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  • ‘No additional restrictions’: Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar says COVID circumstances spiked because of irresponsible behaviour of other folks

    By means of PTI

    PUNE: Expressing worry over the upward thrust in COVID-19 circumstances in Pune and the remainder of Maharashtra, Deputy Leader Minister Ajit Pawar on Saturday stated that as of now no new restrictions will probably be introduced in however a choice will probably be taken subsequent week relying upon the situation.

    Pawar used to be chatting with newshounds after attending a COVID-19 overview assembly right here.

    This assembly used to be attended by way of officers of the Pune district management, Pune Municipal Company (PMC), Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Company (PCMC) and the Zilla Parishad representatives.

    “Coronavirus circumstances are emerging each and every passing day. However in nowadays’s assembly, we made up our minds now not to usher in additional restrictions. On the similar time, present curbs is probably not at ease quickly. However, if wanted, a choice will probably be taken within the subsequent week,” he stated.

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    The Maharashtra govt not too long ago imposed new restrictions at the motion of other folks.

    As according to the brand new tips, the motion of other folks in teams of 5 or extra has been limited from 5 am to 11 pm and no motion has been allowed from 11 pm to five am, aside from for very important products and services.

    Previous within the day, when requested by way of newshounds in regards to the additional tightening of curbs if the call for for scientific oxygen rises within the state, Pawar had discussed Aaditya Thackeray as the manager minister of Maharashtra as an alternative of the latter’s father Uddhav Thackeray.

    “It used to be unintended. Like we take again our phrases within the Meeting if they’re mistaken, I take the phrase ‘Aaditya’ again. I pressure that Uddhav Thackeray is the CM of Maharashtra,” he stated within the night when requested in regards to the obvious pretend pas.

    Aaditya is a cupboard minister within the MVA govt led by way of Shiv Sena.

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    Curiously, BJP has been tough that CM Thackeray must give up the price to a couple different chief if he’s not able to wait to the problems regarding Maharashtra because of his well being.

    Pawar stated the circumstances rose impulsively as a result of other folks don’t seem to be following COVID-19 norms.

    “Just lately, many of us returned from international nations. On the similar time, no norms had been adopted in public occasions, particularly in marriages that had been attended by way of other folks coming from different states. If we need to keep watch over the unfold of an infection, we should apply laws,” he added.

    The deputy CM stated the case positivity price jumped to 17 according to cent from six according to cent closing week.

    He stated the tempo of vaccination for the 15-18 age staff has been just right within the Pune district.

    He’s the dad or mum minister of the Pune district.

    ALSO READ: Maharashtra more likely to see upward push in COVID hospitalisations by way of January-end or early Febuary: Well being division

    Pawar stated a booster dose must be taken 9 months after the management of the second one dose of COVID-19 vaccines.

    He additionally stated that scientific shops promoting COVID-19 take a look at kits must write down the touch numbers of individuals purchasing those merchandise.

    “Executive groups will touch such other folks in regards to the standing of the take a look at end result,” he added.

    FDA joint commissioner (Pune department), S B Patil, has issued a notification, directing all of the retail in addition to wholesale chemists and pharmacists in Pune to stay a report of shoppers purchasing the COVID house take a look at kits.

    Responding to a question, Pawar stated he used to be of the view that the checks for categories 10 and 12 be held offline.

    Just lately, Pune Police had arrested six other folks for allegedly the use of the telephone selection of Ajit Pawar to touch a city-based builder and later making an attempt to extort Rs 20 lakh from him.

    When requested in regards to the incident, Pawar stated the involved builder is his excellent pal.

    “Each time I make a decision from my quantity it is going out as a non-public quantity. However that day I were given to grasp in regards to the incident the place anyone known as this builder and demanded cash. I and the state house minister had been in combination at the moment. Pune commissioner of police used to be knowledgeable following which a case used to be registered,” he added.

