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  Maharashtra CM to make bonfire of wildlife contraband

  India | July 29, 2013 13:00 IST

  Mumbai, July 29: In a first-ever initiative in the country, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan will make a bonfire of wildlife contraband as part of a New Global Campaign to Save the Tiger here Tuesday,

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  Maharashtra CM sounds election bugle

  Politics | December 29, 2012 11:41 IST

  Mumbai, Dec 29: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan Fridayvirtually sounded the election bugle asking party workers to prepare themselves for the “political challenges” in the form of the Lok Sabha and assembly polls in 2014

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  Youth held for trying to hurl slipper at Maharashtra CM

  Politics | October 29, 2012 19:37 IST

  Pandharpur, Maharashtra, Oct 29: A youth was detained on Sunday after he tried to throw footwear at Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan when he was addressing a farmers' rally here, police said.Mahesh Kedar, who claims

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  Congress may change CMs of Andhra and Maharashtra

  Politics | September 16, 2012 14:25 IST

  New Delhi, Sep 16: Congress is contemplating major changes both at the centre and at CM level of at least two major states, reports'The Sunday Guardian'.The report says that the first person to depart will

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  Under attack from NCP, Maharashtra CM cancels Delhi visit

  Politics | July 21, 2012 17:16 IST

  Mumbai, Jul 21: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, under attack from ally NCP, today cancelled his visit to Delhi.Chavan, who had gone to Nagpur to inaugurate the National Institute of Intellectual Property Management, was scheduled

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  Maharashtra CM blasts smaller parties for vetoing policies

  Politics | June 09, 2012 17:06 IST

  Mumbai, Jun 9: Alluding to the impasse over the Pension Bill, which the Union Cabinet deferred on Thursday following reported opposition from Trinamool Congress, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Friday said that even “a

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  Dalit Woman Paraded Naked In Maharashtra CM Chavan's Home District Satara

  India | January 14, 2012 12:32 IST

  Satara, Maharashtra, Jan 14: A major political controversy has erupted in Maharashtra over the incident involving a Dalit woman, who was allegedly paraded naked in chief minister Prithviraj Chavan's home district Satara. Even as Dalit outfits

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  Maharashtra CM Alleges Security Lapse, Asks For More Security For Pawar

  India | November 24, 2011 17:10 IST

  Mumbai, Nov 24: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today strongly condemned the attack on Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and said such incidents expose “lapses” in security of senior leaders and Ministers. The NCP President

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  Probe In Adarsh Scam Has Slowed Down, Says Maha CM

  India | October 26, 2011 10:43 IST

  Mumbai, Oct 26: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today admitted that probe in the Adarsh housing scam has been delayed.Probe by CBI and the two-man commission appointed by the state government has slowed down, he

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  Maha CM Rules Out CBI Probe Into J Dey Murder Case

  India | June 21, 2011 21:52 IST

  Mumbai, Jun 21 :  Ruling out handing over the investigations into murder of senior journalist J Dey to CBI, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today said that Mumbai police would crack the case soon. “If the

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  Adarsh May Be Demolished, Says Maharashtra CM

  India | April 09, 2011 18:24 IST

  Mumbai, Apr 9: Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan today said pulling down the Adarsh Society building was the only option before the state government if the High Court does not give an extension on April

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  Chavan's Statement On CVC Issue Baseless: Achuthanandan

  Politics | March 24, 2011 13:04 IST

  Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 24: Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan has described as `baseless' the statement of his Maharashtra counterpart Prithviraj Chavan that Kerala government had not informed the Centre that former Chief Vigilance Commissioner P

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  New Maharashtra CM Dodges Questions On Adarsh Scam

  Politics | November 12, 2010 9:12 IST

  Mumbai, Nov 11 (PTI) New Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, who took charge in the shadow of raging Adarsh housing society scam in the state, today parried questions related to the issue at his first

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  Prithviraj To Be Next Maha CM, Oath Taking Likely On Thursday

  India | November 10, 2010 20:13 IST

  New Delhi/Mumbai, Nov 10 (PTI) Union Minister Prithviraj Chavan, a technocrat-politician, was today selected as Maharashtra's new Chief Minister with the NCP also mirroring the change bringing in Sharad Pawar's nephew Ajit Pawar as his

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  Next Maha CM Should Be Clean: Rahul Gandhi

  Politics | November 09, 2010 17:20 IST

  New Delhi, Nov 9 (PTI) With Ashok Chavan being forced to step down over the housing society scam in Mumbai, Rahul Gandhi today said the next Maharashtra Chief Minister should be a "clean" person who

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  Chavan Third Maha CM To Resign Over Scams

  Politics | November 09, 2010 12:08 IST

  Mumbai, Nov 9 :  Ashokrao Chavan became the third chief minister of Maharashtra today to be consumed by scams and corruption in three decades with belief in astrology even not helping him to survive his

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  Next Maharashtra CM Will Be From Congress, Says Deshmukh

  India | October 22, 2009 10:10 IST

  With NCP leader and deputy chief minister Chagan Bhujbal floating the idea of rotating the post of Chief Minister, senior Congress leader Vilasrao Deshmukh on Thursday  said there was no doubt about his party getting