Parties
Nagpur swish set glam up the Diwali celebrations at CP Club

Saloni Keswani at the pre-Diwali party 2016 at CP Club, Nagpur


Kaashvi Grover and Yashvi Maheshwari at the pre-Diwali party 2016 at CP Club, Nagpur


Ramsha Kharwa, Jeneesha Bhojwani and Aroo Manjahi at the pre-Diwali party 2016 at CP Club, Nagpur


Jane Waite and Shilpa Agrawal at the pre-Diwali party 2016 at CP Club, Nagpur


Gayatri Aware,Vinali Panchmatia, Ranju Batra and Dr Priya Nanjar at the pre-Diwali party 2016 at CP Club, Nagpur


Samina Ali, Mehek Chelwani, Harshleen Jhansi and Ritika Sahani at the pre-Diwali party 2016 at CP Club, Nagpur


Meenu Verma at the pre-Diwali party 2016 at CP Club, Nagpur


Khushmin Kapadia and Gayatri Jaiswal at the pre-Diwali party 2016 at CP Club, Nagpur


Siddhi Maniyar at the pre-Diwali party 2016 at CP Club, Nagpur


Arya Sahni, Sahil Dewani and Mohit Choudhary at the pre-Diwali party 2016 at CP Club, Nagpur


Dr Neeraj Khare and Dr Sameer Chaubey at the pre-Diwali party 2016 at CP Club, Nagpur


Manish and Nishat Sharma at the pre-Diwali party 2016 at CP Club, Nagpur


Vikram Naidu at the pre-Diwali party 2016 at CP Club, Nagpur


Saurabh Rai at the pre-Diwali party 2016 at CP Club, Nagpur


Pratima Sablok and Kritika Durugkar at the pre-Diwali party 2016 at CP Club, Nagpur


Swati and Rajiv Singhee at the pre-Diwali party 2016 at CP Club, Nagpur


Sarvesh Meghe, Mihir Pande, Dishank Meghe, Sahil Pandit and Pratham Mulak at the pre-Diwali party 2016 at CP Club, Nagpur


Sangita Chhabrani and Ritu Tuli at the pre-Diwali party 2016 at CP Club, Nagpur


Saptarshi Naha and Vineet Gupta at the pre-Diwali party 2016 at CP Club, Nagpur

Nagpurians were seen a having a rollicking time in the company of family and close friends at the Diwali Celebrations at CP Club, Nagpur.
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Photos by: Himanshu Pal
COVID-19
Thane Municipal Corporation adds 25 beds as COVID cases rise
Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) added 25 additional beds in Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital Kalwa apart from arranging a special ward dedicated to COVID-19 patients. The total number of active patients in the city stood at 252 while five succumbed to the virus. Meanwhile, TMC Commissioner Abhijit Bangar said a ‘death audit’ of patients who died of COVID would be conducted. The TMC has ensured it has additional stock of oxygen concentrators, testing kits, medicines, to name a few. Bangar told HT, “Due to the increasing number of Covid patients, it is necessary for everyone to be alert.”
He added, The number of Covid tests should be increased to stay one step ahead of the disease. As a result, the number of patients is likely to increase due to increased testing. However, as per the ‘test, isolate, treat’ protocol for Covid, it becomes necessary to isolate and treat more and more patients. The testing centres will not remain closed even for a single day. At the same time, more arrangements for testing will be made immediately in public places, markets, railway stations, malls.”
India recorded 3,095 new COVID cases and five deaths in last 24 hours.
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Politics
After Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification, his namesake who contested from Wayanad disqualified

Rahul Gandhi
An independent candidate for Lok Sabha elections named Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from contesting polls for failing to lodge account of election expenses. Gandhi, who’s name figures as ‘Rahul Gandhi K E S/o Valsamma’ in an Election Commission list of persons, had contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as an Independent and had received 2196 votes from the Wayanad seat in Kerala – a constituency from where ex-Congress MP Rahul Rajiv Gandhi had won with over seven lakh votes.
However, since it is mandatory for all contestants to submit their account of election expenses among other mandatory requirements under EC rules and the Representation of the People Act.
Rahul Gandhi K E S/o Valsamma stood disqualified to contest polls from September 13, 2021 till September 13, 2024. According to Section 10A, the Election Commission can disqualify a contestant for a period of three years from the date of the order if he/she has failed to lodge an account of election expenses within the time and in the manner required by law and has no good reason or justification for the failure.
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Nagpur News
Nagpur records 22 COVID cases in 24 hours
A total of 22 patients tested positive for COVID-19 in Nagpur in past 24 hours on Thursday. Almost 242 people were tested in the city, out of which 15 belonged to urban area while and 6 were from the rural areas, and one from outside Nagpur district.
At present, there are 72 active patients in the city. Three new cases of the new XBB.1.16 variant of COVID-19 were detected that took the total tally to five in the district.
India recorded 3,095 new COVID cases and five deaths in last 24 hours.
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