Maharashtra is reeling under a fresh surge of COVID-19 cases. The latest shocking news comes from Maharashtra's Latur city where 44 students of a hostel were tested COVID-19 positive on Thursday, a health department official confirmed.

According to the official, last month, 47 other students from the same hostel were found infected with the coronavirus. Students between Class 8 to Class 10 are provided accommodation in this hostel.

To remove encroachment on the roads, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanth led government has swung into action. Orders have been issued to clear the roads that have been encroached in the name of religious places.

Instructions were issued to all the Mandalayuktas and District Magistrates in this regard on Thursday. The authorities have been asked to initiate necessary actions and submit a report by March 14.

Voting for 12 municipal corporations and 71 municipalities and Nagar panchayats in Andhra Pradesh is underway on Wednesday.

Elections are being held for 2,214 wards in 12 municipal corporations and 71 municipalities from 7 AM to 5 PM.

In 12 municipal corporations, there are 671 divisions. In 90 of those divisions, a candidate won unanimously without contest.

Shares of information technology (IT) companies were in focus at the bourses on Wednesday, with KPIT Technologies, L&T Technology Services (LTTS) and Mindtree hitting their respective record highs on the BSE in intra-day trade.

Among indviudal stocks, Coforge surged nearly 7 per cent to Rs 2,750, while Larsen & Toubro Infotech gained 4 per cent to Rs 4,070 in intra-day trade on the BSE. Zensar Technologies, LTTS, Wipro, Mindtree and Mphasis were up in the range of 2 per cent to 3 per cent, while, Infosys, HCL Technologies and Tech Mahindra were up between 1 per cent and 2 per cent.

Tirath Singh Rawat will be the new Chief Minister of the hill state of Uttarakhand after Trivendra Singh Rawat resigned on Tuesday from CM post. The decision was taken during the BJP legislature party meeting that began in Dehradun.

Tirath Singh Rawat, 56, is a BJP MP. He was the chief of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttarakhand from 2013 to 2015. He was also an MLA from the state in the past.

INS Karanj, a submarine of the Scorpene class, was on Wednesday commissioned into the Indian Navy. After the commissioning, the strength and capability of the Indian Navy will increase. Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh and Admiral (Retired) VS Shekhawat were present during the occasion.

The submarine was launched for the test in the sea in the year 2018 and it successfully completed every test.

Tirath Singh Rawat, Lok Sabha MP from Garhwal, is set to become the new CM of Uttarakhand. His name was announced by former CM Trivendra Singh Rawat, who resigned from the post on Tuesday evening.

He will take oath at 4 pm in the evening.

Rawat was chosen as the successor to CM Trivendra Singh Rawat during BJP's legislative party meeting earlier today.

There has been a political uproar in Uttarakhand after Trivendra Singh Rawat resigned from the post of Chief Minister on Tuesday and lobbying for the replacement in the ruling BJP has started. Dhan Singh Rawat, who is a close aide of the Trivendra and the state's Higher Education and Cooperation Minister, is leading the race for the post. Apart from him, Lok Sabha MP Ajay Bhatt, Rajya Sabha MP Anil Baluni, State Tourism Minister Satpal Maharaj, and Union Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank are also among the contenders for the post of Chief Minister.

Bangladesh's first transgender newsreader made a perfect debut for a TV channel before breaking town in tears after completing her bulletin on International Women's Day.

Tashnuva Anan Shishir read the news bulletin for three minutes in a move dubbed a 'historic step' by many.

Even though Pakistan does not miss any opportunity to plot nefarious acts against India, New Delhi is still willing to help it deal with coronavirus. Pakistan will fight the virus with the help of Indian vaccine, which will be made available to him through the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (Gavi). Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, facing a difficult economic situation, has decided not to buy COVID-19 Vaccine, so the 4.5 crore doses of the Made in India vaccine is no less than a boon for him.

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