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Manasi Phadke

Manasi Phadke is a Special Correspondent with Hindustan Times. She covers politics and governance in Maharashtra with a special interest in urban development issues.

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Maharashtra proposal to give tribal land to iPhone maker Foxconn sparks protests

Mumbai city news: The land is part of 2,766 hectares acquired in the mid-1960s as part of an ambitious plan for a dairy project to supply 1.25 lakh litres of milk a day to Mumbai

The land at Vankas village in Palghar.(Kunal Patil/HT Photo)

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Updated on Jul 10, 2017 02:02 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Remember how ‘Indira is India’ slogan led to Congress’ defeat, Sena tells BJP after GST clash

The editorial pointed out former prime minister the late Indira Gandhi had to lose elections after Congress sycophants started shouting ‘Indira is India’ slogan.

At the event, state finance minister Sudhir Mungantiwar presented a Rs647.34 crore cheque to Mumbai Mayor Vishwanath Mahadeshwar and Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray as a first compensation for the BMC’s loss of revenue from the octroi duty, scrapped under the new Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime.(File)

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Updated on Jul 19, 2017 01:06 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Maharashtra revokes Lavasa’s special planning authority status

The project is now under the purview of the Pune Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (PMRDA).

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Updated on Jul 07, 2017 10:14 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Pune

Shiv Sena plans ‘dhol bajao’ protest on July 10 to ensure Maharashtra farmers get loan waiver

Mumbai city news: The ‘dhol bajao aandolan’ will see party members, legislators and parliamentarians assemble outside district central cooperative banks all over Maharashtra on July 10, pounding drums

The Bharatiya Janata Party ally has taken to the streets against its own government to back farmers in their demand for a loan waiver and jumped to take credit once it was sanctioned(HT)

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Updated on Jul 13, 2017 10:44 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Maharashtra government revives controversial Kondhane dam project

Mumbai city news: The state cabinet on Monday approved a proposal to hand over the project to Cidco to supply water to a township in Navi Mumbai

The cabinet led by CM Devendra Fadnavis said that Cidco will have to take over the project from the Konkan Irrigation Development Corporation (KIDC) in its current state.(HT FIle)

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Published on Jul 04, 2017 09:53 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Shiv Sena slams lynchings by gau rakshaks, praises PM Modi for condemning attacks

Mumbai city news: In an editorial in the party’s mouthpiece, Saamana, the Shiv Sena said the party is thankful to Modi for making it clear that killing of people in the name of ‘gau bhakti’ will not be tolerated

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Updated on Jul 05, 2017 12:13 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Hot and cold: Decoding the Shiv Sena’s rocky relationship with the BJP in Maharashtra

Mumbai city news: Party won’t cooperate with its ally, but fear of defections, poor poll results ensure it won’t leave govt

Uddhav Thackeray questioned the BJP’s decision to pick Dalit Ram Nath Kovind as a presidential candidate, terming it “vote-bank politics”. The next day, he gave the party’s wholehearted support to Kovind.(HT File Photo)

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Updated on Jul 03, 2017 10:54 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Maharashtra government wants activists and experts to help consumers when needed

Mumbai city news: The state government wants to accredit consumer rights activists and experts in two categories — voluntary consumer activists who fight for consumer rights more as a social cause at no charge, and professional consumer advisors who take up consumers’ issues or give counsel for a fee.

