Finally, inadequate rains have forced civic authorities to stop water supply though for three days for this week...

“The city of Nagpore is endowed with many lakes that boast of clear water that quenches the people’s thirst and keeps the place green and cool all round the year...

Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has issued closure notices to 32 polluting industries in Nagpur Division, reveals response to a Right to Information (RTI) query by activist Abhay Kolarkar...

If one goes through the narrow lanes from near Jagruteshwar Mandir in Jagnath Budhwari, one reaches in a lane in Tandapeth on the left of which there lies Naik Talao and on the right there is Lendi Talao...

Crime Branch team on Thursday night raided ex-corporator Anil Dhawde satta den. Acting on a tip off a team led by Inspector Umesh Besarkar moved in at Dhawde Mohalla and found Dhawde running a link of Kalyan satta by side of a road. A temporary shed was put up where Dhawde was personally present and his associates were accepting money from bettors. They were also placing bets on Prabhat satta. The cops have booked Dhawde, Shravan alias Golu Dayre, while they took into custody Akash Dayre, Rajesh ..

 Expressing concern over increasing deaths of tigers, Dr Parinay Fuke, Minister of State for Forest, wanted that the authorities should shift tigresses in protected areas where male-female proportion is less in order to increase number of tigers. The minister was addressing a meeting of forest officers held at Mantralaya on Thursday. He specifically asked the officers to make efforts for increasing population of tigers in Navegaon-Nagzira Tiger Reserve, where the number of tigresses is veryless.&..

Three labourers were killed near Kamptee Colliery of Western Coalfileds Ltd (WCL) on Friday morning triggering unrest in the area for a while. As per reports, the incident occurred during illegal excavation was on at MIDC’s open area in Fukat Nagar of Kanhan town. As the labourers were engaged in work the soil dump caved in trapping the trio underneath the heap of soil. MIDC has acquired land adjoining the colliery but same is lying vacant since long. Since last few years some elements ..

 Staff Reporter: Ideally in today’s situation it was expected of Congress Party to undertake membership drive in a bid to reach out to masses. However, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in spite of winning massive mandate wants to further reach out to citizens and make them part of a progressive India, stated Shivraj Singh Chouhan, National Convenor, Member Drive. Congress Party is currently a sinking ship and the Captain instead of staying put has chosen to abandon and its ripple effects ..

 By Vikas Vaidya:  Stalwart NCP leader in Vidarbha, Anil Deshmukh feels mere one seat each in urban and rural will not attract people to join party  City NCP issue, too, to be resolved soon  With every party gearing up for Maharashtra Assembly elections, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), too, has started its preparations. In Nagpur, too, it is getting ready under the leadership of Anil Deshmukh. Now, it has decided to ask for two more Assembly seats in urban and two more in ..

 Ramtek Correspondent: Two persons were killed and five injured in a freak mishap at Pawani village on Jabalpur highway on Wednesday night. Among the deceased is three-months-old baby. The mishap occurred after a car hit a wild boar resulting in the driver losing his control and the vehicle ramming into a stationary truck. The accident, according to police, occurred at around 10 pm.  The deceased and the injured hail from Kurai town in Seoni district. They were on way to Nagpur for ..

 Staff Reporter: The Board of Directors of Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC), in its meeting held in Mumbai on Wednesday, approved a proposal for allotment of land to city-based startup JSR Dynamics in Special Economic Zone (SEZ) of Multimodal International Hub and Airport at Nagpur (MIHAN) for setting up a Defence Hub. Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister, chaired the meeting of the MADC Board of Directors. JSR Dynamics had sought land in MIHAN-SEZ. Accordingly, the proposal was ..

 Staff Reporter: State Government, on Wednesday, released an aid of Rs 33.46 crore for drought-affected farmers in Nagpur district. Mainly, the aid is for growers of orange and other multi-year crops. Also, the Government released aid of Rs 390 crore for for eight districts in Aurangabad Division. Revenue and Forest Department had declared drought in 151 tehsils in Maharashtra in October 2018, owing to deficient and irregular rainfall. Thousands of farmers were affected due to drought and ..

  (left) Ajni Square                                                                                            (right)  University Library Square By Kartik Lokhande: Sometimes, contrast explains a situation better. In case of Nagpur city of ..

 Staff Reporter: The farmers in six districts of Nagpur Division are a worried lot. Due to delayed and below-average rainfall despite the start of second week of July, farmers have completed sowing operations only in 33 per cent of the Kharif area. This year, monsoon started in Nagpur Division towards the end of the month of June. Later, there were good downpours in some parts. Buoyed with this and hoping that the good spell of rainfall would continue, farmers took up sowing operations. ..

 Staff Reporter: Farmers appear to be in for trouble due to delayed and inadequate rainfall. Not only has it resulted in sowing only in 33 per cent of Kharif area so far, but also has led to banks distributing only 32 per cent of the targeted amount of crop loans. As per the official data for the month of June, which is considered start of Kharif season, as against target of Rs 3,621.20 crore of crop loan, the nationalised, private, rural, and co-operative banks put together have distributed ..

