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Nagpurians celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi with great religious fervour during Mahaprasad by N Kumar

Adv Darshana and Archana Pandey during Mahaprasad organised by N Kumar at Poonam Chambers, Nagpur


Vinod and Ritu Duseja during Mahaprasad organised by N Kumar at Poonam Chambers, Nagpur


Usha and Prakash Dayalani during Mahaprasad organised by N Kumar at Poonam Chambers, Nagpur


Sudhakar Deshmukh during Mahaprasad organised by N Kumar at Poonam Chambers, Nagpur


Sakhi and Vasundhara Sahu during Mahaprasad organised by N Kumar at Poonam Chambers, Nagpur


Devotees came to seek blessings from Lord Ganesha during Mahaprasad organised by N Kumar


Rishabh Sahu and Shivani Chimurkar during Mahaprasad organised by N Kumar at Poonam Chambers, Nagpur


Rajesh and Namrata Sharma during Mahaprasad organised by N Kumar at Poonam Chambers, Nagpur


Deepak and Anisha Moryani during Mahaprasad organised by N Kumar at Poonam Chambers, Nagpur


Pragati and Sanskriti Patil during Mahaprasad organised by N Kumar at Poonam Chambers, Nagpur


Niharika and Sohani Sawlani during Mahaprasad organised by N Kumar at Poonam Chambers, Nagpur


N Kumar during Mahaprasad at Poonam Chambers, Nagpur


Madhu and Leena Rughwani during Mahaprasad organised by N Kumar at Poonam Chambers, Nagpur


Kashish and Archana Wani during Mahaprasad organised by N Kumar at Poonam Chambers, Nagpur


Dr Dilip and Uma Bhambhani during Mahaprasad organised by N Kumar at Poonam Chambers, Nagpur


Dr BK and Dr Mukta Motwani during Mahaprasad organised by N Kumar at Poonam Chambers, Nagpur


Sonal and Dilip Datar during Mahaprasad organised by N Kumar at Poonam Chambers, Nagpur


Brij and Neelu Malhotra during Mahaprasad organised by N Kumar at Poonam Chambers, Nagpur


Akbar and Zahida Malik during Mahaprasad organised by N Kumar at Poonam Chambers, Nagpur

N Kumar invited his friends, family and colleagues for the Mahaprasad of Lord Ganesha at Poonam Chambers in Nagpur on Monday afternoon. Nation Next spotted quite a few Bappas devotees here. Check out the pictures below.
Photos by: Kartik Thakur
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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