The committee, which will be chaired by the principal secretary of the department, also comprises representatives of consumer organisations such as the Consumer Guidance Society of India, Mumbai Grahak Panchayat, and Akhil Bharatiya Grahak Panchayat.(HT)

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Updated on Jul 03, 2017 12:08 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Maharashtra government wants to expand ‘housing for all’ to cover all urban areas

Mumbai city news: The state will request the Centre to expand the scheme to 385 cities and towns in the state from 142

The Maharashtra government adopted the scheme, formulated as the ‘Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), in December 2015.(HT)

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Updated on Jul 02, 2017 01:07 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

After Air India, will BJP govt look to sell Kashmir citing expenditure, asks Shiv Sena

Mumbai city news: In an editorial in the party’s mouthpiece Saamana, the Shiv Sena said Air India was an icon of the country’s pride and prosperity

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Updated on Jun 30, 2017 02:27 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Maharashtra wants slum redevelopment to be considered under Centre’s flagship scheme

Mumbai city news: The housing department has sent a proposal to the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation to allow it to include houses built under its scheme in the PMAY

Before formally adopting PMAY in December 2015, the Devendra Fadnavis-led government promised to build 19 lakh affordable houses in Maharashtra by 2022.(Representational photo)

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Updated on Jun 27, 2017 12:04 AM IST

ByManasi Phadke

Shiv Sena asks for list of 40 lakh farmers in Maharashtra who will get total loan waiver

Mumbai city news: Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray also took credit for the government’s decision to grant a farm loan waiver in Maharashtra

Thackeray said the government should set up a study group to look into how the loan waiver will actually benefit farmers.(HT File Photo)

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Updated on Jul 18, 2017 10:16 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Congress leader Narayan Rane may look to thaw relations with Shiv Sena

Mumbai city news: While observers expected sparks to fly, with Sena rebel Rane and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray having always heaped criticism on each other, the cordiality between the two leaders raised a few eyebrows

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, CM Devendra Fadnavis, Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Suresh Prabhu and former chief minister Narayan Rane at a function in Kudal on Friday.(PTI)

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Published on Jun 25, 2017 12:26 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Presidential polls: MNS chief Raj Thackeray says the President’s post is a ‘rubber stamp’

Mumbai city news: Raj said that the president did not impact the life of the common man in any way and the post was a rubber stamp for the party in power.

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Updated on Jun 26, 2017 02:26 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Uddhav, Rane praise Gadkari, hail him as ‘most efficient union minister’

Mumbai city news: Gadkari was the public works development minister in the Sena-BJP government from 1995 to 1999 and is credited for steering the Mumbai-Pune expressway project.

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Updated on Jun 25, 2017 12:26 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Maharashtra local bodies poised to tap municipal bonds market

Mumbai city news: With a debt burden of Rs3.71 lakh crore, the Maharashtra government is battling an overall delicate financial situation, further pressurised by the government’s recent promise of granting a farm-loan waiver

Union minister Venkaiah Naidu and Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis had launched the Pune Municipal Corporation’s biggest municipal bonds programme on June 22.(PTI file photo)

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Updated on Jun 24, 2017 07:44 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Shiv Sena MPs, MLAs pledge a month’s salary for farmers

Mumbai city news: Senior Sena minister Diwakar Raote said all Members of Parliament (MPs), Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs), corporators and panchayat samiti members will set aside a month’s salary to be given as relief to farmers in debt

The party backed the recent farmers’ stir and even took to the streets to protest against its ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).(HT)

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Updated on Jun 23, 2017 11:36 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

India’s biggest municipal bonds programme launched in Maharashtra

Mumbai city news: In its first tranche, the corporation raised Rs200 crore through the Bombay Stock Exchange’s bond trading platform at a coupon rate of 7.59 percent for ten years.

(From left)Maharastra cabinet minister Girish Bapat, Union minister Venkaiah Naidu, Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, minister of state for finance Arjun Ram Meghwal and Urban Development Secretary Rajiv Gauba at the launch at Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in Mumbai on Thursday.(PTI)

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Updated on Jun 23, 2017 12:08 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Maharashtra urges employees to donate day’s salary for farmers’ cause

Mumbai city news: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis will also set aside a day’s salary for the cause.

