Avinash Pande appointed as new general secretary of Rajasthan
Nagpur/New Delhi: The Congress has appointed Avinash Pande as its new general secretary in Rajasthan. Pande replaces Gurudas Kamat who had requested the Congress high command to relieve of all organisational responsibilities. The Congress leadership has also made some changes in...
CR’s Nagpur Division mops up Rs 1.41 crore from ticketless travel
Representational Pic Nagpur: The Nagpur Division of Central Railways has mopped up Rs 1.41 crore by cracking down on ticketless or unauthorised travel and carrying luggage without booking in the month of April 2017. A total of 32,156 cases were...
FDA raids APMC in Nagpur, destroys mangoes laced with carbide
Nagpur: In a major overhaul, the Food Drug Administration (FDA) officials raided several mango shops , siezed and destroyed mangoes which were injected with the Calcium carbide at the market yard of Kalamna. The raid was conducted at the Agriculture Produce...
K Ashok Kumar, ex-Director (Finance) WCL passes away
Nagpur: K. Ashok Kumar, Ex-Director (Finance), WCL passed away on Thursday, May 4 at Hyderabad. He was 76. He served in various capacities in WCL and also as General Manager (Finance). He joined SECL, Bilaspur as Director (Finance) and served there...
Zoting Commission completes proceedings, now wait is for its ruling
File pic Nagpur: The Justice Dinkar Zoting Commission, probing land grab allegations against former Revenue Minister Eknath Khadse, has completed its proceedings on Wednesday and now the wait is for its ruling. On the last day, senior counsel M G Bhangde,...
SC maintains death penalty of Nagpur man who raped and murdered a 4-year old girl
Nagpur/New Delhi: The Supreme Court has refused to review the death penalty awarded to a man found guilty of raping and murdering a 4-year-old girl in Nagpur. A three-judge bench, comprising Justice Dipak Misra, Justice RF Nariman and Justice U U...
Man murdered over love affair by girl’s kin in Ajni
Pankaj Patil Nagpur: Objecting to sister’s love affairs, her brother, father and three others murdered a man and injured another seriously. The incident occurred in Ajni area on Tuesday night. According to police, accused Bunty Manohar Sukhdeve’s sister was in love...
Man rapes minor girl by threatening to kill her grandparents
Nagpur: Doling out threats to kill grandparents of a minor girl, a middle aged man exploited the girl sexually for over two years. The accused happened to be a relative of the victimised girl. The accused Arunsingh Denisingh Baghel (45), resident...
Mankapur cops slap one more land grab case on Gwalbanshi, 4 others
Nagpur: The land mafia Dilip Gwalbanshi is set to enter history books of criminal world on land grab offences count as Mankapur police have booked him in yet another case. A Kolba Swami Colony, Katol Road resident Suresh Kachruji Dhurve (63),...
3 senior Rotarians suspended for fund abuse, Rotary District 3030 suspended
Nagpur: According to a report published in a Local Newspaper, for the first time in the history of Rotary District 3030, the Rotary International has suspended three senior Rotarians who have held high positions in the Rotary ecosystem for next...
HC grants interim bail to Amkheda College CEO in student’s murder case
Nagpur: The Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court granted interim pre arrest bail to Avinash Jogdand of Pune, who is CEO of the trust running various colleges including the Agricultural College at Amkheda in Washim District. The matter relates to the...
“Defects galore, and we haven’t even touched the actual cement road yet !” bemoans Advocate Anil Killor President of Jan Manch
Nagpur: A lot of hew and cry is being raised in the city lately over our wide network of under construction Cement roads. Why are they taking so long to be built? Why demolish good tar roads to replace them with cement? Will...
Fuel tank overturns near Jamtha, catches fire, 1 dies, 2 injured
Nagpur: A fully filled fuel tank overturned at a super busy Wardha road near Jamtha international stadium on Tuesday and caught fire later. Sources revealed that a person died in the fire while two others were grievously injured. The tanker was...
Complete tur purchase process on war-footing: CM
Nagpur/Mumbai: In a move to provide much needed relief to tur producing farmers, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has ordered additional machinery working in two shifts for completing tur purchase process on war-footing. Fadnavis issued the orders during the Cabinet meeting...
MIDC completes arguments before Zoting Commisssion, ‘nails’ Khadse’s role
Nagpur: While completing its arguments before the Dinkar Zoting Commission, probing the land grab allegations against Eknath Khadse, MIDC on Tuesday said that prima facie role of the former Revenue Minister in the scam is being clearly seen. Adv Chandrashekhar Jaltare,...
Defacing Democracy : ABVP paints their whims on varsity walls as VC turns blind eye
Nagpur: Both the Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are optimistic about making Nagpur a smart city, however the students wing of their political affiliation BJP is certainly acting in contrast to their visions. In a run...
Villagers in Chakki-Khapa halt ‘illegal’ excavation of murum, expose dubious ‘deals’
Nagpur: In an unusual development, local villagers of Chakki-Khapa in Nagpur district on Tuesday stopped excavation of murum being done ‘illegally’ by the contractor. The lease period for mining of murum ended on March 27 itself but the activity was...
Pardeshi is now DCP Zone 4, Kadam appointed DCP, Detection
DCP Zone 4 - Ravindrasingh Pardeshi Nagpur: Continuing with the IPS reshuffle, four officials in the city have been transferred to the DCP level posts. Following transfers have come into force: 1) Ravindrasingh S Pardeshi, currently holding DCP Special Branch has now...
Land shark Gwalbanshi, his gang booked in yet another land grab case
Representational Pic Nagpur: The land shark Dilip Gwalbanshi and 10 members of his gang have been booked in yet another land grab case. The complainant, Haji Bashir, a plot dealer, told Koradi police that he had purchased two-acre land situated at...
Watch: A bridegroom’s speeding car viciously hits two-wheelers leaving 3 riders injured
Nagpur: A CCTV camera installed at Bajaj Nagar-based Sanman Lawns has captured a car, decorated for a would-be bridegroom, viciously hitting two two-wheelers and injuring three riders, including a young girl, seriously. The April 28 footage shows the Scorpio car,...
5 persons including a doctor booked for abetting man to commit suicide in Mankapur
Nagpur: Mankapur police have booked five persons including a doctor on the charges of abetting a 40-year old man to commit suicide over borrowed money. The man first poisoned his wife and son before committing suicide. A Godhni Rajeshwar Nagar resident...
