Dr Gaurav Sharma, 33, hailing from Himachal Pradesh's Hamirpur, was recently elected as the Member of Parliament from the Labour Party for Hamilton West in New Zealand.
At least 12 passengers were killed and two others missing after a Maharashtra state transport bus fell into the Narmada river from a bridge in Madhya Pradesh's Dhar district on Monday, officials said.
Till Friday, the number of COVID-19 patients in Dharavi reached 808 while the death toll was at 26
All the entry and exit points of these red zones are barricaded and no one is allowed to go in and out of these areas, the official said, adding that disinfectants were also sprayed to sanitise these places.
Two passengers travelling on the same United States-bound Air India aircraft from Mumbai as Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis have come out in his support, saying he did not delay the flight even as he has threatened legal action once he returns to India.
A 5 per cent increase in fees for various licences has been proposed without tweaking the existing tax structure. The BMC's total budget estimates for the next financial year are 8.95 per cent more than the last fiscal.
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'Education is disconnected from social reality and does not even attempt to solve the real problems of our country,' observe Peehu Pardeshi and Sandeep Pandey.
The new age e-passports are expected to be rolled out in the country by 2016, a top official said on Monday.
Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi, joint secretary Passport Seva Project and Chief Passport Officer said around 25-30 per centof the applicants who get an appointment do not turn up at the respective offices.
At least twenty people were feared killed when a Mumbai-bound private luxury bus plunged into a river in Ratnagiri district of coastal Konkan area early on Tuesday. The bus fell into the Jagbudi River near Khed in Ratnagiri district at around 3.30 am.
However, he did not specify against whom he plans to take legal action.
Seizing on reports that an Air India flight for US was delayed for about an hour by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Congress leader and former chief minister Prithviraj Chavan demanded an apology from him for causing inconvenience to over 200 passengers.
Three policemen, including two personnel of Cobra battalion of Central Reserve Police Force were killed on Saturday in a naxal attack in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra.
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There seemed to be some negligence on the part of the contractor, police said.
'They are doing a good surveillance job.' 'It is not easy to undertake this task on such a huge scale given the risks.' 'But home quarantine is not effective.' 'Only institutional quarantine can bring good results.'
Eight persons including a 10-month-old baby have died of swine flu in Pune in the last two days, taking the toll due to the viral infection in the city to 331 since August last year, health officials said on Thursday.Pune civic medical officer R Pardeshi said the transmission rate of the infection had been showing an upward trend in the last few days. People needed to take proper precautions to prevent and treat the disease, he said.
Two men, including a doctor suffering from swine flu, have been admitted in a serious condition to a Pune hospital, taking the total number of cases in the city, one of the worst-hit by the virus, to 120.A doctor, who works with Inlaks Hospital in camp area, was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit in Sassoon General Hospital after he tested positive for the virus. A 35-year-old swine flu patient was admitted to the same hospital on Thursday night in a critical condition.
The e-passport will replace the existing passport document with a plastic card embedded with an electronic chip containing all the details.
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The sterilization botch up at a state-run camp in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district, which has evoked hue and cry from all corners, has claimed the lives of four more women, taking the total toll to 12.
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Of the 27 projects being monitored, four to five are critical for Mumbai.
The Civil Aviation ministry has sought reports from Air India on the recent incidents involving Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union Minister Kiren Rijiju which allegedly led to delay of flights.
On the day the Maharashtra legislature passed the much-awaited anti-superstition bill, Thane district police arrested six men for murdering a 50-year-old woman in a ritual human sacrifice.
Eight women died and 52 others have been hospitalised due to botched surgeries at a government-organised sterilisation camp in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district.
The most experienced administrator in the country seems to have sat back and allowed bureaucrats and policemen to manage the lockdown, observes Jyoti Punwani.
Within a week, the prime minister's Office alerted the Pune district administration, prompting them to help the girl.
Jerome Barson, who was a passenger in a sedan that collided with the SUV that Venus Williams was driving, died 13 days after the accident.
'I am more worried about the rainy season from June.' 'If you don't bury the COVID-19 dead properly, then rainwater will seep into the dead bodies and it will come to our locality where I fear more than 2,000 people will be affected.'
Fadnavis had gone to Latur in Marathwada region when the mishap occurred.
Fire brigade, Mumbai Police and civic officials rushed to the site to carry out the rescue operation.
Bharat Pardeshi, one of the leaders from the All India Railway Act Apprentice Association, spoke to Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf about why they had to resort to the unpopular move, disrupting the lives of thousands of railway commuters in Mumbai.
A Station House Officer and four police jawans were on Friday killed and three others injured, one of them critically, in a Naxal ambush in Maoist-hit Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh, police said.
He, however, did not name these 'influential and wealthy people'.
Private weather agency Skymet said Mumbai is at 'serious risk of flooding' between July 3 and 5.
Olympic medallists P V Sindhu and Saina Nehwal made a resounding start to their women's singles campaign but it was Sameer Verma who hogged the limelight with a stunning straight-game win over Korean Son Wan Ho in men's event in the opening round of the India Super Series in New Delhi on Wednesday.
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