Fire Department’s turn to show favour to Fariyas

Nagpur News: It was now the turn of Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s Fire Department to show favour to Fariyas.  Despite failing to meet stipulated norms as prescribed in the National Building Code (NBC) and Development Control Regulations (DCR), the Fire Department...

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By Nagpur Today On Monday, September 16th, 2013

Video of Shreesurya Group creates flutters

Nagpur News: The investment company circle went agog by a shocking and revealing video currently available on social media sites. The video, claimed to be sting operation done by media house  shows an office-bearer of Shreesurya Group explaining various investment schemes . However,...

By Nagpur Today On Monday, September 16th, 2013

Commissioner unhappy with Krazy Castle inquiry; seeks details on water goof up

Nagpur News. Unhappy over the shallow nature of inquiry he ordered into the alleged water goof up in the Krazy Castle premises, NMC Commissioner Shyam Wardhane has directed Water works head Azizur Rahman to get more details into the matter. Nagpur Today...

By Nagpur Today On Monday, September 16th, 2013

Sell Ads’s hoardings blind commuters, hide traffic signals at prominent squares in city

Nagpur News. Even as the dust over the alleged evasion of property tax for Futala kiosks by Sell Ads was yet to settle, the outdoor publicity and advertising company in Nagpur has been mired into another controversy. The agency which has been...

By Nagpur Today On Sunday, September 15th, 2013

NMC Commissioner orders probe into water goof up by Krazy Castle, officials go slow

Nagpur News: The recent expose over the alleged withdrawal of bulk quantity of water from the trunk line passing through the Krazy Castle premises and also transporting water filled tankers to other units of Haldiram’s for massive commercial use has sent...

By Nagpur Today On Saturday, September 14th, 2013

MSEDCL’s love for Fariyas

Nagpur News : Mumbai-based Fariyas Hotels seems to have a magic wand that makes government departments act like its stooges. In this case, the power distribution arm of the government, the MSEDCL has fallen prey to their wizardry. Otherwise, how...

By Nagpur Today On Friday, September 13th, 2013

Collector winks at brazen violation of his own orders on Fariyas Hotel

Nagpur News: Buyers opting for flats at Mumbai-based Fariyas Hotel’s sprawling residential project at Khamla may find themselves in deep trouble as the land in question is tangled in a fierce legal battle between...

By Nagpur Today On Wednesday, September 11th, 2013

Krazy Castle seeped NMC trunk line for water; Supplied to other commercial units in Nagpur

Water Tank outside Krazy Castle Nagpur News. Even as the controversy over the use of city’s renowned water park Krazy Castle for partying purpose has been bothering Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT) big time, another major blot cropped up from the basket...

By Nagpur Today On Saturday, September 7th, 2013

Are deserted structures, the dark, bushy areas in the GMCH turning havens for the criminals?

Nagpur News: The hundreds of rape incidents occurring daily across the nation have one thing in common. Almost 90 per cent perpetrators of rape, gang-rape were found under the influence of alcohol at the time of the assault....

By Nagpur Today On Friday, September 6th, 2013

NMC overlooks massive misuse of TDR in Nagpur; Builders brazenly violate rules

Nagpur News: Stark irregularities have cropped up in the practice of issuing Transfer of Development Rights, commonly called TDR, by Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) and Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT). Congress corporator Prafulla Gudadhe Patil raised the issue in the NMC’s last...

By Nagpur Today On Friday, September 6th, 2013

LIVE BEATING OF LAW: Drunken Maruti Swift car driver tries to crush a policeman to death

Nagpur News: The esteemed readers must have read a report flashed by Nagpur Today titled: “Drunken Maruti Swift car driver tries to crush the chasing policeman to death; arrested.” Now, Nagpur Today exclusively for its readers...

By Nagpur Today On Thursday, September 5th, 2013

Use of desi katta shoots up in Nagpur; Cops hint influx from Madhya Pradesh

Nagpur News. A strange trend in Nagpur’s crime scene is being observed these days, which has given sleepless nights to the city cops. The police are striving hard to decode the nexus that has exaggerated influx of country made pistols into...

By Nagpur Today On Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013

Scrap disposal scam hits NMC, scrap sold above the limit, at very low cost

The fresh scam pertains to sale of Traffic Department’s scrap. A total of 8000 kilograms of scrap was sold when the order was to sell only 6000 kilograms of scrap and that too at very low cost. Nagpur News: The Nagpur Municipal...

By Nagpur Today On Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013

Is massive corruption thriving in MSEDCL’s Nagpur Zone on plum postings, transfers?

An anonymous complaint received by Mahavitaran (MSEDCL) Headquarters has allegedly exposed massive corrupt practices over choicest postings and lucrative transfers. The written complaint received by the Managing Director of MSEDCL Ajay Mehta mentions the name of the top official who...

By Nagpur Today On Saturday, August 31st, 2013

Airtel commits glitch in Nagpur; hands over mobile bill without activating connection

Nagpur News. In yet another bizarre act of luring customers into honey trap of low call rates, a proposal to convert pre paid connection into post paid cost a man dearly in Nagpur. He received the bill without having his connection...

By Nagpur Today On Friday, August 30th, 2013

Unplanned development drives parking problem to alarming level in Nagpur; NMC still ignorant

Nagpur News: With the High Court directing Nagpur Improvement Trust to start newly constructed multi level parking at Variety Square within a week’s time, concerns are being pointed to have more such facilities in almost every busy areas of Nagpur....

By Nagpur Today On Thursday, August 29th, 2013

Two top NMC bosses feel heat over signatures put by unauthorized IT Officer

  The contract IT Officer Pravin Deshmukh had signed the documents in place of Estate Officer D D Jambhulkar. The reply and the documents, pertaining to an RTI query, are utterly short of information the RTI activist had sought. The outraged...

By Nagpur Today On Wednesday, August 28th, 2013

NMC’s contract IT Officer jumps his powers, signs off documents despite no authority

Nagpur News: In a development that may prove very costly for the NMC, an official on contract basis, is on signature spree in place of the competent authorities. According to rules, no contract official has powers to sign on any...

By Nagpur Today On Monday, August 26th, 2013

RTO pushing Nagpur under the shadow of thick black smoke emitted by the vehicles

The efforts of the Regional Transport Office (RTO have come a cropper. The day the RTO privatized issuance of Pollution Under Control (PUC) Certificates and levied Green Tax, leave alone controlling pollution, the vehicles have been found polluting the environment...

By Nagpur Today On Sunday, August 25th, 2013

Is begging becoming a lucrative, prosperous business as Orange City witnesses a spurt?

Nagpur News: The inflation or ever growing prices of daily need stuff has given a Gift! The ever growing unemployment has given a Gift!! The ever growing population has given a Gift!!! The ever growing desire to earn easy money has...

By Nagpur Today On Saturday, August 24th, 2013

Massive scam in land records gets exposed as illegal layouts, plots craftily regularised

Nagpur High Court slaps notices to the Revenue Secretary and the Land Records Commissioner and others to file their replies on September 25. The President of Nationalist Congress Yuva Party Vishal Khandekar has filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in...