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Maharashtra clamps night curfew from Sunday amid Covid surge

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MUMBAI: Night curfew will be imposed in entire Maharashtra from March 28 in view of the alarming rise in coronavirus cases, an official statement said on Friday.

Thackeray also warned of stricter restrictions if the people did not observe COVID-19 safety protocol, it said.

The Chief Minister reviewed the COVID-19 situation in the state in a meeting with divisional commissioners, district collectors, superintendents of police, and deans of medical colleges.

“I do not wish to impose lockdown. But there seems a possibility of healthcare facilities falling short given the rise in the number of coronavirus patients,” Thackeray was quoted as saying.

He asked officials to ensure the availability of adequate hospital beds and medicines, the statement said.

Maharashtra recorded 35,952 coronavirus infections on Thursday, the highest one-day rise since the pandemic began.

The state added over one lakh cases in four days.

Second Coronavirus wave to peak in April, may last up to 100 days: SBI report

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“Considering the number of days from the current level of daily new cases to the peak level during the first wave, India might reach the peak in the second half of April,” it said.

India is facing a spike in the daily new cases of COVID-19 since February, clearly indicating a second wave, said a report by the State Bank of India (SBI).

“Considering the number of days from the current level of daily new cases to the peak level during the first wave, India might reach the peak in the second half of April,” it said.

India recorded over one lakh coronavirus infections in just two days with 53,476 new cases in a span of 24 hours, the highest single day rise so far this year, pushing the nationwide COVID-19 tally of cases to 1,17,87,534, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday.

The active caseload registered an increase for the 15th day in a row and was recorded at 3,95,192 comprising 3.35 per cent of the total infections, while the recovery rate has further dropped to 95.28 per cent, the data stated.

“Though the global COVID-19 experience shows the second wave to be much higher in intensity than the first wave, the presence of the vaccine makes the difference currently. Thus India will be able to manage the situation better,” the 28-page report said.

“The lockdown has been ineffective and mass vaccination is the only hope. This is visible in the case of many states including Maharashtra and Punjab,” it said.

PM Modi leaves for Bangladesh on two-day visit, first foreign tour after pandemic

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Modi had said he will be visiting Bangladesh on March 26-27 at the invitation of Hasina, and looks forward to his participation at the Bangladesh National Day celebrations on Friday.

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi left for Bangladesh on Friday on a two-day visit during which he will take part in a wide range of programmes aimed at furthering cooperation between the two countries.

“During his Bangladesh visit he will take part in a wide range of programmes aimed at furthering cooperation with our friendly neighbour,” sharing a picture of Modi boarding the aircraft.

The prime minister had on Thursday said he will hold substantive discussions with his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina during the visit, as he expressed happiness that his first foreign tour after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic will be to a friendly neighbouring country with which India shares deep ties.

Injured England captain Eoin Morgan ruled out of final two ODIs against India

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PUNE: England captain Eoin Morgan was on Thursday ruled out of the final two One-Day Internationals of the ongoing series against India here because of an injury.

Jos Buttler will captain England in Morgan’s absence and Liam Livingstone will make his ODI debut.

Morgan will miss out after sustaining a split webbing between his thumb and index finger in Tuesday’s series opener, an injury that required four stitches.

The captain went through a fielding drill during training at the MCA Stadium on Thursday and afterwards declared himself unfit.

“I had the hand re-dressed before the start of training today but it quickly became apparent that I found myself protecting the injury and getting into the wrong positions to catch the ball,” Morgan said.

“There’s nowhere to hide on the field in international cricket these days, especially in limited-over formats so it didn’t require any great thought to make myself unavailable.

“It was a freak injury and it’s extremely frustrating but there’s nothing I can do about it. It’s now just a case of letting the cut heal. I have every confidence in Jos and the rest of the squad coping without me.”

Billings did not train on Thursday after he suffered a bruised left collar bone while fielding in the opening match, and the injury remained sore.

Dawid Malan, with the tour party as cover, has been drafted into the squad and is available for selection.

COVID-19 Update India records highest single-day rise so far this year, tally at 1,18,46,652

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NEW DELHI: India saw 59,118 new coronavirus infections in a day, the highest single day rise so far this year, taking the nationwide COVID-19 tally to 1,18,46,652, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday.

Registering an increase for the 16th day in row, the active cases have increased to 4,21,066 comprising 3.55 per cent of the total infections, while the recovery rate has further dropped to 95.09 per cent, the data stated.

The 59,118 new infections reported in a span of 24 hours were the highest since October 18, 2020. The death toll increased to 1,60,949 with 257 daily new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.