  • No access in Madhya Pradesh’s Burhanpur to vacationers from Maharashtra with out detrimental COVID-19 record

    Through PTI

    BURHANPUR: The management in Madhya Pradesh’s Burhanpur district has made a detrimental RT-PCR take a look at record obligatory for the ones coming from neighbouring Maharashtra, an respectable mentioned on Saturday.

    The district lies at the border of MP and Maharashtra.

    It’s going to be obligatory for vacationers coming from Maharashtra to supply a detrimental RT-PCR take a look at record prior to access into the district, mentioned Shailendra Solanki, Further District Justice of the Peace (ADM), Burhanpur.

    The record will have to now not be older than 48 hours, he added.

    3 test issues were arrange at the border with Maharashtra the place police, district management and well being groups are posted round-the-clock to test RT-PCR stories, he mentioned.

    Maharashtra is one of the states which were hit worst through the coronavirus pandemic.

    The COVID-19 tally in Madhya Pradesh rose to eight,24,543 on Saturday with detection of five,315 new instances.

  • Former Uttar Pradesh Minister Ramveer Upadhyay joins BJP

    By way of PTI

    LUCKNOW: Former Uttar Pradesh Minister and BSP MLA Ramveer Upadhyay joined the BJP on Saturday.

    This got here an afternoon after the sitting MLA from Sadabad seat in Hathras district resigned from the Mayawati-led BSP, alleging that the celebration had deviated from the rules of its founder Kanshi Ram.

    BJP’s state media in-charge Manish Dixit stated Upadhyay surrender the BSP on Friday and joined the saffron celebration in Agra on Saturday.

    Dixit stated a lot of folks from different events are becoming a member of the BJP and expressing religion within the welfare paintings accomplished by means of the central executive led by means of Top Minister Narendra Modi and the Uttar Pradesh executive led by means of Leader Minister Yogi Adityanath.

    He stated Upadhyay’s access into the BJP would additional reinforce the celebration.

    In his resignation letter despatched to the BSP management, Upadhyay referred to his provider of 25 years within the celebration.

    He stated for the reason that BSP has deviated from the rules and beliefs of Kanshi Ram, he’s resigning from the club of the celebration.

    Upadhyay, who used to be suspended from the BSP in Would possibly 2019 for anti-party actions, stated the celebration management rejected all his clarifications and the truth, which harm him and in addition the feelings of his supporters.

  • Samajwadi Birthday party chief Azam Khan’s son Abdullah Azam launched from prison

    By way of PTI

    SITAPUR: Abdullah Azam, the son of senior Samajwadi Birthday party chief Azam Khan, used to be launched from Sitapur prison past due Saturday night time.

    Abdullah Azam and his father had been lodged in Sitapur prison when they had been shifted from Rampur prison on 27 February 2020.

    Consistent with Sitapur prison superintendent Suresh Singh, Abdullah Azam’s unlock order used to be won previous however there used to be discrepancy in it.

    A contemporary order used to be despatched from a Rampur court docket paving the best way for his unlock, he stated.

    Abdullah has as many as 43 instances registered towards him in Rampur and the prison government were given unlock orders in the entire instances.

    A number of supporters had collected out of doors the prison to obtain Abdullah Azam who later headed to Rampur with members of the family in a automobile.

    Briefly interplay with mediapersons provide there, he stated that “oppression will finish and the oppressor might be dethroned on March 10”, when the Uttar Pradesh meeting ballot effects might be declared.

    Meeting polls within the state might be held in seven levels between February 10 and March 7.

  • ‘Society is not going to forgive you’: Former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s daughter to Priyanka Gandhi

    By way of PTI

    UNNOA: Congress basic secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was once faced by means of jailed former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar’s daughter over her determination to box Makhi rape sufferer’s mom from Unnao Sadar seat.

    Kuldeep Sengar was once sentenced to existence imprisonment in December 2019 for raping a lady in Makhi village and is recently in prison.

    In a listing of applicants launched on Thursday, Congress had named Asha Singh, the rape sufferer’s mom, as its candidate from Unnao meeting seat.

