Devendra Gangadharrao Fadnavis is the current Chief Minister of Maharashtra. A member of Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Fadnavis holds the honour of being the second youngest Chief Minister of Maharashtra after Sharad Pawar. In the past, he has also been recognised as the youngest municipal corporator of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation at the age of 21. He was the second youngest mayor elected in India, when he served as the Mayor of Nagpur at the age of 27, in 1997. He is also the only person to be re-elected as the Mayor in Council in Maharashtra. He has been an MLA representing Nagpur, since, 1999. A lawyer by profession, Fadnavis holds law degree from Nagpur Law College. He also has a Post Graduate Degree in Business Management and a diploma in Project Management from DSE, Berlin. His wife, Amruta Ranade is a branch manager in Axis Bank.
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Mumbai: A three-day special session of Maharashtra Assembly will begin here from tomorrow, during which Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will seek a trust vote. State Governor C Vidyasagar Rao will administer oath to Jeeva Pandu Gavit
Mumbai: The simmering tension between Shiv Sena and BJP came to a boil on Sunday as Sena MP Anil Desai failed to take oath as Union Minister amid talk that Uddhav Thackeray will pull the
Mumbai: Mumbai Police today ordered an inquiry into major security lapse during the swearing-in of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi inside Wankhede Stadium on October 31. A man
Mumbai: A man who posed as a public servant and gained unauthorised entry into the swearing-in ceremony of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis where he shared dais with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been arrested.Anil
Mumbai: Maharashtra Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse on Friday assured appropriate action in the incident of a major security lapse during the swearing-in of Cabinet in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi inside Wankhede Stadium
Mumbai: Minister for Environment, Forests & Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar today said he would look into Maharashtra's projects with an open mind in a transparent manner, and convey approvals as soon as possible.Javadekar today held
Devendra Fadnavis is the newly elected Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Incidentally he is the first person from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to hold this post. His name for the coveted post was unanimously adopted
Mumbai: Union power minister Piyush Goyal has assured the Maharashtra government that an alternative coal block would be made available to the state-run Mahagenco in place of the one at Machhakata.The allocation of Machhakata block
Mumbai: Shiv Sena representatives will not be inducted into Maharashtra's BJP-led government before it wins the trust vote, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Wednesday, in comments that have not gone down well with the
Mumbai: Shiv Sena today criticised Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for his remarks on Vidarbha, saying that instead of speaking about separate statehood, the BJP should concentrate on developing the region.The Sena also reminded its
Mumbai: Senior Congress leader Narayan Rane said that Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis won't be able to run the government ‘smoothly' as he will also have to wait for orders from Delhi just like the
Mumbai: Senior Congress leader Narayan Rane today said BJP's first Chief Minister of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis lacks "acumen" and the administrative skills required to run government."Fadnavis is a good person (but) he lacks the administrative
Mumbai: With just a week left for Fadnavis government to prove its majority in the Maharashtra Assembly, BJP and Shiv Sena are yet to resolve their differences over terms for the latter's participation in the
Mumbai: Shiv Sena today urged Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis to step up offensive against the Karnataka government's decision to change Belgaum's name to Belagavi, to protect the interests of the Marathi-speaking people."Devendra Fadnavis has
Mumbai: The much awaited talks between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena are believed to be in the last stage with the former putting up a new formula before the Sena to join
Mumbai: An eleven-year-old girl Drishti Harchand Rai wanted to interview the new Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, after watching him take oath on TV and speaking to mediapersons on news channels.She told her mother that
Nagpur: Devendra Fadnavis was yesterday accorded with a grand welcome by people of Nagpur on his first visit to his hometown after becoming the Chief Minister of Maharashtra.44-year-old Fadnavis is the first Chief Minister to
Kolhapur: As talks between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Shiv Sena move ahead slowly, Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray yesterday said Shiv Sainiks are in no hurry to join the ‘minority' government in the state.Uddhav,
Sanjay PawarNew Delhi: At a time when the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is making efforts to bring the Shiv Sena onboard in Maharashtra, its senior leader and now a Cabinet Minister in Devendra Fadnavis government,
Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has proposed to do away with the need for sanction to probe the corruption cases where there is a prima facie evidence.“Why should any sanction be necessary? We would
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