Rs 290 cr Loan Fraud : Manoj Jayaswal, son Abhishek Jayaswal arrested
Nagpur: City’s famous business honcho Manoj Jayaswal, the eldest son of Basantlal Shaw of NECO and his son Abhishek Jayaswal have been arrested by sleuths of Central Bureau of Intelligence team in Kolkata on Monday night at 10:30 pm. The...
India’s first canal top solar PV system at NTPC Mouda
Representational pic Nagpur/New Delhi: State-run power giant NTPC has energised 150 kWp canal top solar PV System on cooling water (CW) channel inside power station premises at its 2,320 MW, Mouda Thermal Power Project, near Nagpur in Maharashtra. This novel Solar...
Probe into high-profile Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway land scam still hanging fire
Nagpur: The high-profile probe ordered by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis into purchase of hundreds of acres of land allegedly by relatives of Principal Secretary in Chief Minister's Office (CMO) and other top government officers along the proposed 800 km Mumbai-Nagpur...
What reduced the Indian farmer from a mighty conqueror to a meek supplicant?
Nagpur: When I was growing up, my most favourite relative was my uncle, my father's elder brother, whom we all called 'Annaji'. Real name - Vishramji Shravanji Yawalkar. He was the elder son of a poor farmer, who had most probably...
Development works at Koradi Devi Mandir have started after HC ruling: Bawankule
Nagpur: Guardian Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Monday said that with the ruling of Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court the way for implementation of development works at Shri Mahalaxmi Jagdamba Mandir in Koradi plan has been cleared. According to revised...
Why did the farmers get angry? – This all started with Kopargaon in Maharashtra
File Pic Nagpur: Recently, government data revealed that the GDP growth rate was 6.1 percent. However, in the long run, the agrarian sector has registered an increase. The agricultural growth rate has increased to 5.2 percent in the third quarter. It...
How GOKUL became an illegal HUB for charging Ola E-Cabs!!!
Nagpur: This is a live, but real and a very sad example of a "Smart City" colony for you. Gokul Jorus Housing Society, Borgaon which is less than 2 Kms from Gittikhadan square. The society lies in a far corner of...
Crafty petrol pumps leaving the customers high and dry with less fuel
File Pic Nagpur: Have you ever found yourself at the receiving end at the hands of crafty employees of petrol pumps who cheat gullible people by filling less quantity of fuel? Well, the answer is affirmative, unfortunately! Petrol pumps in...
Gajbhiye demands jobs, seats for SC, ST, OBC, VJNT candidates in general category too
File Pic Nagpur: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLC Prakash Gajbhiye met Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and demanded government jobs and seats in educational institutions to meritorious SC, ST, OBC, VJNT students in general category also. Gajbhiye cited the recent Supreme...
Mayor opens 3-day MODI Festival
Nagpur: Mayor Nanda Jichkar on Saturday inaugurated the 3-day ‘Making of Developed India’ (MODI) Festival being held at Chitnis Park. The aim of the festival is to highlight achievements and initiatives of the Central Government in the last three years. The...
Amol Deshmukh’s hoarding claims to be a point of attraction
Nagpur: Seeing Congress legislator Sunil Kedar from Savner surrounded by all-round hurdles, his fanatical political foe son Amol Deshmukh has started spreading his Predominance in Savner assembly constituency. In this order Deshmukh's hording at Patansawangi has become the topic of...
Gopichand Kumre, a Corporator and Sandwichwala, is talk of the town
Nagpur: This politician, if you call him so, is different. Odd one out, if one chooses to say. He strives hard from morning to evening for resolving grievances of people. And after the sunset, this man vends mouth watering sandwiches...
Farmers’ Stir : Cong-BJP clash at CM’s adopted village Fetri
Nagpur: Amid the ongoing agitation of farmers in Maharashtra, the peasants staged protest on Friday at Fetri, the village adopted by the Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. The farmers were responding to the 'tonsure agitation' call given by Opposition Congress party....
Traffic cops crack the whip on offenders in Dhantoli area
Nagpur: Days after curbing parking in internal lanes and declaring many lanes one-way in Dhantoli, the Traffic cops cracked down on offenders for violating the rules. The move follows directions of Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court on a PIL...
Mulak calls BJP a “date-after-date” party for non-fulfilling of loan waiver promise
Nagpur: Rajendra Mulak, President of Nagpur District Rural Congress Committee, launched a scathing attack on Bharatiya Janata Party for its insensitive handling of farmers’ agitation and termed the party as “date-after-date” party in an oblique reference to non-fulfilling of promises...
Special drive to enrol new voters in July
Representational Pic Nagpur: The District Administration, as per the directives of the Election Commission of India will undertake a special drive between July 1 and July 31 to enrol new voters, specially the youngsters. The booth-level officers will visit households on...
NMC-OCW to interconnect 700 mm dia main supply line at Ghat Road bridge
Nagpur: Nagpur Municipal Corporation and Orange City Water have planned to interconnect a 700 mm dia main supply pipeline on newly constructed Mokshadham Ghat Road bridge on June 9, 2017 (Friday). Following this 14-hour duration interconnection work which will start on...
Tree plantation lights up hope for Green Nagpur
Nagpur: On the occasion of World Environment Day, Tree plantation program was organised by Light Of Hope Foundation at Shankar Nagar Garden Nagpur. The program was conducted in the presence of Sanjay Bangale, Corporator NMC and Ujjawala Sharma Corporator, Nagpur Municipal President...
Govt urged to set up National Sickle Cell Treatment, Research and Training Institute in city
Nagpur: Being in the centre of the country's sickle cell belt, the Sickle Cell Society of India, Nagpur, has demanded the Union Social Justice Minister Thavarchand Gehlot to make efforts for setting up National Sickle Cell Treatment, Research and Training...
As strike enters 6th day, Gorakh Kokane ends life unable to repay Rs. 3 lakhs loan
File Pic Nagpur/Mumbai: As Maharashtra Govt. and farmers' organizations are still at logger heads about farmers' demands, two of them decided to literally 'strike themselves out' yesterday. They ended their lives in desperation. It is tragic that these two were not...
VRAS comes out in support of striking farmers
Nagpur: Vidarbha Rajya Andolan Samiti (VRAS) and Shetkari Sanghatana on Monday came out in support of farmers’ demands of total loan waiver and appropriate price for farm produce. The activists of VRAS and Shetkari Sanghatana gathered in large numbers at...
