Vidarbha Joint Action Committee steps in for separate state, gheraos Muttemwar’s office

Nagpur News: About 200 members of newly formed Vidarbha Joint Action Committee – a cluster of various social and political organizations has moved forward to press for statehood to Vidarbha. Kicking off their campaign for the cause, the members on...

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By Nagpur Today On Sunday, January 13th, 2013

Three men go missing in city

Nagpur News: Three men have gone mysteriously missing from their homes in the past week, in three separate, unrelated incidents. Nagpur police has sent out photographs of the three, and...

By Nagpur Today On Sunday, January 13th, 2013

Woman molested in her own home

Nagpur News: The kind gesture of giving water to an unknown passerby had unfair, unwarranted repercussions for a young woman living in Lakadganj, as the very stranger she agreed to give water to came into her house and took undue...

By Nagpur Today On Sunday, January 13th, 2013

Private city schools shying away from RTE implementation

Nagpur News: Right to education (RTE) Act makes the provision of education to poor and backward class children compulsory, but the children are not getting the benefit from this act. Certain big private schools in the city are taking the...

By Nagpur Today On Sunday, January 13th, 2013

Electricity inspection fee abolished in state 2 years after Central Govt’s order!

Nagpur News: The inspection fee charged against inspection of various power plants has been abolished, benefiting the commercial and industrial power consumers across the state including Nagpur to large extent. However, the Central Government had eliminated the levy about two years back...

By Nagpur Today On Sunday, January 13th, 2013

MAD Dream Camp for underprivileged children

Nagpur News: The Nagpur chapter of MAD (Make A Difference) is organising a dream camp for underprivileged from the 30th Jan to 1st Feb at SAHAS, near Wadgaon Dam, Wardha Road. It is a 2 day outbound camp, with physical activities, lectures...

By Nagpur Today On Sunday, January 13th, 2013

Twelfth Night- a review

William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” is essentially a combination of knowing wit, crude hilarity, romance and heartbreak. In their attempt to do justice to the play in their anniversary production, Stagecraft...

By Nagpur Today On Sunday, January 13th, 2013

Bigg Boss 6 Super Grand Finale winner is….Urvashi Dholakia!!!!!

Nagpur News: As the sixth edition of controversial reality TV show ‘Bigg Boss’, hosted by superstar Salman Khan, drew to a close; Urvashi Dholakia, Imam Siddique, Niketan Madhok and Sana Khan were the ones who made it to...

By Nagpur Today On Saturday, January 12th, 2013

To give expensive gifts to girlfriend, youth took to crime

Nagpur News: An eighteen-year-old boy who was nabbed with his minor friend for allegedly committing a burglary at his own apartment confessed that he took to crime to get money only to give expensive gifts to his girlfriend. Dhiraj...

By Nagpur Today On Saturday, January 12th, 2013

VK Singh in Nagpur says Jawan killings-Govt should harden its stand

Nagpur News : Condemning the brutal killing of two Indian soldiers by Pakistani forces along the Line of Control, former Army Chief General VK Singh on Saturday said here that the government should harden its stand on the issue, as...

By Nagpur Today On Saturday, January 12th, 2013

Organised Octroi theft at Nagpur railway station- Aggarwal

Nagpur News: Regional under- secretary of the Farmers and Agricultural Labourers unit of the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) has alleged an organised Octroi- theft racket of the goods and parcels freighted...

By Nagpur Today On Saturday, January 12th, 2013

Skaters welcomed into city by Mayor

  Nagpur News: The skating rally organised by Nagpur Municipal Corporation to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda has reached Khapri. All the young skaters were greeted and congratulated there by Mayor Anil Sole, ruling party leader...

By Nagpur Today On Saturday, January 12th, 2013

FICCI roped in Advantage Vidarbha to bring big investors, Hopes rest on all party meet

Nagpur News : With all the hype and series of discussions regarding Advantage Vidarbha, the upcoming event now seems to be striking the right chord to plug in big time investors for industrial development of the region. The preparations for...

By Nagpur Today On Saturday, January 12th, 2013

Nagpurites to get 10% ethanol in petrol from March 1, State Govt okays implementation

Nagpur News: The state government has approved the recommendations of mixing 10 percent ethanol in petrol being sold across petrol pumps in Maharashtra. The decision, to be implemented from March 1, was taken owing to the pressure from oil companies...

By Nagpur Today On Saturday, January 12th, 2013

Kanyakumari- Nagpur skaters cross Butibori, reach city today

 

Nagpur News: The skaters have crossed Butibori, and are nearing Khapri Naka. The rally started from Pandharkawda at 10:00 am in morning after taking darshan at the Jagadamba Devi Sanstha, Kelapur. The rally moved on its way...

By Nagpur Today On Saturday, January 12th, 2013

Stark discrepancies in police investigation of Khamla betting scandal

Nagpur News: While four people were caught by Sakkardara Police in their raid on a betting centre in Khamla yesterday, only three are currently in police custody. The fourth was released by the police on the spot, and money has...

By Nagpur Today On Saturday, January 12th, 2013

NMC plumbers lose employment, take to the streets

Nagpur News: Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) had privatised drinking water last year, under the Central Government’s Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). Then in a sudden move, it relieved from its services a number of licensee plumbers who had...

By Nagpur Today On Saturday, January 12th, 2013

Kailash Kher, Manoj Tiwari to add melody to Nagpur Utsav, Shivmani to rock with fusion

Nagpur News. Nagpur Municipal Corporation is all set to organise Nagpur Utsav from January 23 to 28, where in Bollywood’s rustic styled playback singer Kailash Kher and Bhojpuri singer Manoj Tiwari would add some moments of melody. Internationally...

By Nagpur Today On Saturday, January 12th, 2013

Ex-corporator, corporator’s brother-in-law booked for dacoity

Nagpur News: City police chief K K Pathak’s initiative to introduce additional patrolling vehicles at 23 police stations to prevent crime and public safety seems to have started showing...

By Nagpur Today On Saturday, January 12th, 2013

The moods and hues of Twelfth Night

Nagpur News: Nagpur Today got the golden opportunity to sneak into the dress rehearsals of Stagecraft Theatre’s 50th production- Twelfth Night. We won’t say (or write) a word, however, for fear of spoiling the experience. What we can promise you...

By Nagpur Today On Friday, January 11th, 2013

Two arrested in Gawande murder case

Nagpur News: Two men caught red- handed on CCTV footage from the Seven Hills Bar have been arrested by the Sakkardara police for the brutal murder of property dealer Rajendra Maratro Gawande last night. The arrested are Tushar Sahabrao Dalal (31)...