Sangli, India News

The Shiv Sena's plan to defy police orders and splash posters, hoardings and cutouts in the city showing Maratha ruler Chhatrapati Shivaji killing Afzal Khan to mark the 350th year of the incident as 'anti-terrorism day' has fizzled out.

The Shiv Sena has threatened to 'celebrate' the 350th death anniversary of Afzal Khan on Tuesday by displaying giant posters of Chhatrapati Shivaji killing the Adilshahi general.

Mild tremors were felt across Mumbai and several other parts of Maharashtra on Saturday following a moderate earthquake in Koyna region, 200 kilometres south of Mumbai.

Agencies Posted: Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 at 0309 hrs IST Updated: Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 at 0309 hrs IST New Delhi: Unseasonal rains in parts of Maharashtra and Gujarat could delay sugarcane crushing in the country's largest producing state and also impede harvesting of cotton.

The heavy and incessant rain that has hit Maharashtra and Gujarat over the last three days, is all set to dent the export of cash crops such as grapes, pomegranates, alphonso mangoes and cashewnuts.

The resident editor of the Sangli edition of Marathi daily Sanatan Prabhat, Prithviraj Hazare, was arrested on Tuesday for violating the model code of conduct during the Assembly elections.

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When Iragounda Patil coaxed his teenage nephew Malgounda to join the hardline Hindu group Sanatan Sanstha about a decade ago, his purpose was to ensure the boy did not 'stray into bad company'. Never in his worst nightmares did the part-time teacher of Mathematics imagine that his decision would one day be blamed for Malgounda's violent death.

PANAJI/MUMBAI: In a major breakthrough into the October 16 Margao blast case in which two persons were killed, Goa police have arrested a management graduate and a driver, both associated with Sanathan Sanstha.

MUMBAI: Four days after the Maharashtra Assembly election results were announced, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray said his party had not suffered defeat.

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Agencies New Delhi, Oct 22: The Congress got an opportunity to rule Maharashtra for the 3rd time consecutively and swept the polls in Arunachal also, however it fell short of a majority in Haryana.

Sangli, Maharastra, Oct 18 : In a major breakthrough, the Maharashtra Anti-terrorism squad today detained four people in connection with Friday's scooter blast in Margao city in Goa.

PANAJI: The Goa police on Monday said they gathered evidence which showed close links between one of the prime accused in the case of Deepavali-eve Margao blast, Malgonda Patil, and some of those blamed for last year's Thane, Vashi and Panvel explosions.

Shiv Sena's Leader of Opposition Ramdas Kadam led the pack of prominent personalities who lost out in the 2009 Maharashtra assembly elections.

PANJIM, OCT 19 The Goa Police's Special Investigating Team, which is probing the Margao blast has drawn some similarities between blasts last year at Vashi, Thane and Panvel, which were said to have been committed by right wing Hindu organisation Sanatan Saunstha.

A top state intelligence official has admitted to a 'communication lapse' in monitoring the movements of Sanatan Sanstha member Malgunda Patil, who died after an improvised explosive devices he was ferrying exploded in south Goa on Diwali eve.

Goa police had been tipped off over a month ago about the suspicious activities of Malgonda Patil, a Sanatan Sanstha activist killed in a blast on Diwali eve while ferrying an improvised explosive device , official sources said here Tuesday.

Madgaon A second man injured in a scooter bomb blast in Madgaon on October 16, Yogesh Naik, died on Tuesday morning.

The Sanatan Sanstha office bearer killed in Goa last week while allegedly trying to plant bombs at Diwali celebrations is believed to have been in touch with one of the six Sanstha activists arrested by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad last year in connection with a bombing plot on the outskirts of Mumbai, Goa police said today.