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Maharashtra assembly polls 2019: Watch out for these 5 young leaders
Ahead of the Maharashtra assembly elections, the centre of gravity is shifting towards the young and dynamic leaders of tomorrow. This year, the state polls will see quite a few young guns battling it out on October 21. A major battle will play out in the Worli assembly segment, where Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray is making his debut in electoral politics. From Beed, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) veteran late Gopinath Munde's daughter Pankaja Munde will lock horns for supremacy against Nationalist Congress Party's (NCP) Dhanajay Munde. Sujay Vikhe Patil, son of Congress legislative party leader Radha Krishna Vikhe Patil, will contest on a BJP ticket from Ahmednagar. Let's take a look at their work so far:
Aaditya ThackerayThe 29-year-old grandson of Shiv Sena founder, the late Bal Thackeray, Aaditya Thackeray is the first member from the Thackeray family to enter the electoral fray after Shalini Thackeray, the wife of Jeetendra Thackeray, a cousin of MNS founder Raj Thackeray..
Maharashtra assembly polls 2019: Security beefed up ahead of PM Narendra Modi's visit
Mumbai: Motoring body holds meeting same time and place after 100 years where it all started
Every fairytale begins with once upon a time but this story starts with – 100 years ago the Western India Automobile Association (WIAA) held its first meeting at the Taj Mahal hotel in Colaba in their Ballroom. The date of that meeting was October 15, 1919. Hundred years later, yesterday (October 15), they held a meeting at the same time and same place.
Nostalgia in the air
You could feel the sense of occasion and smell history in the air, as Nitin Dossa, WIAA chairman, started speaking. "It is great to be here, at this historic point in time for WIAA." Though the event was quite nostalgic, all speakers touched upon contemporary issues as well. Dossa said, "The RTO and the WIAA are in an arranged marriage. Both cannot do without each other. The WIAA supports the heavy fines imposed on traffic rule violators as part of the new Motor Vehicle Act. These are necessary if we are to bring down accident rates. When we were younger, the sight of a traffic constable would scare us. Today,..
Small business owners have little hope from Maharashtra assembly polls
It has been almost three years since demonetisation and two years since good and services tax (GST) implementation, but city's small businesses have still not revived from the economic shock. From manufacturers of garments and leather at Dharavi to members of the Koli and the Qureshi communities, all are counting their losses since note ban in 2016. They now have little expectation of revival as they see no hopeful candidates for the upcoming assembly elections.
Pratap Rai Harjani, 65, who sells iron shutter gates in Dharavi, said, "Before demonetisation, I used to get more than 50 orders in a month but now the number has dropped to 25," said Harjani. Abdul Malik, 43, who makes wallets, sent his wife and six children back home in Bihar a couple of years back to save money. Malik once used to get orders for 3,000-4,000 wallets, but now he barely sells about 1000-1200.
Closed shops at Dharavi. Pics/Anurag Ahire
Sitting Congress MLA Varsha Gaikwad, Shiv Sena's Ashish More and AIMIM's Mano..
Mumbai: Shopowners near murdered woman's home in Malwani passed information to killers
The Malwani police on Tuesday arrested a couple, who allegedly masterminded the murder of Kanchan Ajay Singh alias Kanchan Pramod Gupta who was looted and murdered at her home on the night October 8.
The accused have been identified as Rafique Khan, 28, and his wife Nasrin Khan, 27. The couple, who has a grocery shop near Kanchan's residence in Malwani, used to pass on information about the deceased woman to the alleged murderers, who were arrested on Sunday -- Abdul Rehman Sheikh, 23 and Ubaid Sheikh, 22. During interrogation, the duo revealed that Rafique and Nasrin hatched the conspiracy to steal the money from Kanchan's house after they learnt that she had received R5 lakh from a chit fund called 'Bishi'.
Kanchan Ajay Singh, the victim
The couple informed Abdul and Ubaid on October 8 that she had received the money the same day, following which the duo barged into her home and demanded for Rs 5 lakh. However, Kanchan had already paid a major amount to a contractor soon after receiv..
