Mumbai, June 18: Hitting a new controversy, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray has called for setting up suicide squads to ward off terrorism.
Thackeray has written a controversial editorial in the Sena's mouthpiece -- Samanaa, in which the editorial calls for the formation of Hindu suicide squads. Thackeray says, "The thre
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The Congress-NCP government in Maharashtra, has outdone MNS and Shiv Sena on the sons of the soil issue, directing that nameplates of commercial establishments in the state should be in Marathi.
The state government issued a notification on May 31, directing that nameplates of all shops, establishments, commercial organisations, hotels, theatres and restaurants be in Marathi, an official relea
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Breathe in the smells of Colaba Causeway, grab a beer at Leopold Cafe and inspect the infamous block of lock-up cells at Colaba police station.
Let the hustle of Tardeo market tear past your window, take note of the Shiv Sena headquarters in Dadar and try to get a small role in a Bollywood film.
The Maharashtra government said on Tuesday that it was seeking legal opinion on whether private entities could be forced to use ‘Mumbai’ in their names instead of ‘Bombay’, days after the Shiv Sena raised the demand and even blackened some boards which said ‘Bombay’.
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The Shiv Sena is now all set to glorify the humble vada pao, a favourite snack of Mumbaikars. Calling it the patent of the party, Sena chief Bal Thackeray said in an editorial in Saamna on Monday that the snack would be renamed “Shiv vada pao”.
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In a throwback to the 90s when the Shiv Sena launched an agitation to rename Bombay, Sainiks took to the streets on Sunday and vandalised signboards of two institutions using the old nomenclature.
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Investors have been firmly told that Marathi-speaking candidates should be given top priority for employment, finance minister Jayant Patil said in the legislative assembly on Thursday.
"By Marathi, we mean those who have been residents of Maharashtra for 15 years or more and know Marathi," he added.
After superstar Rajinikant took on Karnataka politicians over the disputed Hogennakal project, the Shiv Sena has once again targetted Amitabh Bachchan and other Bollywood stars for not supporting the Marathi cause.
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Shiv Sena dissidents from northern India who will launch a new political party this month have threatened Raj and Uddhav Thackeray with counter-violence over attacks on Hindi speakers in Maharashtra.
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Very interesting article i found on the net.
Khabardaar, Marathila hath laval tar… roars Bal Thackeray in his editorial in the Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamna today.
Frankly speaking Thackeray Sr, who is nicknamed as the toothless tiger is simply just one. And with such comments in his newspapers its just like the old guy giving a couple of grunts.
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Bollywood star Salman Khan says that his joining a signature campaign to oppose the gag order on Raj Thackeray did not mean that he or his family supported the breakaway Shiv Sena chief's campaign against north Indian migrants in Maharashtra.
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Interesting article I found. This is sort of the view I have too...
1. We should punish Thackeray if he had a role in the violence.
2. But his freedom to talk, and his viewpoint, should not be silenced and controlled. That makes us like, what, Shiv Sena? :-D
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Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Thursday dared Railway Minister Lalu Prasad to perform 'Chhat Pooja' at Marina Beach in Chennai to oppose the imposition of Tamil by the Karunanidhi government in schools across the state.
Launching a scathing attack on the reported demand by some local North Indian Congress leaders that Hindi be made an official language in BMC, Thackeray said, "let them t
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Nameplate after nameplate; chowk after chowk, the Sena wants to eliminate the memories of the British Raj and replace them with Indian, specifically more Maharshtrian names. rnrnThe latest on their casualty list is the newly inaugurated Metro subway at Dhobi Talao which was thrown opened its gate to the public on Thursday. The word ‘Metro’ which ironically means ‘a subway system’ hasn’t gone
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