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  • Rallies of leaders developing communal strife should be banned: Maharashtra Congress leader Nana Patole

    By means of PTI

    MUMBAI: Maharashtra Congress leader Nana Patole on Monday stated the state govt should ban public rallies of political leaders seeking to stoke communal stress.

    His call for got here an afternoon after Maharashtra Navnirman Sena leader Raj Thackeray stated he can be preserving a rally on Might 1.

    By the way, at his Gudi Padwa rally on April 2, Thackeray had threatened to counter azaan from loudspeakers atop mosques with Hanuman Chalisa and has additionally demanded that those loudspeakers be got rid of by way of Might 3.

    “Problems like value upward thrust, which have an effect on folks, are being sidelined to create communal disturbances with such statements. The Charter has given everybody the best to follow one’s faith. The Maharashtra govt should deny permission to rallies of leaders developing communal stress,” Patole advised newshounds.

    He alleged that the Narendra Modi govt was once not able to take on emerging inflation, unemployment, farm misery and issues of the commercial sector so was once diverting folks’s consideration with communal problems.

    “I’m a Hindu and skim the Hanuman Chalisa on a regular basis however I don’t need to put it on the market my faith. We don’t have any person’s permission to hope. Those that criticize different religions in truth don’t consider within the Charter,” Patole stated.

    He stated the folks have been starting to perceive the conspiracy of the BJP because the celebration may no longer win a unmarried seat within the bypolls held in numerous states on April 12.

    On Raj Thackeray, Patole stated BJP chief Devendra Fadnavis had previous known as the MNS leader a stooge, and handiest the previous leader minister can say whose stooge he was once.

    Riots have taken position right through Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Delhi and we all know which teams have been at the back of those disturbances, however makes an attempt to recreate it in Maharashtra failed because of the efforts of the MVA govt, Patole claimed.

  • Maharashtra DGP, Mumbai most sensible cop will draft tips on the use of loudspeakers: state House Minister Dilip Walse Patil

    By means of PTI

    MUMBAI: Maharashtra director basic of police and Mumbai police commissioner will get ready tips on the usage of loudspeakers which might be issued in a few days, state House Minister Dilip Walse Patil stated right here on Monday.

    Walse Patil’s feedback got here amid the call for raised via the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and the BJP for the elimination of loudspeakers from mosques.

    “The state’s director basic of police (Rajnish Seth) and Mumbai CP (Sanjay Pandey) will take a seat in combination and get ready tips (over the usage of loudspeakers) for the state. Those tips might be issued in an afternoon or two. All must put in force them,” he informed newshounds.

    MNS leader Raj Thackeray had requested the MVA executive to take away loudspeakers from mosques via Might 3 arguing that individuals of different communities are unwillingly compelled to hear the prayers of Muslims because of the loud sound.

    He had threatened to play Hanuman Chalisa outdoor mosques in the next quantity after Might 3.

    The BJP has supported Raj Thackeray’s call for.

    Walse Patil stated the House division and the police are maintaining an in depth watch at the provide scenario within the state.

    “Strict motion might be taken if any person or organisation tries to create a communal divide and vitiate the ambience,” he added.

  • 3 held for stealing livestock from cow refuge in Maharashtra

    By means of PTI

    PALGHAR: 3 individuals have been arrested for allegedly stealing buffaloes from a refuge at Vasai in Palghar district of Maharashtra, police mentioned on Sunday.

    The buffaloes have been stolen from the Aryavarth Gaushala situated close to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple within the Pelhar space on April 6, police mentioned in a unencumber.

    Police additionally seized a small truck value Rs 2 lakh from the accused trio- Muzzamel Noor Mohammad Qureshi, Mustafa Istakaruddin and Azhar Sanawat Sheikh.

    They have been booked below more than a few sections of the Indian Penal Code and provisions of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act and the Natural world Coverage Act.

  • Congress blames Centre for coal crunch, energy disaster in Maharashtra

    Via PTI

    MUMBAI: Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole on Friday stated the ability disaster within the state has been brought about because of loss of coal provide by way of the Central executive.

    Speaking to newshounds right here, Patole claimed that although the Union coal minister has urged states to import coal, the imports will simplest get advantages one of the crucial BJP’s industrialist buddies and can make electrical energy pricey.

    “The Union coal minister has urged states to import coal. Alternatively, when coal is imported, it’ll simplest get advantages one of the crucial BJP’s industrialist buddies and it’ll make electrical energy costlier and abnormal customers should undergo the brunt of it,” he alleged.

    The Congress chief additional stated that the allegations of corruption within the allocation of coal mines, which have been made throughout the UPA regime, have been later discovered to be false. The then PM Manmohan Singh had a imaginative and prescient, he used to be able to empower the power division.

