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  • 12 killed as speeding mini-bus hits container on Samruddhi Expressway in Aurangabad

    By PTI

    12 people lost their lives after the bus they were travelling in collided with a container on Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad district, police said. 23 others were injured.

    A speeding mini-bus hit a container in the early hours of Sunday on Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district, formerly known as Aurangabad, police said.

    There were 35 passengers travelling by the private bus, an official said.

    The accident took place at around 12.30 am in Vaijapur area of the expressway in the district, located nearly 350 km from Mumbai, he said.

    The bus driver lost control over the wheels. As a result, the bus hit the container from the rear side, the official said.

    Twelve passengers were killed. The deceased include five men, six women and a minor girl, he said.

    The official said 23 others received injuries and they were admitted to a government hospital.

    Further details are awaited. Follow The New Indian Express channel on WhatsApp

    12 people lost their lives after the bus they were travelling in collided with a container on Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad district, police said. 23 others were injured.

    A speeding mini-bus hit a container in the early hours of Sunday on Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district, formerly known as Aurangabad, police said.

    There were 35 passengers travelling by the private bus, an official said.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    The accident took place at around 12.30 am in Vaijapur area of the expressway in the district, located nearly 350 km from Mumbai, he said.

    The bus driver lost control over the wheels. As a result, the bus hit the container from the rear side, the official said.

    Twelve passengers were killed. The deceased include five men, six women and a minor girl, he said.

    The official said 23 others received injuries and they were admitted to a government hospital.

    Further details are awaited. Follow The New Indian Express channel on WhatsApp

  • Fresh clashes in Aheri village of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, security tightened

    By IANS

    CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: In a suspected fallout of the major clashes that ravaged the Kiradpura area of Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar during the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday, two groups indulged in violent stone-throwing in Aheri village of the district on Friday.

    A large police force, including a CRPF team, was rushed to Aheri to maintain peace.

    The situation is reportedly under control with top officers and political leaders keeping an eye on developments.

    The developments come barely 24 hours after Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (formerly Aurangabad) was rocked by clashes in which one person was killed and over 15 police personnel injured. Around 20 police and private vehicles were torched, too. Several incidents of stone pelting too were reported.

    At least seven persons have been arrested and more than 400 persons booked for the rioting that occurred on the eve of Ram Navami celebrations.

    During the festival on Thursday, clashes also erupted in Jalgaon too. Four have been arrested in connection with it and many more have been booked. The situation has now been reported as peaceful.

    On Thursday night, groups indulged in stone pelting in the minority-dominated Malvani area of Malad west suburb of Mumbai and around 25 persons were detained. The situation there is stated to be normal and under control with police maintaining a tight vigil in view of the ongoing Ramzan month.

    Mumbai Congress MLA Aslam Shaikh called upon the police to scan CCTV footage of the area and take action against those responsible for the clashes.

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    READ MORE | Communal clashes during Ram Navami processions in Aurangabad, Vadodara and Howrah

    Meanwhile, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP and Chief Spokesperson Sanjay Raut pointed fingers at the ruling Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance blaming them for the ‘state-sponsored’ riots which are intended to derail the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance’s rally scheduled in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar city on April 2.

    “Our information is that nobody from the two groups wanted any violence… But it was the government which wanted the unrest. It supported those who resorted to violence by not acting against them. The city has witnessed ‘state-sponsored’ violence to prevent us from taking out our rally on Sunday,” claimed Raut.

    State BJP President Chandrashekhar Bawankule hit back by rubbishing Raut’s contentions and saying that if the situation again deteriorates, then the Sena (UBT) MP should be held responsible for making inflammatory statements.

    READ HERE | Police deny Hindu outfit’s claim on stone-pelting during Ram Navami procession in Vadodara

    CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: In a suspected fallout of the major clashes that ravaged the Kiradpura area of Maharashtra’s Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar during the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday, two groups indulged in violent stone-throwing in Aheri village of the district on Friday.

    A large police force, including a CRPF team, was rushed to Aheri to maintain peace.

    The situation is reportedly under control with top officers and political leaders keeping an eye on developments.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    The developments come barely 24 hours after Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (formerly Aurangabad) was rocked by clashes in which one person was killed and over 15 police personnel injured. Around 20 police and private vehicles were torched, too. Several incidents of stone pelting too were reported.

