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Deputy C.M Ajit Pawar warns full lockdown if people don’t follow restrictions.

Deputy C.M Ajit Pawar warns full lockdown if people don’t follow restrictions.

Amid an alarming rise in Coronavirus caseload in Maharashtra, deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Friday warned that if people don't follow COVID-19 restrictions then the government will be forced to impose a lockdown in the state as stringent as the last year's. "If people don't adhere to the currently imposed COVID restrictions then we may have to impose lockdown like last year," Ajit Pawar said. Also Read - Maharashtra Comes Under Curfew-Like Curbs, Over 2 Lakh Cops Deployed To Enforce Restrictions. Further, Pawar insisted doctors to…
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Arnab Goswami shifted to Taloja central jail for ‘using cellphone’ at quarantine centre

Arnab Goswami shifted to Taloja central jail for ‘using cellphone’ at quarantine centre

Republic TV editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami was shifted to Taloja Central Prison in Navi Mumbai on Sunday morning from a makeshift Covid-19 quarantine centre in Alibaug for allegedly using a cellphone. Goswami, who was arrested on November 4 for allegedly driving interior designer Anvay Naik to take his own life in Alibaug in 2018, was sent to the quarantine centre in a municipal school run by the local prison authorities. The police had seized his cellphone after placing him under arrest. Inspector Jamil Shaikh of the Raigad district police’s Local…
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Uddhav Thackeray should resign if he can’t look after law and order: Navy veteran Madan Sharma

Uddhav Thackeray should resign if he can’t look after law and order: Navy veteran Madan Sharma

Retired Indian Navy officer Madan Sharma, who was assaulted allegedly by Shiv Sena workers recently for allegedly forwarding a cartoon on Uddhav Thackeray, on Sunday (September 13) demanded resignation of the Maharashtra Chief Minister.  "I'm injured and stressed. What happened is saddening. I'd like to tell Uddhav Thackeray that if you can't look after law and order then resign and let people decide who should look after it," Sharma (65), a resident Lokhandwala Complex in Kandivali east, Mumabi, was quoted. He said that the entire organisation of…
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Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu among top 5 states with highest number of COVID-19 deaths in India

Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu among top 5 states with highest number of COVID-19 deaths in India

As the number of COVID-19 deaths continues to increase in India, five states including Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu have accounted for 69 percent of the total deaths in the country. The death toll on Saturday (September 12) was at 77472 as per the Ministry of Health data. The top five states include: Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Delhi. In the last 24 hours, Maharashtra reported 442 deaths followed by Karnataka with 130 death. The Ministry of Health said, ''In past 24 hrs, 1,201 deaths registered. 36% of deaths reported y'day are…
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Bull Dozers on task at Kangana’s office

Bull Dozers on task at Kangana’s office

Actor Kangana Ranaut compared Mumbai to PoK and even Pakistan today as a civic team demolished alleged illegal structures at her office in the middle of her massive row with Maharashtra's ruling Shiv Sena. Visuals showed a bulldozer at work at her office around the same time she took a flight to Mumbai, surrounded by heavy security. The 33-year-old actor alleges that the Maharashtra government is targeting her because of her fight with the Shiv Sena, which also controls the BMC or Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. "I am…
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Sanjay Raut appointed Shiv Sena’s chief spokesperson

Sanjay Raut appointed Shiv Sena’s chief spokesperson

The Shiv Sena on Tuesday said it has appointed its Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut as the chief spokesperson of the party. Raut, who is also the executive editor of Shiv Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana', has been engaged in a war of words with actor Kangana Ranaut after she likened Mumbai to Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). The Shiv Sena in a statement on Tuesday said Raut has been appointed as the party's chief spokesperson. Besides, Lok Sabha members Arvind Sawant and Dhairyasheel Mane, Rajya Sabha member Priyanka Chaturvedi,…
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Raigad building collapse case: FIR lodged against five accused; search and rescue operations underway

Raigad building collapse case: FIR lodged against five accused; search and rescue operations underway

A day after a five-storeyed building in Maharashtra's Raigad district collapsed, the police has registered a case against five persons in connection with the tragic incident. The FIR against the five accused has been registered at the Kahad Police Station under section 304 of the Indian Penal Code, sources said on Tuesday (August 25, 2020). At least one person was killed, and 60 others were rescued after the five-storey residential building collapsed in Mahad city in the Raigad district of Maharashtra on Monday (August 24) evening.  Sources…
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Mumbai’s famous Lalbaugcha Raja to not keep Lord Ganesh idol in 2020 due to coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Mumbai’s famous Lalbaugcha Raja to not keep Lord Ganesh idol in 2020 due to coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic

Amid rising coronavirus COVID-19 cases in Maharashtra, Mumbai's Lalbaughcha Raja Ganeshotsav Mandal on Wednesday (July 1) decided not to hold Ganeshotsav in 2020. Lalbaughcha Raja Ganeshotsav Mandal has announced that a blood and plasma donation camp will be set up in the place of Lord Ganesh idol this time for all 11 days. This is first time ever in the history of Lalbaugcha Raja that the idol of Lord Ganesh will not be set up.  "In view of the coronavirus pandemic this year, the Mandal has decided…
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Maharashtra extends COVID-19 lockdown till July 31

Maharashtra extends COVID-19 lockdown till July 31

The Maharashtra government on Monday (June 29) extended the COVID-19 lockdown till midnight of July 31 due to the prevailing coronavirus condition in the state. The restrictions and relaxations that were there before should be followed the same way till July 31. In containment zones, only essential activities will be allowed. No movement of people in and out of these zones will be allowed except for medical emergencies and maintaining the supply of essential goods.  So far, under the 'Mission Begin Again', markets, shops, vehicular traffic and…
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Maharashtra’s COVID-19 tally rises to 139010 with 6531 fatalities

Maharashtra’s COVID-19 tally rises to 139010 with 6531 fatalities

The coronavirus cases rose by 14933 on Tuesday (June 23, 2020) taking the total number of cases in India to 4,40,215, while the death toll rose to 14,011 with the 312 new fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data on COVID-19 .  India's total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 456183 with 14476 deaths, 258684 cured cases on Wednesday with the highest spike recorded in 24 hours. Atleast 15968 new COVID-19 cases and 465 fatalities were reported while the recovery rate is at 56.70%, as per the Union Health…
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