Ajit Pawar and four others died in a plane crash in Baramati in Pune district on the morning of January 28.

After minority status approvals for 72 educational institutions run by 20 trusts were kept in abeyance amid the Ajit Pawar death controversy, the state has directed their schools to join the RTE ...

A controversy had broken out after 73 minority status certificates were approved within three days of Ajit Pawar’s death. Officials later said the bulk upload followed the rectification of IT errors.

The action against Milind Padmanabh Shenoy, deputy secretary in the Minority Development Department, was taken on Tuesday, a day after Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis stayed the approvals, they said.

A senior Maharashtra government official has been removed after his name was linked to the alleged hasty grant of minority status to 75 educational institutes following the death of deputy chief ...