Electronics contract manufacturer Dixon Technologies and Chinese mobile phone company Vivo will set up a joint venture for manufacturing of electronic devices, including smartphones, a regulatory filing said on Sunday. Dixon will hold majority stake of 51 per cent in the joint venture and the rest will be held by Vivo India. However, neither Dixon, nor Vivo India will have any stake in each other. The facility will undertake part of Vivo's original equipment manufacturing (OEM) orders of smartphones in India, and can also engage in OEM business of various electronic products of other brands.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis told reporters that portfolio allocation to the newly elected Maharashtra ministers will be done in the next two days. This comes in after the swearing-in of 39 ministers at Raj Bhavan in Nagpur on Sunday. In the expansion, the BJP got 19 ministerial berths, followed by 11 to Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and 9 for Ajit Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party. While 33 legislators were sworn in as cabinet ministers, six took oath as ministers of state. While Fadnavis didn't mention any timeline, Deputy CM and Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde said the ministers of his party will get two-and-a-half years and those who perform will progress. Deputy Chief Minister and NCP leader Ajit Pawar said "non-performers" can be replaced in two-and-a-half-months also.
The minimum temperature dropped to 4.9 degrees Celsius in Delhi on Sunday, though cold wave conditions did not prevail, according to the weather department. No cold wave conditions prevailed, as per the data, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The dropping temperatures have especially been difficult on people on the roads, who take refuge in shelter homes and makeshift camps at night.
10-day-old Maharashtra ministry expanded; state BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule takes oath as minister at ceremony in Nagpur. BJP's Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, Chandrakant Patil, NCP's Hasan Mushrif take oath as Maharashtra ministers at ceremony in Nagpur. The saffron party's Girish Mahajan, Ganesh Naik, Atul Save, Ashok Uike, Ashish Shelar, Shiv Sena's Gulabrao Patil, Dada Bhuse, Sanjay Rathod, Shambhuraj Desai and NCP's Dhananjay Munde and Dattatray Bharne also take oath as Maharashtra ministers. Aditi Tatkare, Manikrao Kokate, Narhari Zirwal from NCP, BJP's Shivendrasinh Bhosale, Jaykumar Gore also take oath as ministers.
BJP's Sanjay Savkare, Madhuri Misal, Pankaj Bhoyar, Nitesh Rane and Akash Fundkar, Shiv Sena's Prakash Abitkar, Ashish Jaiswal, Sanjay Shirsat, Pratap Sarnaik and Bharat Gogawale and NCP's Babasaheb Patil sworn and Makrand Jadhav-Patil sworn in as Maharashtra ministers of state.
BJP's Meghana Bordikar, NCP's Indranil Naik and Shiv Sena's Yogesh Kadam also take oath as Maharashtra ministers of state.
At least 11 people have died after Cyclone Chido caused devastating damage in the French territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, France's Interior Ministry said Sunday. A hospital in Mayotte reported that nine people were in critical condition in the hospital and 246 others were injured. The tropical cyclone blew through the southeastern Indian Ocean, also affecting Comoros and Madagascar. Mayotte was directly in the path of the cyclone and suffered extensive damage on Saturday, officials said.
AAP released its final list of 38 candidates for the Delhi Assembly polls due in February, with party supremo Arvind Kejriwal to contest from the New Delhi constituency and Chief Minister Atishi fielded again from Kalkaji. In its bid for a third consecutive term in power in the national capital, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has nominated its senior leaders from their own constituencies.
As cold wave conditions gripped the national capital, and temperature dropped to low single digits, multiple people across Delhi took refuge in shelter homes. Meanwhile, the Indian Meteorological Department has warned of 'cold wave to severe cold wave' conditions in parts of North India, including Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh. IMD scientist, Soma Sen Roy warned of the possibility of a 1-2 degree Celsius drop in temperature due to winds blowing in North India. She also said that the cold wave will last for one to two days in North and Central India.
Several members of the Muslim Shia community, carried out a candlelight march in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh against the 'atrocities' against the Hindu community in Bangladesh. The candlelight march was carried out at the Chhota Imambara in Lucknow. Maulana Kalbe Jawad, who led the march, urged the Union government to pressure the United Nations to take stock of the atrocities against minorities in Bangladesh and also declare Pakistan a 'terrorist country.'
In Sambhal, police security is deployed outside the temple that was reopened on December 14. The temple premises was cleaned and arrangements for electricity were made. CCTV cameras have also been installed here. Patron of Nagar Hindu Sabha, Vishnu Sharan Rastogi claims that the temple has been re-opened after 1978.
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