    However underneath the Modi executive, no new coal mine has been created, it is a ploy of privatisation, he claimed.

    When requested about using loudspeakers on mosques, Patole charged that some events have been seeking to additional their political pursuits by way of elevating the problem of loudspeakers on mosques.

    “Why is one explicit faith being centered, when loudspeakers are being utilized in puts of worship throughout all faiths? The Charter does no longer educate you to hate any faith,” the previous speaker stated.

    Communal forces must no longer attempt to instigate one faith in opposition to some other, he stated, including that efforts are being made to create a spiritual rift in Maharashtra and motion must be taken in opposition to such folks.

    Talking about Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s discuss with to Mumbai, Patole stated the date for a similar has no longer been mounted but.

    All the way through his discuss with to Mumbai, Gandhi will meet Congress MLAs, ministers and birthday party place of business bearers. The discuss with might be vital for coordination some of the MVA constituents and implementation of the average minimal programme drafted by way of the events, Patole stated.

  • Maharashtra: Two minors detained for stabbing, injuring males in Bhiwandi

    By way of PTI

    THANE: Two minors have been detained for allegedly attacking two males with knives over a dispute in Bhiwandi the city of Maharashtra’s Thane district, police stated on Friday.

    The town police on Thursday detained the 2 minors and are in search of a person who used to be with the duo on the time, the station space officer of Shanti Nagar police station stated.

    The incident happened on Thursday at a residential development in Nagaon, the place the accused attempted to go into the premises with none goal and the sufferer stopped them, he stated.

    The accused were given offended and attacked the sufferer and his buddy with a knife and injured them, the legit stated.

    When folks within the locality attempted to rescue the sufferers, the accused additionally ran in opposition to them with knives, he stated.

    In accordance with a grievance lodged by way of one of the crucial sufferers, offences underneath segment 307 (try to homicide) and different related provisions of the IPC were registered towards the accused, the legit stated.

  • BJP does not grasp Hindutva patent: Uddhav, says Bal Thackeray led saffron time table

    By means of PTI

    MUMBAI: Maharashtra Leader Minister and Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday mentioned the BJP does not grasp “patent” on Hindutva and claimed that the overdue Sena supremo Bal Thackeray had confirmed BJP that the combo of “saffron and Hindutva” will assist achieve energy in Centre.

    Thackeray additionally mentioned Sena has all the time been dedicated to the “bhagva” (saffron) and Hindutva “in contrast to BJP which had other names like Bharatiya Jan Sangh and Jan Sangh which propagated other ideologies”.

    Becoming a member of just about the marketing campaign for Maha Vikas Aghadi’s (MVA) candidate Jayashree Jadhav, who belongs to Congress, for the April 12 bypoll from the Kolhapur North seat, Thackeray additionally blamed BJP for the defeat of the Shiv Sena nominee from the constituency within the 2019 polls in spite of the alliance between the 2 events at the moment.

    He questioned if BJP had had a hidden alliance with Congress on this constituency within the 2019 polls.

    “The BJP does not have the patent for Hindutva. I’m wondering had Lord Ram no longer been born what factor the BJP would have raised in politics. Since BJP is bereft of problems it’s speaking about faith and (spreading) hatred,” Thackeray mentioned.

    Thackeray mentioned it was once his father Bal Thackeray who had proven them (BJP) that saffron and Hindutva will lead them at the highway to Delhi.

    Talking at the Kolhapur North bypoll, Thackeray mentioned that votes of Congress higher within the 2019 polls ((in Kolhapur North) in comparison to the 2014 elections which resulted within the defeat of Shiv Sena’s nominee in spite of the alliance with the BJP.

    “The place did the BJP’s votes cross in 2019? Did you (BJP) have a hidden alliance with Congress at the moment?” Thackeray requested.

    Thackeray additionally mentioned that if the BJP claims to admire Bal Thackeray then why is that birthday celebration opposing the proposal to call the approaching Navi Mumbai world airport after the overdue Sena founder.

    “Why has the BJP long gone again on its phrase and dedication given by way of (Union House Minister) Amit Shah in Balasaheb’s room which I believe a temple,” Thackeray requested, in an obvious connection with his declare that BJP had promised the CM’s put up to Sena within the 2019 polls.

    The problem of sharing the executive minister’s put up after the state elections in 2019 ended in the get a divorce between the Sena and the BJP. The BJP and Shah had rejected Thackeray’s claims in regards to the purported promise at the CM’s put up.

    Thackeray, whose birthday celebration heads the Maha Vikas Aghadi govt which incorporates NCP and Congress, additionally mentioned that the MVA alliance experiment is a hit. “This is why that Sena did not stake the declare for the Kolhapur North seat,” he mentioned.

