After son Aaditya, Maha CM’s wife tests Covid +ve
After Maharashtra minister Aaditya Thackeray, his mother and chief minister Uddhav Thackeray's wife Rashmi Thackeray too has tested positive for COVID-19, officials said on Tuesday. The chief minister and his wife had taken a first dose of the vaccine against coronavirus...
Maharashtra’s Maratha quota valid: Centre to SC
Maharashtra has the legislative competence for granting reservation quota to Marathas and its decision is constitutional as the 102nd amendment does not denude a state of the power to declare its list of Socially and Educationally Backward Classes (SEBC), the...
India to vaccinate all above 45 from April 1
From April 1, all people above 45 years of age are entitled to get COVID-19 vaccine, Union Minster Prakash Javadekar said on Tuesday. Briefing reporters on the decisions taken by the Union Cabinet, he said even people without co-morbidity and above...
Attempts being made to mislead people: Deshmukh
Amid allegations of corruption levelled against him by former Mumbai top cop, Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh on Tuesday released videos on Twitter to defend himself and claimed that attempts are being made to mislead the people by dissemination of...
CBI raids Sebi officers over role in Saradha scam
The CBI on Monday carried out searches at the Securities and Exchange Board of India office in Mumbai after the alleged role of three of its senior officers in granting permission to Saradha ponzi scheme surfaced, officials said. The Central...
Mumbai CP calls on Governor
The newly appointed Commissioner of Police, Brihanmumbai Hemant Nagrale called on Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari at Raj Bhavan, Mumbai. This was his first meeting after taking charge as the Commissioner of Police. ...
‘No question of Deshmukh resigning’
The NCP ruled out resignation of Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh even as the demand for his removal grew louder over former Mumbai police chief's allegation that he wanted police officers to collect Rs 100 crore monthly from bars and...
Anil Deshmukh asked Waze to collect Rs 100 crore every month from bars: Param Bir Singh tells Uddhav Thackeray
New Delhi: In an explosive twist to the Antilia case, former Mumbai Police commissioner Param Bir Singh has accused Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh of extortion. In his letter to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Singh claimed that Deshmukh had directed suspended...
Superspreader events like weddings behind new Covid surge: Govt panel
Superspreader events such as weddings appear to have driven the resurgence of Covid-19 in India, according to preliminary assessments by the Union government that has also found people becoming less careful in recent months when the outbreak had receded...
BJP manfiesto for WB to be released tomorrow
The Bharatiya Janata Party is set to unveil its manifesto for West Bengal polls tomorrow and is likely to promise to turn around the "corruption-ridden" state through transparent governance aimed at rebranding the state as an investment destination. The party's...
HC refuses to stay summons issued to Mehbooba in PMLA case
The Delhi High Court on Friday refused to stay summons issued to former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jasmeet...
Bombay High Court Issues notice on plea of Bombay Bomb Blast convict for grant of emergency parole
Asgar kadar Sheikh and Mohd Yakub Nagul have moved Bombay High court for grant of emergency parole on account of covid-19 pandemic praying that they be released on emergency parole in view of amendment to the Bombay Parole and Furlough...
Covid: India records 2021’s biggest 1-day spike
India saw 39,726 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, the highest single day rise recorded so far this year, taking the nationwide COVID-19 tally to 1,15,14,331, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. Registering an increase for...
Maha HSC/SSC exams announced amid Covid spike
The Maharashtra State Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board has declared the exam dates for HSC and SSC 2021 exams in the state. While SSC exams will start from April 29, the HSC exams will start from April 23. The...
All toll booths to be removed in a year: Gadkari
India will do away with toll booths and implement complete GPS-based toll collection within one year, Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday. He said 93 per cent of the vehicles pay toll using FASTag, but...
30 children from ashram school in Palghar test COVID-19 positive
PALGHAR: As many as 30 students and a teacher from an ashram school have tested positive for coronavirus in Maharashtra's Palghar district, an official from the health department said on Wednesday. The cases came to light after a couple of students...
Maha’s single-day COVID-19 count crosses 23,000-mark, highest in 2021
Maharashtra reported as many as 23,179 new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday, which is the highest single-day infection count so far in 2021, a health official said. This is the sixth highest one-day spike of infection cases in the state since...
Mumbai Police is undergoing turmoil: New chief
Hemant Nagrale took the charge as the Commissioner of Mumbai Police after the Maharashtra government transferred Param Bir Singh to the low-key Home Guard. "At present, the Mumbai Police is undergoing turmoil due to some bad instances that have occurred. I...
Pilot killed as MiG-21 on combat training crashes
Group Captain A Gupta was killed when a MiG-21 Bison aircraft of the Indian Air Force he was flying was involved in a fatal accident this morning while taking off for a combat training mission at an airbase in central...
4 booked for not wearing mask on flight
In a first, four passengers have been booked for not adhering to Covid norms on board an Alliance Air flight on Tuesday. All four travellers have been handed over to security agencies on arrival in Delhi. The airline has initiated action against...
Maharashtra COVID-19 Guidelines: Work From Home For School Teachers; Max 50 People At Weddings, 20 In Funeral
As the second wave of Covid-19 pandemic hit Maharashtra, the department of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday issued an order directing all schools in its jurisdiction to discontinue 50 per cent rotational attendance rule from March 17. What are...
