Syed Imtiaz Jaleel

On the last day of her 3000-kilometre Sangharsh Yatra, BJP legislator Pankaja Munde made it clear that she has inherited the political legacy of her father.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has told a court in Maharashtra that it has found no evidence against 11 people accused of killing Right To Information activist Satish Shetty in 2010, just three days after it was given four weeks to investigate what could have been a possible motive for the murder.

Ink was thrown on Maharashtra cooperatives minister Harshwardhan Patil near Indapur in Pune district this morning when he was in the area to attend a programme.

Beneath a mountain of mud that used to be Malin village near Pune, a baby's wail became the beacon that helped rescue workers save four members of a family.

The soft-spoken Maharashtra chief minister Prithiviraj Chavan delivered a hard message to longtime partner Nationalist Congress Party or NCP today, declaring that it must "respect" the Congress for their alliance to continue.

Prominent builders and businessmen have been named in an FIR filed by Pune police in connection to a massive land scam allegedly worth hundreds of crores. Among those named in the FIR are 2G case accused Vinod Goenka and Shahid Balwa of DB Realty and builder Atul Chordia of the Panchshil Realty Group.

The Prithviraj Chavan government in Maharashtra today decided to name Pune University after Savitribai Phule, a prominent social reformer of the 19th century, in yet another move aimed at retrieving the political fortunes of the Congress-NCP combine in the state.

Narendra Dabholkar, who spent his life crusading against superstition and religious charlatans, was shot dead in Pune in August last year. To investigate the 67-year-old doctor's death, then Police Commissioner Gulabroa Pol, allegedly hired babas and tantriks and used some of them to "communicate with spirits" in a desperate attempt to get some inf...

Twenty one people, arrested in connection with the murder of a Muslim IT worker in Pune, were sent to 14-day judicial custody today. All the accused are suspected to be linked with the Hindu Rashtra Sena, a right-wing organisation.

There is a sense of shock and disbelief in Nathra, a 2500-strong village, 20 km from Parli taluka in Maharashtra's Beed district. Their most famous son Gopinath Munde, who was born in this village and went on to become the biggest leader of the BJP in the state and subsequently taking charge as the Union Rural Development Minister is no more.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar's daughter Supriya Sule, re-elected as an MP from Baramati, has admitted that her party suffered major reverses in the Lok Sabha elections because of the "disconnect'' of its leaders with the masses.

Suresh Kalmadi, a politician with considerable influence in Pune, today told NDTV that he is deciding on whether to run for the national election. Mr Kalmadi, 69, who was jailed on charges of corruption, has not been picked by his party, the Congress, as its candidate from Pune. The party also did not succumb to his pressure to let his wife run ins...

Ending days of speculation, Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena or MNS has decided to contest the Lok Sabha elections, beginning April 7.

The Pune airport will be partially shut for the next three months from tomorrow for renovation. The runway of the airport, which is under the control of the Indian Air Force will be partially closed between 10 pm and 8 am every day. The Air Force will be flying its fighter jets during this time.

Mehmooda Khanam, 72, is bedridden with a heart ailment coupled with asthma. Her last wish is to see her son Shaikh Azizuddin, who is lodged in Pune's Yerwada jail, married.

On the last day of her 3000-kilometre Sangharsh Yatra, BJP legislator Pankaja Munde made it clear that she has inherited the political legacy of her father.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has told a court in Maharashtra that it has found no evidence against 11 people accused of killing Right To Information activist Satish Shetty in 2010, just three days after it was given four weeks to investigate what could have been a possible motive for the murder.

Ink was thrown on Maharashtra cooperatives minister Harshwardhan Patil near Indapur in Pune district this morning when he was in the area to attend a programme.

Beneath a mountain of mud that used to be Malin village near Pune, a baby's wail became the beacon that helped rescue workers save four members of a family.

The soft-spoken Maharashtra chief minister Prithiviraj Chavan delivered a hard message to longtime partner Nationalist Congress Party or NCP today, declaring that it must "respect" the Congress for their alliance to continue.

Prominent builders and businessmen have been named in an FIR filed by Pune police in connection to a massive land scam allegedly worth hundreds of crores. Among those named in the FIR are 2G case accused Vinod Goenka and Shahid Balwa of DB Realty and builder Atul Chordia of the Panchshil Realty Group.

The Prithviraj Chavan government in Maharashtra today decided to name Pune University after Savitribai Phule, a prominent social reformer of the 19th century, in yet another move aimed at retrieving the political fortunes of the Congress-NCP combine in the state.

Narendra Dabholkar, who spent his life crusading against superstition and religious charlatans, was shot dead in Pune in August last year. To investigate the 67-year-old doctor's death, then Police Commissioner Gulabroa Pol, allegedly hired babas and tantriks and used some of them to "communicate with spirits" in a desperate attempt to get some inf...

Twenty one people, arrested in connection with the murder of a Muslim IT worker in Pune, were sent to 14-day judicial custody today. All the accused are suspected to be linked with the Hindu Rashtra Sena, a right-wing organisation.

There is a sense of shock and disbelief in Nathra, a 2500-strong village, 20 km from Parli taluka in Maharashtra's Beed district. Their most famous son Gopinath Munde, who was born in this village and went on to become the biggest leader of the BJP in the state and subsequently taking charge as the Union Rural Development Minister is no more.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar's daughter Supriya Sule, re-elected as an MP from Baramati, has admitted that her party suffered major reverses in the Lok Sabha elections because of the "disconnect'' of its leaders with the masses.

Suresh Kalmadi, a politician with considerable influence in Pune, today told NDTV that he is deciding on whether to run for the national election. Mr Kalmadi, 69, who was jailed on charges of corruption, has not been picked by his party, the Congress, as its candidate from Pune. The party also did not succumb to his pressure to let his wife run ins...

Ending days of speculation, Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena or MNS has decided to contest the Lok Sabha elections, beginning April 7.

The Pune airport will be partially shut for the next three months from tomorrow for renovation. The runway of the airport, which is under the control of the Indian Air Force will be partially closed between 10 pm and 8 am every day. The Air Force will be flying its fighter jets during this time.

Mehmooda Khanam, 72, is bedridden with a heart ailment coupled with asthma. Her last wish is to see her son Shaikh Azizuddin, who is lodged in Pune's Yerwada jail, married.