    Thackeray mentioned MVA companions mentioned in a contemporary assembly if they’re falling quick. “We realised that it isn’t the governance and management we’re missing however we’re falling quick in spreading lies,” he mentioned in a dig at BJP.

    Thackeray mentioned that votes of Congress higher within the 2019 polls (in Kolhapur North) in comparison to the 2014 elections which resulted within the defeat of Shiv Sena’s nominee in spite of the alliance with the BJP at the moment.

    “The BJP had severed ties with Sena within the 2014 elections. In that election, the Sena candidate gained 69,736 votes within the Kolhapur North meeting section whilst the BJP secured 40,104 votes. Congress polled 47,315 votes.” For 2019 polls, Shiv Sena and BJP joined fingers as soon as once more however the Sena nominee bagged 75,854 votes, a meagre upward thrust of five,000-6,000 votes.

    The Congress candidate secured 91,000 votes. “I wish to ask the place did BJP’s 40,000 votes cross? Who will explain if those votes had been transferred to Congress? Shiv Sena performs its politics brazenly and isn’t a backstabber,” the Sena leader mentioned.

    Within the 2019 meeting elections, Congress candidate Chandrakant Jadhav defeated then Shiv Sena MLA Rajesh Kshirsagar to win the Kolhapur North section.

    Jadhav’s dying necessitated the April 12 byelection. MVA candidate Jayashree Jadhav, spouse of the overdue Jadhav, will face BJP’s Satyajit Kadam within the upcoming bypoll.

    The competition is noticed as the primary direct face-off between Congress and BJP after the Sena determined not to stake a declare for the Kolhapur North constituency.

  • Centre writes to Kerala, Maharashtra, Delhi, Haryana, Mizoram on spiking COVID instances

    Via Specific Information Provider

    NEW DELHI: The middle has written to 5 states, together with Kerala and Delhi, on the upward push in Covid instances and has steered them to proceed tracking the unfold of the an infection and adopt required steps for advised and efficient control of Covid-19.

    Within the letter, Union Well being Secretary Rajesh Bhushan stated that “a sustained and important decline within the collection of Covid-19 instances were noticed in India during the last two months, with the rustic reporting not up to 1000 day by day new instances for the previous few days. Weekly positivity price has remained beneath 1 p.c.”

    On the other hand, he stated a couple of states are reporting the next contribution to India’s day by day new instances.

    He stated that because the states are taking quite a lot of measures to reopen financial and social actions, there’s a want for steady follow-up of a possibility assessment-based way for Covid-19.

    In separate letters to those 5 states, Bhushan informed them to proceed the five-fold technique of test-track-treat-vaccination, and adherence to Covid suitable conduct must be adopted.

    The ministry additionally indexed steps to persist with, together with tracking new clusters, good enough trying out, tracking influenza-like sickness, carrying out genomic sequencing for prescribed samples of world passengers, and vaccinating all eligible folks.

    “It is very important that the state care for a strict watch and take pre-emptive motion if required in any spaces of outrage to keep an eye on any rising unfold of an infection. Checking out and surveillance stay necessary to regard the virus, its unfold and evolution.” 

    The ministry stated laxity would nullify the beneficial properties in pandemic control up to now.

    The ministry stated Kerala is reporting 31.8 p.c of India’s new instances, and the state additionally has observed an build up in positivity within the ultimate week from 13.45 p.c to fifteen.53 p.c. Mizoram accounted for 11.16 p.c of all new instances, and the state additionally noticed an build up in positivity within the ultimate week from 14.38 p.c to 16.48 p.c.

    Maharashtra additionally noticed a spike in new instances because it accounted for 10.9 p.c of India’s contemporary problems. The State has additionally observed an build up in positivity within the ultimate week from 0.39 p.c to 0.43 p.c. Delhi accounted for 11.33 p.c of India’s new instances, with the state seeing an build up in positivity within the ultimate week from 0.51 p.c to at least one.25 p.c.

    Haryana additionally accounted for five.70 p.c of all new instances within the nation, with the positivity price expanding within the ultimate week from 0.51 p.c to at least one.060 p.c.

  • Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole meets NCP leader Sharad Pawar; MVA assembly most probably

    By way of PTI

    MUMBAI: Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole on Friday stated he met NCP president Sharad Pawar to talk about the misuse of Central companies and the ability disaster within the state.

    A gathering of MVA leaders on essential problems might be scheduled quickly, Patole instructed newshounds after the assembly, which came about at Pawar’s place of abode Silveroak in south Mumbai.

