Ratnagiri

The National Centre for seismology said an earthquake of magnitude 4.0 hit Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district on November 15 at 2:36 AM. The depth of the quake was recorded at 5 kilometres from the surface. The epicentre of the quake was in coastal Ratnagiri which is 350 kilometre away from Mumbai. However, there were no reports of death and casualties, said J L Gautam, Head (Operations) of the NCS.

With just seven positive cases for the Delta-plus SARS-CoV-2 variant in Maharashtra, it is safely classified as "a variant of interest" and not "a variant of concern". Though Delta-plus has a "better immune-escaping mechanism", research is on to check the virus' transmissibility, virulence and resistance to monoclonal antibody cocktail treatment. Unlike the Delta variant where entire families came positive, it has been found only in Ratnagiri… read-more

On November 10, six of Dawood Ibrahim's properties were auctioned under the Smugglers and Foreign Exchange Manipulators (Forfeiture of Property) Act, 1976. The properties in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri were sold for a total price of Rs 22,79,000. Out of six, four were bought by a Supreme Court lawyer Bhupendra Bharadwaj, and the rest by another lawyer Ajay Srivastava. The highest price paid in the digital bidding was Rs 11 lakh for a single… read-more