Maharashtra assembly polls: Pankaja Munde brought PM because she is scared, says Dhananjay Munde
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Maharashtra assembly polls: Which Deshmukh brother will win better in Latur?
While around Maharashtra the buzz is on whether the Congress will manage to retain its existing number of seats (27), the mood in Latur is quite upbeat. So much so that the question is not whether Amit and Dhiraj Deshmukh, sons of the late former chief minister Vilasrao, will win, but who among the two will win by a higher margin.
Two time MLA Amit is looking to defend his Latur City seat, while younger brother Dhiraj is taking his electoral bow from Latur Rural.
Party workers, however, are confident that the Congress will win both the assembly seats, besides neighbouring Ausa, where two-time MLA Basavraj Patil will be challenged by the chief minister's personal assistant Abhimanyu Pawar. The remaining seats in Latur – Ahmadpur, Udgir, Nilanga, and Loha – have no favourites.
Amit won the seat for the first time in 2009, defeating BSP's Kayyum Khan Mohammad Khan by 89,480 votes. In 2014, however, his margin almost halved. It's no surprise then that their filmstar brother Rit..
Maharashtra assembly polls: In Kankavli, it's Nitesh Rane versus all
Kankavli: Rarely has a candidate been so polarising that not just the Opposition, but even members of the party from which he is contesting, are uniting to see him defeated. But in the Kankavli constituency, that is the story of MP Narayan Rane's son Nitesh. Despite being in an alliance with BJP, Shiv Sena has nominated Satish Sawant, who ended his 25-year association with the Ranes only a fortnight back.
Sawant followed Rane when he quit the Sena, but has now returned to the party when Nitesh joined the BJP. Worse, some local BJP members, along with their Congress and NCP counterparts, are silently helping the Sena, their only common aim being the Nitesh's defeat.
Narayan Rane at a meet. Pics/Satej Shinde
Nitesh Rane told mid-day, "Since I have started understanding the politics, I have become used to this type of elections. But, more important for us is people's perception. Voters are happy with the development work done by the Rane family. Nothing else matters. I know a few are tryi..
Nearly 800 ISIS relatives flee Syria camp
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Woman claims to have physical relationship with a Boeing 737-800
A 30-year-old woman from Berlin, claims to be in love with a passenger jet that she calls "darling". Michele Köbke says that she has been in a physical relationship with a Boeing 737-800 for the last five years.
She realised that she was in love, when she boarded her first 737-800. "I got so excited with boarding the plane, I realised I am in love with it." Years later, Michele finally got to spend some quality time alone with her "lover", in an airport hangar.
"The first time we really met on May 1, 2019, I enjoyed every millisecond with him," she recalled. She, however, says that it's not easy to spend quality time with her "boyfriend". "A relationship with a plane can be difficult. I can only get close to him when I fly with him or when I can get to him in the hangar, which has only happened once in my life."
But, she has found different ways to indulge in her affection. "I have a big model of him made of fibreglass as well as real components from him so I can act out my lov..
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In Konkan's Sena-BJP fight, a stalled project takes centre stage
The row between the BJP and Shiv Sena over the Rs 3 lakh crore oil refinery to be built in Nanar seems to be far from over. In a veiled attack on Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, senior Shiv Sena leader Subhash Desai on Friday reiterated that the Nanar oil refinery will not be built in Konkan at any cost.
Fadnavis had, during his recent state-wide yatra, said he will revive the project if the locals wanted it. The project was shelved last year, with the Sena lending its support to those opposing the project. However, after the BJP's landslide victory in the general election, and Nitesh Rane joining BJP, the demand for reviving the scrapped project is gaining momentum, despite Sena's opposition for the same.
Addressing his first election rally in the Konkan region in Devgad, Desai, a senior cabinet colleague of Fadnavis, said, "Locals opposed Nanar project as it was coming at cost of environmental damage. No matter who puts his weight behind the scrapped project, I assure citizens that..
