Tag: Maharashtra

Modi’s party wrests back control of key India state ahead of 2024 election

MUMBAI, June 30 – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party is returning to power in the country’s richest state, Maharashtra, giving it a fillip ahead of the 2024 national election after an unlikely ruling alliance of parties crumbled after more than two years. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party will […]

India’s richest state shuts malls, cinemas as new variant spreads

BENGALURU, June 25 – India’s richest state on Friday ordered malls and cinema halls to close as it scrambles to control a more transmissible variant of the coronavirus that has scuppered plans to ease lockdown measures. At least 20 cases in Maharashtra state have been found linked to […]

India’s Maharashtra state may extend lockdown until mid-May- minister

India’s western state of Maharashtra, home to the financial capital Mumbai, may extend its lockdown by a fortnight until mid-May to try to halt a rise in coronavirus cases, the state’s health minister said on Wednesday. The state will not go through with a plan to open vaccinations […]

Another hospital, another fire: 13 die in Virar ICU blaze in Maharashtra

Virar (Maha), Apr 23: Thirteen COVID-19 patients, including five women, died in a blaze at the intensive care unit of a private hospital in Palghar district of Maharashtra on Friday, police said There were 90 patients in the hospital, 18 of them in the ICU, when the fire broke […]

Maharashtra crosses 1-crore vaccination mark

Mumbai Apr 11:  Maharashtra has administered COVID-19 vaccine doses to over one crore people so far, a senior health official said on Sunday. The vaccination drive began on January 16 this year across the country and is currently underway for front-line and health care workers, and people aged […]

Child pulled alive from collapsed apartment block in Maharashtra, at least five dead

MAHAD, India – Rescue workers in western India pulled a toddler alive from the rubble of an apartment building on Tuesday some 20 hours after it collapsed killing at least five people. The emergency services have found 76 people alive, but there are still around 14 unaccounted for […]

Fadnavis back as Maha CM, Ajit Pawar Dy CM

Mumbai, Nov 23: The month-long political impasse in Maharashtra ended dramatically on Saturday with Devendra Fadnavis returning as the chief minister, backed by the Sharad Pawar-led NCP NCP’s Ajit Pawar was sworn-in as the deputy chief minister Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari administered the oath at the Raj Bhavan here […]

BJP suffers setback as Maharashtra slips out of its control

MUMBAI – In a setback, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party has decided not to form the government in Maharashtra – the country’s richest state – leaving opposition groups scrambling on Monday to cobble together an alliance. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged as the single largest part […]

No talks between Bhagwat, Uddhav yet: Raut

Mumbai, Nov 7: There have been no talks yet between RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on government formation in Maharashtra, Sena leader Sanjay Raut said on Thursday. Talking to reporters here ahead of the meeting of Shiv Sena MLAs with Thackeray, Raut said legislators […]

Four held for robbing rail passengers in Maharashtra

Thane :  Four persons have been arrested by Thane police in Maharashtra for allegedly robbing passengers on the pretext of getting them berths in trains, police said on Thursday. The accused generally targeted people travelling late night in trains going to Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. They would get friendly […]

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