On Saturday morning, hundreds of people, many of them holding saffron flags in their hands and raising slogans, came out on streets in Rajkamal Chowk area of the eastern Maharashtra city, located around 670 km from Mumbai.
Against the backdrop of back-to-back incidents of stone-pelting on Friday and Saturday, officiating police commissioner Sandip Patil issued orders imposing a curfew in the city limits of Amravati under sections 144(1), (2), (3) of the CrPc to avoid any untoward incidents.
Hundreds of people, many of them holding saffron flags in their hands and raising slogans, came out on streets in the Rajkamal Chowk area of Amravati.
A vehicle submerged in the Shahnoor river of Amravati in an after effect of the rains two days ago. The police rushed to the location as soon as they got the information, and pulled the deceased driver out of the sunken car through a crane.
The police arrested the accused from Nandhrum village on Thursday and produced him before the court, which remanded him to police custody till September 15, an official said.
A night curfew will be imposed in Maharashtra's Aurangabad from Tuesday night onwards as a precautionary measure amid a surge in coronavirus cases. The night curfew will remain imposed from 11 pm to 6 am.
According to the state health department, the total number of COVID-19 cases in Maharashtra has reached 21,00,884 with the addition of new cases. The death toll in the state has risen to 51,788 with the addition of 35 deaths.
Amid an upward COVID-19 trajectory in Maharashtra, the state government has decided to impose a total lockdown in the Amravati district for one week.
A one-day lockdown will be imposed in Maharashtra's Amravati on February 21 amid rising coronavirus cases in the region, District Magistrate Shailesh Naval has informed. On Sunday, February 21, all markets, offices, shops will be closed except for the essential services.
For the second time this year, the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly on Tuesday passed two bills for establishing three state capitals.
Eight persons have tested coronavirus positive in Maharashtra's Amravati city in the last 24 hours taking the overall case tally in the city to 16 out of which 12 are active cases while 4 have succumbed to the illness.
The Andhra Pradesh cabinet on Friday deferred taking a decision on relocating the state capital, official sources said.
Continuing its flip-flop on Amaravati, the Andhra Pradesh government said on Saturday that more discussions are needed on the issue and a final decision will be taken after the experts' committee submits its report.
As the Maharashtra Assembly polls are around the corner, the parties are busy with campaigns and rallies. The Election Commission of India (ECI) has announced the dates for the Maharashtra Assembly elections. Voting for the 288-member Assembly will be held on 21 October in a single phase.
With this, the number of voters in the constituency has gone up to 3,45,597, including 1,68,089 women, Returning Officer Udaysingh Rajput said.
Rajya Sabha member T.G. Venkatesh claimed that the YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) government may not develop everything at one place and instead go for decentralisation with four capitals in four different regions of the state.
Analysts say, in such a situation the Centre is also not likely to provide any assistance for Amaravati. It has so far provided only Rs 1,500 crore, which is a very small amount compared to the plans to build the capital at a whopping cost of Rs 1.5 lakh crore in three phases.
Jagan Reddy, along with some top leaders of the party, will later leave for Hyderabad, where they will meet Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan to submit the resolution of Jagan Reddy's election as the YSRCP Legislature Party leader.
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