The Marathwada and Vidarbha regions of the state are traditionally known as the ‘suicide belts’ due to a large number of suicides by farmers reported in these areas over years.(HT File Photo)

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Updated on Jun 23, 2017 12:01 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Maharashtra plans new towns in no-development, agricultural areas for Mumbai-Nagpur Eway

Mumbai city news: Government proposes to change reservation of land in 28 villages across five districts

The Mumbai-Nagpur Super Communication Expressway comprises eight lanes that will span 706km from Nagpur to Thane.(PIC FOR REPRESENTATION)

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Updated on Jul 18, 2017 12:29 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Maharashtra government to partially fund 18 stalled JNNURM projects

Mumbai city news: The projects, originally planned under the JNNURM, are mostly related to water supply, sewerage and solid waste infrastructure

The state cabinet led by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday decided to contribute Rs843 crore towards the projects.(HT)

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Updated on Jun 21, 2017 12:45 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

BMC will pass Sena’s property tax waiver before monsoon session: Uddhav Thackeray

Mumbai city news: A property tax waiver for houses up to 500 square feet was one of Shiv Sena’s biggest promises in its manifesto for the 2017 BMC elections.

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray.(HT file)

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Published on Jun 20, 2017 02:33 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Presidential polls: Uddhav keeps BJP guessing, to hold meeting with Sena leaders today

Mumbai city news: On Monday, BJP announced its candidate for the polls that will be held on July 17 is Bihar governor Ramnath Kovind

Shiv Sena chief Udhav Thackrey addresses party workers at Matunga in Mumbai on Monday.(Pratik Chorge/HT Photo)

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Updated on Jun 27, 2017 12:37 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Amit Shah, BJP worry about mid-term polls, we care for Kashmir, Darjeeling, says Shiv Sena

Mumbai city news: BJP president Amit Shah recently said the party was ready for mid-term polls in Maharashtra

The taunt came a day after BJP president Amit Shah met Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray to discuss next month’s presidential polls.(HT File Photo)

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Updated on Jun 19, 2017 01:14 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Shiv Sena wants RBI to exchange old notes in district cooperative banks across Maharashtra

Mumbai city news: The party said the RBI should help the banks disburse fresh loans to farmers, which was the objective of the waiver.

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Published on Jun 17, 2017 12:17 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Shiv Sena suggests agri expert, 91-year-old MS Swaminathan’s name for President

Mumbai city news: MS Swaminathan s referred to as the ‘Indian Father of the Green Revolution’ for his leadership in the development of high-yielding varieties of wheat in the country.

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Updated on Jun 19, 2017 11:03 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Fadnavis deputes senior ministers to discuss farm loan waiver with Uddhav

Mumbai city news: Taking Uddhav Thackeray into confidence to find a solution to the crisis has been a primary demand of Sena ministers, who even skipped a recent cabinet meeting to make their point

Shiv Sena has backed the farmers’ agitation, bitterly criticising the BJP-led government in which it is a junior partner.

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Updated on Jun 19, 2017 12:00 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Don’t care about being in power, just want Maharashtra farmers to be debt-free: Uddhav Thackeray

Mumbai city news: Shiv Sena leaders backed the farmers’ agitation earlier this month, bitterly criticising the govt and taking to the streets in protest

Thackeray said the BJP was yet to implement the loan waiver it had announced.(HT File Photo)

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Updated on Jul 18, 2017 10:16 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Maharashtra government to launch special drive to curb malnutrition deaths in Palghar

Mumbai city news: The drive will be launched on June 15, during which medical camps will be held every weekend

Palghar has remained in the headlines following deaths of malnourished children.(HT photo)

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Updated on Jun 16, 2017 07:35 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

Maharashtra government to strike deal with Airbnb to attract international tourists

Mumbai city news: Airbnb will showcase properties of the Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) across the state on its portal.

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis(HT File)

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Updated on Jun 15, 2017 12:22 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByManasi Phadke, Mumbai

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Manasi Phadke

Manasi Phadke is a Special Correspondent with Hindustan Times. She covers politics and governance in Maharashtra with a special interest in urban development issues.