    The Congress chief stated that he mentioned quite a lot of problems together with the ability disaster within the state because of quick provide of coal and the motion in opposition to MVA leaders by means of the Central companies to defame Maharashtra.

    Whilst the call for for electrical energy within the state has larger, the Central govt used to be now not supplying ok coal to the state, he claimed, including that if the problem isn’t taken care of out, the state would possibly plunge into darkness because of planned obstruction by means of the Centre.

    He additional stated that the MVA leaders had been being centered by means of the Central companies out of political vendetta.

    “The Central govt is attempting to destabilise the Mahavikas Aghadi govt by means of exerting power, however this arbitrariness won’t closing for lengthy. Why do the BJP leaders who say that the motion in opposition to MVA leaders is honest and now not politically motivated, get started blaming the state govt when motion is taken in opposition to them by means of the state police?” Patole stated.

    Right through the day’s assembly, problems associated with the state had been taken up and in addition the stepmotherly remedy meted out to the state by means of the Centre, the Congress chief stated.

    Within the subsequent two-three days, Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray and leaders of the Mahavikas Aghadi will meet to talk about most of these problems, he stated.

  • Maharashtra: Courtroom denies pre-arrest bail to guy accused of hiding his homosexuality from spouse

    Via PTI

    THANE: A courtroom in Thane district of Maharashtra has rejected the anticipatory bail software of a 32-year-old Navi Mumbai-based guy, who allegedly duped his spouse by way of hiding that he’s a gay, and likewise indulged in forgery in addition to compelled one among his homosexual spouse to accompany them to their honeymoon.

    Further periods Pass judgement on R S Gupta rejected the bail software on Tuesday and a replica of the order was once made to be had on Friday. The accused and complainant, 30, had were given married in November 2021 after assembly via a social media platform.

    In her police grievance, the lady mentioned she later got here to understand that he’s a homosexual as she discovered his private WhatsApp messages and a few movies on his cellular, which printed that he was once in a sexual courting with two males from Mumbai. When she faced him over the problem, the accused flashed a knife at her, she mentioned within the grievance.

    Prior to their marriage, in an effort to provoke her, the accused confirmed a bogus activity be offering letter to her as in step with which he was once to get Rs 14 lakh wage in step with annum, the complainant’s attorney Sagar Kadam instructed the courtroom.

    Prosecutor V A Kulkarni in conjunction with Kadam submitted that ahead of the wedding, the accused suppressed the info that he’s a homosexual and thereby cheated the complainant and ruined her existence.

    Investigation officer submitted that they’ve discovered the chats of the accused with different male companions which obviously signifies the he’s curious about a similar intercourse courting.

    The defence suggest contested the prosecution’s model, pronouncing that it was once geared toward defaming and harassing him, and sought reduction.

    The pass judgement on rejected the anticipatory bail software of the accused pronouncing, “Prima facie it’s proven accused with intent to play fraud, dedicated dishonest by way of inflicting wrongful monetary loss to the mother or father of complainant and in addition to irreparable injury to the lifetime of complainant.” After the registration of an FIR towards him on March 2, the accused and the complainant made up our minds to unravel the topic amicably by way of dissolution in their marriage with the accused agreeing to pay off the bills incurred by way of the complainant for his or her marriage.

    The accused sought time until March 30, however 4 days previous to the time limit, he secretly carried out for anticipatory bail in Thane periods courtroom. Nevertheless it was once rejected on April 5 and he absconded to evade arrest by way of the Rabale police, Kadam mentioned.

  • Centre insists on Aarey land for Mumbai metro paintings

    Specific Information Carrier

    MUMBAI:  A recent spherical of tussle has damaged out between the Maharashtra executive and the Centre over the latter’s refusal at hand over a parcel of land below its regulate for establishing a shed for the Mumbai Metro. 

    The Union Ministry for Housing and City Affairs wrote to Maharashtra leader secretary pointing out that the state will have to broaden the Metro Line-3 shed at Aarey Colony most effective. Previous, the Maha Vikas Aghadi executive within the state had modified the web site of proposed shed from Aarey to Kanjur Marg after protests by way of environmentalists, Shiv Sena activits and public who feared harm to the native ecology as the realm has thick greenery. 

    The Centre has mentioned that it could no longer be possible to broaden the auto shed at Kanjur Marg owing to operational difficulties, and monetary and criminal problems. “Relocation of the shed from Aarey to Kanjur Marg will motive primary escalations of the price, infrastructure and have an effect on, and due to this fact a call will have to taken duly taking into consideration long run viability and sustainability,” learn the letter. Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray had previous alleged the Centre used to be no longer cooperating with the state by way of delivering the Kanjur Marg land.