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Despite Maharashtra lockdown, labourers rushing to leave Mumbai, Pune in jampacked buses face coronavirus threat
Parth Mn • 5 years agoThere are a total of about 250 buses – government and private – coming in to Maharashtra's Latur everyday from Mumbai and Pune. A government bus has a capacity of seating 60, while private buses can accommodate up to 150 passengers. Even if one goes by the conservative estimate of 60 people per bus, it means 15,000 people per day are travelling in a jam packed vehicle.
Maharashtra Assembly election 2019: 62-year dies of brain hemorrhage while standing in queue to vote in Pimpri-Chinchawad
• 5 years agoA 62-year-old man fainted while standing in the queue outside a polling station in adjoining Pimpri-Chinchwad industrial township.
Maharashtra polls: At Pimpri-Chinchwad rally, Devendra Fadnavis claims Congress-NCP 'has already accepted defeat'
• 5 years agoThe Assembly polls in Maharashtra are scheduled to take place on 21 October, and the votes will be counted on 24 October
Sharad Pawar to hold district-wise meets with local NCP leaders to identify candidates for Maharashtra Assembly polls
• 6 years agoNCP (Nationalist Congress Party) chief Sharad Pawar will hold district-wise meetings with the party's local leaders starting 13 June to identify potential candidates for the Maharashtra Assembly polls, sources said on Tuesday.
Fire breaks out in Pune's Patil Estate near Shivajinagar; 30 fire tenders rushed to spot
Fp Staff • 6 years agoThough the exact cause of fire is yet to be ascertained, officials suspect that it could have spread due to LPG gas cylinder explosions
Two killed after gas cylinder explodes at slum cluster in Pune's Dalvinagar area; case registered
• 6 years agoTwo persons were killed in a fire mishap at a slum area in Pune in the wee hours of Thursday, a police official said. The blaze erupted after a gas cylinder exploded around 3 am in a shanty located at Dalvinagar in Pimpri Chinchwad area on the city's outskirts, he said.
At least 18 people drown across Maharashtra during immersion of idols on last day of Ganesh Chaturthi festival
• 6 years agoAs many as 18 people drowned on Sunday in various parts of Maharashtra during the immersion of idols on the last day of the Ganesh festival, officials said on Monday.
Gauri Lankesh murder: Hindu Janajagruti Samiti says accused Amol Kale no longer associated with it
• 7 years agoThe Hindu Janajagruti Samiti claimed on Saturday that Amol Kale, arrested on Thursday for his alleged involvement in the killing of journalist-activist Gauri Lankesh, left the organisation in 2008 because of "personal reasons".
Bhima Koregaon violence turns creation of award-winning artist into heap of ashes, inflicts over Rs 50 lakh loss
Fp Staff • 7 years agoTremors of the violence, which left one person dead near the Bhima Koregaon village, also shook other parts of state where numerous vehicles were torched, and shops were vandalised.
Sharad Pawar rejects claims of Shiv Sena poaching corporators, blames BJP for engineering defections
• 7 years agoFormer union minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday rejected suggestions that the Shiv Sena had poached MNS corporators and maintained that it is the BJP which engages in politics of engineering defections