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TopicNitesh Rane

Topic: Nitesh Rane

Save the Marathi tigers campaign & heaven’s newest resident takes the service entrance

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Nitesh Rane’s push for commercial use of reclaimed land reignites Mumbai’s war of open spaces

The Maharashtra minister has since said that his letter to BMC, seeking a handover of land reclaimed for coastal road project, has been 'misinterpreted'.

Saffron fever, growing heft of Ranes & BJP’s plan to tackle Sena. Inside story of restive Konkan

Despite its sizable Muslim population, both Hindus and Muslims have lived in harmony in this coastal belt. But for past few years, cracks have appeared and so has tension.

Our take on ISRO’s SpaDeX, Biren Singh’s apology & H1B visas—in 50 words

The print view on the most important issues this week.

With links to extortion accused & ‘mini-Pakistan’ jibe, 2 Mahayuti ministers put Fadnavis in a spot

Maharashtra ministers Dhananjay Munde of Ajit Pawar-led NCP and Nitesh Rane of BJP are under opposition fire. Both are not new to controversy.

Kerala very much part of India, says Maharashtra minister Nitesh Rane after ‘mini-Pakistan’ remark

BJP's Nitesh Rane says he was simply comparing 'situation' in Kerala with Pakistan. He had alleged that 'conversion of Hindus has become an everyday thing' in the southern state.

In Nitesh’s Hindutva twist to Rane clan’s brand of aggressive politics, an ‘unofficial’ BJP strategy

Nitesh Rane has been booked for purported ‘anti-Muslim’ remarks. Party sources say BJP MLA has been assigned role of keeping up a strong pro-Hindutva dialogue and ‘he is doing that’.

Narayan Rane & Sons: Maharashtra’s first family of controversies

The 65-year-old Konkan leader’s political journey has been peppered with allegations of criminal wrongdoings against him and his sons.

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.