Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, earlier Aurangabad, is seeing motley mix of push and pull factors: demand for Maratha quota, clash between Senas, VBA & overhang of change in city's name.
Tension has been building ever since the city's name was changed from Aurangabad to Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar in February. Violence has triggered fresh political row.
Police in Maharashtra’s Kolhapur say Momin’s family left on their own accord & were granted protection. Local court sent 19-year-old to 14-day judicial custody Monday.
At least 50 people sustained injuries after a fire at a general store in the Shahganj Teli area of Bihar’s Aurangabad on Saturday, causing a gas cylinder & refrigerator to explode.
The decision was taken in the previous MVA government's last cabinet meeting chaired by then CM Thackeray on 29 June. However, Shinde and Fadnavis said the decision was illegal.
The former MVA government agreed to change the names of Aurangabad, Osmanabad, and the Navi Mumbai airport. The decision turned out to be among the last the Uddhav cabinet made.
The Ahmeds have taken care of the tomb of Aurangzeb — who ordered execution of Chhatrapati Shivaji’s son Sambhaji & is thus a polarising figure in Maharashtra — for six generations.
Ahead of civic body polls, Shiv Sena’s decades-long quest to have Aurangabad renamed to Sambhajinagar has made a comeback in mainstream Maharashtra politics.
In 1988, Bal Thackeray said Aurangabad would be called Sambhajinagar after Chhatrapati Shivaji’s son. Now, his son and Maharashtra CM Uddhav is pushing for it again.
Shiv Sena, MNS & Maratha outfits now want more cities renamed but MVA partner Congress believes 'politics of renaming is inappropriate and has nothing to do with development'.
Weak governance, corruption and poverty continue to define tribal life in India. The introduction of industrial and mining projects has benefited contractors, politicians and officials more than Adivasis.
Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.
Dubai airshow crash & pilot death have rekindled concerns over pilot safety, and need for smarter automated systems that can step in when G-forces, temporary loss of consciousness hit the pilot.
None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.
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