A pre-election populist budget by all means: Dipen Agrawal

Nagpur: Dipen Agrawal, President of Chamber of Associations of Maharashtra Industry & Trade (CAMIT ), said that Piyush Goyal in his first (interim) Budget speech as an interim Finance Minister instead of depicting taxpayers as crooks has acknowledged the contribution...

Man befriends woman on Facebook, rapes, blackmails her over obscene video

Nagpur: Gittikhadan police have booked a Telangana based man for allegedly raping and blackmailing a 36-year-old woman between July 21, 2017 and Dec 2018. The accused have already extorted Rs 8 lakhs from her over the years and used to...

India International Travel Exhibition from tomorrow in SCZCC

Nagpur: India International Travel Exhibition (IITE), India's Premier Travel & Tourism Exhibition has being organized at South Central Zone Cultural Centre, Civil Lines from Feb 1 to 3, this year, informed Anurag Gupta, Director, IITE, Bangalore while addressing the press...

Lakadganj police organise “Chhatra Police” programme at school, college

Nagpur: Lakadganj Police Station on Friday organised “Chhatra Police” programme at a school and college namely Dr Rammanohar Lohiya Vidyalaya in and Ushaben Thakar Mahila Mahavidyalaya in Rampeth. A team of police guided the students about the ill effects of addictions....

CA Mukim hails Modi Govt’s ‘Sabka Sath Sabka Vikas’ budget

Nagpur: The Chartered Accountant Ashish Mukim, who is also President of Bhartiya Janata Party’s Economic and CA Cell, Nagpur, hailed the Union Budget by saying it will ensure ‘Sabka Sath Sabka Vikas’. Heaping praise on the Finance Minister Piyush Goyal, the...

NMRCL to use mass spring system to reduce metro rail vibrations

Nagpur: The Nagpur Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (NMRCL) has decided to use mass-spring system (MSS) to reduce vibrations generated due to train movements and to protect the buildings at the surface including many old structures situated along the metro route....

Budget has disappointed trading community, sops to farmers an eyewash

Nagpur: The Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday evoked mixed reactions from various bodies. The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) termed the Budget disappointing for trading community. “The Union Budget though seems to be overall...

Interim Budget 2019 – Budget of Atonement, but is it too little too late?

As Piyush Goel made the announcement of no tax for income upto Rs. 5 lakhs per month, the whole house - predominantly NDA of course - erupted in loud chants of "Modi! Modi!" wondering if this was an election rally...

Rs 12 lakh cash stolen from Ramdaspeth house

Nagpur: In a major incident, Rs 12 lakh in cash were stolen from a house in posh Ramdaspeth locality. The theft occurred between December 30, 2018 and January 23, 2019 when the owners had gone out of station. A resident of...

Two minor girls, a college-bound girl kidnapped from Tehsil, Kalamna

Nagpur: Two minor girls and a teenage college-bound girl have reportedly been kidnapped from different areas of the city in the past 24 hours. Cops have launched a search to trace the missing girls. In the first incident, two girls, aged...

Govt Announces Rs 3,000 Monthly Pension Scheme For Workers in Unorganised Sector

New Delhi: Acknowledging the contribution of the unorganised sector in our economy, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday announced the Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Mandhan, a scheme to provide assured monthly pension of Rs 3,000 per month for workers in...

Interim Budget: Govt Announces Hike in Tax Exemption Limit to Rs 5 Lakh, Other Sops For Middle Class

Amid expectation of tax sops for middle class, Finance Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday announced hike in income tax exemption limit from the present Rs. 2.5 lakh to Rs. 5 lakh per annum. Also, with gross income up to 6.5 lakh...

Windy Bouts : Why Nagpur is so chilled this season?

Nagpur: Nagpur is known for its hot temperatures but the weather this season is something unsual and has never been experienced in decades. From touching down to an all time lowest of 3.5 °C a month ago on December 29...

Maharashtra Police raids shop in Nagpur and seize Counterfeit HP Products

A part of nationwide series of raids including Ahmedabad, Bharuch, Gandhinagar, Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Pune, Patna, Chennai, Bangalore, etc Raids across India resulted in seizure worth hundreds of Crores Nagpur: With a view to fight the growing menace of counterfeit products being...

Union Budget 2019 Highlight

Nagpur observes coldest Winters in years

Nagpur: Nagpur this time observed very low minimums which is very unusual. Till December ending (December 28) to January 2, Nagpur observed temperatures hovering around 5°C. The lowest temperature for this Winter was observed on December 29 when minimums...

Shocking Video: 3 puppies ran over by a car mercilessly in Gandhi Nagar-Nagpur

Nagpur: A case of inhumane animal killing has been noticed in Gandhi Nagar Nagpur, when around 3:30pm, 3 tiny puppies cuddled together to each other on the footpath were ran over by a car mercilessly and killed. As soon as...

Journo’s bike stolen from Metro Office, live act captured in CCTV

Nagpur: A trip to Metro office, Wardha road had turned nightmare for a city based journalist as a thief wearing metro workers apron and helmet fled with his two-wheeler from the office premises on Thursday afternoon. As per the preliminary information,...

Nation’s young inventors to hit Hackathon in Nagpur

Nagpur is all set to greet and meet a whole lot of young inventors on February 1 at Suresh Bhatt Auditorium for Mayor’s Innovation Award competition organized by Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC). Around 500 groups registered themselves and 1,500 persons...

With 9.47% drop in crime, Nagpur Commissionerate ranks 2nd in states’ list

Nagpur: The Nagpur Police Commissionerate has finished second in the list of the cities in state registering drop in the number of crimes. Witnessing a drop 9.47% in crime, Nagpur only trails behind Pune Commissionerate which registers 31.21% drop in...