Nagpur goes crazy! Jio yaa Maro, but sim haasil karo!
The headline may jerk you into discomfort but don't be...This is the real situation in Nagpur ever since Reliance Jio announced its revolutionary free data and voice plan on its 4G sim card for three months. Mukesh Ambani's ambitious Jio...
Khaki under attack – 4.5 k Maharashtra cops attacked since 2012
File Pic: Cop attacked, his head held under water during Ganesha festival in Thane Mumbai/Nagpur: You may be startled by the fact that as many as 4,560 cops have been attacked across the state since 2012. And, it’s hardly surprising...
2 brothers attack API on duty, tear uniform, thrash him in Kalamna Police Station
Representational Pic Nagpur: In an outrageous act, two brothers assaulted an Assistant Police Inspector (API) on duty and tore his uniform and manhandled him. Moreover, the two accused siblings hurled filthy abuses on women police personnel present in the police...
Are Nagpur’s ‘stagnant’ police writers causing corruption in Deptt?
Nagpur: Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis who also holds state’s home department has been working on some major reforms to bring police department on par with the best and corruption free functioning, and also bring in measures to distress cops from...
Gokulpeth market turns an open bar for country liquor tipplers, cops turn blind eye
Nagpur: An alarming trait of country-liquor consumption in full public view - amid streets, beside liquor shops, and any possible corner, has surfaced in main Gokulpeth market of Nagpur. At Gokulpeth market, anyone can easily spot tipplers having their shots...
How a Nagpur Driver Encouraged His Daughter to Create History on Ice
Shristi Sharma, a 12-year-old girl from Nagpur’s Centre Point School, has created history by limbo skating on ice and entering the Limca Book of World Records. On September 9, at the iSkate rink in Gurgaon, Shristi made history by ice skating...
Patanjali’s Nagpur food plant to be commissioned by FY17
Nagpur: Baba Ramdev-promoted Patanjali Ayurved plans to commission its proposed herbal food park at Nagpur by the end of the current financial year. The company also expects to clock annual turnover of Rs 10,000 crore by March 31, 2018. The facility...
Nimgade Killing : Cops grope in dark with blur CCTV footage
Nagpur: A week after the early morning daylight shootout of architect and valuer Eknath Nimgade, the police are still groping in the dark with no clue as yet. Sources said that the CCTV clippings of the incident failed to help...
Second firing incident in city within 7 days: Police Mitra fired at
Nagpur: A second incident of firing within seven days occurred in the city on September 12, 2016. The exact motive behind the firing incident could not be ascertained as yet. According to eye-witnesses, four masked goons riding an Enfield Motorcycle and...
Drones deployed to curb sand mafia may expose dubious acts of babus, too
Nagpur: Sand pilfering is emerging as one of the most lucrative “business” in Nagpur district. And it is flourishing, too, no end. The sand mafia is pocketing a big moolah, of course, at the State Government expense. But now this...
Zone 4 cops take out Route March to maintain peace
Nagpur: A posse of police personnel from Zone 4 police stations on Monday took out a Route March in sensitive areas to maintain peace during the ongoing Ganesh Festival and upcoming Bakri Eid. The Route March was organized in Nandanvan...
Man abandons aged father, denies entry into house in Pratapnagar
Nagpur: In a deplorable act, a man abandoned his aged father and also denied him entry into house. The shameful incident took place in Pratapnagar area here on Sunday (September 11). The accused has been booked. The victim, Badriprasad Gangabhushan Shaha...
Another 17-year-old girl runs away from Shradanand Anathashram
Nagpur: While shaking the authorities, a 17-year-old girl runs away without informing anyone from Shradanand Anathashram situated at Shradanandpeth at around 5:30 pm on September 11, 2016. Since the girl is a minor, a franctic search was made everywhere. Assuming that...
Bawankule to spend night in unnamed village on Sept 28
Nagpur: The Guardian Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule is again spending a night in an unnamed village on September 28 to personally “feel” the civic facilities available there. The minister at the same time will review a slew of government schemes meant...
No leads in the murder of Architect Eknath Nimgade
Nagpur: Nagpur police seems to be still groping in dark to ascertain the exact perpetrator of crime and those who connived to eliminate Architect Eknath Nimgade. There are as many as 150-200 cops of Crime Branch, Detective Branch Squad of three...
1,27,324 ha land irrigated in first year of Jalyukta shivar: CM
Nagpur: Total 1,077 villages were selected in Nagpur division under Jalyukta Shivar and work of 656 villages have been completed. In the first year itself the area under irrigation has been increased by 12,7324 hectares, informed chief minister Devendra Fadnavis...
City celebrates Mother Teresa’s sainthood
Nagpur: Mother Teresa spent her entire life in the service of those who were left to die on the road side, seeing in them their God-given dignity. And today, all the powers of the world prostrate before her great work....
Wainganga Engineering college : Student assaulted by college staff
Representational pic Nagpur: A student was thrashed allegedly by college staff of Wainganga Engineering college, Dongargaon over a petty argument on Saturday. The complainant Shahrukh Sulodar, a resident of Jafar nagar, had applied for admission in engineering stream at...
NMC launches app to get daily garbage collection feedback
Nagpur: To ensure garbage is collected daily from all households, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has launched an app — Swachh Nagpur — on pilot basis for Laxmi Nagar Zone. At the same time, Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT) has executed an...
Helmet rush: 1,61,866 truant riders fined, Rs 1.73 crore recovered & counting
Nagpur: The Maharashtra Government coffers got richer by a staggering Rs 1,73,41,300 (Rs 1.73 crore) in 2016 as the Traffic Department of Nagpur Police cracked down on 1,61,866 helmetless riders from January to August this year. Cops recovered the huge...
Gadkari, Fadnavis try to come clean on Patanjali land row, Muttemwar sticks to his guns
Nagpur: Jolted by the pointed posers by former Union Minister Vilas Muttemwar over land allotment to Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Food and Herbal Park at MIHAN, the Union Surface Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Baba Ramdev and Acharya...