Sunetra Pawar, the wife of late Nationalist Congress Party AP chief Ajit Pawar, was sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra at a ceremony held at Lok Bhavan in Mumbai on Saturday. She became the first woman to assume the post, which was earlier held by Ajit Pawar, who died in a plane crash in Baramati on Wednesday.
In a shocking incident, 34 people, including 22 children were on Wednesday killed in Thailand’s deadliest mass shooting. Several people have been taken hostages, local media reported. A gunman was holding an unknown number of student and teachers hostage in a school in southern Thailand’s Songkhla, the provincial administration said on social media.
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In Peeragarhi car death case, Delhi Police on Wednesday got five-day police custody of Kamaruddin Baba. Earlier in the day, Delhi Police arrested the self-styled ‘baba’ in connection with the deaths of three people whose bodies were found inside a locked car near the Peeragarhi flyover. The accused, identified as Kamaruddin, described by police as a ‘maulana’ and an occult practitioner, has been booked for murder, an official told PTI.
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