Nagpur jewellery traders celebrate Gudi Padwa as black day
Loss of business worth crores of rupees Nagpur: This year, the citizens of Nagpur are going to spend Gudi Padwa sans gold jewellery. Every year till date, Gudi Padwa had scores of women and families buying gold or silver jewellery from...
Crime branch nabs wicked vehicle thief
Nagpur: As they rightly say that criminals cannot escape the long arm of the law. Criminals can escape law only for a brief spell before which they are nabbed. In a similar incident, the Crime Branch of Nagpur Police succeeded...
Shani Shingnapur temple allows women inside inner sanctum
Shingnapur/Nagpur: After days of confrontation, the Shani Shingnapur trust today allowed women devotees to enter the sanctum sanctorum of the famous temple. Earlier today, dozens of male devotees broke barricades to enter the innermost area of the temple in violation...
Air Marshal RKS Shera takes over as SMSO, Maintenance Command, Nagpur
Nagpur: Air Marshal RKS Shera AVSM VSM takes over as Senior Maintenance Staff Officer at HQ Maintenance Command, Nagpur on 07 Apr 2016. Air Marshal Shera was commissioned in Aeronautical Engineering Electronics Branch of Indian Air Force on 05 Jan 1981....
HC slaps notices on RJIL Chairman Mukesh Ambani, Mpl Commissioner, CP, 10 others in 2-yr old girl’s tragic death
Nagpur: In a development having wide-ranging repercussions, the Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court has issued notices to 13 top notch personalities including Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, Municipal Commissioner, Commissioner of Police, Secretaries of Home and...
Proud of Kanhaiya, Khalid, Anirban, says Prof Saibaba
Nagpur: "I am proud of my students Kanhaiya Kumar, Umar Khalid and Anirban Bhattacharya, who are striving for the people of the country" beamed alleged naxal think-tank Prof G N Saibaba on Thursday, after his release from Central Prison on...
NMC’s much trumpeted mega AIDS Awareness, Hanuman Chalisa event flops
Nagpur: The much trumpeted mega event organised by Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) pertaining to mass awareness on fighting the dreaded AIDS turned out to a mega flop. All efforts of NMC to create a world record of sorts proved to...
When white-collared people’s representatives display a grand gesture to common people
Nagpur. The people’s representatives, in a show-off, tried to cover-up the flop show of Nagpur Municipal Corporation in organising the AIDS Awareness programme with a “grand gesture.” During the even, a power point presentation was being done by doctors. The sitting arrangement...
Cops raid Shatayu Naturopathy Clinic at Ravinagar Sq, bust sex racket; 4 girls rescued
Nagpur: The Social Security Branch (SSB) of Crime Branch on Thursday raided a naturopathy clinic situated in a posh aprtment complex at Ravinagar Square and busted a sex racket being run covertly from the place. Four victimised girls have been...
Traffic department detains 29 errant auto-drivers, mini vehicles clogging roads
Nagpur: Cracking down on the auto-drivers and mini transport vehicles clogging the busy stretches of Nagpur, mainly Jhansi Rani Square and Variety Square, the Traffic Department on Thursday has brought to book may erring vehicles. Taking cognisance of the report published...
No Stay on First IPL match in Maharashtra
Nearly 60 lakh litres of water will be used for 20 IPL matches scheduled to be played in Maharashtra. Mumbai/Nagpur: First Match Of IPL To Be Held In Mumbai On Saturday, said Bombay High Court and have asked the Government to...
How can we help with drought relief in our state?
Nagpur: Not many living in cities like Mumbai, Pune, or even Nagpur, are aware that this summer of 2016 is going to be the worst ever for many rural families of Vidarbha and Marathwada due to the horrible drought that...
Property fraud # Two men duped of Rs 36 lakh on cheap housing bait!
Nagpur: Two men have been allegedly duped of Rs 35.72 lakhs by five people who allegedly committed fraud on the pretext of building and delivering cheaper houses under MIDC police station. The accused include Om Tarale, Smita Tarale, both residents of...
Activa with cash worth lakhs of rupees looted after injuring employees with iron rod
Nagpur: In what could be mentioned as sheer guts or daring by some unscrupulous elements, some goons had attacked two employees of a businessman with an iron rod in a movie style and drove away with his Honda Activa motorcycle...
Lover rapes teenaged girl in Seminary Hills
Nagpur: A teenaged girl has been repeatedly raped by her lover over a month in Seminary Hills area under Gittikhadan police station. The boy identified as Vaibhav Rajesh Chavan, 20, has reportedly raped the girl between the period from March 1...
Central Railway collects penal fine of Rs 13.6 crores in 299270 cases of various violations of Railway rules
Nagpur: Under the able guidance of Divisional Railway Manager O P Singh and under the leadership of Senior Divisional Commercial Manager K K Mishra, the Ticket Checking staff of Central Railway has tightened the noose on all kinds of offenders...
IPL Matches : Nagpur cricket fans cross handed over HC’s verdict!
Nagpur: As Bombay High Court is set to out with the verdict on whether IPL matches should be given permission in Maharashtra, anxious fans in Nagpur have trained their attention on the issue as they desperately await this season of the...
Does NMC fend for corrupt contractor, making registration hell for others?
Nagpur: The thread of corruption appears to be far from being broken in Nagpur Municipal Corporation, as the civic officials have deliberately kept digitally advanced transparent systems at bay and sticking to manual process to have their ‘way’! Sources alleged that...
Youth Congress to undertake 4-day Samvidhan Sanrakshan Jyoti Yatra from April 8 to 11
Nagpur. Maharashtra Unit of Youth Congress is undertaking a 4-day Samvidhan Sanrakshan Jyoti Yatra with the theme Mahatma to Ambedkar to mark 125th birth anniversary of Bharat Ratna Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. The Yatra will commence from Sewagram in Wardha District on...
RTI expose: 110 Star Buses out of 470 grounded and gathering rust
Nagpur: The shabby public transport system in the Second Capital City of Nagpur, with a population of 30 lakh plus, could be gauged from the fact that out of 470 bus being run by Nagpur Municipal Corporation 110 buses have...
Gudi Padwa and brides to go without gold jewellery this year!
PM cancels meet with jewellers: Strike slated to continue for next 90 days Nagpur: The jewellers and artisans had requested a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on April 6, 2016, in order to request him to roll back the imposition...
