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Shiv Sena executive president, Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday demanded that state government should pay Rs 10,000 per acre compensation to farmers who have suffered losses due to insufficient rains in the first sowing.

“The scanty rains across Maharashtra have aggravated the problem of farmers and they are forced to go in for second and third sowing and thus have incurred losses on account of fai read more »
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A day after Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray opposed calls to limit the height of Ganesh idols and slammed contentions that immersion of large idols in the sea caused pollution, Mayor Shubha Raul, a strong supporter of the “eco-friendly” idea, on Monday agreed with her leader.

“Ganesh idols is a sensitive issue and we cannot expect the mandals to follow our diktat. Uddhavji is ri read more »
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After his campaign against North Indians, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) President Raj Thackeray on Monday asked English medium schools in the state to make Marathi a compulsory subject from first standard and shopowners to put up nameplates in Marathi in a month. read more »
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''Our demand is that Bal Thackeray be tried for rioting and inciting violence. Even the Sri Krishna Committee report had said that he was encouraging Shiv Sainiks to kill Muslims. It's a pity that still no action has been taken against him,'' said Shakeel Ahmed of Nirbhay Bano Andolan. read more »
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महाराष्ट्रात `हज हाऊस'प्रमाणे हिंदु भाविकांसाठी `अमरनाथ हाऊस' किंवा `वैष्णोदेवी हाऊस' निर्माण करावे, ही समस्त हिंदुजनांची मागणी आम्ही पुढे रेटीत आहोत, असे शिवसेनाप्रमुख श्री. बाळासाहेब ठाकरे यांनी दैनिक `सामना'च्या अग्रलेखात म्हटले आहे.

श्री. ठाकरे यांनी अग्रलेखात पुढे म्हटले आहे की, महाराष्ट्राचे सरकार खरोखरीच निधर्मी आहे ना ? मग मुसलमानांवर सवलतींचा वर्षाव करतांना त्यांतील काही कण हिंदू read more »
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For the first time in its history, the meet will be organised simultaneously at San Francisco and Ratnagiri in January next year. In an editorial in his party mouthpiece Saamna, the firebrand leader said, “I do not want to be a part of the controversy over the literary meet. I never attended such meets in my life. read more »
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Mee Maharashtracha, Maharashtra mazha (I belong to Maharashtra and Maharashtra is mine). I want to see the farmers of Maharashtra wear jeans and drive tractors.” Thus spake Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray at the first rally of his party on March 19, 2006, at Shivaji Park. read more »
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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 read more »
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MNS workers, who were part of a Raj Thackeray convoy, assault photographer of a Marathi daily, as he wouldn’t let them jump a signal. read more »
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Raj Thackeray has taken strong exception to the proposed Shivaji statue to be set up in the Arabian Sea, off Marine Drive. read more »
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The Thackerays didn't get a special dekko of the Bachchan family-starrer, Sarkar Raj , after all.

Blame it on the prickly issue of attack on North Indians or the verbal attacks directed at Bollywood's first family, but sources say that the Bachchan family has left for Bangkok for the film's world premiere on Wednesday night. Neither Balasaheb Thackeray nor Raj Thackeray have seen read more »
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It's a birthday gift Raj Thackeray is expected to love, but one that could well mean more trouble for the thousands of migrants from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in Maharashtra.

The Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) has decided to launch a 364-day ‘Hatt Puja’ or ‘remove puja’ campaign on June 14, when Raj turns 40, to counter the one-day ‘Chhat Puja’ Union Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav has announced h read more »
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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”. read more »
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Taking up Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) leader Raj Thackeray’s challenge to Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav on performing Chhat puja in Mumbai, Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Monday said that he will attend the puja along with the RJD leader. And now Uma Bharati to also perform Chhath Puja in Mumbai, albeit a different location. rnrnrnRJD jumps in to seek permissio read more »
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The things are happening here in Mumbai. The things are changing here for Maharashtra. The year 2008 will be known as a benchmark year in the political history of Maharashtra. After Pramod Mahajan's sudden exit from the power business and the world, there was a vaccum felt. Narayan Rane had moved to Congress condemning the 'family business' in Shivsena. And so was the case with Raj Thackeray. read more »
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