Modi to reshuffle team in Sep; Former CM Fadnavis in?
The RSS wants three nominees inducted: Tejaswi Surya, the young BJP MP from Bengaluru South, Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, a Rajya Sabha member, and former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, reveals R Rajagopalan in an article written on rediff.com Below is the extract...
Mild earthquakes hit Karnataka, Jharkhand
An earthquake of magnitude 4.0 on the Richter Scale jolted Karnataka on Friday morning while another with a magnitude of 4.7 was felt in Jharkhand. The tremors were felt in Hampi (Karnataka) and Jamshedpur (Jharkhand), according to the National Center for...
Centre Issues Guidelines For Malls, Workplace, Hotels, Religious Places Ahead of Its Opening on June 8
New Delhi: As part of ‘Unlock 1’, the Central government on Thursday released SOPs for the establishments that are all set to open from June 8. These guidelines, issued by the Union Health Ministry, are meant to contain the spread...
Maha registers highest spike of 2,933 cases
Maharashtra on Thursday registered the highest single-day spike of 2,933 COVID-19 cases, which took the tally of patients in the state to 77,793, the state health department said. As 123 coronavirus positive patients died during the day, the death toll increased...
Maharashtra Minister Ashok Chavan Recovers From COVID-19, Discharged
Mumbai: Maharashtra PWD Minister and senior Congress leader Ashok Chavan, who tested positive for coronavirus last month, was discharged from a hospital in Mumbai on Thursday after recovering from the disease. After being discharged, the former chief minister reached his home...
SC rejects CBI review plea against Chidamabaram’s bail
The Supreme Court has dismissed the plea filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation seeking review of its verdict granting bail to former finance minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media corruption case. The apex court had on October 22 last...
Medical Education Minister meets Governor
Governor approves plans to conduct all Medical exams The Governor of Maharashtra Bhagat Singh Koshyari in his capacity as Chancellor of universities today granted his permission to conduct all under-graduate and post-graduate examinations of the Maharashtra University of Health...
Filmmaker Basu Chatterjee passes away in Mumbai at 93
Mumbai: Legendary filmmaker and screenplay writer Basu Chatterjee, who is remembered for "Rajnigandha" and "Chitchor" passed away in Mumbai on Thursday. He was 93 and the cause of his death is cited as age-related ailments. His last rites will be performed...
30 Maharashtra cops died of COVID-19 so far
Mumbai: At least 30 police personnel, including an officer, have so far died due to COVID-19 in Maharashtra, while over 2,500 have tested positive for the disease, an official said on Thursday. Nearly 18 of the total 30 victims were...
Inter-district travel in Mumbai region allowed
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government today allowed inter-district movement of people within the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. With 56,794 COVID-19 cases and 1,742 deaths so far, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, which includes Mumbai city, Mumbai suburban, Thane, Palghar and part of Raigad district,...
India registers new single-day spike with 9,304 cases
Coronavirus cases in India saw a record single-day jump of 9,304 cases on Thursday pushing the total tally to 2,16,919, while the death toll climbed to 6,075 with 260 new fatalities, according to the Union health ministry. India stood seventh among...
Heavy rains, winds pound Mumbai
Mumbai: Heavy rains have been lashing Mumbai and its suburbs since Thursday morning, in the aftermath of cyclone Nisarga which made landfall near Alibaug yesterday. The cyclone is now a depression over west Vidarbha region in Maharashtra and will weaken...
1 lakh evacuated due to Nisarga in Maharashtra
Mumbai: As cyclone Nisarga made its landfall in Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts of Maharashtra, nearly one lakh people have been evacuated from the cyclone spot, said National Disaster Response Force Director-General. "A total of 43 NDRF teams have been deployed in...
Mumbai airport suspends ops till 7 pm due to Nisarga
Mumbai: Flight operations at the Mumbai airport will remain shut till 7 pm on Wednesday as a preventive step due to the ongoing landfall of Cyclone Nisarga, Mumbai International Ltd said. "Considering the strong crosswinds, it has been decided that no...
Stay indoors, appeals Maha Deputy CM
Mumbai: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has appealed to people living in the coastal areas to stay indoors till the rainfall subsides and woes of cyclone Nisarga subside. Cyclone Nisarga will cross Maharashtra coast between Harihareshwar and Daman, very close...
Massive Fire Erupts in Tughlakabad Slums, 200 Shanties Burnt
Delhi: A fire broke out in the slums of Tughlakabad in Delhi early Wednesday. More than 200 shanties were burnt to ashes, while hundreds of its residents have now become homeless. However, no injury has been reported so far. Some fire tenders were...
Gadkari green-lights Delhi-Katra expressway with Amritsar link
Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday announced development of a new connectivity to Amritsar from Nakodar via Sultanpur Lodhi, Goindwal Sahib, Khadoor Sahib as part of Delhi-Amritsar Expressway, fulfilling a long-pending demand of the people...
India’s COVID-19 tally crosses 2-lakh mark
India on Tuesday crossed 2 lakh cases of coronavirus -- roughly 15 days after it crossed the one lakh mark. For the last three days, the country has been reporting more than 8,000 infections a day. India is now the seventh-worst...
“Decision on holding final year exams will be taken as per Universities Act”: Governor to CM
Asserting that the Chancellor of Universities has the final authority over all University matters as per the provisions of Maharashtra Public Universities Act, Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari today conveyed to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray that decision regarding holding...
India will definitely get its growth back: PM
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that coronavirus may have slowed the Indian economy, but we will definitely get our growth back. Addressing the CII's annual session via video conference, the PM said, "We have to take tough steps to...
8171 more COVID-19 cases, 204 deaths in India
New Delhi: The novel coronavirus death toll rose to 5,598 in India on Tuesday with 204 more fatalities, while 8,171 new cases took the number of infections to 1,98,706, the health ministry said. The active cases of the coronavirus disease...
