Maharashtra

Open community kitchen, provide dry ration & facilitate transportation of migrant workers: SC

11:32 pm May 13, 2021

New Delhi: Supreme Court Thursday directed Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to open community kitchens in the NCR for stranded migrant workers amid the current wave of COVID-19 pandemic and facilitate transportation for labourers who want to return home. Passing a slew of interim directions to ameliorate the miseries of migrant workers facing difficulties in wake of the recent surge […]

SC refuses bail to activist Gautam Navlakha in Bhima Koregaon case

11:59 pm May 12, 2021

New Delhi: In a setback to civil rights activist Gautam Navlakha, the Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed his plea seeking bail in the alleged Elgar Parishad-Maoist link case of Bhima Koregaon in Maharashtra. The apex court examined the technical grounds raised by Navlakha for the default bail as the charge sheet in the case was not filed […]

Remdesivir row: Maha BJP MP refutes allegations in HC

6:31 pm May 3, 2021

Mumbai: BJP Lok Sabha MP Sujay Vikhe Patil on Monday refuted before the Aurangabad bench of Bombay High Court reports that he had procured 10,000 vials of Remdesivir injections, used in COVID-19 treatment, from Delhi. Vikhe Patil’s counsel Shirish Gupte told a division bench headed by Justice R V Ghuge that the Ahmednagar MP had […]

Maha trying its best to augment medical oxygen: minister

11:06 pm April 13, 2021

Thane: The Maharashtra government is exploring various ways to tide over the shortage of medical oxygen which is in high demand due to the huge rise in COVID-19 cases, state minister Eknath Shinde said on Tuesday. He said the Jamnagar plant of Reliance has agreed to supply additional 100 metric tonnes of oxygen to Maharashtra […]

MP records 1,357 new coronavirus cases, ten deaths

Maharashtra sees 60,212 new COVID-19 cases, 281 die

10:35 pm April 13, 2021

Mumbai: Maharashtra on Tuesday reported 60,212 fresh coronavirus positive cases, taking the tally to 35,19,208 while 281 fatalities pushed the toll to 58,526, the state health department said. In view of the alarming rise in cases, the state government has announced a 15-day long statewide curfew from 8 pm on April 14. Maharashtra is now […]