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Business News›News›Newsblogs›Heat wave News Live Updates: Schools in Maharashtra, Odisha to

remain closed from today in view of scorching heat

LIVE BLOGEconomic Times | 21 Apr, 2023 | 09:28AM IST

Heat wave News Live Updates: Schools in Maharashtra, Odisha to remain closed from today in view
of scorching heat

All schools affiliated to the state board in Maharashtra will remain closed from Friday in view of the
heat wave conditions. Schools of other boards can take decision about closure after considering their
curriculum and activities, said the order issued by the School Education Department on Thursday.
Except for Vidarbha, schools in the state will reopen on June 15. Those in Vidarbha will restart from
June 30, the order said.

Meanwhile, Odisha has announced early summer vacation. All schools -- government, private and
aided -- will be closed for summer vacation from April 21. Usually, summer vacations begin in Odisha
schools in the first week of May. The state has been reeling under scorching heat over the past few
days with the mercury crossing 43 degrees Celsius in 11 places on Wednesday. Baripada in
Mayurbhanj was the hottest at 44.5 degrees Celsius.

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10:00 AM

COVID cases

COVID News Live Updates: India logs 11,692 new Covid infections in a day, active cases increase to
66,170.

09:28 AM

Sensex climbs 134 points to 59,766.37 in early trade; Nifty advances 36.4 points to 17,660.85.

09:19 AM

Goods train derails in Tamil Nadu, rail traffic disrupted

A goods train derailed in Tamil Nadu's Krishnagiri district on Friday, affecting rail traffic, Southern
Railway officials said.The accident happened at Rayakottai in Bengaluru division, prompting the
Southern Railway to immediately cancel four trains. Some trains are being diverted via Jolarpettai-
Tiruppatur instead of Dharmapuri-Hosur route, an official said.

09:19 AM

Rupee rises 3 paise to 82.14 against US dollar in early trade.

09:11 AM

Case filed against Sanjay Raut's business partner

According to ANI, Pune Police has registered an FIR under IPC section 420, 406, 465, 467, 468, 471,
511, 34 against Sujit Patkar, Sanjay Raut's business partner, Lifeline Hospital Management Services
along with several others for fraudulently obtaining contract of Shivaji Nagar Pune Jumbo Covid
Center as alleged by complainant BJP's Kirit Somaiya.

09:01 AM

Government of Kerala declares two days of holiday on the 21st & 22nd of April for Eid-ul-Fitr.
08:47 AM

Himachal Pradesh BJP chief submits resignation to Nadda

Ahead of the Shimla Municipal Corporation polls, Himachal Pradesh BJP chief Suresh Kashyap has
handed over his resignation to the party's national president BJP Nadda, sources said on Friday.
According to BJP office bearers, Kashyap cited "personal reasons" for resigning from his post.

Kashyap, who was appointed as the chief of the BJP's Himachal Pradesh unit on July 22, 2020,
following the resignation of Rajeev Bindal, had a lacklustre tenure. The party suffered defeat in the
bypolls to the Mandi Lok Sabha seat and in Arki, Fatehpur and Jubbal-Kotkhai Assembly
constituencies in November 2021. It also lost the Assembly polls held in December 2022.

08:38 AM

UP reports 5 new Covid deaths, 840 new cases

Uttar Pradesh has registered five new Covid deaths, increasing concerns of the government. The
fatalities were reported from Ghaziabad, Jaunpur, Sultanpur, Ghazipur, and Chandauli. It is for the
first time this year that these many Covid patients died in a day in the state. The last time the state
recorded five or more deaths in a day was 10 months ago. Meanwhile, the state also recorded 840
new Covid cases.

08:29 AM

Poonch terror attack

07:56 AM

Maharashtra state board schools to remain closed from Friday

All schools affiliated to the state board in Maharashtra will remain closed from Friday in view of the
heat wave conditions, the government said. Schools of other boards can take decision about closure
after considering their curriculum and activities, said the order issued by the School Education
Department on Thursday. Except for Vidarbha, schools in the state will reopen on June 15. Those in
Vidarbha will restart from June 30, the order said. At least 14 persons died due to heat stroke after
attending the Maharashtra Bhushan award ceremony in Navi Mumbai on April 16.

