Mumbai, Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray on Thursday said his party will not tolerate any attempt to separate Mumbai from Maharashtra, and asked ally Congress to reprimand its Karnataka MLA for demanding to declare the country's financial capital a Union Territory. He was apparently referring to Karnataka Congress MLA Laxman Savadi's reported statement that if leaders in Maharashtra are demanding …
Tension is escalating between Maharashtra and Karnataka governments over territorial claims on certain villages as leaders of both States vehemently raised their voices to secure the contentious areas. Terming Mr. Fadnavis’s statement ‘provocative’, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, in a series of tweets, said the former’s dream would never come true. “We demand that the Kannada-speaking areas of Maharashtra like …
The border row between Maharashtra and Karnataka took another turn on Saturday after the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation temporarily suspended its operations to Kolhapur which has a substantial Kannada population, officials said. A vehicle belonging to Maharashtra was blackened in Belagavi which escalated the tension between the states, a senior officer in the North West Karnataka Road Transport Corporation …
