r r patil

In a significant political maneuver, the Congress party withdrew its candidate from the Baramati bye-election just before the nomination deadline. This decision, influenced by appeals from the Pawar family and Mahayuti partners, ensures Sunetra Pawar faces no major opposition. The bypoll was necessitated by the tragic passing of Ajit Pawar.

Former home minister r r patil was admitted to Breach Candy Hospital on Friday.

MUMBAI: Home minister R.R. Patil has launched a blistering attack on the central government for allegedly neglecting Maharashtra which is reeling under drought.

State home minister r r patil, who bore the brunt of his statement in Hindi when it appeared to play down the deadly 26/11 attacks, learned a political as well as language lesson from the incident.

State home minister r r patil has decided to visit Vinita Kamte, who has penned a book about her husband, IPS officer Ashok Kamte, who was killed by terrorists on 26/11.

The sand mafia attacked a talathi fom Vispur village in Sangli district, constituency of state home minister r r patil, on Thursday.

Impressed by the way the crime branch made arrests in the Ahmedabad blasts and terror email cases, deputy chief minister r r patil on Tuesday complimented the policemen instrumental in the probe.

Deputy chief minister r r patil categorically justified the police firing that resulted in the death of two locals.

MUMBAI: Deputy chief minister r r patil, who aggressively wears his rustic, man-of-the-earth image on his sleeve, is undergoing a sartorialmakeover as he takes a break from policing citizens' morals and flies off to China for eight days.

A day after the Karnataka police filed two criminal cases against r r patil for promoting enmity between two communities and for breaking the model code of conduct, the Maharashtra home minister defended the statements he made about the border regions of the state in Belgaum on April 7.

Maharashtra’s Home Minister r r patil viewed Ananth Mahadevan’s Red Alert-The War Within, a film about the genesis and consolidation of the Naxalite movement.

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Friday refused to give in to the opposition’s demand for state home minister r r patil’s resignation. The party strongly supported the leader and expressed firm faith in him.

The daylight killing of Navi Mumbai builder Sunil Kumar Lahoria and the Sandhya Singh murder, coming close on the heels of each other, have made Maharashtra home minister r r patil sit up and take notice.

Maharashtra home minister r r patil on Friday dropped a broad hint that the names of the suspects involved in the German Bakery blast case would be known after September 10.

Those seeking protection will have to shell out more money for the policemen, especially the constables, stated the latest data released by the home minister r r patil’s office.

State home minister r r patil said here on Sunday that, of the 15,000 new recruitment which will happen soon throughout the state, 600 will be deployed.

Fifty-three-year-old senior NCP leader r r patil is not only back in the cabinet, but his political mentor, Sharad Pawar has again rewarded him with the home department.

Police officers with six months left for retirement were keen on getting a posting in the Naxal-affected Gadchiroli district, said home minister r r patil.

Sangli, the hometown of veteran cabinet members-home minister r r patil, forests minister Patangrao Kadam, rural development minister Jayant Patil and Union minister of state for sports Pratik Patil-has suddenly been witnessing a spurt in sale of tennis and rubber balls.

Over a year after a senior BJP leader submitted a sensational CD to the legislative assembly, the home department led by senior NCP leader r r patil is likely to conduct a high-level probe against a DCP for alleged involvement in its fabrication.

The short-staffed and overworked police force will have to perform yet another task: ensuring that `unwanted` persons and those with questionable credentials do not hover around home minister r r patil.

There has been an increase in the number of people wanting to quit the habit of consuming tobbaco.

The party discussed the law and order situation in the state and blamed Patil for it on the final day of the BJP's two-day convention held in the city.

Police sources said the home minister had twice struck off the name of his brother - inspector Rajaram Ramrao Patil - from the list of police medal nominees.

A special ordinance to protect doctors, both private and government, from intimidation and attack, will come into force in the next 15 days.

Patil was campaigning in support of PWD minister and district guardian minister Chhagan Bhujbal.

If the Khar policeman, who has been accused of negligence of duty in a rape case, is found guilty, he will be dismissed from service, home minister r r patil said in the state legislative assembly on Wednesday.

Union agriculture minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday blasted state home minister r r patil for his "inept handling of the law and order situation, particularly the serial blasts in Pune".

A poor lingo apparently had its own contribution to Maharashtra Home Minister r r patil's fall from grace.

Mumbai: NCP state unit chief r r patil was on Friday elected leader of NCP Legislative Party.