Smart City Project : 11,000 structures to be razed in Nagpur
Nagpur: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation will be organising a heading on Town Planning Scheme prepared for 1730 acres of land in four areas of Bharatwada Punapur, Pardi and Bhandewadi for area based development under the Smart City project on February...
Indian Fire Service Games-2018 to begin on Feb 2
Nagpur: Indian Fire Service Games – 2018 are being organised for the first time in the country and will be held at Nagpur, National Fire Service College (New Campus) and Divisional Sports Complex. The games will be conducted under the...
Kishore Tiwari hails budget as farmers gain, says will bring smile on ryots faces
Nagpur: Arun Jaitely has taken extra efforts to bring smiles on the face of farmers by announcing Minimum Support Price (MSP) more than 50 per cent of the cost of production in other words, one and a half times of...
Bharosa Cell, a blessing for distressed women
Nagpur: Integrated Multiagency Centre (Bharosa Cell), a brain child of Police Commissioner Dr K Venkatesham started for distressed women has completed one year of its existence. This cell has all the facilities under one roof, like police help, counselling, legal...
Satish Chaturvedi may be suspended from Cong for anti-party activities
Nagpur: Senior Congress leader Satish Chaturvedi who has been inactive at the organisational level is likely to be suspended for atleast six years for indulging in anti-party activities, reliable sources revealed. It may be mentiond that Chaturvedi was always given...
A balanced budget with agriculture, healthcare, rural folks, education winners
Nagpur: The Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Lok Sabha on Thursday evoked positive reactions from experts in the city. Vidarbha Economic Development Council (VED) hailed the budget as a very balanced one that is designed to bring...
Retired female teacher murdered in Amravati, six youths arrested
Nagpur/Amravati: Tension ran high in Jalaram Nagar area of Amravti when a retired female teacher was murdered brutally when she was alone in her house on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Shailaja Omprakash Nilange (61).She was found strangulated...
Man ‘lifts’ young woman from Eternity Mall, rapes her in hotel
Nagpur: A 30-year old man allegedly “lifted” a young woman from Sitabuldi-based Eternity Mall and raped her in a hotel. The accused rapist has reportedly been arrested. The incident, though, took place in October 2017 but the complaint was registered...
Woman, her relatives take possession of Alankar Talkies forcibly with forged lease agreement
Nagpur: In a curious incident, a woman, her three cousin brothers and 5-6 other persons stormed Alankar Talkies and took possession of the theatre forcibly by forging a lease agreement. The wee hour drama was enacted on January 12. 2018...
4 duped job seekers abduct man from hotel in Ganeshpeth
Nagpur: Four unidentified youths, apparently duped job seekers, entered a hotel and abducted a man who had promised them government employment. Whereabouts of the kidnapped man are not known. Cops have launched a search him as well as the four...
People queue up at Raman Science Centre to view lunar eclipse
Nagpur: A large gathering gathered at Raman Science Centre, Nagpur to witness the much awaited event of total Lunar Eclipse. Though Lunar eclipse is not the event to look through Telescope, people were waiting in a long queue to view...
Mid-day meals’ funds bungled, Edn Deptt serves notice to school principal
Nagpur: Zilla Parishad Education Officer (Primary) Dipendra Lokhande as per the orders of Education Department has served a notice to the Principal of St Ursula Girls' High School, Civil Lines directing her to immediately pay Rs 20 lakh at the...
Kuchipudi dance ruled Nagpurians’ hearts
Nagpur: Classical dance and music have the ability to impact people's minds and souls. And when all the age groups come together to showcase the purest form of abhinaya, bhava and nritya, there is nothing but a feeling quite divine...
Flats constructed on disputed land, owners given illegal power connections
Nagpur: Fariyaz Hotel Private Limited Company situated at Khamla which constructed residential flats is alleged to given power connection to the flat owners without the permission of MSEDCL. As per the RTI information the power distribution company had given just...
Heady problem: Kirana shops, in thousands, found selling tobacco products freely
File Pic Nagpur: With rapid expansion of Second Capital City of Nagpur and the boom in population, grocery (kirana) stores mushroomed at every nook and corner in gigantic proportions. No problem as such. The kirana stores are part and parcel...
NMC going to dogs yet administration cool
Nagpur: The Nagpur Municipal Corporations administration seems to be going haywire. The retired employees, officials and contractors looking after the development works is pending since long due to continuous negligence and has been going on increasing The new corporators and...
Veteran BJP leader Dr MM Joshi holds talks with top RSS brass in city
Nagpur: Veteran BJP leader and former Union HRD Minister Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, who arrived in Nagpur on Tuesday evening from New Delhi, had a lengthy deliberation with top functionaries of RSS at its Mahal-based Headquarters on Wednesday morning. Dr Joshi...
Notorious vehicle lifter nabbed by Shantinagar cops, 4 bikes seized
Nagpur: Shantinagar police, acting on inputs and painstaking investigations, nabbed a notorious vehicle lifter and seized four stolen motorcycles from his possession. With the arrest more cases of vehicle thefts could be solved. The arrested accused has been identified as Mohd...
Alert traffic cops avert Piyush Khode like fatal mishap at Indora Square
Nagpur: Alarmed over a heart-rending incident in which a 12-year old Piyush Shrikant Ghode was killed on the spot when tin sheets loaded in a mini truck cut his throat. The spine-chilling mishap had occurred on Monday evening in Hudkeshwar...
Subhash Shahu murder case: Main accused Lucky Khan convicted
Nagpur: Delivering judgement in bizarre Subhash Shahu murder case, the District and Sessions Court on Wednesday convicted the main accused gangster-turned-Bollywood wannabe Nadeem Sheikh alias Lucky Khan. The court has, however, acquitted another accused Gamchu Lambat for want of sufficient...
Show cause notice to Chaturvedi brings two factions of City Congress in sparring ring
Nagpur: Serving show cause notice to former minister Satish Chaturvedi for anti-party activities has brought two factions of City Congress in sparring ring. The ‘war of attrition’ is likely to see the two warring groups at loggerheads in coming days...

