Mumbai logs 1st death due to Delta Plus variant
Mumbai has recorded its first death due to the Delta Plus variant of coronavirus with a 63-year-old fully vaccinated woman succumbing to it in July, a civic official has said. Following her death, at least two of her close contacts...
Lookout notice against former Mumbai Police chief Param Bir Singh
A lookout notice has been issued against former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh in an alleged extortion case, said Mumbai Police on Friday. "A lookout circular has been issued against Prambir Singh," Thane Police Commissioner, Jai Jeet Singh to ANI...
Decision On Reopening Schools In Maharashtra Will Be Taken By Local Officials: Varsha Gaikwad
Mumbai/Nagpur: It is up to local officials to decide, taking into consideration the COVID-19 situation in an area, whether physical classes should resume at schools, Maharashtra School Education Minister Varsha Gaikwad said on Thursday. Asked about the confusion about the...
Bhima Koregaon Accused Surendra Gadling Gets Bail in 2016 Case
Advocate Surendra Gadling, one of the undertrials in the Bhima Koregaon case, was on Thursday, 12 August, granted temporary bail by a sessions court in a different 2016 UAPA case. Gadling is slated to be released from Mumbai’s Taloja jail on...
Maha adds 6,388 COVID-19 cases, deaths top 200 after 11 days
Maharashtra reported 6,388 new coronavirus cases and 208 fresh fatalities on Thursday, taking the infection tally to 63,75,390 and the death toll to 1,34,572, a health department official said. Notably, the daily coronavirus infections in the state have gone over 6,000...
Petrol bottle thrown at Mumbai airport runway
Security personnel at the Mumbai airport went into a tizzy after a petrol-filled bottle was hurled towards the runway side by some miscreants, official sources said on Thursday. They said the incident took place around 9 pm on Wednesday. A security official...
Rahul’s Twitter handle blocked for 7th day
Twitter on Thursday reasoned blocking of several accounts of Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, for posting an image that it said violated its rules and the action was to protect individuals' privacy and safety. Twitter handles of Gandhi and several...
Restaurants, malls allowed to stay open till 10 p.m. in Maharashtra
The Maharashtra Cabinet on Wednesday decided to allow malls and restaurants to operate till 10 p.m. at 50% capacity with fully vaccinated staff from August 15. Shops were also allowed to operate till 10 p.m.. However, the State COVID-19 task force...
Maha govt resumes talks on buying Air India building
The Maharashtra government has initiated discussions with Air India to purchase its iconic building located in the Nariman Point area of the city. Maharashtra Chief Secretary Sitaram Kunte discussed the valuation of the building with Air India CMD Rajiv Bansal...
‘Herd immunity not possible with Delta variant’
The highly transmissible Delta variant of COVID-19 has rendered the prospect of herd immunity, where the majority of a country's population becomes immune to a virus, difficult, the head of the UK's Oxford Vaccine Group has warned. Professor Andrew...
Amarinder complains to Sonia about Sidhu
Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh has raised his concerns to Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi regarding the recent statements made by Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee Chief Navjot Singh Sidhu. According to party sources, Captain Amarinder Singh 'complained' to Sonia Gandhi...
Maharashtra Government to act after studying HC order to cancel MHT CET 2021
MUMBAI: The Maharashtra government will take appropriate action after studying the Bombay High Court order cancelling the Common Entrance Test (CET) for class 11 admissions, state School Education Minister Varsha Gaikwad said on Tuesday. The high court has cancelled the CET...
AFI to mark August 7 as ‘National Javelin Day’
August 7 will, henceforth, be celebrated as National Javelin Day by the Athletics Federation of India. That’s when Neeraj Chopra scripted history by winning the gold medal in men’s Javelin Throw at the Tokyo Olympics. The 23-year-old became only the second Indian...
New Covid mutants can reach anywhere any time
New COVID-19 mutants can reach anywhere at any time, said the Central government on Tuesday, adding that it is monitoring Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Delta Plus variants.Addressing media on the COVID-19 situation, National Centre for Disease Control Director Dr...
Visible signs of economic rejuvenation: FM
The finance ministry on Tuesday said the economic impact of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to be muted and there are visible signs of economic rejuvenation. The latest Monthly Economic Review, released by the...
Lok Sabha okays bill restoring states’ quota power
The Lok Sabha on Tuesday approved the Constitution (One Hundred and Twenty Seventh Amendment) Bill 2021, restoring the power of states and UTs to make their own OBC lists, after a daylong debate in which the Opposition supported the government's...
HC cancels Maha CET for JC admissions, calls it ‘gross injustice’
The Bombay High Court on Tuesday cancelled the Maharashtra government's Common Entrance Test (CET) for Class 11 admissions, while noting it was a case of "gross injustice" and would be a threat to the lives of students, in the wake...
Covid: India records lowest daily count in 147 days
India logged 28,204 new coronavirus infections, the lowest in 147 days, taking the total tally of cases to 3,19,98,158, while the active cases fell to 3,88,508, the lowest in 139 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated...
One more arrested from Yavatmal in connection with alleged religious conversion racket
Yavatmal: The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) arrested another member of the gang allegedly involved in the religious conversion racket from Yavatmal in Maharashtra, police said on Monday. Faraz Shah was arrested from Yavatmal late on Sunday night, ATS said in...
Lookout notice against ex-cop Param Bir Singh
A lookout notice has been issued against Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh and another senior DCP-rank IPS officer, currently attached with Mumbai Police, in the extortion case registered against the officials in Thane. "The process had begun five days back,...
‘India’s Covid daily death load worrying’
There is a worrying trend of Covid-19 pattern in the country, said Dr Vipin Srivastava, former pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Hyderabad and prominent physicist, who anticipated the onset of the third wave of the pandemic on July 4. The Covid-19...
