Nagpur Passport Office received over 3.80 lakh applications in 4 years, 3.64 passports issued
Nagpur: In an ever increasing demand, the Nagpur Passport Office received a total of over 3.80 lakh applications for issuing of the vital document in the past four years (from 2013 till August 30, 2016). At the same time, over...
RTI surprise: NHAI penalized no contractor for any flaws in six years
Nagpur: An RTI reply by National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has sprang a surprise by revealing that no contractor was penalized for any irregularities in construction of various stretches of National Highway in the past six years (January 1,...
Second Capital sees 13869 persons missing in 4 years, 12182 traced
Nagpur: The Second Capital City of Nagpur witnessed a total of 13860 persons, including boys, girls, men and women, going missing in the past over four years – from 2012 till August 2016. Out of them, 12182 turned out to...
Crime cauldron: 58 murders in 8 months in Second Capital
Nagpur: 58 murders. 51 attempts to murder. 200 robberies including 89 chain-snatchings. 2050 burglaries including 577 house-breakings. 1006 vehicle thefts. 107 rapes. 325 kidnappings. Period: 8 months from January to August 2016. These disturbing figures depict the crime scenario in...
RTI ‘shocker’: 4921 persons electrocuted to death in six years
Nagpur: In a shocking revelation, a total of 4921 persons, including 296 employees of MSEDCL, lost their lives due to electrocution in the past six years. 5046 animals fell victims in the same period as well. The period also saw...
“आरटीआई कार्यकर्ता”के साये में मनपा कर्मी-अधिकारी-ठेकेदार
नागपुर: नागपुर महानगरपालिका (मनपा) में सुचना अधिकार के तहत जानकारी मांगने वालों की फ़ौज से एक तरफ रोजमर्रा के कार्य प्रभावित हो रहे तो दूसरी ओर जिनकी जानकारी प्राप्त हो रही, उससे तगड़ी वसूली की जा रही है. उक्त घटनाक्रम...
An “army” of crooked RTI activists unleash terror in NMC with babus bearing the brunt
Nagpur: The scenario is worrisome. The officials and employees of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), it seems, are under dark shadows of unscrupulous RTI activists who are found unleashing a kind of terror in the civic body. An “army” of so-called...
Crime Alert: Rs 212.84 cr booty stolen, 525 murders rocked Nagpur in 6 yrs
Nagpur: Nagpur has witnessed the worst crime situation in the past 6 years ever experienced in the known history of the city. The crime situation went haywire during the period from 2011 till May 31 this year. During this period, the...
Honesty comes at cost? Whistleblower striking at Nagpur varsity may face heat!
Nagpur: A senior clerk at Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University has turned a whisteblower and decided to bring all the corrupt means in the department in his true blue style. Rajesh Khanorkar, senior clerk at the university has been sitting on...
Vital NMC documents roam free for lack of photo copier in office!
Nagpur: Nagpur Municipal Corporation is struggling with a bizarre situation these days as all its vital documents are crossing the department's security through a wierd channel! Before you screw up your mind to get into the clue, let us tell you...
Finally, NMC dumps its nasty e-tender process, adopts Maha Govt system
Nagpur: The slipshod Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), after a series of explosive reports flashed by Nagpur Today exposing the damning role of a ring of contractors and babus in manipulating and managing tendering process, has finally dumped its dubious e-tender...
RTI stunner: Banking industry loses Rs 4.64 lakh crore in bad loans in India
Representational pic Nagpur: This RTI reply will leave you stunned. And the stunner is banking industry of the country. A staggering Rs 4,63,941 crore of public money has been lost by public sector banks and private sector banks in India....
RTI reply nails nasty affairs of NMC’s Public Works Deptt and a key contractor
Nagpur: Skeletons continue to tumble down from every NMC cupboard. A close study of an RTI reply the Public Works Department of NMC provided has revealed a damning fact when the Regional Secretary of Akhil Bharatiya Manavadhikar Nigrani Samiti put...
RTI revelation: 349 hijras, 224 burglars, 21 tauts were nabbed in CR’s Nagpur Divisionin one year
Nagpur: The Nagpur Division of Central Railway has said that a total of 349 hijras (trutiyapanthis), who were found pestering the passengers in running trains, were nabbed and a fine of Rs 6,14, 400 was recovered from them from the...
RTI revelation: Over 20 lakh patients visited GMCH in the past 3 years
Surprisingly, the RTI reply did not specify how many times the doctors on duty at the hospital were attacked by patients or their relatives in the past three years. Nagpur: The Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), considered the biggest hospital...
RTI stunner: 1197 unmarried mothers registered for MTP in the past 4 years
Nagpur: In an astonishing revelation, a staggering 1197 unmarried mothers registered for Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) or induced abortion in the past four years in city of Nagpur. Of the 1197 unmarried mothers, six died during the procedure. Similarly,...
RTI expose: Police, Revenue Departments top list of bribery cases in Nagpur Range
Nagpur: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Nagpur Range has informed that a total of 173 trap cases were registered and 206 Government servants were arrested for demanding and accepting bribes in the year 2015 (January 1 to December 17). Similarly, in...
Aamir Khan is still brand ambassador of Incredible India, clarify Tourism Ministry officials
Mumbai/Nagpur: Following day-long confusion over whether film actor Aamir Khan had been removed as the brand ambassador for the Incredible India, a government campaign to promote the country overseas, the ministry decided to settle the matter, with sources confirming that...
Is CM’s official residence in Mumbai throwing personal parties?
Nagpur: You will feel stumped when you hear this or read it!! Believe it or not but it is true that, ‘Varsha,’ the official residence of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in Mumbai, hosts personal parties or bashes (“Sneh Bhojan”), regularly....
RTI activist draws attention of PMO on Adv Khandalkar’s death
Nagpur: A city-based RTI activist has drawn attention of Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on the tragic but sensational death of Adv Shrikant Khandalkar. The RTI activist Ankita Kamalesh Shah, in her letter to PMO, has categorically termed the death of...
An RTI activist in doledrum as erring BJP-Congress leaders join hands
Scam in NMC on garbage lifting Nagpur: A proverb 'birds of same feather flock together' stands true when two erring leaders of different political parties join hands and discard the whistle-blower. This is what has happened to RTI activist Mukesh Shahu...
