First City Mihan – why the haste to come to the builders’ rescue Mr. C.M. and Mr. Gadkari?
Nagpur: First City as many in Nagpur know was one of the most prestigious and talked about residential 'city' schemes slated to come up within MIHAN itself. Reatox Builders had bagged the scheme in 2008, promising to hand over the...
Helmets replaces seat belts!! Now traffic cops belt out challans for 7488 four-wheelers in Nagpur
Nagpur: There seems to be no end in sight for the surprises the traffic cops are belting out to the unaware vehicle drivers in Nagpur! After the helmet it was turn for the seat belts to cause some worry lines...
Chief Minister Fadnavis’ Wife Amruta Gets Necklace ‘Out Of Thin Air’, draws criticism
Amruta Fadnavis is seen with Guruvanand Swami, who whisked the necklace allegedly out of thin air. Mumbai/Nagpur: Pictures of Amruta Fadnavis, wife of the Maharashtra Chief Minister, is drawing criticism because it shows her accepting a gold necklace from a...
Defeated by vigilant Indians , Facebook: 0, Net Neutrality: 1
Net Neutrality upheld by TRAI Nagpur: When our prime minister, Narendra Modi went to the US last September and had his 'blockbuster' public meetings, he had also met Mark Zuckerberg , Founder of Facebook, in Menlo Park. The venue of the...
Hell broke loose : Helmet scare grips commuters in Nagpur, over 2k riders face challans
Nagpur: As the State Government has announced to start pilot programme with immediate effect in Nagpur, Pune and Aurangabad to make helmet compulsory for two-wheeler riders along with pillion, the commuters in Nagpur had to face bitter action on Monday. The...
The Lost Glory: Nagpur’s Kasturchand Park marred by events, vehicles posing serious safety concerns!
Ariel View of KP Ground on Sunday afternoon Nagpur: Kasturchand Park in Nagpur has always been at the helm of affairs, often crowded with host of events round the year. However the venue has equally become the centre stage for...
Are Designer Babies the next ‘bazaar commodity’?
Eugenics is steppingstone to Genetically Modified babies which is the future of consumer based eugenics. But this raises serious concerns over shaky moral platform that promise genetic modifications to ameliorate. How is it better than the theories of Negative or...
A Sci-fi interplanetary love story – being filmed in Wardha!
We were invited to watch the shooting of a Sci-fi film that sounded interesting. It was being made with the latest studio wizardry available - and would be on par with a Hollywood movie of this genre, we were told. The...
HC notice to top NMC boss over running of sonography, physiotherapy centres from flats
Nagpur: The Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court issued a notice to Municipal Commissioner after hearing a petition objecting running of a sonography and physiotherapy centres in Indora-based residential apartment. The centre is located in Karamsheel Apartment in the area. The...
Now, city needs an officer of T Chandrashekhar’s caliber to turn it a ‘Smart City’
Chorus is growing to bring back the mercurial officer and the lost glory of the Second Capital City of Nagpur as well. Nagpur: Embarrassment has been heaped in tons. Beating has been taken severely. Many faces have been left red-faced. And...
Newly built cement road bares its ugly face and ‘corrupt’ affairs in NMC, too
Nagpur: The shabby affairs being run in Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) have comer to the fore again, as anticipated. The speed in which the NMC announced construction of a network of cement roads left the citizens amazed. And the speed...
HC raps cops, orders to deposit Rs 10 lakh in suspicious death case of engineering student
Nagpur: Taking the dismal police probe into suspicious death of a student of Ramdeobaba Engineering College seriously, the Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court has ordered the Home Department and Nagpur police to deposit Rs 10 lakh before January 31. The...
Nagpur Today impact: NMC puts ‘blanket ban’ on auctioning of tenders manually
Nagpur: Acting swiftly on Nagpur Today expose and subsequently putting a “blanket ban” on auctioning of tenders manually, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation seems to have resorted to damage-control exercise. The scenario in the civic body was not less than an...
Are tenders worth crores being ‘auctioned manually’ in e-governed NMC?
Nagpur: With the dumping of Second Capital City of Nagpur from the coveted list of ‘Smart Cities,’ sarcastic words have started taking rounds. “Is this Smart City…….. No-not-never….” And for this sarcasm the major blame goes to shoddy affairs being...
Faulty DPR submitted by NMC cost Nagpur position in Smart Cities
Nagpur: While Nagpur citizens are still reeling under the shock of not having been included in the smart city list put up by the Central Urban Ministry, here is another fact that will stun everyone. Not only have we lost the...
Dead Palm trees on road dividers: An accident waiting to occur
Nagpur: Our Nagpur city’s civic administration Nagpur Municipal Corporation in their haste to appease the visiting ministers, MLA and guests of the city had planted trees on road dividers between RBI Square and LIC square. These Road dividers are so...
Is KP Ground becoming an MP bus-stand?
Nagpur: Apart from beggars and vendors defacing and dirtying one of the land-marks of the city Kasturchand Park Ground, Private Bus Operators of buses ferrying passengers to Madhya Pradesh have joined the band-wagon. Men, women, children of the Pardhi tribe who...
Maharashtra’s first solar power operated water supply plant commissioned in Nagpur
Nagpur: The first solar power operated mini-water supply plant of Maharashtra has been commissioned in Hingna village of Mouda Taluka in Nagpur district. The major objective of the plant is to facilitate villagers to get pure water supply for a very...
Is exercise to fill up plum posts in various Boards on the cards?
Relinquishing of City BJP President’s post by Krishna Khopde is a clear signal that he may be accommodated in Fadnavis Ministry or could be Chairman of a Board, soon. Nagpur: Is it a hint that Cabinet reshuffle and appointments on various...
Nagpur Today impact: Cops crackdown on thriving sex trade in newer areas
Nagpur: Alerted by the Nagpur Today report on the thriving prostitution profession being carried out slyly at the stretch from Laxmi Talkies to Anand Talkies in city, the higher police officials to the matter seriously and ordered a crackdown on...
With ‘Jai Ho’ chant, these kids add patriotic frenzy, in colourful style!
Nagpur: The chill in the air notwithstanding, they wore broad smiles on their faces. Excitement and exasperation as well. As the traffic slows down at major squares across the Second Capital City of Nagpur, a kid comes hopping by with...