As many as 61,871 new infections were recorded in a span of 24 hours on October 18.

The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,12,64,637, while the case fatality rate was recorded at 1.36 per cent, the data stated.

India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23, 40 lakh on September 5 and 50 lakh on September 16.

It went past  60 lakh on September 28, 70 lakh on October 11, crossed 80 lakh on October 29,  90 lakh on November 20 and surpassed the one-crore mark on December 19.

According to ICMR,  23,86,04,638  samples have been tested up to March 25 with   11,00,756 samples being tested on Thursday.

Man kills friend over illicit affair with wife arrested by Byadarahalli police

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Pramesh Jain

Man kills friend over illicit affair with wife arrested by Byadarahalli police:

A 31-year-old man killed his wife’s male friend over illicit affair in the outskirts of the city in Andrahalli in the wee hours of Thursday and surrendered to the police.

The arrested accused has been identifed as Bharath Kumar,of Rohitnagar near Nelamangala.

The deceased has been identified as Shivakumar alias Shivaraj,27,from Hosahalli Tanda in Tarikere of Chikkamagaluru district.Bharath is a carpenter by profession.

Senior officer told Media persons a person called to Byadarahalli police station stating their relative has murdered his friend in Andrahalli main road the Inspector Rajeev and other senior officers rushed to spot and arrested the accused before he try to escape.

After Inspecting the spot the team apprehended the accused and took him to station for questioning along with his wife.

During investigation the accused said due to illicit affair he killed his wife male friend and revealed that he was in love with Vinutha,31, when they worked in a factory and got married eight years ago. 

Shivaraj came to meet Vinutha three years ago and was searching for a job in the city.He stayed in her house for a week.Vinutha helped Shivaraj get a job and the duo had an illicit affair.Shivraj worked at a toll plaza in Nelamangala.

Bharath got to know about his wife’s affair and had objected and used to have frequent fights. Vinutha separated  from Bharath and stayed in a rented house in Andrahalli where Shivaraj visited her frequently.

Bharath got to know this and wanted to kill Shivaraj to avenge.Bharath purchased a knife from an online e-commerce store a month ago and watched over the movements of Shivraj and got to know that Shivraj was visiting her.

On Wednesday night Bharath gained entry into the house around 9 pm when Vinutha had gone out to bring chicken from a nearby shop without locking the door.

Around 8.30 pm,Vinutha went to bring chicken, Bharath entered the house and hid under the cot. On returning she prepared food.Shivaraj who visited her house around 10.30 pm had dinner they duo slept.

He was hiding under the cot till 3 am,and stabbed Shivaraj to death when he was in deep sleep.

He said When Vinutha went to relieve around 3 am,Bharath locked the washroom door and killed  Shivaraj by strangulating and later stabbed him repeatedly to death.

He wanted to escape after that,but changed his mind.He opened the bathroom door and had an argument with his wife.

He called one of his relative and informed about murder.The relative alerted the police.The police rushed to the spot and arrested Bharath for  further investigation he added.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP West,Dr Sanjeev M Patil,ACP,UD Krishna Kumar,PI Rajeev and his crime staff who rushed to the spot immediately and arrested the accused before escaping the spot a timely action has led to arrest the accused red handed for their timely action a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

Realtor murder case detected 10 Supari killer including woman arrested by Sudduguntepalya police

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Pramesh Jain

Realtor murder case detected 10 Supari killer including woman arrested by Sudduguntepalya police

A week after the brutal murder of 32 year old realtor from Mysuru in broad day light on the busy timber lane in Gurupanpalya.

The Suddaguntepalya police on Thursday arrested ten persons including the wife of deceased and her paramour who paid supari to eliminate Mohammed Shafi so that they could live in together.

The assailants murdered the deceased in the broad day light they confronted him armed with lethal and sharp weapons and attacked him with  machete and rod 30 times he died on the spot due to severe head injury.

The accused have been identified as Afsar Khan, 41,a businessman from Tilak Nagar,his girl friend Tasleem Banu,from Ghousia Nagar Mysuru,and the contract killers,Tabrez Pasha, 26,Syed Wasim, 26,Venkatesh,19,Bharath,18,Yugendra,19, Chethan,19,Ibrahim,19 and a juvenile.The accused are from Byrasandra,Tilak Nagar, Banashankari and Kalasipalya areas.

Senior officer told media persons,As the incident of murder was reported Sudduguntepalya police inspector with other senior officers with dog squad, forensic experts rushed to the spot and cordoned off the area.

