The Latest Breaking News from Maharashtra

The national context is important because the politics of Maharashtra, like the politics of Assam, deeply intersects with the slow-moving terrain of national politics

In a major Cabinet reshuffle led by the Eknath Shinde-led government in Maharashtra, the newly appointed Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has been entrusted with the finance and planning ministries Another minister, Chhagan Bhujbal has been allotted the food and civil supplies ministry. Read further on Dynamite News:

Centre directs Nafed, NCCF to procure tomatoes from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra for distribution in major consumption centres as retail prices of tomatoes have soared up to ₹200/kg due to supply disruption caused by heavy rain.

Shiv Sena (UBT) dubs Maharashtra Deputy CM Fadnavis "tainted" & questions status of cases against MLAs of CM Shinde-led Shiv Sena probed by ED. Fadnavis hits back, saying Thackeray needs psychiatric treatment. Shinde says those who "tainted" Thackeray's name are calling Fadnavis "tainted".

The Congress party has announced that it will contest the election in Maharashtra as part of the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance

The Bombay High Court on 11th July rejected a petition filed by 154 students against the process of normalisation of marks adopted by the Maharashtra government’s Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell for admission to MBA course 2023

Uddhav Thackeray reminded the BJP that it was the Shiv Sena who helped build their party on its shoulders when the latter “was nothing”. Read more on The Hindu

The Shivaji Nagar police on Monday arrested a 37-year-old man from Maharashtra who made a hoax call to the police control room claiming that a bomb has been planted in a mosque on last Wednesday.

Uddhav Thackeray, who was on a tour of Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region, also accused the BJP-led Centre of raising issues like the Uniform Civil Code ahead of polls just to divert the attention of people for electoral gains.