Nearly two weeks after Ajit Pawar crossed party lines to join the Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra government, the Nationalist Congress Party( NCP) leader has been allocated the Finance Ministry, while Dilip Walse Patil, another NCP rebel, has bagged the Cooperation Ministry.... The Ajit Pawar-led faction has bagged at least five more departments in the Maharashtra government. Ajit Pawar's new office will be on the fifth floor of Mantralaya which will also serve as the office of the deputy chief m

Assured all possible support from the Centre to mitigate the situation.... Till now, there is no information on how many people have been affected.... We have informed the National Disaster Response Force team....