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Consumer body chief steps forward to help Andheri West residents who were forced to pay stamp duty twice
Aarey protesters say they were stripped and treated like criminals
The protesters arrested while trying to stop the felling of trees in Aarey Colony for the metro car shed on the night of October 4, have alleged that they were treated appallingly by the cops, who badly manhandled them and also made them stand half-naked inside the jail, like criminals.
They now want all charges against them dropped at once. "We are not the criminals, drop the charges," echoed the demand of 14 of the 29 accused on Thursday. The protestors recounted what exactly transpired that night. They have been accused of assaulting public servants and assembling in an unlawful manner. "We were engaged in a peaceful protest. Is that a crime? Why did they lathi-charge us? The government must apologise," said Kapil Agrawal, a student of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
Shruti Nair, businesswomanWomen were pushed and dragged by male police officers. We were willing to go home but at 2:45am, when all roads to Aarey are shut, without any public transport, how would we have travell..
World Post Day mooted by an Indian; how services changed overtime
In a world full of quick-response applications, a letter from your loved one still excites you. The post began with communicating through letters, and later introduced services to send documents, money and parcels, after which the telegram, fax, internet, email, mobile phones and SMSes followed. The postal service was mooted by an Indian, Anand Mohan Narula in 1969 at UPU Congress in Tokyo. With over 1,55,015 post offices, India Post has the world’s largest postal network in the world. Today, it has also tied up with online shopping portals to deliver orders that are liable for cash-on-delivery and boost their digital connection.
#WorldPostDay is being observed today with a view to create awareness about the role of postal services in the lives of people, as well as its contribution to global development.#DYK that this was mooted by an Indian, Anand Mohan Narula in 1969 at UPU Congress in Tokyo. pic.twitter.com/7GUkoinrvj
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Baramati residents: We want no one but the Pawars
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Mumbai: Centre takes cognisance of 'non-forest work in Aarey'
The Union environment ministry has taken cognizance of the letter a city based non-profit organisation had sent last month, urging the central government to protect the 'forest' in Aarey Milk Colony. In the letter, NGO Empower Foundation had given evidence of existence of 290 different wildlife species, including leopards, in Goregaon's green zone. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) on October 3 wrote to Maharashtra's chief wildlife warden asking to take "necessary action in the matter; on the destruction of leopards' habitat and non-forest activities in Aarey forest at the earliest."
Chief Wildlife Warden Nitin Kakodkar did not respond to requests for comment. mid-day had, on September 12, carried the story — NGO: Evidence of 290 wild species inside Aarey Milk Colony — which mentioned about Empower Foundation's 26-page report listing the 290 wild species, including Rusty Spotted cat, Sambar deer and various species of birds, reptiles ..
Because dystopia begins at home
Surely the world's been rightly blown away by Joaquin (pronounced Waa-keen) Phoenix as Joker in Todd Phillips's 2019 masterpiece of the same name. Comparisons with Heath Ledger's equally delirious, "why so serious" turn in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight (2008) are inevitable. Let alone Jack Nicholson's popular rendition of the same part in Tim Burton's Batman (1989), which was closer to the comic book.
That said, The Dark Knight, in all its adult, dystopian bleakness, hinged on stark realism, was still very much "DC". How does one accurately place Phillips's Joker in the family-tree of films? One is tempted to draw up a mini-syllabus for a moviegoer. And, I say this having revised the material myself—the past couple of days since being hit by Joker; and further by its equally dark inspirations. To a point that I need help myself!
The first clue, of course, is Robert De Niro in Joker. If you look at it one way, he's the movie's hero. For, why else would one of America's fines..
One PMC bank depositor commits suicide, another dies of cardiac arrest
Despite numerous protests, there seems to be no respite in sight for Punjab Maharashtra Co-Operative (PMC) Bank's account holders. On Tuesday, Fattomal Punjabi, 61, a Mulund resident, died of cardiac arrest while on his way to the bank. Police said on Tuesday that a depressed account holder, Dr Nivedita Bijlani, 39, killed herself by consuming sleeping pills on Monday night. Sanjay Gulati, 51, an Oshiwara resident and a former pilot, had died of a heart attack on Monday.