    At least seven persons have been arrested and more than 400 persons booked for the rioting that occurred on the eve of Ram Navami celebrations.

    During the festival on Thursday, clashes also erupted in Jalgaon too. Four have been arrested in connection with it and many more have been booked. The situation has now been reported as peaceful.

    On Thursday night, groups indulged in stone pelting in the minority-dominated Malvani area of Malad west suburb of Mumbai and around 25 persons were detained. The situation there is stated to be normal and under control with police maintaining a tight vigil in view of the ongoing Ramzan month.

    Mumbai Congress MLA Aslam Shaikh called upon the police to scan CCTV footage of the area and take action against those responsible for the clashes.

    WATCH

    READ MORE | Communal clashes during Ram Navami processions in Aurangabad, Vadodara and Howrah

    Meanwhile, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP and Chief Spokesperson Sanjay Raut pointed fingers at the ruling Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance blaming them for the ‘state-sponsored’ riots which are intended to derail the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance’s rally scheduled in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar city on April 2.

    “Our information is that nobody from the two groups wanted any violence… But it was the government which wanted the unrest. It supported those who resorted to violence by not acting against them. The city has witnessed ‘state-sponsored’ violence to prevent us from taking out our rally on Sunday,” claimed Raut.

    State BJP President Chandrashekhar Bawankule hit back by rubbishing Raut’s contentions and saying that if the situation again deteriorates, then the Sena (UBT) MP should be held responsible for making inflammatory statements.

    READ HERE | Police deny Hindu outfit’s claim on stone-pelting during Ram Navami procession in Vadodara

  • All 27 gates of Maharashtra’s Jayakwadi dam lifted for water discharge after rains

    By PTI

    AURANGABAD: All 27 gates of the Jayakwadi dam in Aurangabad have been lifted to release water in the wake of heavy rains in neighbouring areas of Maharashtra, an official said on Sunday.

    The water discharge from Jayakwadi dam, which supplies water to Aurangabad, Jalna, and other neighbouring areas, has now crossed one lakh cubic foot per second (cusec), the official from the irrigation department said.

    Due to rainfall in the upper areas of the dam and continuous inflow into it, water was being discharged from all its 27 gates, the official said.

    The dam is filled up to 96.86 per cent of its total storage capacity and has a water inflow of 93,771 cusecs, a report from the irrigation department said.

    Hence, to maintain the level, water is being discharged at 1,08,968 cusec, it said.

    Its gates 1 to 9 have been lifted to a height of 3.5 feet and gates 10 to 27 up to four feet, the report said.

    AURANGABAD: All 27 gates of the Jayakwadi dam in Aurangabad have been lifted to release water in the wake of heavy rains in neighbouring areas of Maharashtra, an official said on Sunday.

    The water discharge from Jayakwadi dam, which supplies water to Aurangabad, Jalna, and other neighbouring areas, has now crossed one lakh cubic foot per second (cusec), the official from the irrigation department said.

    Due to rainfall in the upper areas of the dam and continuous inflow into it, water was being discharged from all its 27 gates, the official said.

    The dam is filled up to 96.86 per cent of its total storage capacity and has a water inflow of 93,771 cusecs, a report from the irrigation department said.

    Hence, to maintain the level, water is being discharged at 1,08,968 cusec, it said.

    Its gates 1 to 9 have been lifted to a height of 3.5 feet and gates 10 to 27 up to four feet, the report said.

  • Issue of sharing CM’s post with BJP could have been resolved through talks in 2019: Shinde’s veiled swipe at Uddhav 

    Eknath Shinde said the BJP could have taken the chief minister's post in the present government led by him. He took oath as the chief minister on June 30.

  • Issue of sharing CM’s post with BJP could have been resolved through talks in 2019:  Shinde’s veiled swipe at Uddhav 

    By PTI

    MUMBAI: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday launched a veiled attack on Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray, saying the issue of sharing the post of chief minister with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after the 2019 polls could have been resolved through talks.

    Addressing a rally in Aurangabad district, Shinde said some people took an “adamant stand” after the polls which implied that they didn’t want to form a government with the BJP despite both the parties winning the mandate of the people and resolving the issue of the post of the CM.

