Election fever in NMC Contractors Association rising
Nagpur: As the date for elections in the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) Contractors Welfare Association is nearing, the electoral fever is on the rise and various electoral strategies by the contestant groups are being worked out. While one group is...
Yakub Memon’s hanging on July 30 likely to be deferred as he challenges death warrant in SC
Nagpur: While the jail authorities in Nagpur are busy making arrangements for sending Yakub Memon, a Mumbai serial blast guilty, to gallows, his lawyers have been trying every bit to save him from the claws of death. After President rejected...
Rains resume after long break, Experts say it’s going to stay this time!
Nagpur: After long wait of over a month, rains on Thursday brought respite to Nagpurians. Many parts of Vidarbha received very light to heavy rainfall. The city received 5.4 mm rainfall around three hours late in the afternoon after a...
Mild tremors of 2.8 intensity hit Gondia; Houses develop cracks, people hit panic button
Nagpur: Invading apparently safer territory in terms of earth's fury, a mild earthquake measuring 2.8 on Richter scale wreaked panic across Gondia, a neighbouring district of Nagpur, late Thursday evening. No casualty has been reported so far, however couple of...
“Do not accept NMC budget 2015-16”: Unions to NMC Commissioner
Nagpur: A joint delegation of Nagpur Municipal Corporation Employees Union, Nagpur MC Evajdar Sangathana and Nagpur MC Theka Kamdar Sangathana met the NMC commissioner Shravan Hardikar on July 23 and handed him a memorandum urging him not to accept the...
Craze for auspicious number: 9999- Rs 1.5 lakh!
Nagpur: Citizens are growing crazier and crazier in the city these days when it comes to choosing the registration number of their vehicles from RTO office. Can you believe that the RTO office in the city sold out the registration...
13 typical ‘Nagpur Students’ at your scan, on first day of college
Nagpur Today: The best days of our academic life are surely those spent at college. Especially the rudimentary memories, when we entered the college for the very first time! And, how can one forget, the variety in idiosyncrasies most individual...
Maharashtra picks activist to solve agrarian crises
File Pic : Kishore Tiwari, president Vidarbha Jan Andolan Samiti Nagpur: In a surprising development, the Maharashtra government has decided to appoint a prominent farmers' activist to head a panel to curb farmland suicides and recommend agro-reforms. Tentatively named 'Farmers Distress...
Freedom Fighters to file their pension-papers
Nagpur: All freedom fighters of Nagpur district are advised to file their pension-papers with the collectorate, informed a DIO press release, notifying that in many cases the papers have not yet been submitted to freedom fighter cell in the collectorate. The...
“Jo bhi kiya soch samajhkar kiya”, utters Yakub Memon; Family visits Nagpur to see him for last time
Nagpur News: While the Nagpur jail authorities have made arrangements to send the dreaded 1993 serial blast guilty Yakub Memon to gallows, he has started accepting the fact that he has to die for his misdeeds. However, he has stopped eating...
‘Masaan’ film’s Promoter Director claims the movie to be different
Nagpur: In spite of living in the 21st century, widespread casteism prevails in our society. Many speak about a change in the thinking, breaking all barriers of caste, religion etc when it comes to interpersonal relationships, or romantic relationships etc....
3-member committee for study of power loss
Nagpur: Mahavitaran Company has appointed a 3-member committee to assess the loss of electricity during power distribution and electricity consumed by agriculture-pumps. The committee will submit its detailed report by December 31, 2015. The state government provides grant to agriculture-pump holders...
Watch out for birds in distress this season
Nagpur: When we were out for a walk in VNIT campus and in fact admiring all the avian beauty and variety on view, we got a call from my mother. "Where are you? Come quickly, a black and white Robin...
Young woman jumps to death with her 2-year-old in Ambazari Lake
Body of child fished out, search on for woman’s body Nagpur: In another sad event, a young woman along with her 2 year-old daughter committed suicide by jumping into Ambazari Lake in the afternoon of July 22, 2015. According to police...
Yakub Memon’s Delhi lawyer Shubail Farook submitted fake I-card to meet him at Nagpur jail!
Nagpur: In a major twist to the ongoing drama on the death sentence to dreaded 1993 Mumbai Serial blast guilty Yakub Memon, it came out that the so called lawyer Shubail Farook who air dashed in Nagpur from Delhi does not...
‘Our priority is to provide better basic amenities to passengers’: GM SECR
Nagpur: The newly appointed General Manager of South East Central Rly, Satyendra Kumar paid his official visit to Nagpur on July 22. It is his first ever visit to Nagpur after taking over the charge of General Manager SECR. During his...
AAP strengthening its organization across nation
Nagpur: Aam Admi Party is strengthening its organizational set up across the country. Consequently, the active AAP workers have been entrusted the organizational responsibility all over the country. According to AAP national general secretary and in-charge of Maharashtra affiars, Pankaj Gupta,...
Yakub’s story – what is the message his hanging will send?
Nagpur: What will Yakub really die for? Has his culpability in the crimes he is accused of,been proved beyond doubt? If he had indeed engineered the blasts, would he have come back to India from a cushy life in Pakistan...
‘All BJP associates must be respected’: Saroj Pande
BJP national general secretary and in-charge of Maharashtra affairs, Saroj Pande Nagpur: "The feelings of the associates to Bharatiya Janata Party should be duly respected in all sense and term," said BJP national general secretary and in-charge of Maharashtra affairs,...
Smart City Nagpur may be far-fetched dream, thanks to cash strapped NMC, shoddy works
Nagpur: Nagpur citizens may have been amused by the Prime Minister Narenda Modi’s recent announcement of inclusion of city in his pet Smart City project, but the stark reality lies far from realizing this dream, thanks to the non-preparedness of...
Local entrepreneurs should look beyond Nagpur : Chandru
Nagpur: Chandru Iyer, International Business Director, Kingston Smith LLP, called upon the local entrepreneurs to look beyond Nagpur, while addressing a large gathering at VIA Hall . He was delivering a talk on “Internationalization of business – A buzz word for...
