Sudhir Mungantiwar: News

17 Dec 2024

Ajit Pawar

Explained: Discontent brews as 11 ministers dropped from Maharashtra cabinet

In a major reshuffle, 11 ministers from the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra have been dropped from the newly-formed government headed by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.

27 Nov 2024

Ajit Pawar

Shinde won't accept Maharashtra deputy CM's post: Sena tells BJP

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Shirsat on Wednesday said that Eknath Shinde will not take the Deputy Chief Minister's post in Maharashtra.

10 Nov 2024

Amit Shah

BJP releases Maharashtra poll manifesto; farmers, women, healthcare in focus

Union Home Minister Amit Shah released the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) manifesto for the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly elections on Sunday.

30 Aug 2024

Ajit Pawar

'Shivaji sculptor was close to RSS', alleges Maharashtra Congress leader 

Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole has alleged that the sculptor of the 35-foot statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj at Rajkot Fort in Malvan, Maharashtra, had ties with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

30 Dec 2021

Sonam Kapoor Ahuja

'Ignorant, illiterate, hateful,' Sonam bashes Sudhir Mungantiwar's LGBTQ+ community remarks

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA), Sudhir Mungantiwar, recently took the internet by storm owing to his controversial remarks against the LGBTQ+ community.

05 Jun 2019

Maharashtra

Payal Rohtagi calls Chhatrapati Shivaji 'shudra', sparks controversy, apologizes

Actress Payal Rohtagi seems to have gone into an overdrive to dissect history, draw her own conclusions, and then land in controversies.

22 Jan 2019

Maharashtra

Rs. 100 crore approved to build Bal Thackeray's sea-facing memorial

The Maharashtra Cabinet today approved Rs. 100 crore for the construction of a memorial for late Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray.

Bar dancers hope to get jobs back after SC's verdict

On Thursday, the Supreme Court relaxed strict rules needed for obtaining a dance bar license in Maharashtra and this has raised hopes of bar dancers.

27 Sep 2018

Maharashtra

Bring Sena to power on its own in 2019: Minister

Shiv Sena leaders exhorted party workers to show their strength during its Dussehra rally on October 19 and bring the party to power on its own in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

21 Aug 2018

Maharashtra

Maharashtra to set-up study chairs in 13 varsities after Vajpayee

Maharashtra government will set up a study chair in the name of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in each of the 13 universities in the state, the state Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar announced.

22 Jul 2018

Maharashtra

Maharashtra-govt employees to get 7th pay panel salaries from Diwali

The Maharashtra government will implement recommendations of the Seventh Pay Commission for its employees from Diwali (falls in November this year), State Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said.

06 Jul 2018

Celebrity

Salman Khan gets mired in land dispute with NRI couple

In what has come as yet another hindrance for Salman Khan and his family, an NRI couple has accused the superstar of not letting them obtain electricity from his property Arpita Farms which they claim is rightfully theirs.

04 Jul 2018

Maharashtra

Maharashtra government's women, widower employees to get six-month childcare leave

To enable better parenting, Maharashtra government has decided to give six months' paid leave to its women and widower employees for childcare.

03 Jul 2018

Maharashtra

Maharashtra: Social activist allegedly thrashed by BJP supporters

A social activist Pravin Surana was allegedly thrashed by workers of Bharatiya Janata Party in Warora, Chandrapur, Maharashtra, for criticizing state finance and planning minister Sudhir Mungantiwar, on Sunday.

16 Jun 2018

Maharashtra

Maharashtra: Mungantiwar criticizes RaGa for blaming BJP for Jalgaon incident

Maharashtra Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar said Rahul Gandhi's comments blaming BJP and RSS for the Jalgaon incident don't befit a person aspiring to become a PM.

29 May 2018

Mount Everest

Five Everest summiteers awarded Rs. 25L from Maharashtra Government

The Maharashtra Government has announced a reward of Rs. 25 lakh each to the state's five tribal students who successfully scaled Mount Everest earlier this month.

27 May 2018

Maharashtra

Congress may win in Maharashtra if BJP-Sena break ties: Minister

The BJP is compelled to have an alliance with the Shiv Sena. If the alliance is broken, then the Congress could come to power in Maharashtra (after the next Assembly elections)," Maharashtra PWD minister and senior BJP leader Chandrakant Patil said.

08 Mar 2018

Maharashtra

12.9% of total households in Maharashtra headed by women: Survey

According to an Economic Survey tabled in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly on Thursday, at least 12.9% of the total households in the state are headed by women.

07 Mar 2018

Maharashtra

Maharashtra government reduced the height of Shivaji statue, alleges Congress

Maharashtra government has reduced the height of warrior Shivaji's statue, to be constructed off Mumbai coast, alleged opposition Congress party and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).

27 Feb 2018

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)

Mumbai: CM Fadnavis, wife sing to save rivers; Opposition fumes

An almost 4-minute long video starting with a concerned Amruta at her residence in Malabar Hill and progressing to show her husband CM Devendra Fadnavis, along with other eminent government officials has drawn ire of Opposition parties.

21 Jan 2017

Indian Penal Code

What's making headlines in Mumbai?

The State of Maharashtra is not very keen on backing the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train loan as its guarantor.