Supreme Court To Decide Maharashtra Govt’s Fate, College Student Raped In UP & Other Top Stories

Urgent Floor Test Or Not? Supreme Court To Decide Maharashtra Government's Fate Today

The brewing political drama in Maharashtra has reached at the doorstep of the Supreme Court with Centre being asked to produce the letter of the Governor inviting Devendra Fadnavis and also the letters of support used by the Bharatiya Janata Party leader staking his claim. The top court has asked the Solicitor General to produce the letters at 10.30 am for passing orders. Read more…

Maharashtra: Who Is Supporting Whom? All Eyes On 13 Independent, 16 Smaller Party MLAs

While major political parties in Maharashtra are slugging it out to form a government amidst twists and turns, all eyes are now on which way 13 Independents and 16 MLAs from smaller parties will swing in the quest to achieve the 145-mark in the 288-member House in floor test. The Shiv Sena, which is in talks with the Congress-NCP to form a government sans one-time ally BJP, claims to have the support of seven MLAs apart from its own flock of 56. Read more…

Hours Before Top Court’s Judgment, Ajit Pawar Meets Fadnavis, Discusses Farmers' Issues

After remaining ensconced in his south Mumbai residence throughout Sunday, NCP leader and newly anointed deputy CM Ajit Pawar met Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis late night and held closed-door discussions. Earlier in the day, the supreme court issued notices to the Centre, Maharashtra government, Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar on a plea filed by the Congress-Shiv Sena-NCP combine seeking quashing of the governor's November 23 order inviting the BJP leader to form government. Read more…

No Question Of Forming Alliance With BJP, Ajit’s Statement ‘False’, ‘Misleading’: Sharad Pawar

Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar has hit out at nephew Ajit saying there is no question of supporting the Bharatiya Janata Party to form government in Maharashtra. He also termed Ajit’s statement false, misleading and aimed at creating confusion. “There is no question of forming an alliance with @BJP4Maharashtra. NCP has unanimously decided to ally with @ShivSena & @INCMaharashtra to form the government,” Pawar tweeted. "Shri Ajit Pawars statement is false and misleading in order to create confusion and false perception among the people (sic)," he added. Read more…

UP College Student, Abducted, Raped In Moving Car, Act Filmed

A 24-year-old college student was allegedly abducted and raped in a moving car by a 26-year-old man with the act also being filmed by his friends in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district, police said on Sunday. New Mandi station house officer Sanjiv Kumar said the victim, who is a BSc student, was heading to college from her house on Saturday morning when she was waylaid on Bhopa Road by a car with Subodh and two of his friends in it. According to the complaint lodged by the girl's uncle, she was abducted in the car by the accused and force-fed intoxicant at gunpoint. Read more…