Gulati, a former Jet Airways employee, had over Rs 90 lakh with the bank. For the last couple of days, Gulati had been attending various protests in the city. On Monday morning, after attending one such protest outside a city court along with his 80-year-old father, Gulati returned home, where he suffered a cardiac arrest at dinner time, said a senior officer at Oshiwara police station. He was rushed to Kokilaben Hospital by his wife Megha and a couple of friends, where doctors declared him dead on arrival.
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The jadoo around janaab Javed!
The bit about the screenwriting pair Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, hiring a drunk painter one night, handing over colour, brush, and stencil, so the fellow could place their names — 'Written by Salim-Javed' — on every poster of Zanjeer (1973) that he could find in the 25-kilometre stretch from Juhu to Opera House in Mumbai, I suspect, is rather well known. This is how India's best known screenwriters first got credited in a film poster.
How did they become India's most commercially successful screenwriters, ever? By setting their rate at '2 lakh, per screenplay. And finding no takers for nine months straight. This, despite hits Andaz (1971), Haathi Mere Saathi (1971), Seeta Aur Geeta (1972), Yaadon Ki Baraat (1973), and of coursetheir breakout film, Zanjeer (1973).
To give you a sense of what '2 lakh meant in '73 (and for the film industry in general), star-writers Salim-Javed used to then draw a monthly salary of '750 ('9,000 per annum), being on the payroll of Sippy Films ..
Mumbai Diary: Tuesday Dossier
Maharashta assembly polls: Why NOTA is trending in Panvel homes
Exasperated by ever-deteriorating civic amenities, residents of Panvel constituency seem to have reached the end of their tether. A number of them are expressing their displeasure with the government and its representatives through banners exhorting everyone to opt for NOTA (None Of The Above) this assembly election. The local MLA, however, says he has never been approached with these complaints.
Residential societies in Kharghar, Road Pali and Kamothe have put up banners reading 'No Development No Vote', 'No Service No Vote' at their gates.
Mangal Kamble, 50, a former school principal, who is also the president of Swach Kharghar Foundation, on October 12, wrote a letter to Panvel's Tehsildar, stating, "We, the officials of cooperative housing societies under the wings of *Swach Kharghar Foundation* in Kharghar node have decided to bring the fight on the road for very basic needs such as water, roads and pollution-free air. The MP has never shown us his face and even the present MLA is..
Smriti Irani's hilarious take on fitness guru Mickey Mehta's six pack will make you ROFL!
Anger simmers as netas sidestep floods
Kolhapur: Climate change, failed disaster management and environmental policies, and flawed approach to relief and rehabilitation, which caused widespread devastation during Kolhapur and Sangli floods in August, hardly find a place in campaigning for the assembly polls here. But signs of devastation are still visible in the cities and villages, with sugarcane farmers and the poor still struggling, even as parties spar over issues that do not guarantee them a better tomorrow.
Situated on the banks of a tributary that passes through Kolhapur city is Sutarwada, a group of 25 dilapidated shanties are lined up on a snake-infested landmass. They are not squatters, the locals said, claiming that the land was donated by the Chitradurg Math. The men work as painters, carpenters and mechanics; the women as domestic workers.
Malgonda Patil whose house was reduced to rubble in the floods in Herwad village
"We have decided not to vote. No politician came to help us," said Vandana Shivaji Shinde. "W..
Chinese Dream vs New India
Every visit of a Chinese dignitary to India, as was true of President Xi Jinping last week, dredges up emotions of awe and inadequacy, rage and despair in our collective soul. This is because China represents a challenge to who we are. China is a compelling argument to reject our self and become like, well, the Chinese.
We harbour a wish to sock China, for thumping us in the 1962 war; for squatting over 42,685 sq km of Kashmir and coveting Arunachal Pradesh. China infuriates us with its support for Pakistan and its terror machine, for ensuring we don't nest in international bodies like the Nuclear Suppliers Group, for injecting in us a sense of inferiority as we know we can't make China bleed.
