Sanjay Ramakant Tiwari

A plan to have the "Hanuman Chalisa" recited at an AIDS-awareness program in Nagpur tomorrow provoked this response from the Bombay High Court: "Is India for Hindus only?"

Usman Memon, the cousin of death row convict Yakub Memon, said he was not allowed to meet him today. He had been turned away after a more than two-and-a-half-hour wait at the Nagpur Central Prison, where Memon is currently lodged, Usman told NDTV.

A ministers surprise visit to a school in Maharashtra for the mentally challenged left him in shock.

A teenage girl in Maharashtra was attacked and stabbed to death by her alleged molester in broad daylight while she was on her way to college today.

Gandhian Anna Hazare has refused to talk to Kiran Bedi - formerly his close aide - after she joined the BJP, sources close to the activist told NDTV. Sources said he had felt hurt by Ms Bedi's decision to plunge into active politics without consulting him.

Over the last 10 years, 793 tribal students have died in government-aided residential schools for tribal students. The government has ordered a probe, asking the Tata Institute of Social Sciences to study the reasons and submit a report.

A court in Maharashtra today let off 21 people - including six women - accused of murdering Akku Yadav, an alleged rapist, during a court hearing in 2004.

It was a rare sight that greeted passengers at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport on Sunday afternoon: The Chief Minister of Maharashtra, with his wife and daughter ,travelling with the aam aadmi in economy class. With his state bogged down by a loan of Rs 3 lakh crore, Mr Devendra Fadnavis had kicked off his own austerity measures.

In the fast-paced political action that followed the BJP's split with the Shiv Sena just before the Maharashtra elections, one man found himself suddenly pitchforked into national prominence - the party's 44-year-old state chief Devendra Fadnavis.

An eight-year-old boy in Nagpur was found dead a day after he was kidnapped from his house. His father is a doctor; the police have arrested a man who worked for him at his clinic who has allegedly confessed to killing the boy by smashing his head with a stone.

George W Bush is no longer in power, but the now historic tradition of shoe-throwing as protest -- made first against him in 2008 -- has come as far as Gadchiroli. Today, Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar joined the long list of Indian politicians who had shoes -- in this case, a pair of chappals -- thrown at them.

On Thursday morning, the top bosses of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Nagpur were amused to read media reports that they were headed to Delhi.

In Maharashtra, over 50,000 people who were supposed to get houses are now forced to observe Diwali as homeless.

Narendra Modi has reached the Nagpur headquarters of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and is meeting its chief Mohan Bhagwat.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's third and last power lunch this week was with BJP president Rajnath Singh this afternoon, to brief him about his deliberations with party seniors LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi over the last two days.

A plan to have the "Hanuman Chalisa" recited at an AIDS-awareness program in Nagpur tomorrow provoked this response from the Bombay High Court: "Is India for Hindus only?"

Usman Memon, the cousin of death row convict Yakub Memon, said he was not allowed to meet him today. He had been turned away after a more than two-and-a-half-hour wait at the Nagpur Central Prison, where Memon is currently lodged, Usman told NDTV.

A ministers surprise visit to a school in Maharashtra for the mentally challenged left him in shock.

A teenage girl in Maharashtra was attacked and stabbed to death by her alleged molester in broad daylight while she was on her way to college today.

Gandhian Anna Hazare has refused to talk to Kiran Bedi - formerly his close aide - after she joined the BJP, sources close to the activist told NDTV. Sources said he had felt hurt by Ms Bedi's decision to plunge into active politics without consulting him.

Over the last 10 years, 793 tribal students have died in government-aided residential schools for tribal students. The government has ordered a probe, asking the Tata Institute of Social Sciences to study the reasons and submit a report.

A court in Maharashtra today let off 21 people - including six women - accused of murdering Akku Yadav, an alleged rapist, during a court hearing in 2004.

It was a rare sight that greeted passengers at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport on Sunday afternoon: The Chief Minister of Maharashtra, with his wife and daughter ,travelling with the aam aadmi in economy class. With his state bogged down by a loan of Rs 3 lakh crore, Mr Devendra Fadnavis had kicked off his own austerity measures.

In the fast-paced political action that followed the BJP's split with the Shiv Sena just before the Maharashtra elections, one man found himself suddenly pitchforked into national prominence - the party's 44-year-old state chief Devendra Fadnavis.

An eight-year-old boy in Nagpur was found dead a day after he was kidnapped from his house. His father is a doctor; the police have arrested a man who worked for him at his clinic who has allegedly confessed to killing the boy by smashing his head with a stone.

George W Bush is no longer in power, but the now historic tradition of shoe-throwing as protest -- made first against him in 2008 -- has come as far as Gadchiroli. Today, Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar joined the long list of Indian politicians who had shoes -- in this case, a pair of chappals -- thrown at them.

On Thursday morning, the top bosses of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Nagpur were amused to read media reports that they were headed to Delhi.

In Maharashtra, over 50,000 people who were supposed to get houses are now forced to observe Diwali as homeless.

Narendra Modi has reached the Nagpur headquarters of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and is meeting its chief Mohan Bhagwat.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's third and last power lunch this week was with BJP president Rajnath Singh this afternoon, to brief him about his deliberations with party seniors LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi over the last two days.