Recently 1089 new coronavirus cases were published as of 8 AM on May 9 in Maharashtra, according to data issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. This brings the total recorded cases of coronavirus in Maharashtra to 19063. Among the total people infected as on date, 3470 have recovered and 731 have passed away.

Mumbai had the highest number of coronavirus cases at 3096 confirmed infections.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released the list of four candidates for the Maharashtra Legislative Council (MLC) elections scheduled to be held on May 21. The party has fielded Pravin Datke (Nagpur city BJP chief), Gopichand Padalkar, Ajit Gopchade, and Ranjit Singh Mohite Patil.

The polling will be held on May 21 to fill the 9 vacant seats. These seats fell vacant on April 24 and the elections were withheld due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Maharashtra minister for higher and technical education Uday Samant on Friday said. That all university students in the state except final year students will be promoted to the next level.

Only final year students will give exams between July 1 and 30, unless lockdown is extended further, Uday Samant said.

Earlier on Thursday the state minister had tweeted that a final decision on the status of university examinations will be announced on Friday.

An Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter aircraft on Friday crashed in Punjab. No casualties have been reported so far. Reports inform that the  fighter aircraft crashed in Hoshiarpur. The reason for the crash is yet to be known. More details awaited.

On Thursday, a similar incident was reported from Sikkim. A Mi-17 helicopter of the Indian Air Force (IAF) made a forced landing few kilometres away from the designated helipad.

According to a tweet by ANI, six personnel were on board the helicopter when the incident took place. All the personnel on board were safe while one person had sustained injured.

In a tragic incident, an empty rake of goods wagon ran over 16 migrant labourers who were sleeping on the rail tracks in Maharashtra's  Aurangabad district. According to a tweet by ANI, the tragic incident happened near Karmad on Friday morning.

According to details by a railway official, the freight train ran over 14 migrant labourers between Jalna and Aurangabad of Nanded Division of South Central Railway.

According to a tweet by ANI,  Mokshada Patil, SP Aurangabad said as many as 16 migrant workers have been killed after coming under the goods train on Friday.

Hundred-three cases of coronavirus pandemic have been detected in Mumbai's Arthur Road prison, said Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh here on Thursday.

Deshmukh said that 77 inmates and 26 police personnel were tested positive in jail. They will be sent to Saint George's Hospital for their treatment.

"77 inmates and 26 police personnel at Mumbai's Arthur Road prison have tested positive for coronavirus pandemic. They will be sent to Saint George's hospital for treatment," he said.

India registered over 3000 new coronavirus cases for the second day as the total number of coronavirus cases in the country surged past 55000. The total number of coronavirus cases in India stood at 56342, according to ministry of health and family welfare.

Maharashtra confirmed over 1200 fresh coronavirus cases on Thursday, for the second consecutive day. Delhi witnessed the biggest spike in daily coronavirus count as 448 new cases were added in last 24 hours.

The death toll in India climbed to 1886 with over 100 people succumbed to death in the last 24 hours.

At least seven people, including a child, died after toxic gas leakage from LG Polymers facility located near Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, the state government reported. At least 500 people were reportedly admitted to the hospital. Ambulances, fire engines, and police officers reached the chemical plant.

Urging the residents to stay indoors, Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation tweeted: There is gas leakage identified at LG Polymers in Gopalpatnam. Requesting Citizens around these locations not to come out of houses for the sake of safety precautions.

Unacademy, one of the largest online learning programs in India has faced a data breach and details of 22 million users of Unacademy are reportedly available for sale now. According to security firm Cyble Inc, a hacker is offering the user database, containing 21909707 records, for USD 2000.

Cyble Inc added that it has managed to obtain the database and added the user records to its data breach monitoring service which can be used by millions of Unacademy users to determine whether their account was hacked or not.

Sylvester Stallone is probably done with Michael B Jordan's Creed franchise and has no plans of continuing his role as a coach. The actor in his recent QnA session on Instagram did drop a confirmation of some sort. That he will no longer be associated with Creed though he'd always be eager for Rocky sequels.

The last installment in Creed franchise was 2018 release Creed II that ended with Rocky telling Adonis that this is “his time.” While fans then wondered if Sylvester Stallone was dropping hints about his exit, the star eventually confirmed the same.