The Maharashtra government has announced that action will be taken against auto-rickshaw and auto drivers who do not have working experience in Marathi. Maharashtra transport minister Pratap Sarnaik made the announcement on August 19 and the new rule started from August 20, 2026.
In a major political development, the parliamentary wing of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) has witnessed a significant split, with six of its nine Lok Sabha Members of Parliament reportedly breaking away from the party.
Leading in eight of 12 Zilla Parishad and 51 of 125 panchayat samiti polls, BJP continues to be the largest party in Maharashtra, showing clearly that the party is not just an urban phenomenon, but also as strong in rural Maharashtra. BJP has made inroads into western Maharashtra in regions like Satara and Solapur, and performed reasonably well in Kolhapur at the cost of weakened NCP and Congress.
A law is soon to be implemented amid the rising beef smuggling case in Maharashtra. The Maharashtra government will soon bring a law to curb this beef smuggling cases. Minister of State, Home (Rural) Pankaj Bhoyar said, the repeat offender will be slapped with the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).
