Tag: Maharashtra

Bhubaneswar: The spike in Covid-19 cases in several States in the country has rung an alarm bell, especially among the health department officials in Odisha who have now geared up to prevent a similar outbreak for the second time in the State. Apart from the senior administrative officials, there seems to be panic among people […]

Bhubaneswar: The COVID-19 graph in Odisha on Friday registered a steep rise following detection of 94 new cases of coronavirus infection in the past 24 hours. On February 21, the State had reported 58 new COVID-19 cases while the daily case load jumped to 68 on February 22. As many as 89 new cases were […]

Bhubaneswar: Following a surge in COVID-19 cases in several other states including Maharashtra, the Odisha government has decided to scale up its testing counts to make sure that the situation did not deteriorate further from the present situation when, as per claims, the spread of the deadly virus has substantially been contained. In addition to […]

Ahmednagar: The Maharashtra Police have arrested a senior journalist, editor and author, Balasaheb J Bothe-Patil, the alleged key conspirator in the brutal killing of a Nationalist Congress Party leader, Rekha Jare, on November 30, 2020, officials said here on Saturday. Bothe-Patil, who was absconding for over three months, was finally traced to his hideout in […]

New Delhi: Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu continue to report a high number of daily COVID-19 cases, accounting for 71.10 per cent of the 28,903 new infections, the Union Health Ministry said on Wednesday. It said 83.91 per cent of the new cases are from Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu and […]

New Delhi: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Supremo Sharad Pawar has summoned Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and party chief Jayant Patil to Delhi on Sunday to discuss the fallout of the allegations against the party leader and Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh. This comes in the wake of the pressure building within the alliance of […]

Nagpur: Five Naxals were killed on Monday morning in an operation conducted by police against the rebels in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district, a senior police official said. The anti-Naxal operation is still on, he said. “Five Naxals were killed in the operation in Khobramenda forest area of Gadchiroli,” the official said. On Saturday, the district police […]