Probable MPs Linked to CMIt is family affair for Congress. One day before Rahul Gandhi, the scion of the Gandhi family addressed a rally in Nanded, Chief Minister Ashok Chavan's wife Amita filed her nomination papers from the Nanded constituency. Monday was the last day for filing the nominations. This was in the contravention of the candidacy announced by Bhaskarrao Patil Khatgaonkar from the same constituency. Bhaskarrao Patil is the brother-in-law of Chavan and is the sitting Member of Parliament of the city.Chavan, who accompanied Patil while...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Varun's Dilemma, BJP's Trouble
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
MKCL Also Failed
Answer Sheets of class c & D to be Rechecked NowMaharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited (MKCL) has admitted to have erred in the evaluation of the answer sheets by class C & D employees of Zilla Parishads all across the state. This has irked the state government which in turn has ordered that Rs 25 to be deducted from the fees to be paid by ZPs to MKCL. MKCL is entrusted with the carrying out oonline tests across all departments in the state government. The agency had conducted online examinations for the recruitment of above employees...
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Peaceful Pune, that's right
This might testify to the image of Pune as a peaceful and cultured city. The district administration has notified just six pooling booths as sensitive out of the 3,453 polling booths in Pune Lok Sabha Constituency.According to the information given by district collector and district election officer Chandrakant Dalvi, a total of seven thousand police officers are to be deployed in the electioneering process. The administration started to sell nomination forms from today. But not a single form was sold on the first day. The administration...
Friday, March 27, 2009
Nanded Being Separated
Committee To Look Inot Grievances I had written about the controversy over forming a separate office of divisional commissioner in Nanded. (Marathwada Divided, January )The next logical step of the development has been taken now with the forming of a new committe. A one-member committee comprising retired justice P S Patankar is constituted by the state government to look into the dispute related to creationof separate Nanded revenue division, sources said today, according to agency story. The head quarter of the committee will be in Aurangabad...
Saturday, March 21, 2009
RSS+Has+A+New+Chief
RSS Has A New ChiefMaharashtrian Brahmin Again At HelmRashtirya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) Mohan Bhagwat was today elected as the new chief of RSS. He replaces K S Sudarshan who held the top post of Sangh Parivar for nearly nine years. The move is significant as political front of RSS, the Bharatiya Janata Party, is trying hard to regain the power at centre. It is also important because a Maharashtrian Brahmin has returned to this post in the form...
Friday, March 20, 2009
No President for Marathi Meet
Freedom of Expression Takes BackseatThe Marathi Sahitya Sammelan (Marathi Literary Meet) will take place in Mahabaleshwar without any presiding authority. Yes, the meet which is to start from Friday will have no president. This is the first time in the history of the meet that it will be conducted without president.The meet is scheduled to start in Mahabaleshwar from March 20. Anand Yadav, the path breaking author who started era of rural literature...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Good Morning Spelt Death for Him
Can a Good Morning kill you? Literally. A villager in Supe learned this hard way before he bid goodye to the world. According to a PTI story, Sunil Jadhav, 42 years, lost his life due to the members of Good Morning squad chasing him. The incident led to tension in the village. Jadhav owned a barber shop. He took fright when "Good Morning" squad comprising Panchayat officials, gave him a chase as he ran towards home. He suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed on the way, police said, adding Jadhav could have been a heart patient.The tragic incident...
Monday, March 16, 2009
What did Modi Say?
The first election rally for the Bharatiya Janata Party was a dismal picture today. Even a leader like Narendra Modi could not save the rally from being a poor show. Modi launched the election campaign of BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in Maharashtra with this rally. There simply was not the enthusiasm in the workers which is like fodder to the election process. The meeting was marred by the incidences which attracted attention from reporters like me. First...
Friday, March 13, 2009
Welcome Showers
FC road, originally uploaded by deshpande.devidas.Still Heat is OnPune had a bit of showers today. The temperature is 36.5 degree celsius which is still two degree above the normal. It is a bit abnormal for showers to come in March. Also, IIndia Meteorological Department has announced in the second successive month that February was the excessively warm month. In the last month, IMD had brought out a report titled ‘Warm January 200' It said that...
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Brahmins Vow to Vote Heavily
It is a sacred duty, says Brahmin MahasanghThe Multilingual Brahmin convocation was a much talked about subject in the last month. The two day event held in Pune had hit the headlines after an academician was forced to abandon her speech favouring modernism for women. Thereafter there was talk that the even was ">hijacked by the politicians. Shyam Deshpande, chairman of Standing Committee in Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and Vikas Mathkari,...
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Arranged Marriage Is Still In Thing
, It is official now. Almost half of the marriagable women prefer arranged marriage to the modern ways. The fact has been bought to fore by the one of the prominent matrimony portals of India BharatMatrimony.com.the portal conducted an interesting survey on ‘Woman & Marriage’ in Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, Calcutta, Hyderabad, Bangalore and in tier II cities which include Madurai, Mysore, Pune, Trichy, Coimbatore & Jaipur.According to a press...
Friday, March 06, 2009
The Crumbling Wadas of Pune
Wada, originally uploaded by deshpande.devidas.Pune is known for its wadas. These are structures housing many families under the same roof. But with the passage of time, these wadas have become as old as the city itself. There are many wadas in the city which date back to Peshwa era. Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) had tried to ascertain the 'structural stability' of wadas in old parts of the city. But it has not brought much change. Especially...
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Sunrise at Latur
Sunrise at Latur, originally uploaded by deshpande.devidas.I was to Nanded yesterday. I reached to Latur at around 6:30 AM. I was travelling through a State Transport bus. As I was sitting at the window, I could click some of the view that this opportunity allowed. However, the movement of the bus was not in my hand. Hence, I could not take some good photographs even though I could see them emerging. So the bus travelling and camera shaking, I took...