    “Some people said Shiv Sena should get the post of the chief minister for the first 2.5 years. (And if this condition is agreed to) then only talks between the two parties (read Sena and BJP) for forming a government could proceed, ” Shinde said without naming Thackeray.

    He said this adamant stand meant there was no will to form a government with BJP though the two parties had fought the assembly elections together and won a popular mandate.

    “Soon after the poll results, some people started discussing different options. MLAs of Shiv Sena were not in favour of an alliance with the Congress and NCP,” said Shinde.

    Thackeray had broken the alliance with BJP after the 2019 polls claiming that the ally reneged on its promise of sharing the CM’s post, a contention denied by the BJP.

    ALSO READ | ED detains Sena’s Sanjay Raut in Patra Chawl land scam case after day-long raids

    The Sena then joined hands with the Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress to form a tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in November 2019 with Thackeray taking oath as the chief minister.

    Shinde said the BJP had honoured the commitment of making Nitish Kumar the chief minister of Bihar despite the saffron party winning more seats than the JD(U).

    Shinde, a veteran shivsainik and former minister in the Thackeray cabinet, rebelled with 40 MLAs of Sena in June, leading to the collapse of the MVA government. He took oath as the chief minister on June 30 with Devendra Fadnavis of the BJP as the deputy CM.

    Shinde said the BJP could have taken the chief minister’s post in the present government led by him.

    “I was told by BJP leadership that despite that party having more MLAs than the Shinde faction, it has agreed to make him the chief minister. Had we (apparently referring to BJP) made any commitment in 2019, we would have honoured it. Now you tell me, who is speaking the truth,” Shinde asked.

    MUMBAI: Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Sunday launched a veiled attack on Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray, saying the issue of sharing the post of chief minister with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after the 2019 polls could have been resolved through talks.

    Addressing a rally in Aurangabad district, Shinde said some people took an “adamant stand” after the polls which implied that they didn’t want to form a government with the BJP despite both the parties winning the mandate of the people and resolving the issue of the post of the CM.

    “Some people said Shiv Sena should get the post of the chief minister for the first 2.5 years. (And if this condition is agreed to) then only talks between the two parties (read Sena and BJP) for forming a government could proceed, ” Shinde said without naming Thackeray.

    He said this adamant stand meant there was no will to form a government with BJP though the two parties had fought the assembly elections together and won a popular mandate.

    “Soon after the poll results, some people started discussing different options. MLAs of Shiv Sena were not in favour of an alliance with the Congress and NCP,” said Shinde.

    Thackeray had broken the alliance with BJP after the 2019 polls claiming that the ally reneged on its promise of sharing the CM’s post, a contention denied by the BJP.

    ALSO READ | ED detains Sena’s Sanjay Raut in Patra Chawl land scam case after day-long raids

    The Sena then joined hands with the Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress to form a tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government in November 2019 with Thackeray taking oath as the chief minister.

    Shinde said the BJP had honoured the commitment of making Nitish Kumar the chief minister of Bihar despite the saffron party winning more seats than the JD(U).

    Shinde, a veteran shivsainik and former minister in the Thackeray cabinet, rebelled with 40 MLAs of Sena in June, leading to the collapse of the MVA government. He took oath as the chief minister on June 30 with Devendra Fadnavis of the BJP as the deputy CM.

    Shinde said the BJP could have taken the chief minister’s post in the present government led by him.

    “I was told by BJP leadership that despite that party having more MLAs than the Shinde faction, it has agreed to make him the chief minister. Had we (apparently referring to BJP) made any commitment in 2019, we would have honoured it. Now you tell me, who is speaking the truth,” Shinde asked.

  • Maharashtra: As COVID-19 cases fall, primary schools to reopen in Aurangabad city

    By PTI

    AURANGABAD: With the number of daily coronavirus cases falling to 125, the civic body in Maharashtra’s Aurangabad city has decided to reopen primary schools from February 14.

    On Thursday, the city recorded 125 new coronavirus infections, a considerable drop from 298 on February 4.

    The number of active cases too fell to 2,884 from 4,212 last Friday, officials said.

    Teaching and non-teaching staff of primary schools has been asked to undergo RT-PCR tests not more than 48 hours before the reopening.

    Offline lectures at coaching classes for Classes 1 to 12 will also be allowed to resume from Monday, officials added.

