HIGHLIGHTS WESTERN REGION AT 5 PM

Mumbai | Sunday | 23rd January, 2022

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Mumbai, Jan 23 (PTI) Top stories from western region at 5 pm.

BOM3 GJ-VIRUS-HOSPITAL-STAFF Guj: Doctors, nurses among 50 personnel of Rajkot civil hospital who test COVID-19 positive Rajkot: Around 50 staffers of the civil hospital in Gujarat"s Rajkot city, including doctors and nurses, have tested coronavirus positive, an official said Sunday.Since none of them are in a serious condition, they are undergoing treatment in home isolation, Superintendent of Civil Hospital R S Trivedi said.

BOM5 GA-HYMN-CHIDAMBARAM Centre"s move of dropping "Abide with me" hymn sad; sensitive people hurt by decision: Chidambaram Panaji: Objecting to the Centre"s decision of dropping one of Mahatma Gandhi"s favourite hymns "Abide with me" from this year"s Beating Retreat ceremony, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday said the government"s move has hurt the "thinking and sensitive" people.

BOM6 POLL-GA-TMC-CHIDAMBARAM TMC"s proposal for alliance in Goa not considered as it poached Cong leaders: Chidambaram Panaji: Congress veteran P Chidambaram on Sunday said the Trinamool Congress"s (TMC) proposal of a pre-poll alliance for the next month"s Goa Assembly elections was not considered by his party as the Mamata Banerjee-led party "poached" Congress leaders in the state.

BOM2 POLL-GA-CONG-PLEDGE Goa polls: Hit hard by defections, Cong makes its candidates take pledge of party loyalty before God Panaji: Ahead of the next month"s Goa Assembly elections, the Congress, which was hit hardest by defections in the BJP-ruled state in the last five years, made its candidates swear before God that they will not switch the party if they get elected.

BES3 MH-GANGRAPE-ARREST Minor among two more held in Govandi gang-rape case; count reaches four Mumbai: Police have arrested two more persons, including a minor, in connection with the alleged gang-rape of a woman in Govandi, an eastern suburb of Mumbai, an official said on Sunday.