Tag: Maharashtra
In a tough measure, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday announced a return to the night curfew regime from Sunday (March 28) across Maharashtra as the Covid-19 'second-wave' wreaks havoc in the state. ....
A second lockdown is expected to be imposed from April 2 or April 3 in Maharashtra for a limited period, sources in the state government said. According to the sources, the administration, after receiving orders on Sunday from CM Uddhav Thackeray, has started preparing for the restrictions. ....
Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh has resigned from his post, hours after the Bombay High Court asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the corruption allegations levelled against him by former Mumbai Commissioner of Police Param Bir Singh, a top Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader said here on Monday. ....
The Supreme Court on Thursday will hear petitions filed by Maharashtra government and former state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh challenging the Bombay High Court order directing a CBI preliminary enquiry into corruption allegations levelled by former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh.....
In a major step to ramp up vaccine production amid the Covid-19 second wave, the Centre has approved production of Corona vaccines from the Maharashtra government-owned Haffkine Institute in Mumbai. ....
Soaring above the 60K range, Maharashtra on Friday recorded a new high of 63,729 infections and the second highest death toll of 398, with the state jumping past the 37-L mark, health officials said. ....
The BJP on Saturday hit back on Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray for playing politics over availability of oxygen in the state. Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said that Maharashtra has so far received the highest quantity of oxygen in the country.....
Tightening lockdown norms further, the Maharashtra government on Tuesday decreed that all essential buying of food items shall be permitted for only four hours daily for the next 10 days in order to break the chain of coronavirus. ....
The Supreme Court on Wednesday quashed the Maharashtra law granting reservation in jobs and admissions to Maratha community. ....
Maharashtra's new Covid-19 infections suddenly shot above 30,00 level, but fatalities decreased while the state death toll crossed the 84,000 mark, health officials said on Wednesday. ....