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  • Maharashtra: Dalit students attacked at Gandhi University in the middle of the night, five injured

    Maharashtra: Dalit students attacked at Gandhi University in the middle of the night, five injured

    Wardha (IANS)| In a shocking incident, two activists of a right-wing group and some goons barged into the Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya (MGAHV) around midnight on Friday and attacked a Dalit PhD student and some other students who were on an indefinite strike. Five students were injured in the attack.

    The attackers on 37-year-old Rajnish Kumar Ambedkar, a PhD scholar, and his classmates raised slogans of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and tried to end the fast.

    According to Chandan Saroj, who was sitting on the dharna, although there was security in the compound and the main gate was locked, some outsiders and miscreants managed to enter inside. They indulged in violence on campus in association with the right-wing student union.

    Dalit researcher Ambedkar and others are on an indefinite strike against the MGAHV demanding evaluation of their PhD thesis, but the university management has not responded to the matter.

    Saroj said that on the intervening night of Friday-Saturday, ‘saffron goons’ barged inside the campus, started beating up the protesters and hurled obscene and casteist abuses.

    When other students tried to take photographs of the incident, they snatched their mobiles.

    Some students called the Wardha police. Police reached the spot and brought the situation under control around 4 am.

    Ambedkar said that at least five students suffered serious injuries in the melee and some others suffered minor injuries, while the attackers fled.

    A spokesperson of MGAHV told IANS that some students had taken out a religious procession on the campus late last night and were raising slogans of ‘Jai Shri Ram’.

    The spokesperson also confirmed that later, they attacked Dalit students who were holding their protest.

    The situation is completely under control, he added. Meanwhile, other top officials were not available for comment despite repeated attempts.

    Ambedkar said, we strongly condemn this cowardly attack by saffron group goons on Dalit researchers and scholars, who are fighting for their just demands and against the caste prejudice of the university administration.

    He has demanded that the Wardha police should take cognizance of the matter and take action against the accused.

    After the attacks, the university administration urged Ambedkar and others to call off their indefinite strike, but they were turned down.

  • Coronavirus News Live Updates: Fresh Covid cases in Maharashtra touch 425; active cases over 3,000

    Coronavirus News Live Updates: Fresh Covid cases in Maharashtra touch 425; active cases over 3,000

    Maharashtra today recorded 425 new coronavirus cases, a drop of 269 cases from the day before, and zero deaths, the health department said in a bulletin. The state’s COVID-19 infection tally rose to 81,44,111, while death toll stood unchanged at 1,48,441. The number of active cases stand at 3,090. State capital Mumbai recorded 177 cases on Friday, followed by Pune city which recorded 50 new cases.

    Claiming that the Delhi government was prepared to fight the spike in Covid-19 cases in the national capital, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said: “We request patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Infections (SARI) and Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) to mask up, though there has been no mandate from the Centre in this regard so far. We are conducting genome sequencing of all Covid cases that are being detected. 7,986 beds have been set aside for Covid, including oxygen, ICU and ventilator beds.” Delhi recorded 295 fresh Covid cases yesterday, taking the active caseload to 932, a government health bulletin showed.

    Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu government has made wearing of face masks mandatory at all government hospitals across the state from Saturday, owing to an increase in Coronavirus positive cases. Doctors, nurses, medical staff, patients and visitors have been asked to ensure cent percent compliance at around 11,300 health facilities because infection initially started in hospitals, Health Minister Ma Subramanian said today. On Thursday, India witnessed a single-day rise of 3,095 fresh Covid-19 cases with the active caseload increasing to 15,208, according to data released by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

  • Maharashtra minister confirms Fadnavis took ‘revenge’ by toppling MVA govt: NCP

    Maharashtra minister confirms Fadnavis took ‘revenge’ by toppling MVA govt: NCP

    Mumbai (IANS) | The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Wednesday said a Shiv Sena minister’s statement corroborated the public claim of BJP leader and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis that he had taken revenge by toppling the Maha Vikas Aghadi government in June 2022. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief spokesperson Mahesh Taapsee said Fadnavis had a few weeks ago spoken about how he took ‘revenge’ from MVA chief minister Uddhav Thackeray nine months ago and brought down his government.

    He said that now, Health Minister Tanaji Sawant has also confirmed that 150 meetings took place since 2019 between Fadnavis and Eknath Shinde to hatch a conspiracy to bring down the MVA.

    Sawant claimed in Dharashiv on Tuesday that he was angry because Thackeray did not give him a cabinet post in 2019 and started the first rebellion on 3 January 2020 on the orders of Fadnavis.

    Sawant also accused Thackeray of rejecting the people’s mandate and forging alliances with the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party instead of forging an alliance with the BJP.

    Sawant revealed how about 100 to 150 meetings were held by Fadnavis-Shinde over a few years, while he kept on meeting MLAs across the state to switch their loyalties.

