http://www.samachaar.in Smachaar.in en-us 2010 Samachaar.In Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:13:25 GMT Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:13:25 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/_Rahul_Gandhi_to_visit_droughthit_areas_in_Maharashtra_127737 Mumbai: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi arrives here Friday on a two-day visit to Maharashtra during which he will visit some drought-hit regions, a party office bearer said here.  He will visit some of the worst drought-hit villa... Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:13:21 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Two_fathers_and_their_daughters_drown_in_Maharashtra_127346 Thane (Maharashtra),  Four people, two fathers and their daughters, drowned when they missed their footing and slipped into the reservoir of Maharashtra's Musai dam, police said Monday.Burannudin Akbarali Lokhandwala, 42, and Ismail Alihuss... Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:55:58 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Mild_quakes_in_Maharashtra_Gujarat_127265 Mumbai: Two mild earthquakes, measuring 4.5 and 4.9 on the Richter scale, shook Gujarat and Maharashtra here Saturday, a top weather official said.The first tremor was felt at 8.53 a.m. in Gujarat with the epicentre in Bhuj, said Director, Weat... Sat, 14 Apr 2012 06:27:32 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Maharashtra_celebrates_Ambedkars_birth_anniversary_127250 Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan Saturday led celebrations in the state on the 121st birth anniversary of Bhimrao R. Ambedkar, the architect of the Indian constitution.Chavan visited the Ambedkar Memorial at Shivaji Park and... Sat, 14 Apr 2012 05:05:43 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/_Maharashtra_celebrates_Mahavir_Jayanti_126827 Mumbai: Thousands of devotees across Maharashtra Thursday celebrated Mahavir Jayanti, the birth anniversary of Mahavir, the last Tirthankar.  Members belonging to Jain community held special programmes at various shrines in Mumbai and oth... Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:00:46 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Court_stays_new_Shirdi_temple_board_of_trustees_126574 Aurangabad (Maharashtra), In a major embarrassment for the state government, the Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court Friday stayed the new board of trustees for the world famous Shirdi Saibaba temple."The court has stayed the new board... Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:12:47 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Maoist_blast_kills_10_CRPF_troopers_in_Maharashtra__126482 Gadchiroli (Maharashtra) At least 10 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were killed Tuesday when a mine blast triggered by Maoists blew up their vehicle in Dhanora area of Gadchiroli district, a top official said.Though details of the ... Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:29:51 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Theft_at_Maharashtra_temple_guard_killed_126380 Raigad (Maharashtra),  A security guard was killed as burglars made away with a 1.5 kg gold mask from a Lord Ganesh temple in Divegar village of Raigad district, around 175 km from Mumbai, police said."The incident happened in the wee h... Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:13:24 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Maharashtra_celebrates_Gudi_Padwa_126336 Mumbai: As a string of harvest festivals began in Maharashtra Friday, the weekend came a day earlier with people across the state celebrating Gudi Padwa (New Year's day) with enthusiasm.Celebrated on the first day of the Hindu month of Chaitra,... Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:00:59 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Police_to_quiz_exminister_held_in_housing_scam_125685 Jalgaon (Maharashtra), Former Maharashtra housing minister Suresh Jain was Sunday remanded to police custody by a sessions court here after his arrest in connection with a housing society scam, police said."Jain was arrested early Sunday in... Mon, 12 Mar 2012 03:40:50 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Allocation_for_water_and_sanitation_may_go_up_50_percent_125669 Hiware Bajar (Maharashtra), Water supply and sanitation projects in the country would get a boost with up to 50 per cent increase in allocation in the annual budget this year, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh said Saturday."I expect ... Sun, 11 Mar 2012 03:30:56 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/__Jharkhand_youth_among_2_fishermen_drowned_near_Thane_125652 Thane (Maharashtra), ) Two fishermen, including one from Jharkhand, drowned near Bhayander's Uttan Beach here after their fishing vessel capsized in the high tide Friday evening, police said here Saturday.  