Ratnagiri Assembly Election 2024: The Ratnagiri assembly seat had been the stronghold of the BJP before Shiv Sena's Uday Samant won the seat for the first time in 2004. After Shiv Sena's division, Uday Samant is contesting on the Eknath faction ticket against Shiv Sena (UBT) candidate Bal Mane.
The accused auto-rickshaw driver allegedly intoxicated the nursing student before raping her. Based on the girl's complaint, the police have registered a case and are scanning CCTV to identify the accused.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert for heavy to very heavy rainfall in Mumbai, Thane, Palghar, and surrounding regions in Maharashtra, starting from Saturday.
A shocking video has emerged from Maharashtra's Ratnagiri, showing a youth being swept away by strong currents at Sheldi Dam.
A total of 2.09 crore persons were eligible to vote for 258 candidates in the third phase, for which 23,036 polling centres were set up, an election official said. There were 1,07,64,741 male voters, 1,02,26,946 female voters and 929 from the third gender.
Hot seats in Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The BJP has pitted Union Minister Narayan Rane against sitting MP Vinayak Raut.
Hot seats in Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Narayan Rane's elder son Nilesh had won the 2009 Lok Sabha election in the Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg constituency when the Rane family was part of the Congress. Nilesh was re-nominated by the Congress, but lost the 2014 Lok Sabha election against Vinayak Raut.
Dawood Ibrahim property auction: This was the second major auction of the Kaskar family’s real assets, standing in the names of various siblings, in the past four years.
Dawood Ibrahim news: The bidder or buyer would also be responsible for any outstanding or pending dues, taxes, fees, etc that may be applicable on the properties, which according to local villagers have been deserted for several decades.
Drugs worth crores of rupees have been seized in Ratnagiri from different locations near the coast between August 14-17.
Maharashtra weather: In the wake of heavy rains and floods in Maharashtra, 13 National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams are kept on standby in various districts in the state.
Kerala train fire incident updates: Speaking to the media, an official of Maharashtra informed that a team of Kerala police has reached Ratnagiri and the accused was handed over to the Special Investigative Team (SIT).
Rane is in Maharashtra to take part in Jan Ashirwad Yatra. He made controversial remarks against Thackeray in Raigad. Mumbai Police have registered a total of 42 FIRs in connection with Rane's Jan Ashirvaad Yatra.
The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has enhanced the number of its teams from 26 to 34 for undertaking rescue operations. The teams are being deployed in affected areas of Mumbai, Ratnagiri, Thane, Palghar, Raigad, Satara, Sangli, Sindhudurg, Kolhapur, Pune and Nagpur for rescue and relief work.
As many as 129 people have died in rain-related incidents, including multiple landslides, in Maharashtra over the last two days, while 84,452 people under the Pune division were shifted to safer places on Friday as heavy showers continued to wreak havoc in the state.
Heavy rains since the last two days have caused massive floods in Raigad, Ratnagiri, Palghar, Thane, Sindhudurg, Kolhapur, Sangli and Satara districts. Both Centre and State have announced ex-gratia to the kin of the deceased while rescue efforts are continuing at several locations.
Several places in these two districts in the Konkan region are inundated and the government machinery is taking steps to move the stranded people to safety.
More than 50 per cent area of Chiplun, located around 250km from Mumbai and having a population of over 70,000, has got submerged in flood waters.
Watch women falls back into water during the rescue operation in Ratnagiri where heavy rain caused flooding situations.
Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Thursday took a review of the situation arising out of the continuous downpour in these two coastal districts, the chief minister’s office (CMO) said.
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