Covid-19, infections in India passed two grim milestones. Maharashtra saw its Covid-19 cases cross the 1 lakh-mark while the country saw the number of infections cross the 3 lakh-mark in the last 24 hours.
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The official number of people infected by the new coronavirus, COVID-19, in India remains well below 13,000. The ICMR said it will be incorrect to say India is testing less people for the infection.
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The Maharashtra political fiasco, which started with the Shiv Sena walking out of the alliance with the BJP over the post of the CM, ended with Devendra Fadnavis resigning as the CM. This now clears the way for Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena, Sharad Pawar’s NCP and the Congress to form government.
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With the NCP-Congress alliance not having the numbers and the Shiv Sena unlikely to support an NCP government without getting the CM’s post, the governor recommended president’s rule in the state. Meanwhile, the Shiv Sena has moved the Supreme Court against the governor’s decision.
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The Bharatiya Janata Party and Shiv Sena alliance in Maharashtra won a comfortable majority as the counting of the votes for the assembly election came to an end, on Thursday night. In the 288-member assembly, the BJP won 105 seats out of the 152 it contested, while the Shiv Sena won 56 out of the 1
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A breach of the Tiware dam in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, washed away several houses following heavy rains. Twenty-three people have been feared killed in the incident and, so far, 11 bodies were recovered from downstream.
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When PM Modi launched the PM Kisan scheme, he described it as a significant step towards improving farmers’ condition. However, an RTIquery filed by Wire.in revealed that crores of rupees credited to farmers’ accounts under the scheme were reversed within a few hours or days.
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The Election Commission gave a second clean chit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his appeal to first-time voters by invoking the Balakot air strike at a rally in Maharashtra’s Latur, just a day after it cleared Modi’s speech at Wardha under the model code of conduct.
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At least 16 people, including 15 policemen from Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district, were killed when Maoists trigged a blast using an improvised explosive device to blow up the vehicle the jawans were travelling on.
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Two Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party MLAs – Manohar Ajgaonkar and Deepak Pauskar – split from the party and merged their group into the Bharatiya Janata Party, in a midnight development. The duo said they were kept away from the decision-making process in the MGP.
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