Aurangabad: Members of the Muslim community from Aurangabad and different parts of Marathwada have decided to have low-key Eid celebrations and share their savings with the needy, saying that the auspicious month of Ramzan and Eid-ul-Fitr emphasise on charity and […]
Pune has a unique waste management system. It relies on individual user fees for waste pickers as opposed to payments being given through a contractor or the municipality. It is extraordinary that despite having a total of 4,284 Covid cases […]
New Delhi: SC on Wednesday sought formal responses from the central and Maharashtra governments on a PIL filed by a Pune-based woman seeking entry into a local mosque. The woman claimed though she wrote seeking permission, there was no response. […]
On May 5, when the Maharashtra government placed an advertisement seeking applications for its 2020-2021 overseas education scholarship scheme for scheduled caste (SC) students, it unexpectedly changed the rules, adding a Rs 6 lakh income limit for scholarships to the […]
A confluence of factors — hundreds of migrant workers, students and others returning to villages from metro cities, the government’s instructions to keep them in institutional quarantine for 14 days and unwillingness shown by some entrants to comply with the […]
Mumbai: A two-decade-old legal fight to get back their land from the clutches of the dominant Maratha community ended on a bloody note when Babu Pawar and his two sons were brutally killed in Mangwadgaon village of Kej tehsil in […]
Police suspect the murders were the fallout of a 20-year-old dispute over a 15-acre farm land in Mandwadgaon village between the Pawar and Nimbalkar families. Police have arrested 12 members of the Nimbalkar family over the murders. Three members of […]
Members of the Muslim community helped in performing the last rites of their 72-year-old Hindu neighbour in Sewri area hereafter the deceased’s relatives could not reach for his funeral due to the lockdown. Pandurang Ubale, who was paralysed since the […]
Of the 548 deaths recorded in Maharashtra as of May 3, 239 (44 per cent) are from the minority Muslim community — almost thrice their share (just under 12 per cent) in the state’s population. This has prompted the state […]
On 31 March, when Durga* was released on bail from a prison in Mumbai, her jailer was faced with a dilemma. The nationwide lockdown and ban on public transportation to prevent the spread of Covid-19 meant that Durga, who hails […]
