable trusts, institutions and artists has now become a huge albatross hanging down the neck of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government. ... More
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Monday, February 08, 2016
The week that passed by left a “stinking smell” in our body polity as fire raged over the Deonar dumping ground in the heart of the city. A political fire also raged over it with a section of the media trailing our civic fathers on their so-called study tour of the Andaman islands. Even the national capital of New Delhi felt the stench of it. The issue is not only political, administrative but social as well. ... More
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Monday, February 01, 2016
DEVELOPMENTS of the last week had halo of divinity about them in some cases. At least a section of the media was highly concerned about entry of women in some places of worship rather than the plight of people from drought-hit region whose throats remain parched for almost 23 days at a stretch in a month.... More
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Monday, January 25, 2016
The war of words between the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the adoption policy of Recreational Ground/ Playground (RG/PG) policy or better still now known as 'Open Space' policy only underscores that it is all got to do with the early 2017 Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). ... More
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Monday, January 18, 2016
It takes no Shiv Sena to tell the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that it is fast losing ground or conceding it to the opposition Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). ... More
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Monday, January 11, 2016
So Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has finally begun to crack the whip as far as the administration goes. First he has made senior bureaucrats go and do field visits of the government offices under their command. ... More
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