    In a video that went viral on social media on Saturday, Sengar’s daughter Aishwarya was once observed objecting to the verdict invoking “morality”.

    “Priyanka Gandhi ji, this political step taken by means of you can be sound, I have no idea politics. However the faith of society and morality won’t ever forgive you,” she allegedly mentioned within the video.

    Aishwarya even claimed that Asha Singh, the proposed candidate, has a case registered towards her for forging a switch certificates and mark sheet.

    “Greater than dozen of circumstances are registered towards your candidate’s circle of relatives on this Unnao…Unnao won’t ever settle for politics which destroys a circle of relatives. You’re going to additionally see its consequence on March 10. The blessings of our Unnao have been with me and all the time will likely be,” she mentioned.

  • Trafficked Sabar tribe ladies, minor lady rescued from Madhya Pradesh, 5 arrested

    Through PTI

    JAMSHEDPUR: Two ladies and a minor of Sabar tribe, who have been tarfficked to Madhya Pradesh , have been rescued via East Singhbhum district police and 5 accused, together with a girl have been arrested, a senior police officer mentioned right here on Saturday.

    The ladies have been bought via a resident of Hatiapata village in Ghatsila sub-division of the district in connivance with an affiliate from Odisha, mentioned senior superintendent of police M Tamil Vanan.

    An FIR were filed via the daddy of the Sabar lady mentioning that she and 4 others but even so a minor lady of the tribe, all citizens of Sabar Bustee at Pahadpur village, were lured via the primary accused at the promise of a role at a bangle manufacturing facility in Madhya Pradesh two months in the past.

    Not able to get any information of his daughter since her departure, the person had approached the police and filed the FIR, the SSP mentioned.

    Following this, a unique police staff headed via deputy superintendent of police (Musaboni) Chandrasekhar Azad was once despatched to Madhya Pradesh on January 6 and the 3 have been rescued throughout investigation and the 5 accused have been arrested, he mentioned.

    The Sabar tribe belong to the Munda ethnic workforce and have been categorized as one of the vital ‘felony tribes’ underneath Legal Tribes Act 1871 and be afflicted by social stigma in fashionable occasions.

    Vanan mentioned the ladies have been lured away at the pretext of giving them jobs after which pressured into flesh industry.

    They have been stored confined in a lodge and their telephones have been snatched away via the accused ahead of they have been bought in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.

    The lady who was once arrested has been excited about trafficking for the previous 25 years.

    She hails from East Singhbhum district and lives in Madhya Pradesh, he mentioned.

    One staff every of the district police are nonetheless tenting in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan to track the 2 ladies, who’re but to be rescued, Vanan added.

    But even so the primary accused, all of the arrested are citizens of Madhya Pradesh.

  • Dharma Sansad case: Police officers pick out up Yati Narasimhanand from dharna web site in Haridwar

    By way of PTI

    DEHRADUN: The Uttarakhand Police on Saturday picked up Yati Narasimhanand from his dharna web site in Haridwar in reference to the case of Dharma Sansad the place alleged hate speeches in opposition to Muslims have been delivered.

    Yati Narasimhanand has been dropped at a police station, Haridwar Superintendent of Police (Town) Swatantra Kumar instructed PTI.

    Alternatively, the officer stated, it used to be technically now not an arrest.

    Narasimhanand, the arguable priest of Dasna temple in Ghaziabad, had organised the development in Haridwar from December 17-19.

    He used to be picked up from the place he used to be sitting on a dharna in protest in opposition to the new arrest of some other accused within the case, Jitendra Narayan Tyagi.

    Tyagi used to be previously referred to as Waseem Rizvi and adjusted his identify after changing to Hinduism.

    Tyagi who headed the Uttar Pradesh Shia Waqf Board earlier than changing to Hinduism used to be the primary individual to were arrested in reference to the case a few days again.

    Additional motion is dependent upon how the investigation progresses, the legitimate stated.

