Though the Mahayuti achieved a decisive victory in elections to the 227-member Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporations (BMC), which is the richest civic body in India, the alliance is yet to decide about make a decision over the next mayor of the country’s financial capital, said sources on Monday, who added that Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and his deputy Eknath Shinde will likely hold a meeting tonight or by Tuesday to end the deadlock.
The Saudi authorities on Tuesday said they destroyed two ballistic missiles fired by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in neighbouring Yemen after explosions were heard over the Saudi capital Riyadh. They added that the air defences destroyed another three Houthi ballistic missiles fired towards the country’s eastern region. Meanwhile, the Houthis accused government forces of killing two people in a strike at a gas station near the besieged Yemeni city of Taiz, where fighting has been intensifying between the two sides.
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Very severe cyclonic storm Arnab has begun making landfall along the Andhra Pradesh coast on Wednesday, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said with the storm’s centre remaining very close to the coastline. The northern spiral band of the cyclone has further entered the land and the landfall process is expected to continue for the next three hours, it said. “The centre of very severe cyclonic storm Arnab remains very close to the Andhra Pradesh coastline, and the landfall process is continuing,” the Met department said in an official press release.
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