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NCP wins 51 of 73 seats in Pune ZP polls

Pune, Feb. 10 -- The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) registered a landslide victory in the Pune Zilla Parishad elections. By late Monday evening, the NCP had won 51 of the 73 seats, while the Bharati... Read More


BJP storms PWP's rural bastion in Panvel, sweeps zilla parishad polls

PANVEL, Feb. 10 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday swept all eight zilla parishad seats in Panvel taluka and won 15 of the 16 panchayat samiti constituencies, breaching what was long consid... Read More


Sunetra Pawar to take charge as Dy CM today

Mumbai, Feb. 10 -- Sunetra Pawar, widow of late Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Ajit Pawar, is set to take charge as deputy chief minister on Tuesday. She will also attend the state cabinet... Read More


Mahayuti sweeps rural body elections

MUMBAI, Feb. 10 -- The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance has swept the zilla parishad (ZP) and panchayat samiti elections in Maharashtra, results of which were declared on Monday. In the third phase in electi... Read More


Publicise abortion rights of unmarried women: HC to state

MUMBAI, Feb. 10 -- The Bombay High Court has directed the Maharashtra government to widely publicise a Supreme Court ruling that recognises the right of unmarried women to seek termination of pregnanc... Read More


FIR over circulation of ex-Army chief's book

New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- The Delhi Police on Monday said it has registered a first information report (FIR) over the circulation of an unpublished memoir of former army chief General (retired) MM Naravan... Read More


HC grants first bail in Siddique murder case

MUMBAI, Feb. 10 -- The Bombay High Court on Monday granted bail to 22-year-old Akashdeep Karaj Singh, an accused in the murder of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Baba Siddique, marking the fir... Read More


Govt, Oppn spar in Parl over budget allocations, data gaps

New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- Government and Opposition MPs on Monday traded sharp barbs in Parliament over the Union Budget, with debates in Rajya Sabha reflecting political positioning ahead of upcoming ass... Read More


'Can't make bail conditional on money deposits'

New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- The Supreme Court has held that the grant of bail or anticipatory bail cannot be linked to monetary deposits or similar financial conditions, terming the practice "very unfortuna... Read More


LS Speaker under pressure from BJP: Women Cong MPs

New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- Six women MPs from the Congress have written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, claiming he was being "forced" and "pressurised" by the ruling party to make "false, baseless, and def... Read More