Task is cut out for new Municipal Commissioner as challenges galore in NMC
Nagpur: For the newly appointed Municipal Commissioner Virendra Singh, his maiden journey in the Nagpur Municipal Corporation would not be a smooth one. In fact, the journey would be bumpy one. The local body currently facing more than one problems...
MH-CET begins hassle free but scorching heat tests students, parents
Nagpur: The Maharashtra Common Entrance Test (MH-CET) commenced hassle free on Thursday across 151 centres under Nagpur Region of Joint Director, Technical Education. Over 50,000 students appeared for the exam. However, the students and parents as well faced another endurance...
Mohinidevi Vyas passes away
Nagpur: Mohinidevi Vyas, mother of Nag Vidarbha Chamber of Commerce (NVCC) Vice President Raju Vyas, Suresh Vyas and Anand Vyas (Corporator), passed away at 12 noon on Thursday, May 10, at Jaisalmer, Rajasthan. She was 78. Her last rites will be...
Adv Uke demands immediate transfer of Divisional Commissioner Anoop Kumar
Nagpur: Adv Satish M Uke, who has been in the headlines for one ‘dubious’ reason or another, has now demanded immediate transfer of Nagpur Divisional Commissioner Anoop Kumar as per Model Code of Conduct in view of Lok Sabha bypoll...
Four car-borne youths vandalise ST bus, beat driver, conductor at Somalwada
Nagpur: Four car-borne youngsters on Wednesday vandalised a State Transport bus at Somalwada Square and also assaulted the driver and conductor of the bus over unspecified reasons. The four miscreants are being searched on the basis of car registration number. The...
‘Notorious’ couple dupes two more women in Sakkardara
Nagpur: The ‘notorious’ couple who seems to have gone cheating spree has been booked by Sakkardara police for allegedly duping two more women to the tune of Rs 1.35 lakh. A resident of Laxmi Apartment, Dattatray Nagar, Madhuri Prashant Dongre (45),...
Minor girl raped by relative, abandoned when she becomes pregnant
Nagpur: In a bizarre incident, a 17-year old girl was raped repeatedly by a close relative with marriage promise but was deserted when she became pregnant. The victimised girl had come to her elder sister’s house for her help as...
Maha Metro Nagpur adopts Heat Action Plan
Nagpur: In view of scorching heat, Maha Metro Nagpur has started implementation of Heat Action Plan. As per the plan, the labourers engaged in Metro Rail works will not work from 12 noon to 4 pm. Due to prevailing heat...
Rs 14 lakh looted near Ajni Square from Tajshree’s employee
Nagpur: Cash of Rs 14 lakh belonging to Tajshree Group was looted on Wednesday evening near Ajni Square garden by four goons, said Dhantoli police. The Accountant and cashier of Tajshree's Honda showroom at Deo nagar were on way to...
Two vehicle lifters arrested in Tehsil, Imambada
Nagpur: Acting on the confessional statement of a vehicle lifter, Tehsil police have seized 10 teo-wheelers, 10 engines of two-wheelers and five chassis of stolen two-wheelers. The accused Salim Abdul Rahim was detained under Sections 379, 411, 413 of the...
Hardcore goon banished from city for one year
Nagpur: The Deputy Commissioner of Police Zone 3 Rahul Maknikar has ordered externment of a notorious criminal Sayyed Arif alias Sanu Sayyed Sharafat (22) for a period of one year. The goon, resident of Bangali Panja, Laldarwaja, Tandapeth, was involved...
CIIMC students file ‘cheating’ case against Director Sunil Mishra
Nagpur: A group of 3rd year students of fashion designing and other courses of Central India Institute of Mass Communication’s (CIIMC) have lodged a police complaint against Director Sunil Mishra accusing him misguiding and cheating them. The students also accused...
A ‘special’ driver in NMC becomes babu!
Nagpur: In a last minute move, a Municipal Commissioner before demitting office reportedly signed a proposal appointing his car driver as a clerk in the Nagpur Municipal Corporation. The former Municipal Commissioner’s ‘grand gift’ to his driver has raised many...
Tigress, her two cubs go ‘missing’ from Tadgaon forest
File Pic Nagpur: In a worrying development, a tigress and her two cubs, who were regularly seen in Tadgaon forests of Mangrul sanctuary in Samudrapur tehsil, have gone ‘missing.’ The ‘missing’ tigers has put question mark over wildlife conservation being...
Youth, juvenile boy arrested in Rs 6 lakh burglary in Yashodhara Nagar
Representational Pic Nagpur: Acting on secret inputs, Yashodhara police have arrested a youth and detained a juvenile delinquent for their involvement in Rs 6 lakh burglary at the residence of a vegetable vendor in Indira Gandhi Nagar. Police have...
Santosh Kadwe awarded death rap in Yash Borkar kidnapping and murder case
Nagpur: Sending a strong message, the Nagpur Sessions Court on Wednesday awarded death penalty to Santosh Kadwe in Yash Borkar kidnapping and murder case. The Sessions Court had on Saturday, May 5, found Santosh Kadwe guilty of kidnapping and murdering 11-year...
Naxals torch 2 trucks, call for Gadchiroli bandh on May 10
Nagpur: Naxals torched two trucks near Gatta area and also called for a bandh in Gadchiroli district on May 10 to protest the killing of their 40 cadres in the two encounters at Boriya-Kasnasur and Nainer forests. According to police, three...
MIDC cops crack goon Shrikant Guhe’s murder, 8 accused nabbed
Nagpur: MIDC Police cracked the murder case in which a hardcore goon Shrikant Guhe was eliminated apparently in a revenge act on May 3. Cops have arrested eight accused in connection with the murder of Guhe. The murder was allegedly...
Robbers hijack Delhi-Chennai Garib Rath train, loot passengers in jungle
Nagpur/Betul: A long-distance air-conditioned train was hijacked and looted between Itarsi and Nagpur railway sections on Tuesday night. The robbers immobilised the Hazrat Nizamuddin—Chennai Central Garib Rath Express by chopping off its pressure pipe for nearly one hour around 3...
Tiwari demands ban on poisonous pesticides in State
Nagpur: Rattled by deaths of farmers due to inhaling of toxic pesticides in Vidarbha and other parts of state, the Chairman of Vasantrao Naik Sheti Swavalamban Mission Kishor Tiwari has demanded the Central Government to accept State Government’s proposal of...
Congress leader Amol Deshmukh requests for privacy and sanctity of family as father Ranjeet takes back FIR to evict him
Nagpur: Better sense seems to have prevailed and Ranjeet Deshmukh, former state Minister and two times President of MPCC has 'taken back' his FIR in which he had lodged a complaint against one of his sons for trespassing in his...
