“Sir, Nagpur appears to be under a constant siege of flood and filth, fearful of various kinds of infections. I returned from London just yesterday, and got out of the house today morning for my appointments -- and found that the city of ours offered a terrible contrast to the place where I had been. That is so clean, though far more crowded, with no fear of infections assailing people. Why have we turned our city into such a filthy place?” This description, this comparison, this question from a friend ..

IT IS a matter of great satisfaction that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been spending plenty of time with the annual conferences of Directors General of Police traditionally convened by the Director of the Intelligence Bureau to review the internal security situation in the country and the law and order management as a vital determinant of it. Prime Minister Modi has been sharing his thoughts on how to improve and modernise the functioning of the police force in India. At his initiative, the ..

MOVE to any area of Nagpur, and you will come across scores of people who have serious complaints or issues with cement roads under construction for endless periods of time. If it is not cement roads as a point of complaint, issues such as manholes without covers or broken covers or road construction materials having been left at critical road turning points or incomplete public works dominate the public conversation in the State’s Second Capital. And this has been happening for the past ten-plus ..

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