07:31 AM

EAM Jaishankar's 4-nation Central & Latin America visit begins today

External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar is on a four-nation Central and Latin America visit
beginning today.The EAM will make official visits to Guyana (April 21-23), Panama (April 24-25),
Colombia (April 25-27) and the Dominican Republic (April 27-29), the Ministry of External Affairs
(MEA) said.
07:11 AM

Army salutes the bravehearts

"Chief of the Army Staff General Manoj Pande and all ranks of Indian Army salute the supreme
sacrifice of 5 Indian Army bravehearts, Hav Mandeep Singh, L/Nk Debashish Baswal, L/Nk Kulwant
Singh, Sep Harkrishan Singh & Sep Sewak Singh who laid down their lives in the line of duty at
Poonch Sector yesterday," Indian Army said in a statement.

06:57 AM

Supreme Court to hear Abdullah Azam Khan's plea today

The Supreme Court today will hear Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Mohammad Abdullah Azam Khan's
plea challenging the Allahabad High Court order which rejected his plea seeking a stay on his
conviction in a matter related to a protest case.

06:41 AM

SCO Summit at Rashtrapati Bhavan?

06:33 AM

Twitter begins removing blue checks from users who don't pay

After several false starts, Twitter began making good on its promise on Thursday to remove the blue
checks from accounts that don't pay a monthly fee to keep them. Twitter had about 300,000 verified
users under the original blue-check system - many of them journalists, athletes and public figures.
The checks - which used to mean the account was verified by Twitter to be who it says it is - began
disappearing from these users' profiles late morning Pacific Time.High-profile users who lost their
blue checks on Thursday included Beyoncé, Pope Francis, Oprah Winfrey and former President
Donald Trump.The costs of keeping the marks range from USD 8 a month for individual web users to
a starting price of USD 1,000 monthly to verify an organisation, plus USD 50 monthly for each
affiliate or employee account.

06:23 AM

Heatwave effect

Schools in Odisha and Maharashtra to remain closed from today due to heatwave conditions.

06:21 AM

Tornadoes kill 3 in Oklahoma; new storms possible on Thursday

Tornadoes plowed through Oklahoma during another deadly spring storm in the US, killing at least
three people and damaging dozens of homes in a hard-hit rural town. Forecasters warned on
Thursday that more severe weather was still possible. A day after at least eight tornadoes spun
through Oklahoma, Gov. Kevin Stitt said authorities were still assessing the scale of destruction and
injuries. He toured the aftermath in Shawnee, where nearly every building on the campus of
Oklahoma Baptist University showed damage.

06:20 AM

PM Modi to address Civil Services Day event today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the chief guest at the Valedictory Session and the award
ceremony of the 16th 'Civil Services Day' on Friday.The event will take place at Plenary Hall, Vigyan
Bhavan in the national capital at 11 am.The Prime Minister will address the event at 11: 40 am. He
will also interact with the civil servants on Thursday.

06:20 AM

Delhi logs 1,603 Covid cases, positivity rate dips to 26.75 pc

Delhi on Thursday logged 1,603 COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 26.75 per cent along with
three fatalities, according to data shared by the health department here. With the new fatalities, the
death toll from the pandemic rose to 26,581 in the national capital. Out of 7,976 Covid beds, 390 are
occupied, the data showed.On Wednesday, the city reported six deaths along with 1,757 new cases
with a positivity rate of 28.63 per cent.The national capital had recorded 1,537 COVID-19 cases on
Tuesday with a positivity rate of 26.54 per cent.

06:20 AM

Covid Live: Mumbai reports 234 new COVID-19 cases, one death

Mumbai on Wednesday reported 234 new coronavirus positive cases, taking the city's overall tally to
11,61,136, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. One patient - a 73-year-old male
with chronic kidney disease - succumbed to the infection during the day, which raised the death toll
to 19,755, it said. This is for the second day in a row that the metropolis reported more than 200
new cases for the second day in a row after witnessing a dip for two days. On Tuesday, the city had
reported 220 cases.

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