Maharashtra

Five held for black marketing of black fungus drug

11:06 pm June 9, 2021

Pune: Five people, including a medical shop owner and a nurse, were arrested for alleged black-marketing of a key drug used in the treatment of mucormycosis or ‘black fungus’ in Pimpri Chinchwad area in Pune district of Maharashtra, police said on Wednesday. The accused were selling a vial of Amphotericin B injection, used in the […]

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Maha: 523 new COVID-19 cases detected in Nashik district

11:40 pm June 3, 2021

Nashik: The count of COVID-19 cases in Nashik district of Maharashtra rose to 3,87,481 with addition of 523 patients on Thursday, health officials said. The virus also claimed 41 lives which took the death toll in the district to 4,830. Fourteen COVID-19 patients died in Nashik city during the day. So far, 317 COVID-19 patients […]

Indian bison spotted on outskirts of Pune

11:56 pm June 1, 2021

Pune: A gaur (Indian bison) was spotted near Darawali village in Pune district of Maharashtra on early Tuesday morning, a forest department official said. According to the official, residents of Darawali spotted the wild animal near their village and informed the forest department. The village under Mulshi tehsil is located around 25km from Pune city. […]

Two held in MP for killing two Punjab ASIs: Police

9:47 pm May 29, 2021

Ludhiana: On the run after allegedly killing two Punjab policemen here, two men were on Saturday arrested from Madhya Pradesh minutes before taking a train to Maharashtra. A team of the Organised Crime Control Unit of the Punjab police arrested the duo with the help from the Madhya Pradesh police from Dabra railway station near […]

CISF chief Subodh Kumar Jaiswal appointed CBI director

11:57 pm May 25, 2021

New Delhi: Senior IPS officer Subodh Kumar Jaiswal was on Tuesday appointed as the new CBI chief for two years, according to a personnel ministry order. A 1985-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of Maharashtra cadre, Jaiswal is currently the director general of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). A Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led three-member […]