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GOA: Digambar Kamat is the only chief minister in recent times to complete his five-year term. As Congress makes a determined attempt to dislodge BJP, Kamat looks back and forward in this interview with TOI.

GOA: Pramod Sawant has been fighting several battles since taking over as chief minister, following the death of Manohar Parrikar in March 2019. As BJP goes to polls under his leadership, Sawant explains to TOI some of his decisions and remains confident that the party will form the government again

PUNE: Top health experts and central task force members told TOI on Friday that removing mask mandates could not be universal as a lot depended on how much risk one was willing to take in the time of Covid.

CHENNAI: An innocuous bid to recreate Chola-era paintings on the sidewalls of RBI subway on Rajaji Salai, as part of 'Singara Chennai 2.0' will now undergo 'modifications' as the Greater Chennai Corporation has asked the artists to not highlight 'Hindu idols' to avoid controversy. About 20% of the artwork has…

JAIPUR: A 45-year-old labourer working at a tile manufacturing company was found dead outside his house in Vivek Vihar under Karni Vihar police station area. Police identified the deceased as Fenkan Mandal, a native of Samastipur in Bihar. DCP (West) Richa Tomar told TOI that police were investigating the case…

NEW DELHI: Indian cricket seems to be close to hitting the transition button. TOI understands that the team management is planning to move on from Ishant Sharma, Wriddhiman Saha, Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara.

NEW DELHI: Neeraj Chopra won't be coming to India anytime soon, as the javelin thrower has decided to extend his stay in the US by four-and-half months till the World Athletics Championships in Oregon from July 15 to 24, TOI has learnt. There's a possibility that the Tokyo Olympics gold…

With quotes from an interview to TimesofIndia.com's Amit Kumar in May 2020

GURUGRAM: The Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority (GMDA), since its inception in 2017, has been facing a shortage of bidders for its projects, with many contractors, who TOI approached recently, saying that they are unwilling to work with the authority due to their issues with its third-party work verification requirement and…

PUNE: The deaths of several Covid patients in January this year were coincidental and not due to the disease though the casualty count increased last month four-fold compared to that in December last year, state task force members and hospitals treating coronavirus-infected patients told TOI.

KOLKATA: Facing flak from citizens, health experts and rights groups for its reluctance to open parks, Kolkata Municipal Corporation's mayor-in-council member in charge of parks and squares Debashis Kumar told TOI all parks would revert to pre-Covid times and be open from 6am to 9pm.