Opinion polls reflect our emotions. Australia's Lowy Institute for International Policy found in 2013 that 83% of Indians considered China a security threat. Three years later, seven in 10 Indians characterised China's economic impact a problem, with 45% of them rating it as very serious, in a Pe..
Watch Video: 2-year-old girl's reaction to Bruce Banner turning into Hulk is heartwarming
On October 12, 2019, Twitter user Paddy Raff shared an adorable video of his daughter watching Marvel's Hulk on television, which is going viral on the internet. Wonder why? Well, in the video, the two-year-old girl can be seen making adorable yet funny reaction as she watches actor Bruce Banner's transformation into Hulk and guess what, it has won the internet over.
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In the viral video, the two-year-old baby is seen watching Marvel’s Hulk on Television. When Bruce Banner transforms into Hulk, the cute and adorable girl can be seen making funny faces and reactions as she watches the actor's character turn into Hulk.
What's more interesting is the fact that the adorable video was re-tweeted by none other than Mark Ruffalo, who plays Hulk in the movie. While re-tweeting the video, Mark captioned it: The secret way of stopping Dr. Ba..
Turkish government denies attacking US troops
Ankara: The Turkish government on Saturday denied that its army had launched attacks on US special forces deployed in northeastern Syria, as it was earlier claimed by the Pentagon. "Attacking US forces is out of the question. There's the necessary coordination between our forces and the Americans," Turkey's defence minister, Hulusi Akar, said at a press conference.
Pentagon sources said that Turkish artillery fire had landed near the US base near the Syrian border city of Kobane. Turkey aims to carve out a so-called safe zone that will extend about 32 km into northern Syria, stretching from the Euphrates River to the Iraqi border.
The Turkish Army and allied factions of the Free Syrian Army, armed militias opposed to President Bashar Al Assad, began the incursion into northern Syria on Wednesday in an operation dubbed "Peace Spring". They are fighting against the YPG, which controls most of northern Syria.
The YPG, officially the People's Protection Units, is the largest Kurdish militi..
End of road for western Maharashtra's last red bastion?
Controversy over dynasty politics has marred the fight to retain the only remaining 'red bastion' in western Maharashtra. The left-wing Peasants and Workers Party (PWP) has won a record number of 11 terms from Sangola in Solapur district, thanks to nonagenarian MLA Ganpatrao Deshmukh.
However, recently, when the ageing Deshmukh, fondly known as Aabasaheb, announced that he wouldn't fight another election, and nominated a local industrialist, Bhausaheb Rupnar, as the official candidate of PWP, the party witnessed a minor revolution. Workers staged a sit-in agitation at the 93-year-old MLA's home for three days, demanding that he file the nomination, instead of the businessman, who they claimed was unpopular among the masses. But the veteran refused, reiterating that he was too old for yet another term. While Deshmukh's son Chandrakant, who also harboured political ambitions, was in the fray, PWP workers weren't too convinced about him. Eventually, Deshmukh's 27-year-old grandson Dr..
Mumbai Crime: Gang tries to extort Bandra businessman via social media
The business of extortion has reared its head once again in the city but with a technological update. Culprits are now using social media to execute coordinated smear campaigns against soft targets. A 38-year-old businessman is the latest victim of the trend where the accused first troll their target on social media to instill fear then demand money to settle the matter.
Businessman Kanaram Patel, who runs an imitation jewellery shop, Riddhi Art Jewellery, at Hill Road in Bandra West has accused three men, Arbaaz Sayyed, Lokesh Rane, and Pradeep Yadav, of extortion. Senior Inspector at Bandra police station Vijaylaxmi Hiremath said the trio has secured anticipatory bail. "Sayyed photographed my shop and on September 21, posted a picture on Twitter alleging that I encroached on the footpath in front of my shop and BMC officials are not taking action against me," Patel told mid-day.
