The final meeting to iron out all differences between the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) over the civic poll tieup was held at chief minister Prithviraj Chavan’s official residence in M

The Congress and Nationalist Congress Party will hold another round of talks on Tuesday evening, even as NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s deadline for a decision on an alliance ended on Monday evening.

After an urgent meeting with executive members of the party, the BJP on Sunday said that it was ready to take on the forthcoming elections in 27 zila parishads and 10 municipal corporations in Maharas

The Nationalist Congress Party on Thursday went into a damage control mode after Maharashtra home minister R.R. Patil said that he supports Anna Hazare’s demand for the Jan Lokpal Bill. The party claimed that Mr Patil was misinterpreted by the media, and clarified that he was only speaking about security arrangements at the MMRDA ground.

The Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Friday observed that there is no need to demolish the controversial Adarsh Cooperative Housing Society, as in the future, it can be used to accommodate government officials.
The CAG also termed the entire episode a classic example of “fence eating the crops”, but stated that it was pointless to let the entire work into building the structure to go to waste.

The Bombay high court on Friday refused to interfere in any decision that the state government takes on the issue of facilitating anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare’s agitation by making available a suitable ground for India Against Corruption in Mumbai.

The State Election Commission (SEC) on Tuesday declared the election programmes for the first phase of the local self-government polls to 196 municipal councils and nagar panchayats in the state.

Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani’s “Janchetana Yatra” will make its way into Mumbai on November 4. Interestingly, apart from several BJP leaders slated to speak at the rally, Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray and RPI leader Ramdas Athawale will also be amongst the people who address the crowd.

Nationalist Congress Party leaders on Monday openly told their alliance partner Congress to stop criticising them and its national president Sharad Pawar.

Maharashtra home minister R.R. Patil on Monday said that the state government has made a few suggestions in the Prevention Of Communaland Targ-etted Violence Bill, tendered by the UPA government in the Centre.