As soon as the Election Commission of India (ECI) announced the dates for Assembly elections in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh and Mizoram, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Monday questioned the poll body over delay in Pune and Chandrapur Lok Sabha bypolls.
Amid incessant rainfall, the residential area of Pathanpura was inundated after water was released from the Irai Dam in Maharashtra's Chandrapur district.
In the disposal programme Guwahati city police destroyed 3217 kg of ganja, 7.252 kg of heroin, 1.86 lakh tablets, 16.88 kg of brown sugar, 20043 bottles of cough syrup, 22.30 kg of opium, 843 grams of raw materials of brown sugar at Chandrapur area in Guwahati.
Kishore Kumar Panigrahi, the SP of the Odisha STF, informed that in a raid against illegal storage and selling of narcotic drugs, more than 161 kg of Ganja and other incriminating evidence was discovered and seized from the accused.
According to the official, the vehicle carrying at least 30 labourers from Chhattisgarh to Hyderabad overturned on Virur-Dhanora road in Chandrapur district at around 5 am on Saturday.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president JP Nadda on Monday said that Indian citizens should consider themselves 'lucky' that the country is led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
14 villages of Simavarti Jivati tehsil of Chandrapur district, along the Maharashtra-Telangana border is claimed by both the states. Even a 10-room house is also divided among the two states.
Although, all these 14 villages--geographically located in remote Jivati tehsil of Chandrapur district--are part of Maharashtra the dependence of these villages is more on Telangana.
There have been reports of human-animal conflict involving leopards from some other parts of Maharashtra. Fourteen people were killed in attacks by leopards in Chandrapur in Maharashtra in last three years.
A 48-year-old woman succumbed to injuries sustained after a portion of the foot-over bridge collapsed at Balharshah Junction railway station in Chandrapur.