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Maharashtra

State in western India
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Maharashtra is a state in western India and the country’s largest state economy. It was formed on 1 May 1960, when the State of Bombay was split into Maharashtra and Gujarat. Mumbai is the capital and the largest city, and Nagpur serves as the winter capital.

The state covers 307,713 square kilometres, the third largest in India, and had 112,374,333 residents at the 2011 census. It is divided into 36 districts grouped into six divisions. The legislature has two houses: a 288 seat Legislative Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) and a 78 member Legislative Council (Vidhan Parishad).

Services dominate its output, while agriculture employs nearly half of its people. Its gross state domestic product is about 42.5 trillion rupees, roughly 14 per cent of national nominal GDP, and the state contributes around a quarter of India’s industrial output. Mumbai hosts the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange, and Maharashtra is the largest destination for foreign direct investment in India.

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Sources: Wikipedia, Maharashtra, citing the Census of India 2011.

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11 November 2026 Sensex jumps over 1,100 points, Nifty crosses 25,350 in early trade as crude prices ease All 30 Sensex stocks traded higher in early trade, with HDFC Bank up 1.81 per cent, Zee Business reported. 6
10 November 2026 RBI rate hike in December likely at 25 to 50 bps, says Jefferies Jefferies says the 4 December policy meeting offers a window for a 25 to 50 basis point hike as liquidity moderates, while easing oil and bond yields could support bank margins. 5
10 November 2026 RBI’s $239 billion forward dollar position may cap rupee gains despite FPI inflows An IDFC First Bank report says the RBI's large net short forward dollar position will absorb capital inflows and limit how far the rupee can rise. 5
10 November 2026 Bombay High Court refuses urgent Chhath puja relief at Girgaum Chowpatty, says religious freedom has limits The vacation bench said religious freedom is subject to public order, morality and health, and the organisers did not satisfy it on the court-appointed monitoring committee. 5
10 November 2026 RBI Technical Consultative Committee for Financial Markets gets seven external members The RBI has set up a Technical Consultative Committee for Financial Markets with seven external members to advise it on money, government securities and forex markets. 4
8 November 2026 Bombay High Court says outraging modesty provision can apply to a transgender woman, refuses discharge Justice Mehroz K Pathan refused to discharge an Agniveer accused of assault on a promise of marriage and held that the complainant's identity as a woman cannot be questioned at this stage. 6
7 November 2026 Supreme Court says two-child norm for local polls has lost relevance, refers 2003 ruling to larger Bench The case was brought by a Maharashtra sarpanch disqualified in October 2024 after the birth of her third child. 7
7 November 2026 Mohammed Shami retires from Test cricket after 64 Tests and 229 wickets His best figures were 6/56 against Australia at Perth in December 2018, and his last Test was the 2023 World Test Championship final. 6

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