Kanaram Patel at his shop, Riddhi Art Jewellery
"A few days later, I started getting calls from Rane who t..
BJP's plan to finish opposition will make India a dictatorship: Former CM Prithviraj Chavan
Mumbai Diary: Saturday Dossier
Love in entirely another language
I have returned to Sudtirol for the fourth time. This year, though, my base has shifted. It is no longer Eppan, home of the Eau & Gaz residency—the original reason behind my presence in the region. Now, by virtue of love and marriage, I consider myself to be a resident of Tramin. We even received the certificate from the town hall acknowledging our union. My existence is on the record here. In this town of 3,000 people, my presence is being witnessed for the second time. It is all too clear, though, that I am much happier to greet most of the town's inhabitants than they are to see me. Their mannerisms belie a distance that feels very in keeping with my experience with cold weather people. It doesn't at all deter me from over-exuding my coastal Goan warmth. They say 'Hoi' and me, I want to go hug them. I can tell they are puzzled as to why I could possibly be so happy to see them. It confuses me, too.
Each day I wish I had language on my side. I wish my interactions could see..
Mumbai: Goof-up delayed police, cost two children's lives
Getting a single digit in a number plate wrong was a mistake that possibly cost two young children their lives on Tuesday. An ailing Chandrakant Mohite, 37, drove off with his children Gauravi and Pratik on Tuesday evening after telling his brother he wanted to end it all. The Pune police who were relayed the number by the Ghatkopar cops, apparently took it down wrong and as a result, did not locate Mohite until it was too late.
Mohite, a driver with a call centre, was suffering from a serious ailment for two years. He used to have regular fights with his wife Kavita over this, which made him worry about his children's future in the event he died of it. On the evening of October 8, around 7.30 pm, Mohite left his home at Jagrut Nagar with Gauravi, 11, and Pratik, 7. Mohite called his brother Suryakant around 10pm and told him he was going to end everything forever and hung up.
Chandrakant Mohite
When Suryakant and his relatives were unable to connect to his phone after trying for an ho..
Raj Thackeray's MNS meet in Pune cancelled due to heavy rains
Most trees replanted in Aarey by MMRCL dead or dying
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Mini Punjab restaurant owners upset after being dragged into PMC Bank controversy
The owners of Mini Punjab's restaurant are upset that their names have been dragged into the PMC Bank issue. On Sunday evening, account holders protested outside the restaurant at Bandra West, and had circulated messages on social media asking other account holders to boycott it. The owners of the restaurant have refuted the charges and claim that they have nothing to do with the bank directors, and in fact, they themselves have accounts in the bank.
Speaking to mid-day, Kuldeep Singh Arora, 57, proprietor of the restaurant that has been located in Bandra for the past two decades said, "It was surprising to see protestors raise anti-Mini Punjab's slogans. We have nothing to do with PMC Bank directors. We ourselves have six of our savings and current accounts with PMC's Sion and Bandra West branches. We have never taken any loan from PMC Bank."
On Sunday, a little after 4 pm, protestors arrived and some patrons had to be escorted out safely. "We informed the police control room and a te..
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Maharashtra assembly polls: A loyalist hopes to avenge mentor's defeat
Of three seats in Sindhudurg, Kudal is set for an interesting battle, even if it may not match the drama of 2014, when Sena's Vaibhav Naik stunned former CM Narayan Rane by 9,000 votes. This time, Rane loyalist Ranjeet Desai will take on Naik.
However, it is not the same as a family member contesting for the seat, and experts and local citizens feel it will be a cakewalk for the Sena, unlike Kankavli and Sawantwadi segments. In Kankvali, Rane's son Nitesh (BJP) will take on the Sena's Satish Sawant, a former Rane associate. In Sawantwadi, minister of state for finance and home department, Deepak Kesarkar (Sena) will take on another Rane aide Rajan Teli (BJP).
Ranjeet Desai
"Since Rane is not contesting, everyone feels there is no fight or that things have become easier for me," said Naik. "But, for me, this election is no different from earlier polls. I am giving my best. I am confident that citizens will stand by me, the way they did in 2014."
