Marathi vs ‘outsiders’: Uddhav Sena, MNS pitch Mumbai civic polls as identity battleMumbai civic polls are witnessing a polarization of voters along religious and regional lines. Parties are targeting North Indian and Gujar...
01 Jan, 2026, 11.42 PM IST
As PM Modi tours Nigeria, Marathi community there thanks him for classical language honourPrime Minister Narendra Modi shared a letter from the Maharashtrian community in Nigeria expressing their happiness over Marathi receiving ...
17 Nov, 2024, 08.22 PM IST
Anti-Muslim, Marathi discriminatory comment by TC from UP go viral, railways suspends himA controversy has erupted in Mumbai after Ashish Pande, a Western Railway ticket collector, allegedly made discriminatory remarks against M...
24 Sep, 2024, 09.48 AM IST
Gujarat Congress trying to woo Khodaldham Trust Chief Naresh PatelIf he joins Congress, the party plans to project the assembly polls as a 'battle between a Gujarati Patel and Maharashtrian Patil'. However...
01 Apr, 2022, 12.45 AM IST
BJP adopting mean ways to win Gujarat polls: Raj ThackerayThe MNS chief alleged that the BJP is conspiring to wipe out the sons of the soil and all its programmes are targeted towards that goal.
19 Nov, 2017, 01.00 AM IST
Hardik to be Sena face in Gujarat polls, ties with Maha BJP on notice: UddhavGiving indications that the Sena is ready to pull out of the Maharashtra government, Thackeray said the government is on a "notice period" ...
08 Feb, 2017, 12.47 AM IST
Middle-class Marathi voters in Mumbai not yoked to Shiv Sena anymoreThe Sena's agenda is no longer relevant to urban Marathi voters, felt Vile Parle resident Manjiri Vaidya, who voted BJP.
21 Oct, 2014, 11.47 AM IST
Shiv Sena turns it into Gujarati, Marathi poll; attacks PM Narendra Modi, Amit ShahSena is using the fact that both PM Narendra Modi and BJP party chief Amit Shah are Gujaratis to claim that Gujaratis will rule Maharashtra...
29 Sep, 2014, 04.40 AM IST
Only Minorities have voted for Congress in MaharashtraCongress leaders have concluded after studying the results of the LS polls & started analysing whether the party erred in wooing just the m...
22 May, 2014, 06.34 PM IST
Shiv Sena wants Gujarati business community to support Maharashtra Day celebrationShiv Sena today asked Gujarati trade and business community among 11 crore population of Maharashtra to unite for unfurling saffron flag.
01 May, 2014, 03.34 PM IST
Bal Thackeray: Iconoclast turned restrictive iconographer of Marathi prideIf Pakistan was a nation Jinnah created on a typewriter, the Shiv Sena was a political party Thackeray created on the strength of sketched ...
19 Nov, 2012, 09.15 PM IST
Narendra Modi is most popular Chief Minister in the country: Gopinath MundeSenior BJP leader Gopinath Munde today described Narendra Modi as the "most popular" Chief Minister in the country.
08 Oct, 2012, 12.44 PM IST
- Puran poli: Simple & secular appetite teaser
The sweet stuffed flat bread is seen as belonging firmly to Western India. Food reflects geography, and that of Western India inclines its ...
01 Jun, 2009, 04.39 AM IST
- Police to examine Jaya's remark, says deputy CM
Probably under pressure from MNS chief Raj Thackeray, deputy CM RR Patil said the police would check if Ms Jaya Bachchan’s recent remark ha...
10 Sep, 2008, 12.00 AM IST
- North Indian-Marathi couples reject politics of hate
The city was in two moods on Wednesday-love and hatred were thick in the wintry air. There was the annual, mushy, buying and selling that p...
14 Feb, 2008, 01.19 PM IST
- Raj Srikant Thackeray: The Raja of regionalism
Imitation, they say, is the best form of flattery. Balshaeb Thackeray doesn’t seem to be flattered, nor amused, at his nephew trying his 19...
12 Feb, 2008, 03.41 AM IST
- The real regional food bazaar waiting to unfold
In last week's column I wrote with scepticism about the 'boom' that's supposed to be taking place in regional Indian food restaurants.
17 Feb, 2007, 04.32 AM IST