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Maharashtra Lockdown: Breaking Down the Five Levels of Unlock

Maharashtra has announced a five-step unlock plan from Monday, in a late night order on Friday. Under the new guidelines, the state’s districts will be divided into five levels – based on weekly positivity rate and oxygen bed occupancies. The administrative units classified are Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, Pune, Thane, Nashik, Pimpri Chinchwad, Aurangabad, Vasai-Virar, Navi Mumbai, Nagpur, Sholapur…

Blue Tick Restored on Venkaiah’s Personal Twitter Handle; Sources Say Removed Due to Inactivity Since Jul ’20

Hours after removing the verified blue tick, Twitter on Saturday restored it on the personal handle of vice president M Venkaiah Naidu. The vice president’s office said that since the official handle is used more now, the personal account remained inactive since July 2020. However, after approaching Twitter, the blue tick was restored. According to the micro-blogging site, the blue…

Team Maya Dwindles Months Before Polls, BSP Left with 8 MLAs

Close to 8 months ahead of Uttar Pradesh elections, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) expelled two senior leaders, state legislature party leader Lalji Verma and former state party president Ramachal Rajbhar from the party for anti-party activities. Verma and Rajbhar, both senior OBC leaders of the party and ministers in the erstwhile Mayawati government, are legislators from Ambedkar Nagar district of…

Gujarat Govt Allows Offices to Function with 100{29395a375d156e93286dd6e7185ccfdd643af63705165a979bd3711654ea3aad} Staff from June 7

The Gujarat government has allowed offices to resume with full capacity of employees from June 7 onwards, however, the Covid-induced lockdown is to remain in place till June 11. “The private and government offices will be allowed to function with 100{29395a375d156e93286dd6e7185ccfdd643af63705165a979bd3711654ea3aad} staff from June 7,” an official in the Gujarat Information Department told news agency ANI. According to its new…