A special team of police led by Srinath Mahadev Joshi,DCP,southeast,formed a team which cracked the case,acting on the complaint filed by Mohammed Aleem,father of the deceased,the police investigated the case and analyzed the call record details of Tasleem on suspecion and found that she was in constant contact with one person on suspect of having affair.

Our team called the wife of the deceased for questioning during questioning the team got suspicion on her statement and after cross questioning about the person she confessed the crime and revealed that she and her paramour hired contract killers to kill her husband to live in together.

Based on her statement the team picked up her paramour and during investigation he confessed the crime and it is revealed that the prime accused Afsar met Tasleem at their relatives marriage two years ago.Even though Tasleem was married the duo entered into an illicit relationship .

To continue their relationship and to meet Shafi wife Afsar clinched the deal with Shafi offering business deal  of Rs.75 lakh and offered Rs.5 lakh commission.

The accused visited his house on the pretext of discussing business but he was actually meeting Tasleem.

The duo recently decided to kill Shafi to live in together without any problem and even got black magic done to get him killed.

However when this did not materialize,Afsar hired a contract killers and paid Supari to Tabrez and Waseem who are habitual offender.

Afsar offered Rs 2 lakh and even assured to bear expenses.Tabrez and Waseem roped in their associates to execute the contract .

As per the plan Afsar called Shafi to Gurappanapalya to discuss business and tipped the gang which armed with lethal weapons attacked Shafi and killed him on the spot.

Further investigation led the police to arrest the Supari killers and others who confessed to the crime.

The accused have been arrested and taken into custody for further investigation.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant,has appreciated Addl CP East,S Murugan DCP Southeast,Srinath Mahadev Joshi,ACP, Mico-layout Sub-Division,Sudheer Hegde, PI,Nataraj DN,PSIs,as,Prabhu Gowda,Bheemappa M Rabakavi,and crime staff as,Raghavendra, Prashanth,Nayaz Ahmed,Madhukar,Mosas Swaminathan,Veerbhadra,Jaikumar,Rudresh AE,and WPC Smt.Sowmya has been appreciated for nabbing all the accused and detecting the murder case and a suitable reward will be given to the team he added.

Inter-state Drug racket busted,Duo arrested,45.1 kg Ganja Seized by Srirampura police

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Pramesh Jain

Inter-state Drug racket busted,Duo arrested,45.1 kg Ganja Seized by Srirampura police:

The North Division police of Srirampura police on Thursday busted an inter state drug racket and arrested two persons including an Autorickshaw driver for peddling marijuana after smuggling the drugs concealed as courier parcel in trains.

The accused has been identified as,Satish,28,an authorickshaw driver and resident of Srirampura and his associate Vasanth,24 were heading home after getting the parcel from majestic railway station.

DCP North, Dharmendra Kumar Meena,told media persons that our Srirampura police Inspector Balakrishna R,who was on night rounds while passing from city Railway Station noticed a Auto-rickshaw and getting suspicious on the auto the Inspector followed the auto and confronted a person by name Satish and checked the autorickshaw on Vatal Nagraj road and found Marijuana and arrested them red handed.

Satish is a habitual offender involved in as two cases of NDPS already along with a case of murder and robbery,which are pending against him.

This is one of the reason the police stopped him on suspecion.

The police recovered 45.1 kilograms of Ganja and a auto rickshaw used in crime.

A detailed questioning led Satish to confess that he was sourcing the drugs from his contact in Vishakapatnam concealed as regular parcel and Sent it via train for many months.

He would get the contraband to Bengaluru via train and later make small packets and sell it to his customers for a range of Rs 250 to Rs 300 under the code word Mango,he used to sell the drugs to his clients.

The accused have been taken into custody to track down the drug network a case under NDPS Act has been registered and further investigation is on.

Finally Bengaluru Police Commissioner,Kamal Pant has appreciated Addl CP West,Soumendhu Mukherjee,DCP North,Dharmendra Kumar Meena, ACP,Malleswaram sub-division,Venkatesh Naidu PI, Balakrishna,PSI,Nagaraj,ASI,Venkatappa,and crime staff as,Srinivas,Nataraj,Mohan Kumar Nayak,Siddhu Lamani,Prakash Havaldar,and others has been appreciated for busting the inter-state Drug racket by seizing 45.1 kg Ganja and a suitable reward will be given to the team for their timely action on drug Peddlers in the city he added.