  • BJP, MNS oppose Shiv Sena’s protest march against fuel price hike in Aurangabad

    By PTI

    AURANGABAD: The Aurangabad unit of the BJP and MNS criticised the Shiv Sena for organising a protest march on Saturday in the city against the Centre over the rise in fuel prices as well as inflation.

    The protest march of the Sena, which is part of the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance in the state, will be between Kranti Chowk and Gulmandi, with the party’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut scheduled to participate.

    While MNS district chief Suhas Dashrathe said that the Sena, despite being in power, had done nothing to mitigate Aurangabad’s water woes, his BJP counterpart Sanjay Kenekar said the MVA government under Uddhav Thackeray must cut state taxes on petrol and diesel and give relief to people.

    The BJP gave a memorandum over this demand to the CM through the district collector.

  • Maharashtra: No vaccination, no ration and fuel supply in Aurangabad, says collector Sunil Chavan

    By PTI

    AURANGABAD: The district administration here in Maharashtra has asked ration shops, gas agencies and petrol pumps to supply groceries and fuel only to those citizens who have taken at least one dose of vaccine against COVID-19, officials said on Wednesday.

    Aurangabad ranks 26th in terms of vaccination among 36 districts in the state, they said.

    About 55 per cent of the eligible people in the district have been inoculated so far, compared to 74 per cent in the state, officials said.

    In an order issued on Tuesday night, Aurangabad Collector Sunil Chavan directed authorities of the fair price shops, gas agencies and petrol pumps to check the vaccination certificates of customers, an official said.

    If the order is not followed, the administration will take action against the person/s concerned under the Disaster Management Act and the Epidemic Diseases Act, he said.

    The collector had recently also ordered that people who have not taken a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine will not be allowed entry at historic sites and monuments in Aurangabad, after the vaccination figures in the region were found to be low.

    In order to step up the vaccination drive, the Aurangabad zilla parishad has decided to extend the inoculation process in the evening, another official said.

    “Many people work in agricultural fields from morning to evening.

    Hence, to facilitate their inoculation, the zilla parishad will undertake vaccination from 5 pm to 8 pm in the district,” the zilla parishad’s health officer Sudhakar Shekle told PTI.

    The first such drive was organised on Tuesday in Kaygaon village, located on the Aurangabad-Ahmednagar district border, and 100 doses were given to residents, he said.

    Public announcements were also being made to create awareness amount the importance of vaccination, he added.

  • Aurangabad: NCB officer arrested for molesting woman on train

    By ANI

    AURANGABAD: A 34-year-old officer with the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Mumbai Branch, was arrested on Friday by Parli Railway Police for allegedly molesting a 25-year-old woman in a train, said Aurangabad Government Railway Police.

    According to police, the accused has been identified as Dinesh Chavan, an SP rank officer in NCB.

    According to the complaint, the victim and the accused were travelling to Hyderabad from Pune in the same train. The accused was travelling to Hyderabad for a court hearing.

    The complainant alleged that Chavan touched him inappropriately, removed her undergarments from her bag, sniffed and placed it on his chest, said M Patil, SP GRP Aurangabad.

    The police said that a case has been registered under Sections 354 (A) (sexual harassment) and 509 (Word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

    Further investigation is underway. 

  • If renaming Aurangabad solves people’s problems, then Congress will support it, says Nana Patole

    By PTI

    AURANGABAD: If renaming Aurangabad would solve the problems of its people, then the Congress would support such a move, Maharashtra state unit chief Nana Patole said on Monday.

    Addressing a press conference here, Patole also attacked the Central government on its stand on OBC reservations, saying the latter gave back the right to prepare the list of such communities to the states under public pressure.

    He said prices of petrol and diesel had skyrocketed, leading to immense hardships to people.

    On the renaming of the city, a demand that has been forwarded by several outfits for almost three decades now, Patole said, “The proposal to rename Aurangabad Airport is pending with the Centre. Why doesn’t the BJP go ahead and make the change? If renaming solves people’s problems, then the Congress shall support it.”

    Queried on a letter written by Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray accusing some Shiv Sainiks of stalling important road works, Patole said Gadkari should audit the projects being carried out here and publish a white paper.

    On being asked about opposition from some groups over the setting up of a sports university in Pune instead of Aurangabad, he said his party felt that such universities should be set up in every district of the state.