    Taapsee said that these shocking revelations make it clear that instead of helping people while the MVA government was fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and saving lives, the BJP was solely focused on toppling the Thackeray government. Was.

    He further said that we along with (then) CM Thackeray, Deputy CM Ajit Pawar, Health Minister Rajesh Tope and others were determined to protect the lives of lakhs of people. The success of the MVA government against Corona has won accolades from all over the world. But what we didn’t realize was that some individuals with personal agenda were contemplating a political coup even during the pandemic.

    He said that since the BJP could never defeat the MVA in a direct electoral contest, it conspired with Shinde to split the (original) Shiv Sena with the sole intention of toppling the Thackeray government and later he (Shinde) became the chief minister. .

    Taapsee said that the MVA never believed that they (Shinde-Fadnavis) could be so power-hungry and even used the pandemic crisis for defections of MLAs, as revealed by Sawant.

    –IANS

  • Stage set for massive BRS public meeting in Maharashtra’s Kandahar Loha

    Stage set for massive BRS public meeting in Maharashtra’s Kandahar Loha

    Hyderabad: Showcasing the Telangana model of development in Maharashtra, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) is gearing up to cement its position in the neighbouring State with its second public meeting scheduled to be held at Kandhar Loha in Nanded on Sunday.

    Considering the political developments in the last few days, Chief Minister and BRS president K Chandrashekhar Rao is expected to come down heavily on the BJP-led union government.

    About one lakh people from 16 mandals (taluks) of Nanded district are expected to attend the Kandhar Loha meeting. Accordingly, elaborate arrangements are being made by the party to ensure that there is no inconvenience to the party workers.

    The BRS has deployed 16 specially designed campaign vehicles equipped with LED screens to tour the villages and showcase the development work and welfare schemes in Telangana.

    Sharing images of the arrangements at the venue, BRS MLA from Chennur Balka Suman tweeted: “Visited the premises of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao massive public meeting to be held on Sunday at Loha, Nanded”

    After foraying into the national politics, this is the third meeting of the BRS party and the second in Maharashtra. The first public meeting was held at Bhokar of Nanded district on February 5 and was a huge hit with people from all sections turning up in large numbers.

    The BRS had earlier announced its arrival on the national arena with huge support from different parties at a public meeting on January 18 in Khammam.

    Given the overwhelming support for BRS, the party is learnt to have drawn plans for contesting the upcoming local body elections, including the Nanded Municipal Corporation polls.

    Like in the past meetings, many leaders from other parties are likely to join the BRS in the presence of Chandrashekhar Rao on Sunday.

  • Withdraw the strike, Maharashtra govt employees will get monetary benefits equivalent to OPS

    Withdraw the strike, Maharashtra govt employees will get monetary benefits equivalent to OPS

    By PTI
    MUMBAI: Maharashtra government employees agitating for restoration of the old pension scheme on Monday called off a week-long strike after a successful meeting between their representatives and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde over key demand, a union leader said.

    Vishwas Katkar, the striking unions coordination committee’s convenor, said the state government has ‘in principle’ agreed to extend monetary benefits equivalent to the OPS to employees who are part of the New Pension System (NPS).

    The government employees were on an indefinite strike since March 14 demanding restoration of the OPS, which was discontinued in 2005.

    The striking employees cited the example of Congress-run governments in Himachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan where the Old Pension Scheme is in operation. “We deserve a decent life after retirement. We want social security. The Old Pension Scheme should be implemented as early as possible. We are not afraid of if the Maharashtra Essential Services Maintenance Act (MESMA) is imposed, let the government do anything, we are firm on our demand,” defiant state government employees had said earlier.

    (With inputs from Sudhir Suryawanshi)

  • 53 killed in attacks by tigers, leopards in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur

    53 killed in attacks by tigers, leopards in Maharashtra’s Chandrapur

    By PTI
    MUMBAI: As many as 53 people were killed in the year 2022 in the attack by tigers and leopards in Chandrapur district of Maharashtra, state Forest Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar told the Legislative Assembly on Monday.

    The minister also said 14 tigers have died in various incidents during the same period.

    He was responding to a question raised by Congress MLA Bunty Bhangadia.

    “While 44 people were killed in the attack by tigers, nine others were killed in the attack by leopards in the calendar year of 2022 in Chandrapur district alone,” he said, adding the kin of the victims have been given Rs 20 lakh by the state government.

    Meanwhile, 53 deaths were reported of tigers, leopards, deer, a bear, and peacocks in the calendar year 2022 due to various reasons, as per the reply.

    “Nine tigers and three leopards have died of natural causes, while two tigers died in clashes with other tigers. Two tigers have died in an accident while one died of electrocution, ” he said.

    At least five chitals and three wild boars were killed by poachers during the calendar year 2022, the minister added.