IT’S NOW A RACE AGAINST TIME!

Turkey-Syria earthquake deaths top 12,000 WHO officials estimating up to 20,000 deaths Search for survivors intensifies on 3rd day

First India Bureau Sanliurfa/Kahramanmaras/ Antakya: Rescuers in Turkey and Syria battled bitter cold on Wednesday in a race against time to find survivors under buildings flattened by an earthquake that killed more than 12,000 people.

Maha: Assembly session from Feb 27, budget on March 9

First India Bureau the session on February 27, the newly recognised state song Jai Jai Maharashtra Majha’ will be played, said the release.

Mumbai: The budget session of the Maharashtra legislature will be held from February 27 to March 25 and the state’s budget for fiscal 2023-24 will be presented on March 9, a government release said on Wednesday. This will be the first budget of the government led by Eknath Shinde, who broke away from the Shiv Sena last June and joined hands with the Bharatiya Janata Party. Deputy Chief Minister and state finance minister Devendra Fadnavis will present the budget, it said.

BUDGET 2023-24

The decision on the budget session was taken at a meeting of the Business Advisory Committee of the assembly, chaired by Speaker Rahul Narvekar and Neelam Gorhe, deputy chairman of the Legislative Council, said the release.

Five bills that have been cleared by the state cabinet will be tabled during the budget session, while eight more, yet to be cleared, are proposed to be tabled, the statement said.

On the first day of

ERDOGAN

VISITS QUAKE-HIT AREAS AS ANGER GROWS OVER SLOW RESCUE WORK

T urkish President Tayyip Erdogan visited southern Turkey on Wednesday to see first-hand the destruction wrought by a massive earthquake as anger grew among local people over what they said was a slow government response to the rescue and relief effort.

Meanwhile, another earthquake of magnitude 4.3 jolted Nurdagi district, a city in Gaziantep Province of Turkey on Wednesday.

Tremors that inflicted more suffering on a border area, already plagued by conflict, left people on the streets burning debris to try to stay warm