The number of active cases stands at 2,20,114 ,while 3,47,978 people have recovered, and one patient has migrated, according to the updated data at 8 am.
As per the India Meteorological Department many districts in Maharashtra recorded maximum temperatures of 40 degree Celsius or above in the last two days.
The alliance won 41 of the 48 seats leaving the Congress-NCP combine with just 5 seats.
Veteran legislator Ganpatrao Deshmukh on Sunday created history by winning his 11th assembly election.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and several of his cabinet colleagues figure in the list of 118 Congress candidates for the October 15 Assembly polls announced by the AICC late on Wednesday.
Pantaloon Retail India Limited (Pantaloon) is planning a big push to its spread in the western India region as it will take the number of its family store Big Bazaar to 70 by the end of the current year.
In Mumbai, 2,275 candidates are in fray for the 227 seats.
According to officials, Punjab, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Assam and Telangana wanted the lockdown to be continued, some of them wanted the powers to decide the zoning of districts -- green, orange and red -- as per the COVID-19 situation.
A 28-year-old software professional was bludgeoned to death allegedly by seven persons with suspected links to a Hindu outfit near Pune, the police said.
The world's second largest jeans maker Carrera Jeans of Italy on Saturday said it would invest $250 million in India.
Around 7 billion units of coal power valued at Rs 2,400 crore lost due to drought.
'There may be more rebels and they will also face similar action,' Munde said.
Here's a recap of moments captured in India in the past 24 hours.
The Anti Terrorist Squad of Madhya Pradesh police captured five suspected Students Islamic Movement of India activists from Sendhwa Pathar area in Barwani district following an encounter in the early hours on Monday, a top police official said.
The by-polls were held on January 24.
'The Congress-NCP is a declining force while we are a rising force.'
Rediff labs analysed the socio-economic caste census 2011 data on number of manual scavengers in India.
"The families of the deceased have come to me and are weeping inconsolably for justice. We are going to move the MP high court for a CBI probe into the entire incident," lawyer Parvez Alam said.
Railways on Friday withdrew the Rs 4 crore water bill sent to the Latur district administration and promised to continue to run water trains to cater to the need of the people in the parched areas of Marthahwada region till the crisis is over.
Two women doctors were injured in Indore when a five-member team of health officials was pelted with stones in Taatpatti Bakhal area on Wednesday while they were trying to trace a person who had come into contact with a COVID-19 patient, police said.
Out of 98 cities selected for the Rs 48,000 crore Smart Cities project, 24 are capital cities.
Bhubaneswar, Pune, Jaipur and Surat are among 20 cities selected in the first batch to be developed as 'smart cities'.
Rohini Bhajibhakare won't waste a moment on this statistic because she has far more important things to do.
The benchmark M-30 variety of sugar has declined by over 3 per cent in November to trade now at Rs 3,694 per quintal
According to disaster management control room of the civic body, no injury or casualty has been reported so far.
India will host its first WTA tournament in five years when the city of Mumbai stages a $ 125,000 event in November, giving home players an opportunity to compete with the world's top-50.
In the second phase on April 18, 97 seats,spread across 13 states and one Union Territory, will go to the polls.
On a visit to India in 2013, writer Ved Mehta -- who passed into the ages on Sunday January 10, 2021 - gave Rediff.com's Vaihayasi Pande Daniel a rare glimpse into his state of mind and what he thinks of the changes he encounters in his motherland.
The Congress won three seats, Shiv Sena won two, while the Nationalist Congress Party, Bharatiya Janata Party and an Independent bagged one seat each.
Sugarcane, which is grown by no more than 1.1 million farmers, consumes 70 per cent of water available in Maharashtra for irrigation. In contrast, about 10 million jowar, pulses and oilseeds farmers get only 10 per cent of irrigation water, points out Abhishek Waghmare.
Party also plans over 35 virtual rallies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi
There is no proposal "for now" to revise train fares, Railway Minister M Mallikarjun Kharge said.
"In the last four years, the government has made serious efforts to provide proper houses to the poor living in shanties."
In the third phase of the Lok Sabha election on April 23, 116 seats spread across 13 states and two Union Territories, will go to the polls.
'Modi underestimated Pawar.'
As the fierce contest between estranged saffron allies Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party to win the BMC continued, Maharashtra BJP president Raosaheb Danve Thursday said his party may be able to rule the cash-rich body with the support of some independents.
Thackeray said the BJP's perception of being a "world winner" had been shattered with the results of the just-held state assembly polls.
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