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Tigers presence spreads panic in Nagpur’s popular schools campus area

Presence and movement of a tiger near areas ? Fetri (adopted village of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis), Borgaon, Yerla, Chicholi, Sawli, Dahegaon and Kalmeshwar in Nagpur district left residents of nearby localities panic-stricken few days back. However, an effort to drive the tiger towards deep forest has been initiated.
Authorities of premium Nagpur schools including Jain International School, Poddar International School, Bhavan’s Bhagwandas Purohit Vidyamandir Ashti ? restricted the movements of their students to indoor activities only due to the fear of tiger. The tiger was spotted after multiple pugmarks were spotted in the above-mentioned areas. Also, four cows had died after the tiger attacked them.
Forest official Kundan Hate told Nation Next, Fortunately from past two days, as per our observation, the tiger is on his way back to his home range (Kalmeshwar) from the same route through which he’d come in city. We’ve set up camera trap at various places in forest and other areas. He was on a ?cattle-kill;? we allowed him to do so for the safety of people. Had we not allowed the tiger to eat the cattle, he would have attacked nearby people. Our team is keeping a close watch on the tiger round the clock. The tiger since the beginning avoided attacking humans but still people are tend to get scared; it’s quite natural.
Kundan along with his team even conducted awareness-training camps for the same. He said, We shortlisted five kids from every village that required attention and caution. We conducted workshops and educated everybody through the kids vis-à-vis the various habits of tigers so that they could inform maximum people. We told them that tigers have been visiting their villages since ages, its just that they spotted one today!
Rajat Vashisth from Nagpur whose daughter studies at Jain International School, said, School is operational; however students are confined to just indoor activities. As of now the school isn’t allowing them to go outdoors.
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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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