Shivaji Book

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday said that fact-based historical accounts, which inspired new generation, were the need of the hour.

The Shiv Sena on Wednesday questioned its former ally BJP's "separate yardsticks" of "freedom of expression" on the JNU violence and the controversial book comparing Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

Terming BJP leader Udayanraje Bhosale as "Ajanata Raja", Maharashtra Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant on Tuesday hit back at Chhatrapati Shivaji's descendant, saying people of the state do not take criticism by him seriously.

BJP leader Udayanraje Bhosale, who is the descendant of Chhatrapati Shivaji, on Tuesday said nobody in the world can be compared to the 17th century Maratha warrior king.

The BJP has "nothing to do with the book" by a party leader comparing warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said today, adding that the author has withdrawn the book. . The minister's remarks come amid political controversy in Maharashtra over the comparison of PM Modi with Shivaji in a r...

Amid a massive controversy in Maharashtra over the comparison of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji in a book, BJP leader Jai Bhagwan Goyal - the author- today said the PM has been working like the warrior king ever since he came to power, and people of the country feel safe under his rule.

A book by a BJP leader comparing Chhatrapati Shivaji to Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led to massive political outrage in Maharashtra with the Congress, the Shiv Sena and Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) - who are part of the ruling alliance - hitting out the BJP.

Just days ahead of the Maharashtra assembly polls, a controversy has erupted over "exclusion" of the history of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj from Class IV books of the Maharashtra International Education Board (MIEB).

An unidentified person has been booked for allegedly creating a fake Facebook profile of former cricketer Sandeep Patil and trying to seek on it phone numbers of well-known personalities.

Opposition parties in Maharashtra on Thursday demanded that a Marathi book, recommended to school students for extra-curricular reading, should be withdrawn as it contains a derogatory reference to prince Sambhaji, the eldest son of King Shivaji.

In a blatant act of bullying, a man assaulted the mother of a rape survivor yesterday after she refused to withdraw the rape case against his son. Police sources said the accused, Shivaji Kamble, 48, stabbed the 37-year-old woman in her stomach and neck in broad daylight at Kurla. Cops at Nehru Nagar police station have booked Kamble for attempt to...

Two constables attached to the Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of the Mumbai police have been arrested by officers from the same department for selling drugs seized in various cases yesterday. Cops recovered 1,500 kilograms of charas from the duo. The constables, identified as Ashok Baburao Suryavanshi (50), and Shivaji Balkrishna Kshirsagar (37), both r...

India has long faced an uneasy tension between allowing free expression to its citizens and staunching sectarian violence among its people. It was one of the first countries to ban "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie. Lawsuits forced the Indian painter Maqbool Fida Husain to live in exile during the last several years of his life. An academic bo...

A 28-year-old software engineer was made to spend a few hours in the railway lock-up for molesting a 16-year-old in the wee hours aboard the Nagpur-Mumbai Duronto Express on September 7. Prasad Chande, a Bhandup resident, was booked for indecent behaviour by the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus police for trying to molest Sujata Gaikwad (name changed) ...

Oxford University Press (OUP), which had first published the controversial book by US author James Laine on Chhatrapati Shivaji, has told Maharashtra government that it won't be publishing fresh copies of the book.OUP India Managing Director, Manzar Khan, has written to the government, assuring that the publishing house won't be printing more copie...

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday said that fact-based historical accounts, which inspired new generation, were the need of the hour.

The Shiv Sena on Wednesday questioned its former ally BJP's "separate yardsticks" of "freedom of expression" on the JNU violence and the controversial book comparing Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

Terming BJP leader Udayanraje Bhosale as "Ajanata Raja", Maharashtra Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant on Tuesday hit back at Chhatrapati Shivaji's descendant, saying people of the state do not take criticism by him seriously.

BJP leader Udayanraje Bhosale, who is the descendant of Chhatrapati Shivaji, on Tuesday said nobody in the world can be compared to the 17th century Maratha warrior king.

The BJP has "nothing to do with the book" by a party leader comparing warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said today, adding that the author has withdrawn the book. . The minister's remarks come amid political controversy in Maharashtra over the comparison of PM Modi with Shivaji in a r...

Amid a massive controversy in Maharashtra over the comparison of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with warrior king Chhatrapati Shivaji in a book, BJP leader Jai Bhagwan Goyal - the author- today said the PM has been working like the warrior king ever since he came to power, and people of the country feel safe under his rule.

A book by a BJP leader comparing Chhatrapati Shivaji to Prime Minister Narendra Modi has led to massive political outrage in Maharashtra with the Congress, the Shiv Sena and Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) - who are part of the ruling alliance - hitting out the BJP.

Just days ahead of the Maharashtra assembly polls, a controversy has erupted over "exclusion" of the history of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj from Class IV books of the Maharashtra International Education Board (MIEB).

An unidentified person has been booked for allegedly creating a fake Facebook profile of former cricketer Sandeep Patil and trying to seek on it phone numbers of well-known personalities.

Opposition parties in Maharashtra on Thursday demanded that a Marathi book, recommended to school students for extra-curricular reading, should be withdrawn as it contains a derogatory reference to prince Sambhaji, the eldest son of King Shivaji.

In a blatant act of bullying, a man assaulted the mother of a rape survivor yesterday after she refused to withdraw the rape case against his son. Police sources said the accused, Shivaji Kamble, 48, stabbed the 37-year-old woman in her stomach and neck in broad daylight at Kurla. Cops at Nehru Nagar police station have booked Kamble for attempt to...

Two constables attached to the Anti-Narcotics Cell (ANC) of the Mumbai police have been arrested by officers from the same department for selling drugs seized in various cases yesterday. Cops recovered 1,500 kilograms of charas from the duo. The constables, identified as Ashok Baburao Suryavanshi (50), and Shivaji Balkrishna Kshirsagar (37), both r...

India has long faced an uneasy tension between allowing free expression to its citizens and staunching sectarian violence among its people. It was one of the first countries to ban "The Satanic Verses" by Salman Rushdie. Lawsuits forced the Indian painter Maqbool Fida Husain to live in exile during the last several years of his life. An academic bo...

A 28-year-old software engineer was made to spend a few hours in the railway lock-up for molesting a 16-year-old in the wee hours aboard the Nagpur-Mumbai Duronto Express on September 7. Prasad Chande, a Bhandup resident, was booked for indecent behaviour by the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus police for trying to molest Sujata Gaikwad (name changed) ...

Oxford University Press (OUP), which had first published the controversial book by US author James Laine on Chhatrapati Shivaji, has told Maharashtra government that it won't be publishing fresh copies of the book.OUP India Managing Director, Manzar Khan, has written to the government, assuring that the publishing house won't be printing more copie...