Naik comes from a family of staunch Congr..
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Maharashtra assembly polls: Will dad Sushilkumar Shinde's defeats help turn tide for daughter?
Will two-time legislator and former Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde's daughter, Praniti, make it three in a row, or will the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-Shiv Sena alliance prove successful in dethroning one of the state's oldest political families? There is no easy answer, even though the Congress camp feels that two successive Lok Sabha defeats for Sushilkumar Shinde may have earned some sympathy for Praniti.
And, the former CM is pulling out all stops to transfer his loyal vote base, while the MLA tells people about her past work and flaunts her connect with the city's multi-lingual population cutting across class and communities.
While the BJP is confident of winning the other two Solapur seats represented by ministers Vijay Deshmukh (North) and Subhash Deshmukh (South), the battle for Central looks complicated, with a five-way fight.
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Bhatukama Festival and Durga Pooja celebrations held at Parul University
Culture and religion are two dishes which taste better when they are shared. The nourishing South Indian floral rangolis along with the well-built pandals, decorated with the most divine ornaments brought together South Indian, Gujarati and International students in this harmonious celebration of good over evil, through Durga Puja.
Along with the festivities of Navratri, the Parul University campus was filled with an atmosphere of reverence and worship through the holy idols of goddess Durga, brought to the campus in honour of the South Indian religious and cultural festivities. The occasion was successful in creating more than just a platform of worship, as it also became a way of integrating cultures, with Gujarati students and faculties, along with international students from Africa and Bangladesh coming together in celebration of this sacred festival. Durga Puja is a 10 day festival, which is commonly practised in West Bengal, Kolkata, along with other States on the Indian subconti..
Mumbai: Neighbours pitch in with cash to release family held hostage in Aarey
Frustrated at not being able to net victims on the highway, three desperate robbers targetted a home in Aarey instead. In the wee hours of Saturday, they barged into the home of a grocery shop owner, held his wife at razor point and left only after he was able to collect Rs 2,000 from his neighbours.
The accused, David Charles Anthony Kondar alias Pappu 25, Rafique Ansari, 23, and Sarshi Goregaonkar, 22, pushed their way into the house of Pravin Sawant, 44, at Aarey, grabbed his wife, Vidya, and held a razor to her throat after realising there was nothing to steal in their house. The accused even threatened to kill their two teenaged children who were asleep.
Rafique Ansari
"I was lying down after dinner, around 1.30 am when I heard a knock. Through the peephole I saw a woman outside. She told me to open the door as she had something urgent to tell me. I refused to but she kept insisting. But, thinking the woman must be in distress, my wife opened the door," said Sawant.
As soon as Vid..
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Lost in a moment
Actor Vaani Kapoor is caught by the cameras as she seems to be making a point at the launch of a fashion line at Marine Lines on Friday. Pic/Sneha Kharabe
Guha Junior's Potter tale
Where scholar Ramchandra Guha has contributed to literature with his books on Indian history, politics and cricket, his son, Keshava, will deviate a little, to take us into the world of fantasy. Sources told this diarist that Guha Jr, who studied history and politics at Harvard, is penning a new fiction with HarperCollins India, that might make JK Rowling fans happy. Set in Boston and Bengaluru, the book, titled, Accidental Magic, will tell the story of four different people, whose lives are brought together by Harry Potter. His publishers have described his book as a "work of great imagination". We look forward to the new Guha in town.
It's a tie? Yes, it's also a book!
Our in-house cricket nut's new 'find' in terms of old cricket books is one on neck ties, yes you heard right...neck ties..
Mumbai: Is my home not a forest, asks a well-known Aarey resident
Thane: Housing society chops trees, displacing and killing birds
Pune-based singer makes an attempt for entry in Guinness World Records
On Thursday, Pune-based singer Manjushree Oak made an official attempt to create a Guinness World Record by singing songs in 122 different Indian languages in a single concert which went on for 13 hours nonstop. The musical concert, which was held at Yashwantrao Chavan Natyagruha, Kothrud was organised by Yashlaxmi Arrts and was supported by TRTI Pune, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Lalit Kala Kendra, Pune, Heritage - The Art Legacy, and Census Office, Mumbai.
