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Veteran Congress leader Balasaheb Thorat has held the Sangamner assembly seat in Ahmednagar district since 1985. Even during the Modi wave of 2014, he retained the seat by a margin of nearly 59,000 votes. On Saturday, Throat lost to Shiv Sena’s Amol Khatal. Another Congress old-hand, former chief minister Prithviraj Chavan, was bested by the […]
Pune: Former BJP state president Chandrakant Patil’s nomination filing for the assembly polls became a huge event in Pune on Thursday. He is among the top five leaders of the party in the state and will be fighting the election in Pune’s affluent Kothrud area. What became very evident on Thursday was the attempt by […]
MacArthur Foundation Shailaja Paik is among 22 recipients of the prestigious MacArthur “genius” fellowship this year In a small, crowded tenement in the slums of India’s Pune city, Shailaja Paik grew up, surrounded by alleys strewn with garbage and battling the daily challenges of limited water and no private toilet. Today, she stands as one […]