Crawling Coal Scam Probe : CBI files progress report, next hearing on Jan 29
Nagpur. Going remarkably slow on the probe against a private firm and three people in the multi-crore coal block allocation scam, CBI has inched further on Friday and submitted a progress report before special CBI court in New Delhi. Surprisingly CBI...
Mild earthquake rattles Nagbhid town, no loss of property or casualties reported; GSI notified
Nagpur: Panic and chaos reigned at feverish pitch when a mild earthquake hit Nagbhid town in Chandrapur District on Friday morning. However, no destruction of property or human casualties were reported in the tremors. The local authorities lacked the necessary...
Development of Vidarbha is possible, but only after separate state, say region’s 44 BJP MLAs
Nagpur. The wide spectrum issues concerning Vidarbha finally got under sharp focus with Legislative Assembly taking up the discussion and members of almost all parties raising one or the other point of interest during the Winter Session being held in...
Mallikarjuna Kharge owns Rs 50,000 cr assets across cities including Nagpur, alleges plaint
Nagpur. Amidst the chilling cold weather that has gripped the nation, trouble has shivered down on senior Congress leader Mallikarjuna Kharge who is under Lokayukta scanner for allegedly possessing property worth Rs 50,000 crore in country’s many cities including Nagpur. The...
Lt. Gen Ashok Singh reviews guards regiment, passing out parade at Kamptee
Lieutenant General Ashok Singh PVSM AVSM SM VSM ADC, GOC-in-C, Southern Command reviewing the Passing Out Parade at The Brigade of the Guards, Kamptee on 19 Dec 2014. Brig Satish N Wasade, Commandent of GRC, was the presenting officer...
Nagpur’s temperature dips to 6.6 degree; Cold wave may weaken in coming days
View of Nagpur on Friday Morning Nagpur: Entire Vidarbha region including Nagpur is in the grip of shivering cold wave with Nagpur recording the season’s lowest temperature of 6.6 degree Celsius on Friday morning. There has been a significant decline in...
Water supply timings in Laxmi Nagar Zone to be rescheduled
NMC-OCW to start rehabilitation of 41-year aged Laxmi Nagar (Old) ESR soon Nagpur: Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) and Orange City Water (OCW) have jointly planned to (strengthen) rehabilitate, 41-year old Laxmi Nagar (Old) ESR (constructed in year 1963) , in a...
Nagpur, Vidarbha remarkably missing from questions being raised in assembly
Nagpur. The day Winter Session of Maharashtra Legislature got off to a start on December 8 the Question Hour in Legislative Assembly was being mocked by MLAs from Nagpur and Vidarbha as well by raising negligible issues. On Thursday (December 18),...
Katol cops bust inter-state gang of motorcycle stealers, arrest 15 members, recover 35 bikes
Nagpur. A Special Squad of Katol Police in Nagpur Rural tasted a major success when it busted an inter-state gang of motorcycle lifters and arrested 15 members. The cops have recovered more than 35 motorcycles of different companies worth Rs...
Reforms in curriculum should not been as bid to saffronize education, says Minister Tawde
The Education Minister Vinod Tawde announced in Assembly that the negative marking in medical CET will be stopped forthwith. Nagpur. The Education Minister Vinod Tawde on Thursday replied to the marathon discussion held Legislative Assembly under Rule 293 over the issue of...
Marathi daily’s Editorial deriding State farmers draws severe flak from all Assembly members
Nagpur: The Editorial published in a Marathi Daily ‘Loksatta’ on December 16 that mocked at the present agonizing condition of farmers and villagers drew a severe flak from Assembly members across the party lines. As soon as the Editorial was read...
CRY facilitates children speaking on their rights with state government in city
Nagpur. At a time when the world is seething in anger against pro Taliban forces which wrecked a havoc into lives of many of the parents who lost their kids in the inhuman and barbaric attack on school in Peshawar, back...
Best selected logo of ‘Orange City Craft Mela,’ being organized by SCZCC in city, unveiled
Nagpur: The logo of ‘Orange City Craft Mela,’ being organized by South Central Zone Cultural Centre (SCZCC) was unveiled on Thursday (December 18). The best selected logo was unveiled by Valsa Nayar Singh, Principal Secretary, Culture Department, Maharashtra State, who...
AAP leader slams a Marathi daily for terming the farmers’ outcry & their suicides as bogus
Nagpur: The local unit of Aam Admi Party (AAP) launched a scathing attack on a Marathi daily for mocking at the distressed farmers and terming their problems and suicides as bogus. “The Marathi daily ‘Loksatta’ in its Editorial on Page...
Man receives burn injuries, 2 vehicles reduced to ashes as fire breaks out in basement of flats
Nagpur: One person received severe burn injuries and two vehicles were reduced to ashes when a fire broke out in the basement of a flat scheme in the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday. The fire reportedly broke out in an electricity meter. According...
Industries should be offered easy Exit policies too: Govind Daga
Nagpur: With new governments everywhere - in Delhi and Mumbai - development and industrialization have become the new mantras. The young Chief Minister of our state wants to offer ease of starting industries and one window facilities for new entrepreneurs....
7 protesters arrested for blocking road traffic, harassing vehicle owners and heckling cops
Nagpur: Sitabuldi police have arrested seven protesters participating in a morcha on the charges blocking vehicular traffic, harassing vehicle owners and heckling policemen. The arrested protesters thus violated the terms and conditions of permission given to take out the morcha. According...
Shiv Sena MLA Harshavardhan Jadhav ‘assaults’ cop when Stopped from meeting Uddhav
Nagpur: Police registered a case against Shiv Sena MLA Harshavardhan Jadhav for allegedly slapping an inspector posted outside the room of party president Uddhav Thackeray in a city hotel on Wednesday. Jadhav, an MLA from Kannad in Marathwada, was reportedly trying to...
Council stalled on Leader of Opposition ; govt won’t interfere, says Fadnavis
Nagpur: The stalemate on non-appointment of a Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra legislative council, even ten days after the commencement of the winter session, on Wednesday intensified when Congress and NCP members again stalled the proceedings seeking an immediate...
Maharashtra Govt to include manufacturing sectors in new investor-friendly ITES policy
Nagpur. The new ITES policy of Maharashtra Government will go extra investor-friendly with the inclusion of manufacturing sectors related to IT and telecommunications in it. The new Information Technology Enabled Services (ITES) policy is to be implemented from April next year...
Platinum Jubilee School, Gadchiroli pays homage to students killed in terror attack in Peshawar
Nagpur. Platinum Jubilee School, Gadchiroli strongly condemned the most dastard terror attack on a Peshawar school in Pakistan by Taliban extremists. The Taliban terrorists even did not spare the innocent students. The cowardly attack left 132 students dead. To pay homage to...
