The Maharashtra government announced that members of the Maratha community would be accommodated in the 10% quota for Economically Weaker Section. An order was issued by the General Administration Department of the state government. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 In a bid to extend relief ...

A consignment of Dahanu Gholvad sapota (naseberry) has been exported to the United Kingdom from Maharashtra’s Palghar district, providing a major boost to shipments of Geographical Indication (GI) certified products from India. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 GI certification of Ghovad ...

A woman officer from the Maharashtra Prison department, posted in Pune, has been dismissed from service by the state government after an inquiry revealed that she violated the Maharashtra Civil Services (Declaration of Small Family) rules by having three children and also suppressed the ...

The Maharashtra government said that a preliminary report of the cyber cell of the Maharashtra police also suspected cyber-attack as a reason behind power outage in Mumbai in October last year. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2021 The announcement came in the wake of a report from Recorded ...

In a first-of-its-kind project in Maharashtra, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray launched the State’s jail tourism initiative. The ‘Jail Yatra’, which began with Pune’s 150-year-old Yerwada Jail on the occasion of Republic Day, will eventually be extended to other prisons in the State. Daily ...

In a bid to curb heinous crimes against women and children in Maharashtra, the state cabinet approved a draft Bill that includes provisions for stern punishment – including a death penalty, life sentence, and hefty fines, for the perpetrators as well as speedy trials. Daily Current Affairs Quiz ...

Villagers in Vadhavan in Maharashtra’s Dahanu taluka, about 131 km from Mumbai, came out in protest against a biodiversity survey commissioned by the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) for the construction of the Vadhavan Port that received in-principle approval from the Union Cabinet in February. ...

Invoking recollections of Mahatma Gandhi’s famous Nature Cure campaign of 1946 at the “Nisarg Upchar” Ashram in Uruli Kanchan village near Pune, the upcoming new campus of National Institute of Naturopathy (NIN), Pune will be called “Nisarg Gram”. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points ...

The city’s first “child-friendly” police station was inaugurated at the cantonment police station premises by Abhay Karandikar, director, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The mandate for a “child-friendly” police station arisen out of ...

The visitors to beaches in Maharashtra have witnessed the spectacle of a fluorescent bluish glow when the waves hit the shoreline. Bioluminescence or light-emitting tide made an appearance on Juhu beach in Mumbai and Devgad, Velas and Murud along the state’s coastline. Daily Current Affairs ...