Ramesh Jarkiholi sleaze CD case: CD lady releases another video doubting credibility of SIT investigation, Jarkiholi says big is the big conspiracy against me

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Pramesh Jain

As the Special Investigation Team is investigating the sex scandal allegedly involving former Minister Ramesh Jarkiholi,the woman who is said to be in the purported video has raised doubts over the credibility of investigating agency and sought protection to her family.
In a major twist to the ongoing investigation,the woman in the CD scandal released another video casting aspersions on SIT credibility and sought protection to her family.
This is the second video released by the woman seeking protection.
My family did not give complaint on their own, she said without eloborating on this further sought protection to her family.
The security of my family is atmost important, she said requesting opposition party leader Siddaramaiah,DK Shivakumar,Ramesh Kumar and women organizations to help her.
I had sent the video to Commissioner’s office to  SIT on march 12 addressing Home minister seeking protection and explained.But the video made it public half an hour after he filed complaint.
This raise doubt that SIT is protecting whom,she questioned in the video.
She further said that the safety of her parents is important and will come before the SIT only after security is provided.
I will give statement and follow procedure only after security provided.
It may be recalled that the victim had earlier released video requesting Home minister to provide security and accused Ramesh Jarkiholi of cheating her promising government Job.
As soon as the video was released the SIT team called a high value meeting and a marathon meeting was going on in commissioner office and as the CD lady raised doubts on commissioner of police and SIT team about their credibility.
Commissioner of police Kamal Pant told reporters,and was anger on the CD lady for doubting their credibility and he asked how she released the video to which officer she has released through which platform she has released the video let her tell the officers name to whom she has given the CD still we say we will give full protection to her and her family too.
She can come infront of us and give her statement or we will send police personnel with women police to record her statement and we will give her full protection.
It should be noted that no police officer will leak the video released by any woman or others and it is a false thought of the woman that police have leaked the video we have received the video from media house and we have written to all media houses asking them source of the video he added.
Soumendhu Mukherjee,SIT Chief told reporters and said the investigation is going in right path and with hassle free a fair probe is being done and we have not received any CD as claimed by the woman he added.
Sources in the SIT said during investigation the team has found the Raw footage of the CD which is of more than 50 minutes video and the video released has been edited the master piece of CD has been sent to FSL for examination says sources.
The SIT on Wednesday recovered the mobile phone of Ramesh Jharkiholi to analyze the data to ascertain his communication details with the woman and others.
BJP leader Ramesh Jarkiholi on Thursday claimed that he had shocking evidence to show who was behind the sex scandal in which he is embroiled. 
I have (evidence) right here in my pocket.You’ll be shocked.I’ll let it out when I have to,Ramesh told reporters. 
Ramesh said this evidence was against that ‘great leader whom he believes orchestrated the sex scandal.I haven’t revealed the name of the great leader because what if he’s innocent and someone else was just using his name? So,let’s wait he said.
The Former Minister downplayed a second video by the unidentified woman,who has accused him of sexual exploitation,seeking protection for her parents.
“Please think about the puppetry and conspiracy involved in this,Ramesh said.First, her video came out half-an-hour after I filed my complaint on March 13.Now, she says her video had been sent on March 12 itself.There’s politics behind this,he said.I’m ready to face ten more CDs.
The woman,according to Ramesh,was under pressure.Also, look at the planning,what was (her)voice then and what is it now?.
The Belagavi strongman said he will not keep quiet till those involved in this conspiracy are put behind bars.We have also readied evidence over the last ten days,he said.I haven’t wronged and I will 100% succeed.With God’s blessings, I’ll come out of this.
On the Congress demand that he should be booked for rape,Ramesh said,Till a few days ago, I had a lot of respect for (Congress Legislature Party leader)Siddaramaiah.I don’t know why he’s pressing for a rape case against me.God bless him he said addressing reporters in Bengaluru.
Reacting to the woman’s statement,Home Minister Bommai said the SIT was doing an impartial probe and was ready to give protection to her and also her parents.
Let whoever say whatever they want,we are doing an impartial probe,our officials have said they have inquired Ramesh Jarkiholi also,and are ready to take the woman’s statement,Bommai said. 
If she says where she is,we will depute woman police for her security and she can give her statement,or if she wants to come here and give it, we will provide security here too,he added.
Observing that the probe is not in favour or against anyone,the Minister said,it is being done to bring out the truth.Such turns keep coming during the course of investigation,taking them positively,without having anything against any one SIT is doing an impartial investigation and they will take necessary action.
Asked about women seeking protection from Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar,he said,I don’t know why she has asked them,the question should be put to them.

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