Ashish Deshmukh questions Devendra Fadnavis over shifting of refinery project to Vidarbha
Nagpur: While speaking in Nagpur on Saturday, Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis had said that Vidarbha is not a coastal area that's why it is not possible to shift refinery project to Vidarbha from Konkan. But BJP MLA from Vidarbha, Ashish Deshmukh...
Machan census areas to remain closed for tourists
Nagpur: Those taking part in the 24-hour-long machan census, rechristened as ‘Nisarga Anubhav’, will have to give a fitness certificate from a registered practitioner that they are fit for the exercise. The exercise will be conducted over 768 machans in parks...
No relief from heatwave like conditions in Maharashtra; maintain adequate soil moisture
Nagpur: Heatwave conditions have clutched the state of Maharashtra so firm that the state has been baking under 45-degree plus temperature for the last many days. The weather of entire Maharashtra has been dry and temperatures in some districts of...
Dont use Tullu Pump or face stern leagal action or disconnection action
Nagpur: The scorching summer heat of Nagpur has been already hovering around 45 degree Celsius mark. Particularly in such heat wave condition that is Summer, it is often seen that some people start using (illegally) the Booster (Tullu) Pumps to...
Maharashtra to form international board for non-English schools to compete with CBSE, ICSE
Nagpur/Mumbai: The Maharashtra government will set up an education board for the non-English medium schools in the state, Education Minister Vinod Tawde said today. "The government has decided to form the Maharashtra International Education Board (MIEB) to prepare the syllabus for...
City’s bizman Arun Lakhani to contest MLC elections
Nagpur: Nagpur based famed industrialist Arun Lakhani will be contesting in the upcoming legislative council election for Wardha-Chandrapur-Gadchiroli seat from BJP and will be appointed as Member of Legislative council. Souces told Nagpur Today that his name came up as candidate...
Nana Patole not to contest Bhandara-Gondia LS bypolls
Nagpur/Gondia: Former MP Shishupal Patle of BJP and Vijay Shivankar of NCP will be contesting the next by-elections for the Bhandara-Gondia Lok Sabha seat. Patle, a former MP has been appointed on behalf of Nana Patole as he resigned from the...
‘Dance on Wheels’ drive audience to different level!
Nagpur: ‘Dance on wheels’ program organized by Chhatra Jagruti and Rajasthani Mahila Mandal at Suresh Bhat Auditorium on Sunday received a warm welcome by the Nagpurians. The event showed up the strong will, determination and talent of the specially abled...
The first look of Metro coach from China will mesmerize you
Nagpur: The mock up of Rolling Stock or metro rail coaches in layman's terms, being specially manufactured for Maha Metro Nagpur have reached advance stage. This is being manufactured at China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation Limited (CRRC) facility at Dalian,...
Refinery will not be shifted to Vidarbha: CM Fadnavis
NAGPUR: Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis while reacting to Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray’s remark on Nanar refinery, sarcastically said, state has to shift its sea in Vidarbha to fulfil Uddhav’s demand. Uddhav Thackeray had earlier last week said that the...
What role will the RSS play in the 2019 poll?
What happens when an ideological agenda comes up against the practicalities of governance? Only three outcomes are possible. In one, the ideologues oust the head of the government. In another, the head of the government ousts the ideologues. And in the third, the...
Weatherman warns of heat wave in Maharashtra over next 2 days
Representional Pic Nagpur: The India Meteorological Department today issued a heat wave alert over Rajasthan, west Madhya Pradesh, central Maharashtra and Vidarbha over the next two days. Dust storm along with thunderstorm is also likely over west Uttar Pradesh tomorrow, it...
Over 2,000 rounds fired to gun down 33 Naxals in last week’s
Nagpur: Security forces fired more than 2,000 rounds and more than 25 grenades to kill 33 Naxals during encounter which took place in Kasnasur forest in Tadgaon in Bhamragad tehsil of Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district on Sunday last. According to sources, Kasnasur...
NMC rejects traffic police’s proposal to tow wrongly parked vehicles
Nagpur: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has declined the traffic police’s proposal to jointly appoint a private operator for towing away wrongly parked vehicles. Traffic police has been asked to continue its operation alone. The standing committee on Friday rejected the...
MSEDCL to pay 2000 MW solar power, floats tenders
Nagpur: Switching to greener modes of power, Maharashtra electricity distribution company MSEDCL has decided to buy 2,000 MW for next 25 years. This power will come from new solar plants. At present, it buys 850 MW against the peak demand...
Coal scam: Court finds Ashok Daga guilty , to be taken into custody
Nagpur/New Delhi: A special court here today held Gondwana Ispat Ltd and its director guilty of cheating and criminal conspiracy to get a coal block in Maharashtra allocated to it. Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar, who was appointed exclusively to...
Illegal HT seeds : seizure drive to continue
Nagpur: The genetically modified variety of herbicide tolerant (HT) cotton seed continued flooding in the market. Though the state government had taken a strong stance against its proliferation, it has made its way through grey market. Ahead of sowing season...
Two murders in 12 hours rock Nagpur
Nagpur: Sensation prevailed in the city on Friday as two murders were reported in less than 12 hours raising serious question over the crime situation in Nagpur. Even as the concern over the murder of a man under Nandanvan police...
Heatwave tightens its grip over Maharashtra; irrigate summer crops
Nagpur: Heatwave conditions continued to prevail at isolated pockets of Vidarbha and parts of Marathwada. The temperatures are also settling above 40 degrees Celsius over almost all the districts of Vidarbha and Marathwada. On Thursday, Chandrapur recorded the maximum temperatures at...
MahaMetro trashes NMC’s 148 cr demand for Cotton Market complex
Nagpur: Maha Metro has decided to reject demands of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) regarding the Cotton Market mega commercial complex. NMC, which is the owner of the land, had demanded that the Metro agency pays Rs148 crore for the 21,700...
Employer molests woman on job promise
Nagpur: A woman applying for a job was allegedly molested by the prospective employer, who lured her into his flat on Wednesday at Sham Nagar. The accused, identified as Nitin Purohit, has been arrested by Beltarodi police after a complaint...
