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Seventy-eight people are still unaccounted for since the landslide hit Irshalwadi village on Wednesday night in Raigadh district, nearly 80 kilometers (50 miles) from Mumbai.

Belagavi's Ashok Venkatesh Deshpande, a Gandhian and social worker, passed away after a brief battle with cancer. He dedicated his life to serving the poor and marginalised, and was involved in anti-liquor picketing, blind belief eradication and running pre-schools. He was trained by Mumbai-based Gandhian Krishna Das Shah and was…

Following an overnight pause, rescue efforts resumed at the landslip-affected Irshalwadi village in Maharashtra’s Raigad district. The search and rescue team of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) recovered six more bodies — three male and three female — from the debris, taking the toll to 22.

The Opposition said Mumbai’s guardian Ministers setting up offices in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation headquarters has set a wrong precedent and is an act of encroachment of rights of civic bodies. The issue was raised in the Maharashtra Assembly by Nationalist Congress Party’s Jayant Patil.