Former NCP MP Ranjitsinh Mohite Patil and three others figure in the list of BJP candidates for the May 21 Maharashtra legislative council poll.

Bombay high court on Friday sought a reply from the state on a public interest litigation by a Pune woman on permission to take pet dogs for their daily walks, while observing that walking them within housing society compounds for now, as permitted, was adequate for the moment.

Sajjansingh Dhurve from Pondi in Junawani of Mandal Khajeri cannot believe that his colleagues, with whom he was heading home, are no more.

Fewer non-essential shops opened shutters on Friday than the day before with the traders’ association insisting on total resumption of business after the lockdown exit.

A fire broke out in a pharmaceutical packaging factory in the Satpur industrial area on Thursday night. While there were no casualties, goods and articles, collectively amounting to over Rs 35 lakh, was gutted in the fire.

(This story originally appeared in PuneMirror on May 9, 2020)

The rapidly increasing tally of novel coronavirus cases in the state has alerted jail authorities who are fretful of the fallouts of Covid-19 outbreak within the prison walls and are taking preventive steps besides social distancing to ensure all staff and inmates stay healthy.

Viewing the helplessness of priests in gurdwaras amid lockdown, the Youth Akali Dal (YAD) (Rural) has started distributing ration kits among them. The drive commenced on May 3 and regularly 25-30 kits are being distributed among the priests in different villages on daily basis.

A Covid-19 patient from a village in Jagraon died of heart attack at Civil Hospital here on Saturday morning. The deceased was around 15 years old and had returned from Nanded Sahib pilgrimage.

The police have booked four persons after a 62-year-old man died following the alleged assault.

Machhiwara police on Friday booked a woman and her alleged lover for abetment to suicide after her husband died in a road accident while going to commit suicide. The deceased was identified as Gurwinder Singh — a labourer in his thirties — from Indra Colony in Machhiwara.

NASA scientists have mapped the global wind circulation patterns in the upper atmosphere of Mars- 120 to 300 kilometers above the Red Planet's surface. The researchers reprogrammed probes aboard NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft to collect wind measurements on the Red Planet.

Dark matter has so far defied every type of detector designed to find it because of its huge gravitational footprint in space. We know dark matter must make up about 85 per cent of the total mass of the universe, but we do not yet know what it is made of.

As the Karnataka government allowed liquor vends to reopen during the third phase of nationwide lockdown on Tuesday, Mysuru registered sale of liquor of over Rs 10 crore as tipplers queued up at liquor stores on day one.

The decline in the number of admissions at government schools has often been a source of considerable chagrin among officials in the education department.

A 24-year-old woman, with her four-month-old son in arms, walked nearly 15km under the blazing sun in Bagalkot district on Thursday to seek police protection from her jail-returned husband, who threatened to kill them late Wednesday.

The coronavirus count touched 61 in Davanagere with 14 more testing positive for the virus on Friday. Five of them are children between 3 and 13 years.

The man called Wang was diagnosed with paragonimiasis, a parasitic infection caused by food-borne parasites.

After Belgians were asked to eat more fried potatoes, dairy producers are now urging the French to consume more cheese.

Ashok Kumar has also asked a few professors to conduct a research on Ramayana, Mahabharat and Chanakya period to evaluate what kind of world existed in those years.

As soon as the tweet went viral, netizens including singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh, also expressed his joy in watching the street side bhangra!

A couple of days ago, a Twitter user named Ditch Pony posted two photos of her kitten cheerfully hanging out with a black snake.

The ration kits contain essential items like oil, sugar, soap etc and are being delivered to poor households along with monthly rations which have also been doubled.

The woman could not step out to buy cat food nor could she order online due to the restrictions in place. She later contacted the police for help.

A couple from Mumbai came up with a unique way of celebrating their marriage amid the lockdown.

For each 10-dirham ($2.7) donation, one of the building's 1.2 million LED lights will be illuminated -- each representing a meal.

This process could be particularly useful in India, where complex methods like VHP decontamination are unlikely to be very useful across many parts of India if N95s or other PPEs were to become scarce.

When art meets science, the results leave a deep impact on you.