Mumbai city news: The land is part of 2,766 hectares acquired in the mid-1960s as part of an ambitious plan for a dairy project to supply 1.25 lakh litres of milk a day to Mumbai

The editorial pointed out former prime minister the late Indira Gandhi had to lose elections after Congress sycophants started shouting ‘Indira is India’ slogan.

The project is now under the purview of the Pune Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (PMRDA).

Mumbai city news: The ‘dhol bajao aandolan’ will see party members, legislators and parliamentarians assemble outside district central cooperative banks all over Maharashtra on July 10, pounding drums

Mumbai city news: The state cabinet on Monday approved a proposal to hand over the project to Cidco to supply water to a township in Navi Mumbai

Mumbai city news: In an editorial in the party’s mouthpiece, Saamana, the Shiv Sena said the party is thankful to Modi for making it clear that killing of people in the name of ‘gau bhakti’ will not be tolerated

Mumbai city news: Party won’t cooperate with its ally, but fear of defections, poor poll results ensure it won’t leave govt

Mumbai city news: The state will request the Centre to expand the scheme to 385 cities and towns in the state from 142

Mumbai city news: In an editorial in the party’s mouthpiece Saamana, the Shiv Sena said Air India was an icon of the country’s pride and prosperity

Mumbai city news: The housing department has sent a proposal to the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation to allow it to include houses built under its scheme in the PMAY

Mumbai city news: Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray also took credit for the government’s decision to grant a farm loan waiver in Maharashtra

Mumbai city news: While observers expected sparks to fly, with Sena rebel Rane and Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray having always heaped criticism on each other, the cordiality between the two leaders raised a few eyebrows

Mumbai city news: Raj said that the president did not impact the life of the common man in any way and the post was a rubber stamp for the party in power.

Mumbai city news: Gadkari was the public works development minister in the Sena-BJP government from 1995 to 1999 and is credited for steering the Mumbai-Pune expressway project.

Mumbai city news: With a debt burden of Rs3.71 lakh crore, the Maharashtra government is battling an overall delicate financial situation, further pressurised by the government’s recent promise of granting a farm-loan waiver

Mumbai city news: Senior Sena minister Diwakar Raote said all Members of Parliament (MPs), Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs), corporators and panchayat samiti members will set aside a month’s salary to be given as relief to farmers in debt

Mumbai city news: In its first tranche, the corporation raised Rs200 crore through the Bombay Stock Exchange’s bond trading platform at a coupon rate of 7.59 percent for ten years.

Mumbai city news: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis will also set aside a day’s salary for the cause.

Mumbai city news: Government proposes to change reservation of land in 28 villages across five districts

Mumbai city news: The projects, originally planned under the JNNURM, are mostly related to water supply, sewerage and solid waste infrastructure

Mumbai city news: A property tax waiver for houses up to 500 square feet was one of Shiv Sena’s biggest promises in its manifesto for the 2017 BMC elections.

Mumbai city news: On Monday, BJP announced its candidate for the polls that will be held on July 17 is Bihar governor Ramnath Kovind

Mumbai city news: BJP president Amit Shah recently said the party was ready for mid-term polls in Maharashtra

Mumbai city news: The party said the RBI should help the banks disburse fresh loans to farmers, which was the objective of the waiver.

Mumbai city news: MS Swaminathan s referred to as the ‘Indian Father of the Green Revolution’ for his leadership in the development of high-yielding varieties of wheat in the country.

Mumbai city news: Taking Uddhav Thackeray into confidence to find a solution to the crisis has been a primary demand of Sena ministers, who even skipped a recent cabinet meeting to make their point

Mumbai city news: Shiv Sena leaders backed the farmers’ agitation earlier this month, bitterly criticising the govt and taking to the streets in protest

Mumbai city news: The drive will be launched on June 15, during which medical camps will be held every weekend

Mumbai city news: Airbnb will showcase properties of the Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation (MTDC) across the state on its portal.

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