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Maharashtra

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Pune’s favourite ‘Halwai’ shares inspiring video on Engineers’ Day: This is how Chitale Bandhu uses machines for making modaks, laddoos and more

Jinit Jain - 15 September, 2021

Chitale Bandhu Mithaiwale is a legendary snacks enterprise, operating since the 1950s and is quite popular across Maharashtra

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Hafta Vasooli in Maharashtra: Minors attack a cloth store, smash glasses to demand extortion

OpIndia Staff - 15 September, 2021

Minors attacked shopkeeper and smashed the shop in Pimpri Chinchwad in Pune, Maharshtra for not paying ‘hafta’ or extortion money

Opinions

The changing CMs of BJP: What it means and what to expect

Abhishek Banerjee - 15 September, 2021

In Karnataka, the JDS made a huge mistake by taking the CM post in 2018. Their party is now finished, and BJP has entered all their old strongholds in the Old Mysore region.

Crime

Maharashtra: 12-year-old booked under POCSO for raping a 5-year-old girl in Palghar district

OpIndia Staff - 14 September, 2021

The minor girl complained of sudden pangs of pain in stomach following which she was taken to a hospital where the doctor confirmed she was sexually assaulted

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Surge of rape cases in Maharashtra: 14-year-old minor girl brutally raped in Ulhasnagar, accused arrested

OpIndia Staff - 12 September, 2021

History-sheeter Shrikant Gaikwad arrested for assaulting and raping minor girl in a railway quarter in Ulhasnagar, Maharashtra

Crime

Nine cases of rape and assault reported in recent weeks from Maharashtra: Uddhav Thackeray administration under scanner

OpIndia Staff - 11 September, 2021

After the heinous Sakinaka rape case, questions are being raised on the misgovernance of the Uddhav Thackeray led MVA govt in Maharashtra.

Crime

Pune gang rape case: Minor girl sexually assaulted by over a dozen men for days at multiple locations. Details

OpIndia Staff - 8 September, 2021

The girl was taken to the Sassoon General Hospital for immediate medical treatment. Her condition is said to be stable.

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Maharashtra: Muslim women distribute pamphlets, get minor non-Muslim girls to wear hijab in Nagpur near CM house

OpIndia Staff - 5 September, 2021

Girls Islamic Organisation is the women's wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, an Islamic organisation which was formed in 1948 in Jamia Nagar, Delhi. Jamaat-e-Islami Hind was twice banned by the Government of India.

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