Manjushree Oak sung songs in 122 different Indian languages in a single concert
Manjushree Oak performed the songs in a duration of 13 hours, which included four sessions of three hours each with a break of 15 minutes between every two sessions. Each song was performed at a duration of 4-5 minutes with live music played by the accompanying musicians. The earlier Guinness World Record was of songs sung in 76 languages in a single concert.
Several music experts and linguists were present at the event to attest the use of pronunc..
'People have lost their youth to dirty politics of a select few'
The mercurial Udayanraje Bhosale stumped Sharad Pawar when he quit as NCP MP in September, just five months after winning from Satara. His return to the BJP was perhaps the biggest political surprise among rampant NCP desertions, including his cousin Shivendraraje. Shivaji's direct descendant is back in the electoral fray, fighting the by-poll for the seat he vacated against former colleague, ex-MP and ex-governor, Shriniwas Patil.
Shivaji's direct descendant is back in the electoral fray, fighting the by-poll for the seat he vacated against former colleague, ex-MP and governor, Shriniwas Patil, while Shivendraraje fights for the Satara-Javali assembly seat. mid-day caught up with Bhosale on the campaign trail, where he explains why he quit the NCP and canvasses on local issues, promising to resolve them with the BJP's clout.
Excerpts.
Having forced an election on people in just five months, will you win comfortably?This sort of movement [of leaders to the BJP] has happened for the fir..
Why we have every reason to be alarmed with the late withdrawal of the monsoon
Mumbai: Owners take payment for Santacruz flat from food stylist, but refuse to hand it over
Did Wadhawans siphon off PMC loans via firms registered in tax havens?
Pradeep Sharma leads crorepati cops into Maharashtra assembly poll fray
Former encounter specialist Pradeep Sharma, who is contesting on a Shiv Sena ticket from Nalasopara, has declared assets of an eye-watering Rs 36.21 crore in his poll affidavit. Two other crorepati cops in the political fray are former police inspectors, Shamsher Khan Pathan, with R4.87 crore assets, and Gautam Gaikwad, with assets worth Rs 3.21 crore.
According to 1983 batch police inspector Sharma's affidavit submitted to the Election Commission, while he owns movable assets worth Rs 1.81 crore and zero immovable assets, his wife Swikriti has movable assets worth Rs 14.02 crore and immovable assets worth Rs 20.37 crore. Back in 2015, Sharma had mentioned Rs 1.64 lakh as his income, while that of his wife for the same year had been stated as Rs 1.02 crore in her tax returns filed in 2015-16. But, in 2018-19 Sharma's income jumped manifold, while his wife's income decreased sharply. In his returns for 2018-19, he has mentioned Rs 9.83 lakh as his income, while his wife's has been menti..
As five sons arrive in Mumbai, cops unearth the fascinating life of Govandi beggar
The five sons of lakhpati beggar Biradichand Azad landed nm at the Government Railway Police (GRP), Vashi, on Tuesday, to claim their father's body and money, and revealed some intriguing details about his past. They told mid-day that he had worked as a mason in Muscat for two years, his real surname is not Azad, he was jailed over a scuffle with neighbours and they believed that he was not begging, but following the teachings of Nirankari Baba.
The sons told mid-day that Biradichand had gone to Muscat in 1977, had worked there for two years and made a lot of money before returning to India. Vashi GRP traced his five sons — Sukhdevram, Rajkumar, Dharampal, Sarjeet and Sawarmal — through documents found at his shanty. An officer privy to the investigation said, "Sawarmal, the youngest son, lives in Mumbai. Rajkumar, too, was in the city for the past two months and the rest live in their ancestral home in Rajasthan. Sawarmal works as a supervisor in a private company in Mumba..
