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1 week ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Amey Tirodkar |Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy
A “pothole-free” city: That is what Mumbai’s Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), India’s richest civic body, plans for the metro. The city administration has excavated 525 km of roads—or one-fourth of Mumbai’s roads—in an ambitious bid concretise them. As a result, the populous city grapples with the massive traffic congestion, dust, air pollution; the project has upended the delivery of basic civic services.
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2 weeks ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Amey Tirodkar |Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy
The long-overdue process of reforms in the Grand Old Party appears to have begun. Clearly sensing an aggressive demand for organisational change by Congress party workers across the country, Opposition leader in the Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi announced the party wants to “empower” district presidents, “give them greater responsibilities”, and make them “the foundation of the party”.
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2 weeks ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Amey Tirodkar |Meena Kandasamy |Vaishna Roy
One of India’s leading public intellectuals and an authority on the Dalit movement, Anand Teltumbde, has been in the news across the country for his book on Ambedkar, Iconoclast: A Reflective Biography of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. The book offers a deep analysis of not just Ambedkar’s philosophy, but also the man he was— complex, visionary and tenacious.
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2 weeks ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Amey Tirodkar |Divya Gandhi |Vaishna Roy
On the first day of 2025, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis was in Wangeturi, a village in Gadchiroli district that is known for its dense tropical forests covering 70 per cent of its area and for its strong naxal presence. He flagged off a Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation bus that would ply between Wangeturi and remote Gatta via Gardewada, the first bus service on the route.
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3 weeks ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Amey Tirodkar |Divya Gandhi |Vaishna Roy
The riots that broke out in Nagpur on the evening of March 17 have drawn national attention to the rising incidents of communal tension in Maharashtra. Nagpur, the headquarters of the RSS, is the hometown of Maharashtra Chief Minister and Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union Minister for Road Transport Nitin Gadkari. Both Fadnavis and Gadkari immediately issued a public appeal for peace on the same evening.
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1 month ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Amey Tirodkar |Vaishna Roy
Former Minister and senior BJP leader Pandurang Madkaikar has rattled Goa’s ruling party, his own. On March 4, after meeting BJP’s national general secretary, B L Santhosh in Panjim, Madkaikar revealed that “All Ministers are busy counting money”. He added that in the previous week, “I paid Rs.15 to Rs.20 lakhs to one Minister for a small work.” This is not corruption, this is loot, Madkaikar said. “I don’t want to take names. But at the right time… I will take a name,” he said.
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1 month ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Amey Tirodkar |Vaishna Roy
A riot broke out in Nagpur, Maharashtra’s second capital and the headquarters of the RSS, on the evening of March 17. Hours earlier, a rally had been held in the city’s Mahal area by the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) and Bajrang Dal, seeking the destruction of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb’s tomb located in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, during which the protesters had burnt an effigy of Aurangzeb. Rumours, however, spread that the holy Quran had been desecrated, leading to the riot.
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1 month ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Amey Tirodkar |Sharada Srinivasan |Vaishna Roy
On March 4, Dhananjay Munde, Maharashtra’s Food and Civil Supplies Minister and an influential Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader, resigned from his post in Mumbai after an 80-day-long media and public outcry brought out disturbing evidence in the Santosh Deshmukh murder case, a sarpanch from Massajog village in Beed district. Photographs attached to the charge sheet—which were widely circulated on March 3—allegedly show Munde’s supporters desecrating Deshmukh’s body.
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1 month ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Amey Tirodkar |Sharada Srinivasan |Vaishna Roy
In the first three days of March, Maharashtra’s financial situation was revealed: It tops the chart in the country’s State numbers for GST collection for February 2025, with Rs.30,637 crore; the State finance minister, Ajit Pawar, sought a supplementary Rs.6,486 crore on March 3. This demand was raised days before the presentation of the State budget on March 10. Although the State is doing well compared to others, bringing in financial discipline appears to be the biggest challenge before Pawar.
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1 month ago | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Amey Tirodkar |Sharada Srinivasan |Vaishna Roy
On November 13, 2024, a Supreme Court bench comprising Justice B.R. Gavai and Justice K.V. Viswanathan, while delivering a scathing verdict against arbitrary demolitions by state authorities, said: “The executive cannot demolish the houses or properties of individuals solely on the ground that they are accused or convicted in a crime.” Yet, just months later, that very doctrine of justice stands not just defied, but outright sabotaged.
