Virar ICU fire: Political leaders offer condolences, MVA under severe criticism
13 patients died after a fire broke out at an ICU of a COVID hospital at Virar in Palghar district, Maharashtra on 23 April 2021.
At least 13 patients died on Friday after a fire broke out at an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a COVID hospital at Virar in Palghar district of Maharashtra early on Friday, police said.
The incident took place around 3:30 am on the second floor of the facility, the Corona Control Room, Vasai Virar Municipal Corporation informed. Three fire tenders of the Virar Fire Brigade reached the spot to douse the fire. It was extinguished by 5:20 am.
Light up the Dawn, Anzac Day Gympie 2020: Andrew Tooley.
While some of the stricter restrictions wonât be in place come Sunday, RSL clubs across the region are still working hard to make sure all local ANZAC services remain within a COVID safe framework. Light up the Dawn, Anzac Day Gympie 2020: Rosemary Denton.
Hereâs whatâs happening and where around the Gympie region this ANZAC Day:
GYMPIE
Dawn Service â Sunday 25th April, 5am. Memorial Park â Reef St, Gympie
Commemoration Service â Sunday 25th April, 7am. Normanby Hill, Power Rd, Southside
ANZAC Day March â Sunday 25th April, Form up 9am, 9.30am march from Mary St, Gympie
Maharashtra s Pandharpur bypoll a test for MVA allies, opposition BJP amid COVID-19 surge
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Last Updated: Apr 16, 2021, 01:52 PM IST
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Political observers feel that this bypoll will prove to be a litmus test for the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) allies- Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress, three ideologically different parties that have been sharing power in the state for the last one-and-a-half years.
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The bypoll to Pandharpur-Mangalvedha assembly constituency in Maharashtra s Solapur district will be held on Saturday amid the COVID-19 surge in the state and the restrictions imposed by the government to curb the spread of the virus. The ruling NCP and the opposition BJP are in a direct fight in this by-election, which was necessitated due to the death NCP legislator Bharat Bhalke owing to post-COVID complications in November last year.
Hypocrisy from UMWA President Cecil Roberts after rebuke by Warrior Met coal miners in Alabama
On Monday, Cecil Roberts, the long-time president of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) union, released a video statement on the two-week-long strike by 1,100 coal miners at Warrior Met Coal in central Alabama.
Although the video lasts only three minutes and 19 seconds, and was shot from the comfort of his Washington, D.C., office, Roberts appears nervous and unsteady as he hypocritically declares his support for the miners and piles one lie on another. This is no doubt the result of the fact that only a few days earlier, the UMWA president was shouted down and run out of town by striking miners when he attempted to ram through a five-year pro-company contract. “It got hostile up there,” one miner told the
Maharashtra Lockdown: Too Much Too Late
by Venu Gopal Narayanan - Apr 14, 2021 09:30 AM
Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray (Source: Twitter)
Snapshot
Whatâs voluntary about an executive order we canât rightly say, and mustnât ask, but as the data and analyses reveal, this immoderate, despairing move represents the nadir of executive ineptitude, which has inflicted a body-blow to the economy.
There was an element of surrealism in the air yesterday, as Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray managed the impossible â of instituting a lockdown without instituting a lockdown.
In a desperate, flailing bid to stem the surge of Wuhan virus cases in his state, and involuntarily conjuring images of Alice in Wonderland, Thackeray informed a stunned populace that they had collectively volunteered to impose severe restrictions upon themselves for 15 days.