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'.
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Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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