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Coronavirus: Mumbai’s Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum reports 19 news cases on Sunday, 47 cases and 5 deaths till now

OpIndia Staff - 13 April, 2020

The Mumbai police on Monday barricaded the area amid the rising number of COVID-19 cases from the locality. The policemen have maintained a strict vigil to check the movement of the people.

Media

ABP News spreads fake news, exaggerates coronavirus cases in Haryana while understating cases in Maharashtra and Kerala

OpIndia Staff - 12 April, 2020

The fake news spread by the mainstream media cannot be attributed to incompetence alone because if it were only incompetence, they would have erred on equal parts against all sides of the political spectrum.

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Maharashtra: With rising number of cases, sealed hospitals and over 100 health staffs tested positive, Mumbai stares at a major crisis

OpIndia Staff - 11 April, 2020

The coronavirus trajectory during next five-days will determine whether Mumbai fares better or faces a situation akin to New York

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Will lockdown be extended? In meeting with PM Modi, so far 3 opposition states vote for lockdown to be extended till 30th April

OpIndia Staff - 11 April, 2020

PM Modi is conducting meetings via video conferencing with all the Chief Minister of the states to decide if the lockdown will be extended

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Maharashtra cop, who nabbed 21 foreign Tablighi Jamaat members hiding in a mosque, tests positive for Coronavirus

OpIndia Staff - 11 April, 2020

A senior police inspector working with the Maharashtra police who held 21 foreign nationals belonging to the Tablighi Jamaat has been diagnosed with Coronavirus

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Mumbai police running a PR campaign amid coronavirus? Tweet by Urvashi Rautela suggests so

OpIndia Staff - 10 April, 2020

While suspicions about PR campaign for Uddhav Thackeray were just about gaining wind, a tweet by actress and model Urvashi Rautela has given fuel to those speculations.

Crime

Aurangabad: Policemen assaulted for stopping lockdown violators, Shahrukh and Farookh arrested

OpIndia Staff - 10 April, 2020

The accused are identified as Shaikh Farookh Shaikh Kadar, Shaikh Sharukh Shaikh Farookh, Shaikh Sajid Shaikh Farookh, and Shaikh Sameer Shaihkh Salim.

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Scam accused Wadhawans given special pass by Maharashtra govt to vacation in farmhouse, detained, Principal Secretary sent on ‘compulsory leave’

OpIndia Staff - 10 April, 2020

Wadhawans had reached Mahabaleshwar on the morning of 9 April and were travelling on a pass obtained under the garb of 'family emergency'

Crime

Maharashtra minister shares a photoshopped image of himself where he is putting his buttocks on fire. Read why

OpIndia Staff - 7 April, 2020

According to the victim's account, he was taken to Jitendra Awahad's Nath Bungalow near Viviana Mall where he was mercilessly thrashed upon by 15-20 goons while Awhad watched over.

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