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Mumbai: Sunetra Pawar, 62, was sworn in as the first woman deputy chief minister of Maharashtra on Saturday evening, replacing her husband Ajit Pawar just three days after his death in an air crash. The ceremony had an emotional touch, with workers of Ajit’s NCP raising slogans of ‘Ajit Pawar Amar Rahe’ and ‘Ekach Vaada,…
Mumbai: European aviation regulator EASA (European Union Aviation Safety Agency) suspended its third country operator authorisation of Indian charter operator VSR Ventures more than a year ago, citing a “Level 1” safety finding after the company failed to provide documents and information repeatedly sought in the Sept 2023 Learjet 45 accident in Mumbai.EASA had also…
NEW DELHI: In Shakespeare’s classic Hamlet, the protagonist is torn by a dilemma over avenging his father’s death by killing his uncle Claudius. A similar Hamletian dilemma appears to have gripped Sharad Pawar over the merger of the two factions of the NCP after his nephew Ajit Pawar’s death in a plane crash.While talking to…
Sunetra Pawar sworn in as Maharashtra deputy chief minister NEW DELHI: By electing Sunetra Pawar as its legislative party leader and subsequently elevating her as Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister—the first woman to hold the post—just three days after the untimely demise of Ajit Pawar, the NCP has swiftly filled two of the three positions held…
Maharashtra politics has rarely been short of convulsions, but even by the state’s turbulent standards, the untimely demise of deputy chief minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Ajit Pawar in the January 28 plane crash has thrown up a new challenge to the coastal state’s already fragile political equilibrium. The loss of Ajit ‘Dada’…
NEW DELHI: Minutes after taking oath as the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra, Sunetra Pawar on Saturday said that she will “carry forward the legacy” of her late husband Ajit Pawar and “continue to work tirelessly” for Maharashtra.In her first public reaction after Ajit Pawar’s death in a fatal plane crash, Sunetra said that she…
Sunetra Pawar on Saturday replaced her late husband Ajit Pawar and sworn in as the deputy chief minister in Maharashtra cabinet.This comes just days after Ajit Pawar was killed in a plane crash while traveling to Baramati from Mumbai.Sunetra was elected the Nationalist Congress Party’s (NCP) legislature party leader earlier in the day during a…
NEW DELHI: Sunetra Pawar took oath as the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra from the NCP quota on Saturday, days after her husband Ajit Pawar was killed in a plane crash.Sunetra was clad in a white saree as she took the oath to replace her husband amid the chants of “Ajit dada amar rahe.” Sunetra…
File photo: Sharad Pawar (Picture credit: PTI) NEW DELHI: NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday made a significant revelation about the future of the Nationalist Congress Party, saying that talks to merge the two rival NCP factions were already underway and had progressed to an advanced stage before the sudden death of his nephew…
Who will be Ajit Pawar’s political successor? NEW DELHI: Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Friday that it is up to the NCP to choose its next leader following the untimely demise of party chief and Maharashtra deputy CM Ajit Pawar.The BJP leader added that both his party and the state government would support…
