We do not have enough vaccine doses at various vaccination centres, and people have to be sent back due to a shortage of doses. We have demanded from the Centre that people of age group 20-40 years must be vaccinated on priority: Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope
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We are working on war footing to increase the number of beds in Pune, Mumbai, Nashik and other parts of the State: Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope
12 metric tonnes of oxygen is produced & over 7 tonnes of oxygen is consumed daily. We've demanded that we should be supplied medical oxygen from nearby states. If needed, we'll close down industries that use oxygen but won't let supply of medical oxygen be affected: Rajesh Tope
Currently, we have 14 lakh vaccine doses which will get over in 3 days. We've asked for 40 lakh more vaccine doses per week. I'm not saying that the Center is not giving us vaccines but the speed of delivery of vaccines is slow: Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope
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US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry's visit was in the run-up to summit on climate, convened by the US on April 23-24 virtually. At invitation of President Biden, PM Narendra Modi will participate in summit along with other world leaders: Arindam Bagchi, MEA spox
Supply of Made in India vaccines would continue, taking into account our domestic requirements. There is no ban on the export of vaccines: Arindam Bagchi, MEA spokesperson
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds a high-level virtual event with the President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan
PM Modi and President Ramkalawan jointly e-inaugurate new Magistrates’ Court Building in Seychelles
India hands over of fast patrol vessel to Seychelles during a high-level virtual meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President of Seychelles, Wavel Ramkalawan
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SC starts hearing a plea filed by the Maharashtra govt and former state Home Minister, Anil Deshmukh, against Bombay High Court's April 5 order of preliminary inquiry against him by the CBI into corruption allegations made by ex Mumbai police commissioner, Param Bir Singh.
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According to the latest release order of vaccines from Centre, Maharashtra has been given 7.5 lakh vaccine dosages only. While Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana etc have been given far more vaccines than Maharashtra: Rajesh Tope, State Health Minister
I talked to Dr Harshavardhan immediately after this, even Sharad Pawar talked to him. I raised issue of discrimination with us. We have most number active patients, positivity rate and death with 12 crore population. Why we are given so few vaccines?: Maharashtra Health Minister
Harshvardhan Ji assured me that corrections will be done soon. We are still waiting. We want 1.6 crore vaccine dosages per month & 40 lakh every week because we are vaccinating 6 lakh people every day: Rajesh Tope, Maharashtra Health Minister
The call for protest was by farmer leaders, I'm not a member of farmer union, no call was given by me to go to Red Fort.There's no evidence that I've mobilised crowd:Lawyer of 26th Jan violence accused Deep Sidhu,during hearing of bail application filed by Sidhu at a Delhi court
I have not indulged in a single act of violence. I left even before violence erupted: Lawyer of 26th Jan violence accused Deep Sidhu,during hearing of bail application filed by Sidhu at a Delhi court
I just posted a video, that was my mistake. Every mistake is not a crime: Deep Sidhu's lawyer during the hearing of bail application filed by Sidhu at a Delhi court