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Sunday, August 17, 2025
TopicMaha Vikas Aghadi

Topic: Maha Vikas Aghadi

As Prakash Ambedkar seeks place in INDIA as equal partner in MVA, allies say ‘top leaders to decide’

Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi chief Ambedkar has proposed 12+12+12+12 seats each for his party, Congress, Shiv Sena UBT & NCP’s Sharad Pawar faction.

In 1st major rural poll post NCP split, Ajit Pawar faction sweeps Baramati, Sharad Pawar sits it out

As counting for 2,359 gram panchayats was still underway, leaders of the Ajit Pawar faction of NCP claimed to have won 30 of 32 gram panchayats in Baramati — the Pawar stronghold. 

Maharashtra Oppn calls for health minister to resign after Nanded hospital deaths — ‘not first time’

Twenty-four patients, including 12 infants who were one to two days old, died between 30 September and 1 October at Dr Shankarrao Chavan Government Medical College and Hospital (SCGMCH) in Nanded.

‘Bid to capture BMC’ — Why BJP minister’s office at civic body HQ has Oppn up in arms

Mumbai (suburbs) Guardian Minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha is 1st minister in 75 yrs to have an office at BMC building. Ex-BJP corporators allowed to use space for public outreach.

‘Sympathy for Rahul will go down if he insults Savarkar’ — Uddhav Shiv Sena hits out at ally

In an editorial in mouthpiece 'Saamana', Shiv Sena (UBT) says insulting V.D. Savarkar will make it difficult for Congress leaders in Maharashtra to face the public.

‘Life caricatured for political gains’ — How Shiv Sena, BJP, Congress have appropriated Savarkar

Historians say Savarkar did not always agree with the RSS, was criticised by Bal Thackeray's father and praised on occasion by Indira Gandhi, Congress's most assertive leader yet.

Sushil Modi’s ‘BJP breaking Sena’ remark likely to cause storm in Maharashtra monsoon session

Thackeray-led Sena MLAs and MLCs plan to target on how the BJP is holding the reins to the government despite Shinde becoming the CM and take up the Aarey Metro car shed issue.

Moral, political & ideological questions on Maharashtra: 1st is simplest to answer, 3rd trickiest

What is Shiv Sena’s ideology? We might say it’s been a convenient mix of extreme ethnic chauvinism & unforgiving Hindutva. Within the second, the party retained space to manoeuvre.

If you listened to me, there would have been no MVA govt with Congress, NCP: Thackeray to BJP

Uddhav Thackeray had broken the three-decade alliance with BJP in 2019 after it rejected his demand that the CM’s chair be shared.

Eknath Shinde to take oath as CM in 2 hours, Fadnavis will ‘support govt but stay out of it’

Eknath Shinde, who rebelled from the Shiv Sena earlier this month and was camping in Guwahati for nine days before arriving in Goa, returned to Mumbai Thursday afternoon.

On Camera

SC’s stray dog order lit a match in Delhi. Are they a menace or companions?

The last time this matter flared up was when Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, in a very similar directive in April, called for the relocation of stray dogs in the capital.

Modi’s ‘Diwali bonanza’ for the common man—next-gen GST reforms, lower tax on daily-use items soon

Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?