Tag: Maharashtra
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Rural India Shows Robust Recovery In Pandemic Times
Amidst the whole trouble around the lockdown induced slowing down of the Indian economy, the rural Indian has stood to gain the most. Reports have confirmed that the unemployment rate has seen a consistent drop since first week of May. According to Citigroup analysis report, the main reason for this is government handouts to migrants ... -
Congress displeased over its role in Maharashtra government
The state’s Congress leaders are going to meet the Chief Minister and coalition partner soon to discuss a greater role in decision-making. All is not well with Maharashtra’s ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA), the three-party government formed last November on the premise of equal power-sharing between the Shiv Sena, the Nationalist Congress Party and the ... -
India registers higher recovered tally over active cases but registers highest single day cases spike
The latest data released by the Health Ministry on Thursday morning revealed that India recorded highest single day spike with 9,996 new cases of Covid-19 and 357 deaths in the last 24 hours. With this India has total 2,87,754 confirmed cases of Covid-19 with 1,41,348 recovered and 8,116 deceased. The active cases as of recent ... -
Bajaj MD nails the India pandemic response as ‘Wild West’
Top courts to sit together to see how inter-state movement has to happen. Maharashtra is already experiencing a spike in numbers. Delhi numbers have suddenly gone up as well. According to a recent conversation between industrialist Rajiv Bajaj and Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, “India seems to have flattened the wrong curve.” They are both ... -
Maharashtra on high alert as Cyclone Nisarga approaches amid COVID-19
Maharashtra is already battling with the surge in coronavirus cases and now it’s getting prepared to confront Cyclone Nisarga. The state of Maharashtra has recorded over 40,000 Covid-19 positive cases on Monday. Therefore, the State government has notified authorities to devise steps by which positive patients can be moved to more secure areas. Cyclone “Nisarga”, ... -
India Becomes World’s Ninth Worst Coronavirus Hit Nation
India’s coronavirus contracted cases seem to have overtaken even Italy with a single day spike being reported to more than 7000 cases. Reports of casing shooting up are coming from everywhere in India. Cases are reported more from Maharashtra and Orissa. Currently, a nationwide tally of confirmed Covid-19 cases has, unfortunately, crossed a 1.6 lakh ... -
Locust Attack: Indian states on alert, where’s what we know so far
While India is limping back to normalcy after corona lockdown, another looming threat is the locust attack. This latest attack has been described as one of the worst locust attacks in recent history, locusts’ swarms are threatening to destroy standing crops in northern, central, and western states. Here is a list of how the attack ... -
Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray meets allies amid rift speculations
After the controversial statement by Rahul Gandhi speculating rift between Maharashtra government coalition, CM Uddhav Thackeray will have a meeting with his alliance partners on Wednesday. The speculations of strained ties between the Shiv Sena -Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) – Congress’s six-month-old coalition in Maharashtra were raised with the meeting between CM Uddhav Thackeray and ... -
Supreme Court says it can’t monitor migrants on the move
In refusing to entertain a plea asking for government help for those migrants who are striking out on their own to reach their homes, the Supreme Court once again failed to weigh in on the issue. A three-judge bench headed by Justice L Nageswara Rao and comprising Justice S K Kaul and Justice B R ... -
Can liquor shops handle Social Distancing protocols?
Liquor (like most of the West) makes India go around too. But a prolonged Corona Virus lockdown across the nation of 1 billion people has led to an unbearably stretched dry spell. Centre has been under immense pressure to open up liquor stores. But this isn’t because people are suffering due to withdrawal. It is ...