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Rubbishing rumours, the Uddhav Thackeray faction of the Shiv Sena has said that it is going to remain with the INDIA alliance and will not switch back to the NDA. Having won nine seats, the Shiv Sena (UBT) has emerged as the second-largest party in Maharashtra - tied with the BJP - and has also got a huge morale boost because the Eknath Shinde faction of the party has managed to garner only seven. Maharashtra assembly elections In a post on X on Thursday, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi took a dig at journalists who allegedly sided with the BJP and said they had predicted that the BJP would come back with a big majority once the results of the Lok Sabha elections are out. Since that didn't happen, Ms Charturvedi said, they are now spreading rumours of her party leaving the INDIA alliance and returning to the NDA. Referring to a popular meme, she posted, "Moye Moye. Ye na hoye (this won't happen). You can roye roye (you can cry)."  During ...

The massive landslide hit Irshalwadi, a tribal village located on a hill slope, on Wednesday night. Rescuers work at the landslide site in Raigad district, Maharashtra on Thursday MUMBAI: Search and rescue teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) on Friday recovered two more bodies from the debris at the landslide-affected Irshalwadi village in Maharashtra’s Raigad district, taking the toll to 18, an official said. Both the deceased were women, he said. NDRF teams resumed their search and rescue operation at the landslide site, located in hilly terrain, around 6.30 am amid rainfall in the area after suspending the exercise overnight, said the official. Local villagers and relatives of the people trapped under the debris are assisting the rescue teams, he said. The massive landslide hit Irshalwadi, a tribal village located on a hill slope in the coastal district, around 80km from Mumbai, on Wednesday night.