    Each Tyagi and Narasimhanand are amongst the ones named accused within the FIRs lodged in reference to the development.

  • keshav prasad maurya: Keshav Prasad Maurya will contest from Sirathu in Kaushambi, was MLA from this seat for the primary time

    Kaushambi
    With the announcement of the election of Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya to contest from Sirathu meeting seat of Kaushambi in Uttar Pradesh, it has now turn into a scorching seat. Despite the fact that Sirathu Vidhan Sabha is thought of as a historic and spiritual town. Regardless of this, the way forward for the candidate’s victory within the election is made up our minds by means of the citizens of the Dalit and backward categories. If we communicate concerning the caste equation of this seat, then the Scheduled Caste class has 45 % citizens. On the second one quantity, there are 24 % citizens of backward categories. Then it’s adopted by means of a blended 32 according to cent citizens of all categories. The verdict to win or lose the Sirathu seat rests within the palms of the citizens belonging to the Scheduled Castes.

    Keshav Prasad Maurya received from Sirathu seat for the primary time
    At the moment there are 3 lakh 65 thousand 153 general citizens in Sirathu seat of Kaushambi, wherein male citizens are 1 lakh 95 thousand 660 and feminine citizens are 1 lakh 69 thousand 492. In 2012, Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya was an MLA from BJP for the primary time in Sirathu meeting seat. The Sirathu meeting seat was once all the time occupied by means of SP and BSP. Keshav Prasad Maurya had fed the lotus for the primary time on this seat in the course of the dominance of each the events.

    On the identical time, within the 2014 by-election, this seat went to the account of SP. BJP MLA Sheetla Prasad received from this seat in 2017. Within the 2017 meeting elections, a complete of 17 applicants have been within the fray for the Sirathu meeting seat, however the contest was once between SP-BJP and BSP. BJP candidate Sheetla Prasad were given the utmost 78621 votes on this seat within the 2017 elections. In 2nd position, SP candidate Vachaspati were given 52418 votes. On the identical time, BSP candidate Saidul Rab were given 42782 votes at quantity 3. In 2017, Sirathu had polled 40.07% of the full votes. Through which 196186 citizens had exercised their vote.

    Dalit and backward citizens gets victory
    The Dalit voter has all the time proved to be decisive within the Sirathu seat. After this, citizens from backward categories can sign up for palms with the Dalits to put on the face of victory for UP’s Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya. BJP has made arrangements for this on the sales space stage. The area people expressed happiness by means of celebrating Keshav Prasad Maurya’s election from Sirathu. Other people say that the Deputy CM has taken ahead now not most effective Sirathu but in addition all of the Kaushambi at the trail of construction.

    The Election Fee introduced the meeting elections in Uttar Pradesh on 8 January. Vote casting for the 403-seat 18th Meeting will likely be held in seven levels from February 10 to March 7. The result of the elections will come on March 10. Vote casting will likely be held in UP in seven levels on February 10, February 14, February 20, February 23, February 27, March 3 and March 7.

    On February 10, within the first segment, 58 seats in 11 districts of western UP, 2nd segment on February 14 in 55 seats in 9 districts, within the 3rd segment on February 20, 59 in 16 districts. Vote casting will happen at the seats. Within the fourth segment, polling will likely be hung on February 23 in 60 seats in 9 districts together with Lucknow. Within the 5th segment, on February 27, 60 seats in 11 districts, within the 6th segment, 57 seats in 10 districts on March 3, and the 7th and final levels on March 7 in 9 districts. 54 seats will likely be executed. The time period of the seventeenth Meeting (UP Meeting) is until 15 Might.

