Tag: Maharashtra

Thane School Sacks 3 Teachers After Students Molested While On Excursion

February 22, 2024 admin

Mumbai: Parents of students enrolled at a private school in Thane, near Mumbai, have alleged their wards were molested during a school excursion. A police case has been filed and following a nine-hour protest by the parents, the school has sacked three teachers who accompanied the students. The parents, though, are demanding that the school…

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Maharashtra Resident Doctors To Hold Indefinite Strike From Today

February 22, 2024 admin

Doctors are demanding better hostel accommodation and a hike in stipend. (Representational) Mumbai: Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors Central (MARD) demanding better hostel accommodation, a hike in stipend, and clearance of arrears, will hold a state-wide indefinite strike starting today at 5 pm. Dr Abhijit Helge, MARD President, said that the Central MARD, had kept…

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Maharashtra BJP MLA Resigns In Support Of Maratha Quota Demand

October 31, 2023 admin

On Monday, Beed district saw large-scale violence during the Maratha quota agitation. (File) Mumbai: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from Beed district in central Maharashtra on Monday tendered his resignation from the legislative assembly in support of the Maratha reservation demand. Laxman Pawar, the MLA from Gevrai assembly segment, said the Maratha quota issue…

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Leopard Spotted In Maharashtra Town In Shirdi, Residents In Panic

October 17, 2023 admin

Efforts are on to capture the leopard and release him to the forest New Delhi: Panic gripped the residents of Maharashtra’s Kopargaon after a leopard strayed into a residential area of the town. A video shows the leopard roaming on a road in Kopargaon. The people then informed the Forest Department officials who rushed to…

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Drug Lords Wanted In Maharashtra Arrested By UP Special Task Force

October 10, 2023 admin

Both were arrested by the STF in a joint operation with the Pune Crime Branch. (Representational) Lucknow: The Special Task Force of Uttar Pradesh Police on Tuesday arrested two men wanted in a drugs case in Maharashtra while trying to slip to Nepal. Abhishek Bilas Balakwade and Bhushan Anil Patil, involved in a case related…

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Drug Body’s Big Charge After 31 Patients Die In Nanded

October 4, 2023 admin

Mumbai: Enough medicine orders were not placed to meet the drug demand of government hospitals in Maharashtra, alleged a drug’s body after an acute medicine shortage led to a hospital tragedy in the state. Haffkine Biopharmaceutical placed only 12 orders this year against the usual annual average of up to 2,000 orders to supply medicines to…

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After 350 Years, Chhatrapati Shivaji’s ‘Tiger Claw’ Set For India Return

October 1, 2023 admin

The ‘wagh nakh’ is expected to be housed at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Museum. Mumbai: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s legendary wagh nakh, the ‘tiger claw’ weapon he used to defeat Bijapur sultanate’s general Afzal Khan in 1659, is set to return to Maharashtra from London in November. This year marks the 350th anniversary of the coronation…

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Big Butterfly Month | A month for the winged ones

September 22, 2023 admin

A rainy September morning, an eclectic group of nature experts and amateurs is gathered about a bush in Sipna jungle near Panshet, around 25 kilometres away from the city of Pune. ”This is a great find!” Rajat Joshi, the Pune district coordinator for Big Butterfly Month announces. We all peer obligingly. It is a pupa of a…

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Big Butterfly Month | A month for the winged ones

September 22, 2023 admin

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Maharashtra Cabinet Gives Nod For Rs 837 Crore Project To Deal With Cyber Crimes

September 6, 2023 admin

The project aims to bring all modern technologies under one umbrella, government said. Mumbai: The Maharashtra cabinet on Wednesday gave its nod for a Rs 837 crore cyber safety project to deal with cyber crimes in the state. The project aims to bring all modern technologies under one umbrella, which will also include a control…

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