Mumbai Maratha Protest

Maratha quota protest leader Manoj Jarange today gave a deadline of 11 pm on Saturday for the state government to accept their demand. Mr Jarange also said the government should issue an ordinance by tonight.

NCP Sharad Pawar faction leader Supriya Sule, speaking on the violence during the Maratha reservation protest, said on Friday that the violence caused was a failure of the Maharashtra government and the Home Ministry.

A protest for Maratha reservation today reached Mumbai, days after violent clashes between police and protesters in Maharashtra's Jalna district.

Maratha protesters demanding reservation in jobs and education, resorted to violence in pockets of Maharashtra today enforce a day-long bandh. Mumbai They blocked roads in Latur, Jalna, Solapur and Buldhana districts and vandalised property at the Pune district collectorate. Cellphone internet service has been suspended in seven blocks of the Pune ...

Maharashtra is bracing for a day-long shutdown today called by an umbrella organisation of pro-quota Maratha groups, with the authorities ordering closure of schools and colleges in some areas fearing violence. The 'bandh' is being organised despite Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis' assurances that his government was working on providing reservatio...

To press for their demand for reservation, a body of Maratha groups has called for a bandh or protest across Maharashtra, excluding Navi Mumbai, on Thursday. The protest will be held in a peaceful manner from 8 am to 6 pm and all essential services, schools and colleges have been excluded, a leader of Sakal Maratha Samaj said. The police are gearin...

A 21-year-old unemployed man, belonging to the Maratha community, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in Aurangabad on Thursday, the police said.After a photograph of his suicide note was widely shared on social media, hundreds of people protested in the town. Some protesters also tried blocking roads and resorted to stone-throwing, poli...

The Maratha protesters demanding reservation in jobs and education have started a week-long "Jail Bharo Andolan" under which they will court arrest. Over the last weeks, there have been five suicides. The local group Maratha Kranti Morcha, which had called last month's Mumbai strike, is organising the "Jail Bharo Andolan". Today's protest -- for wh...

The Maratha Kranti Morcha, a local outfit in Maharashtra who have been demanding reservations in government jobs and education for the community, plan another phase of their agitation today.

The Maratha Kranti Morcha, a local outfit in Maharashtra who have been demanding reservations in government jobs and education for the community, plan another phase of their agitation today.

The Maratha quota protest has led to three suicides in the state in the last two days, taking the total number of suicides to five. A body of a 35-year-old man was found hanging from a tree in a forest at Beed, 390 km from Mumbai, today morning. In a suicide note left behind by Abhijeet Deshmukh, he asked people not to end their struggle until the ...

"You just stay at home, do not come out, stone-pelting is going on. I will come, along with appa and daji" -- this was the last conversation 21-year-old Rohan Todkar had with his cousin Shital Shinde, before the violence during the Maratha quota stir in neighbouring Navi Mumbai claimed his life.

A 21-year-old man who got injured in stone-pelting in Navi Mumbai during Maratha protests for reservation, which turned violent in Vashi, Kopar Khairane and Kamother, died on Thursday. The victim has been identified as Rohan Todkar, a resident of Kopar Khairane

A protester, who was injured in the violence during the Maratha quota stir in adjoining Navi Mumbai, has succumbed to his injuries at the government JJ Hospital.

At the end of a day of violent protests in Mumbai and surrounding areas, especially Kalamboli in Raigad district, a tense standoff between protesters demanding 16 per cent quota for the Maratha community and the police, became a full-blown confrontation between the 80 policemen and the nearly 300 protesters.

Maratha quota protest leader Manoj Jarange today gave a deadline of 11 pm on Saturday for the state government to accept their demand. Mr Jarange also said the government should issue an ordinance by tonight.

NCP Sharad Pawar faction leader Supriya Sule, speaking on the violence during the Maratha reservation protest, said on Friday that the violence caused was a failure of the Maharashtra government and the Home Ministry.

A protest for Maratha reservation today reached Mumbai, days after violent clashes between police and protesters in Maharashtra's Jalna district.

Maratha protesters demanding reservation in jobs and education, resorted to violence in pockets of Maharashtra today enforce a day-long bandh. Mumbai They blocked roads in Latur, Jalna, Solapur and Buldhana districts and vandalised property at the Pune district collectorate. Cellphone internet service has been suspended in seven blocks of the Pune ...

Maharashtra is bracing for a day-long shutdown today called by an umbrella organisation of pro-quota Maratha groups, with the authorities ordering closure of schools and colleges in some areas fearing violence. The 'bandh' is being organised despite Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis' assurances that his government was working on providing reservatio...

To press for their demand for reservation, a body of Maratha groups has called for a bandh or protest across Maharashtra, excluding Navi Mumbai, on Thursday. The protest will be held in a peaceful manner from 8 am to 6 pm and all essential services, schools and colleges have been excluded, a leader of Sakal Maratha Samaj said. The police are gearin...

A 21-year-old unemployed man, belonging to the Maratha community, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in Aurangabad on Thursday, the police said.After a photograph of his suicide note was widely shared on social media, hundreds of people protested in the town. Some protesters also tried blocking roads and resorted to stone-throwing, poli...

The Maratha protesters demanding reservation in jobs and education have started a week-long "Jail Bharo Andolan" under which they will court arrest. Over the last weeks, there have been five suicides. The local group Maratha Kranti Morcha, which had called last month's Mumbai strike, is organising the "Jail Bharo Andolan". Today's protest -- for wh...

The Maratha Kranti Morcha, a local outfit in Maharashtra who have been demanding reservations in government jobs and education for the community, plan another phase of their agitation today.

The Maratha Kranti Morcha, a local outfit in Maharashtra who have been demanding reservations in government jobs and education for the community, plan another phase of their agitation today.

The Maratha quota protest has led to three suicides in the state in the last two days, taking the total number of suicides to five. A body of a 35-year-old man was found hanging from a tree in a forest at Beed, 390 km from Mumbai, today morning. In a suicide note left behind by Abhijeet Deshmukh, he asked people not to end their struggle until the ...

"You just stay at home, do not come out, stone-pelting is going on. I will come, along with appa and daji" -- this was the last conversation 21-year-old Rohan Todkar had with his cousin Shital Shinde, before the violence during the Maratha quota stir in neighbouring Navi Mumbai claimed his life.

A 21-year-old man who got injured in stone-pelting in Navi Mumbai during Maratha protests for reservation, which turned violent in Vashi, Kopar Khairane and Kamother, died on Thursday. The victim has been identified as Rohan Todkar, a resident of Kopar Khairane

A protester, who was injured in the violence during the Maratha quota stir in adjoining Navi Mumbai, has succumbed to his injuries at the government JJ Hospital.

At the end of a day of violent protests in Mumbai and surrounding areas, especially Kalamboli in Raigad district, a tense standoff between protesters demanding 16 per cent quota for the Maratha community and the police, became a full-blown confrontation between the 80 policemen and the nearly 300 protesters.