Ajit Pawar’s death reopens uncomfortable questions about political travel, aviation safety and urgency culture Ajit Pawar’s death in a charter aircraft crash in Baramati is not only a profound political loss but also a moment of reckoning for India’s aviation safety framework. The tragedy does not sit in isolation; it reopens uneasy questions about the…
Kolhapur: Precision of appearance, strict personal habits and a penchant for cleanliness set Ajit Pawar apart from his contemporaries. He was a workaholic with an unusually controlled and methodical way of living, earning him love from both supporters and critics:The leader’s personality beyond politics stood out for its discipline and exacting preferences.He was known to…
MUMBAI: A section of Muslim leaders said secularism lost s strong secular voice in the death of deputy CM Ajit Pawar.Many recalled Pawar’s public assurance to the community at the iftar party he hosted the Islam Gymkhana last year. “At this iftar dinner, he boldly said that he was brother of Muslims and he would…
Mumbai: In an interview last year, Ajit Pawar was asked whether he had alerted CM Devendra Fadnavis to the tremendous financial burden posed by the Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin scheme, when it was being planned. He shot back, “If I had told the truth, we would not have been elected.” He did not restrain bureaucrats…
Mumbai: Bombay high court on Wednesday orally said it would be constrained to disband the court-appointed committee, if the latter does not cooperate, and does not take proper measures to address the root cause of the sewage and drainage problem in Kulgaon-Badlapur city.The HC expressed displeasure at the lackadaisical attitude of the Badlapur Municipal Council…
(L) Alok Kumar Singh, Omkar Shinde (R) MUMBAI: Omkar Shinde, the 27-year-old arrested for the murder of a college teacher over a trivial spat inside a local train at Malad, was brought back to the scene of the crime for a re-enactment by the Govt Railway Police (GRP) on Wednesday. In a separate development, police…
MUMBAI: The Baramati plane crash that killed Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar and four others on Wednesday may have been avoided had the airport runway been equipped with an instrument landing system (ILS) to assist pilots during marginal visibility, aviation experts said. They stressed the need to preserve all evidence at the crash site,…
BARAMATI: The clock froze at 8.44am. Ajit Pawar, a stickler for time, ran out of it while keeping a final date with his hometown. News of the plane crash spread in fragments, then hardened into truth. Grown men wept at chowks. Shutters fell. Sugarcane fields stood still under blue skies as a taluka that calls…
Pune: Baramati MP Supriya Sule on Wednesday said the final rites of her cousin, deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, would be performed at the sports ground of Vidya Pratisthan in Baramati around 11am on Thursday.“Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah will attend the funeral,” a senior police officer told TOI. All…
Mumbai/Pune: Pinky Mali, a 29-year-old flight attendant who died in the plane crash, had told her younger brother on Tuesday night that she wanted to help financially poor students by training them to join the aviation industry, report Mateen Hafeez & Sandip Dighe. She also assured her father over the phone that she would call…