According to an official from Bh... Sat, 10 Mar 2012 12:27:32 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Now_cabbies_maids_can_learn_while_they_earn_125457 Nashik/Mumbai: A couple of years down the line, Mumbai residents may be dealing with cabbies and auto-drivers who are full-fledged graduates. Thanks to an open university, deprived sections of the city's huge workforce will get a chance to enhance ... Mon, 05 Mar 2012 09:28:03 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/Kripashankar_returns_to_Mumbai_claims_innocence_125410 Mumbai: Congress' former Mumbai unit chief Kripashankar Singh, whose properties were Friday attached on orders of a court hearing a corruption case against him, Saturday returned to the city and asserted his innocence.Singh, who was not traceabl... Sun, 04 Mar 2012 03:51:13 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Thane_BJP_corporator_goes_missing_125405 Thane: Days before the election of the mayor here, a Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) corporator has gone missing with her family, police said Saturday.Suhasini Lokhande, who represented ward 48, went on a vacation with her husband and son Feb 24 bu... Sat, 03 Mar 2012 12:42:53 GMT http://samachaar.in/Business_and_Economy/Peaceful_start_to_general_strike_in_Maharashtra_125177 Mumbai: Employees of banks, insurance companies, central government and local bodies as well as workers in several private industries joined a 24-hour all India strike of various trade unions here Tuesday.However, the state government, railways... Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:49:39 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Two_die_as_luxury_bus_overturns_in_Maharashtra_124976 Ratnagiri (Maharashtra), Feb 24 (IANS) At least two people were killed and 18 injured Friday when a luxury bus overturned on the busy Mumbai-Goa highway here, police said.H.D. Garate, a police official, said the luxury bus was going from Mumb... Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:02:49 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/4_killed_40_trapped_as_fire_sweeps_cracker_factory_124850 Solapur (Maharashtra) At least four women were burnt alive while another 40 were trapped as a fire broke out in a fire cracker factory in a village in this Maharashtra district Monday, police said.According to police official N. N. Dede of Ma... Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:23:53 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Farmer_kills_daughter_for_refusing_to_marry_chosen_groom_124842 Satara (Maharashtra), ) A farmer in Maharashtra's Satara killed his 25-year old daughter after she refused to marry within her caste and insisted on an alliance with a man from a lower caste, police said Monday.In a fit of rage, Shankar B. Shind... Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:14:26 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/SA_exconsultant_Darade_wins_distrct_poll_in_Vidarbha_124748 Buldhana (Maharashtra),  Indian scientist-turned-politician and former NASA consultant in the US, Balasaheb S. Darade Friday emerged the surprise winner in the Pangradole circle constituency in the Buldhana district council polls, an aide said.... Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:03:29 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/Peaceful_start_to_Maharashtra_civic_corporation_polls_124666 Mumbai: Polling started on a peaceful note here and nine other municipal corporations around the state Thursday.Over 25,000 security personnel have been deployed in Mumbai, the biggest corporation going to polls, where around 1.30 crore peopl... Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:10:08 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Ambulance_rams_into_bus_four_killed_124200 Osmanabad (Maharashtra),  At least four passengers were killed when an ambulance from Karnataka carrying a body rammed into a state transport bus near Vadgaon in this district early Thursday, police said.The accident took place on the busy Sola... Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:15:26 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Dalit_woman_assaulted_for_sons_elopement_124071 Satara (Maharashtra) Five people were booked here Wednesday for assaulting a Dalit widow whose son had eloped with a girl from a higher caste family, police in this Maharashtra town said."An offence has been registered against five membe... Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:19:04 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/Maharashtra_gears_up_for_civic_polls_123804 Mumbai: Maharashtra Wednesday geared up for the crucial polls to 10 top civic corporations and 27 zilla parishads (district councils) across the state, in an exercise considered a dress rehearsal for the 2014 assembly elections.The sheer num... Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:22:47 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Anna_advised_a_months_rest_uncertainty_over_poll_plans__123754 Pune: Doctors here have advised Anna Hazare one month's rest, putting a question mark over his plans to campaign against the Congress in the forthcoming assembly polls in five states. The activist, admitted to a hospital with chest congestion, i... Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:49:25 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Maharashtra_to_evict_encroachers_from_mill__123605 Mumbai: Facing the ire of the Bombay High Court, the Maharashtra government Thursday assured that it would attempt to amicably remove Dalit activists who have encroached a National Textiles Corporation mill premises here since the past nearly... Fri, 23 Dec 2011 05:59:37 GMT http://samachaar.in/Mumbai/President_Patil_reviews_naval_fleet_123516 Mumbai: Reviewing the fleet of 81 ships and 44 aircraft as part of the 10th Presidential Fleet Review, President Pratibha Patil sailed on board INS Subhadra Tuesday.Patil was accompanied by Defence Minister A.K. Antony, the three service chiefs ... Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:17:25 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Maharashtra_wants_Belgaum_to_be_declared_union_territory__123483 Nagpur: In a new dimension to the Maharashtra-Karnataka boundary dispute, the Maharashtra assembly Friday passed a unanimous motion urging the centre to declare Belgaum in Karnataka as a union territory till the Supreme Court delivers its final ... Sat, 17 Dec 2011 05:48:01 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/Anna_Hazare_may_make_it_to_Time_cover_soon_123173 Ralegan-Siddhi (Maharashtra), Nov 26 (IANS) Social crusader Anna Hazare is going places. He is soon expected to figure on the cover of the prestigious Time magazine, an aide said here Saturday.Saturday morning, a team of Time photographers came ... Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:20:59 GMT http://samachaar.in/Mumbai/india_remembers_victims_martyrs_on_2611_third_anniversary_123169 Mumbai: India paid homage to the victims and martyrs of the 26/11 terror attacks on its third anniversary here Saturday.Maharashtra Governor K. Sankaranarayanan laid a wreath at the 26/11 memorial at the Police Gymkhana on Marine Drive in south M... Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:41:12 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Women_reporter_held_for_Dey_killing__123151 Mumbai: A woman journalist with an English newspaper here was Friday arrested for alleged involvement in senior journalist Jyotirmoy Dey's killing, sending shock waves in the media industry. A court later sent her to police custody until Dec 1. ... Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:52:27 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/Hazare_offers_to_apologise_to_Sharad_Pawar_123139 Ralegan Siddhi (Maharashtra), Nov 24 (IANS) Anna Hazare Thursday offered to apologise to union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar over his comment on an attack on the Nationalist Congress Party leader in Delhi. Reacting on the incident, Hazare, wh... Fri, 25 Nov 2011 05:53:14 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Involve_corporates_to_develop_villages_Hazare_123094 Ralegan-Siddhi (Maharashtra), Nov 22 (IANS) Anna Hazare Tuesday called for returning to the Gandhian principles of holistic development of villages and creating more 'model villages' with the help of industrialists. "Some industrialists had finan... Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:02:44 GMT http://samachaar.in/Mumbai/Malegaon_blast_accused_bail_not_opposed_by_NIA_122905 Mumbai: The bail petitions of nine accused arrested in the 2006 Malegaon blast case faced no opposition Saturday from the National Investigation Agency (NIA).The bail applications were filed in the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOC... Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:25:39 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/_Opposition_shocks_CongressNCP_in_Khadakwasla__122628 Pune: Maharashtra's ruling Congress-Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) alliance was Monday defeated by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-Shiv Sena combine in the Khadakwasla assembly by-election.  Bhimrao Tapkir, who belongs to the BJP, trou... Mon, 17 Oct 2011 07:57:08 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/Hazare_begins_vow_of_silence_Sunday_122606 Ralegan-Siddhi (Maharashtra),  Anna Hazare will go on a 'maun vrat' (vow of silence) from Sunday for an indefinite period due to medical reasons, an aide said."He will not speak or communicate with anybody for an indefinite period on he... Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:10:22 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/Were_getting_threats_Kejriwal_122602 Ralegan-Siddhi (Maharashtra),  Three days after the attack on lawyer Prashant Bhushan, Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal Saturday said the anti-corruption crusaders were now getting threats through calls and SMSes."Since yesterday (Frida... Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:11:48 GMT http://samachaar.in/Business_and_Economy/Maharashtra_slams_poor_quality_coal_supply_to_power_plants_122590 Mumbai: Maharashtra's electricity producer Mahagenco Friday accused the Western Coalfields Ltd. of supplying sub-standard coal to its power plants which has resulted in the ongoing energy crisis gripping the state.Locking horns with the WCL - a... Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:11:19 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/Hazare_disagrees_with_Bhushan_on_Kashmir_122568 Ralegan Siddhi (Maharashtra), Oct 14 (IANS) Distancing himself from lawyer Prashant Bhushan's controversial statement on plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir, Anna Hazare Friday said Team Anna is not in agreement with his views and the state is an in... Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:47:04 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Grover_killing_Maharashtra_appeals_for_stringent_punishment_122445 Mumbai: Three months after a trial court acquitted starlet Maria Susairaj and her fiance Jerome Emile Mathew of murdering television executive Neeraj Grover but convicted them on lesser charges, the Maharashtra government Tuesday filed an appeal... Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:52:10 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Quake_rattles_Maharashtra_122135 Mumbai: An earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter Scale shook Maharashtra early Monday, barely 12 hours after a powerful quake jolted northern and eastern India, an official said.According to an official of the Seismological Monitoring Centre, ... Mon, 19 Sep 2011 06:31:13 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Heavy_rains_and_landslide_disrupt_Konkan_rail_services_121617 Ratnagiri (Maharashtra), Sep 3 (IANS) Incessant rains in the Konkan region triggered a fresh landslide at the Pomendi cutting near Ratnagiri, disrupting movement of trains on the Konkan Railway yet again, an official said.?Train operations on th... Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:41:51 GMT http://samachaar.in/Science/Blazing_starry_trail_accountant_finds_sixth_comet_in_nine_months__121447 Thane (Maharashtra), Aug 27 (IANS) He spends most of his day at office and commuting to and from Mumbai in crowded suburban trains but accountant Shishir Deshmukh still finds time to look at the stars and pursue his passion for astronomy. And he has... Sat, 27 Aug 2011 04:59:51 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/___Nobath_protest_in_Hazares_village_121236 Ralegan Siddhi: Residents of Ralegan Siddhi, the village of anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare, took to a unique form of protest Thursday as they took to streets with buckets, refusing to take bath for the day.  “Not only the resi... Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:06:45 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Bomb_attacks_in_Maharashtra_since_1993_120388 Mumbai: Bomb attacks in Maharashtra since 1993.March 12, 1993: Serial blasts rock Mumbai, including Zaveri Bazar, 257 killed 713 injured. Oct 29, 1993: Blast in Matunga station, two killed, over 40 injured. Feb 27, 1998: Blasts in Virar, Thane, two... Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:32:35 GMT http://samachaar.in/Politics/Antony_for_selfsufficiency_in_advanced_rocket_propellants_120035 Nashik (Maharashtra), June 29 (IANS) Defence Minister A.K. Antony Wednesday called upon the scientific community to move with the times and stressed on the need for self-sufficiency in the country's requirements of composite propellants used ... Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:12:48 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Gandhis_glasses_missing_from_Wardha_ashram_119652 Wardha (Maharashtra) Mahatma Gandhi's spectacles have been missing from the Sevagram Ashram in Wardha since November, officials revealed Monday.Ashram president M.M. Gadkari said its employees were asked to keep silent about the missing glasses. &qu... Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:55:11 GMT http://samachaar.in/Mumbai/Mumbai_politicians_activists_condemn_Mid_Day_scribes_murder_119622 Mumbai: Strongly condemning the murder of veteran crime journalist Jyotindra Dey, journalists, politicians and activists in Mumbai demanded strict action against his killers."The Press Club of Mumbai expresses shock over the killing of vete... Sun, 12 Jun 2011 01:35:22 GMT http://samachaar.in/Mumbai/Senior_crime_journalist_shot_dead_in_Mumbai_119621 Mumbai: Senior crime journalist of Mumbai-based eveninger Mid Day, Jyotindra Dey was shot dead by unidentified assailants in northwest part of this megapolis Saturday afternoon, police said.Quoting eyewitnesses, police said Dey received a pho... Sun, 12 Jun 2011 01:34:06 GMT http://samachaar.in/Maharashtra/Powerful_blast_in_Nashik_building_kills_three_119564 Nashik (Maharashtra), June 8 (IANS) At least three persons were killed, and five others were injured when a powerful explosion ripped through a building in the congested Panchvati area of this town Wednesday afternoon, police said. Several peop... Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:29:48 GMT