    Elections to the 403 seats for the seventeenth Legislative Meeting have been held in 7 levels from 11 February to eight March 2017. In that election, BJP received 312 seats for the primary time and secured three-fourth majority within the UP Vidhansabha. The Samajwadi Birthday celebration and Congress alliance led by means of Akhilesh Yadav may win 54 seats. With the exception of this, the BSP of Mayawati, who have been Leader Minister a number of instances within the state, was once lowered to 19 seats. This time a right away contest is being thought to be between the Samajwadi Birthday celebration and the BJP. The BJP is contesting the elections by means of placing ahead the faces of Yogi Adityanath and High Minister Narendra Modi.

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  • Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi writes to ECI, calls for polling be postponed

    By means of PTI

    CHANDIGARH: Punjab Leader Minister Charanjit Singh Channi has recommended the Election Fee of India to delay the February 14 meeting polls by means of six days in view of Guru Ravidas Jayanti.

    Balloting for Punjab’s 117 meeting seats might be hung on February 14 and the counting of votes will happen on March 10.

    In a letter to Leader Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra, Channi wrote that it used to be delivered to his understand by means of some representatives of the Scheduled Castes neighborhood, which contributes round 32 according to cent of the state’s inhabitants, that the beginning anniversary of Guru Ravidas falls on February 16.

    “In this instance, numerous SC devotees (about 20 lakh) from the state are prone to seek advice from Banaras in Uttar Pradesh from February 10 to 16,” Channi wrote.

    “In this kind of scenario, many of us from this neighborhood would now not have the ability to solid their votes for the state meeting, which is another way their constitutional proper,” he said within the letter written on January 13.

    “They have got asked that the balloting date could also be prolonged in this kind of manner that they can seek advice from Banaras from February 10 to February 16 as additionally take part within the meeting elections,” he stated.

    Channi stated, “It is thought of as honest and suitable that the balloting for Punjab meeting elections 2022, could also be postponed for a minimum of six days, enabling about 20 lakh other folks to utilise their proper to vote for the state legislative meeting.”

    Previous, Bahujan Samaj Birthday celebration’s Punjab leader Jasvir Singh Garhi had demanded from the ECI to reschedule polls from February 14 to February 20.

  • BJP leaders quitting in Uttar Pradesh as they’re bored stiff with dictatorship: Sushil Kumar Shinde

    Via PTI

    PUNE: Taking a veiled swipe at Uttar Pradesh leader minister Yogi Adityanath, Congress veteran Sushil Kumar Shinde on Saturday stated that many leaders are quitting the BJP and becoming a member of different events forward of elections as they’re bored stiff with “dictatorship”.

    Chatting with journalists, he stated Congress gets votes from positive sections within the upcoming UP polls whilst he downplayed a question on why leaders strolling out of the ruling BJP fold are who prefer the Samajwadi Birthday celebration (SP) over Congress.

    Responding to a question, the previous Union house minister stated there used to be no breach within the safety of top minister Narendra Modi all the way through his fresh consult with to poll-bound Punjab.

    When requested concerning the PM’s observation after the alleged safety breach, Shinde stated, “I don’t believe there’s any breach within the PM’s safety. They (the PM and his safety body of workers) will have to have requested quite a lot of businesses earlier than leaving for the serve as (in Punjab). The intelligence is to be had 24 hours earlier than…How did they cross there? Now, they’re accusing Congress of politics”.

    Shinde stated it did not topic if some leaders from BJP in Uttar Pradesh are becoming a member of SP and no longer Congress.

    “It’s not relevant which celebration they’re becoming a member of. Congress gets votes from positive sections in Uttar Pradesh. As they’re bored stiff with the dictatorship in BJP they’re becoming a member of different events in UP,” he alleged.

    “BJP’s days are over now. They’ve proved that they only communicate and do not anything. I feel they’re following the democratic means,” he stated when requested about leaders deserting BJP.

    Shinde stated terming farmers protesting for the withdrawal of 3 farm rules as “Khalistanis” used to be fallacious.

    “Those farmers had been protesting towards injustice. Their problems will have to were resolved previous, however the executive lacked the self-control to take action,” he alleged when requested concerning the farmers’ protests that had been withdrawn in final December after over a 12 months.