 Special Correspondent: The roots of sensational killing of three tigers, two leopards, 14 deer and wild boars occurred recently in Sitasawngi in Tumsar tehsil of Bhandara district seem to have spread to Madhya Pradesh. A team of forestmen, led by Nitesh Dhanvijay, Range Forest Officer, Nakadongri, arrested one more accused Shailesh Naktode (35), a resident of Kodbi village in Katangi tehsil of Balaghat district (MP).  Naktode had earlier contacted main accused in the case Maniram Gangboyar, ..

Staff Reporter: Nagpur, Chandrapur, Yavatmal, Akola, and Amravati may experience mild rains favourable for agricultural activities  After a good spell of rains for last couple of weeks, Vidarbha will experience lull in monsoon. According to Skymet Weather, monsoon will get week in Vidarbha as it has become in other parts of the country, after July 15. Currently, moist winds are blowing over Vidarbha and the region is likely to have cloudy sky conditions with light rain for next 48 hours. ..

 Chandrapur Bureau: In a shocking incident, a tigress and its two cubs were found dead in Chimur Forest Range in Chandrapur district on Monday morning. The tigress and its cubs died after eating a dead calf (killed by some animal) that was poisoned by a local farmer. The farmer wanted to take revenge of the animal that had killed the calf. So he inserted poison into the dead calf. According to the information, some villagers of Metepar, who went near village canal to pluck some fruits, were shocked ..

Staff Reporter: ELECTIONS of as many as seven newly-elected Members of Parliament from Vidarbha have been challenged before Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court by the defeated candidates. The election petitions were filed Monday which was last day ..

 Staff Reporter: Guardian Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Monday directed officials of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) to expedite ongoing development works being executed through funds provided by District Planning Committee (DPC). He took stock of the ongoing projects and asked for key details as to time frame required for their completion.  The Minister asked for details about new schemes and plans, skill development plans, water supply project status, Dalit localities development ..

 By Vikas Vaidya:  Once a rich source of water, the water body has failed to identify itself as a lake thanks to callous civic authority and greedy citizens residing nearby  The unfortunate part of Binaki Mangalwari is, it could never occupy place in the list of lakes of Nagpur, thanks to Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC). NMC had prepared a Master Plan about rejuvenation of lakes of Nagpur city way back in 2008. Shockingly, Binaki Mangalwai was not a part of that plan. Why? The ..

 By Vikas Vaidya: Volunteers, youth and women leaders are not happy with the functioning of Anil Ahirkar  Amidst feeling of unhappiness among the workers of city unit of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), finally, Anil Ahirkar, President of NCP city unit, has resigned from his post, disclosed highly placed sources. Ahirkar, currently, is out of India and will be back on July 10. The source, a stalwart leader has also made it clear, the resignation has not been accepted yet. Like ..

 By Vikas Vaidya: Finally, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has started reclaiming its land sans solid waste, through bio-mining. Now the two acre land near to Symbiosis University is being reclaimed by NMC. The work began in June and expected to take two more months, claimed NMC. When the work began there was 10 lakh MT garbage at Bhandewadi awaiting its disposal. Hanjer Bio-tech discontinued the work of garbage disposal since then it remained as it was.  When the concept of dumping ..

 Students planting saplings near Godhni Railway gate on Sunday. Staff Reporter: Various organisations held tree plantation programmes at different places in the city and at outskirts on Sunday, as part of the ambitious 33 crore tree plantation drive launched by the government. Social Forestry Deptt The Department held a plantation programme near Godhni Railway gate in which Gopalrao Thosar, senior environmentalist, was the chief guest. He planted a sapling to mark inauguration of the ..

 Staff Reporter:  RAIPUR Politics in Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC) heated up as leader of opposition Suryakant Rathore launched a full salvo of allegations and accusations on Mayor for not fulfilling the scores of announcements which he made before the election. Rathore reminded Mayor of his promises which he hasn’t fulfilled since 2017-18.  The announcements like beautification of statues of great personalities, development of modern art centre, maze, and cycling track ..

 By Vikas Vaidya: Resignation of Rahul Gandhi as President of All India Congress Committee (AICC) and subsequent resignations of senior leaders from top positions has created confusion among the party workers in State and city too. Many leaders still demand Rahul Gandhi to continue as the party chief while some are batting for their leaders at national and state levels. After resignation of Rahul Gandhi, Ashok Chavan, Dr Nitin Raut, Nana Patole and several others had put in their papers. ..

 Staff Reporter: Two teams of forestmen and people for Animals arrested two persons, seized 10 Indian Tent Turtles from them at Agrasen Chowk, Central Avenue, and Activa vehicles from them on Friday night. On a tip-off about smuggling of turtles, forestmen and workers reached Agrasen Chowk, near Durgah, caught red-handed Rishikesh Pradeep Jadhav (20), a resident of Plot No: 2, Swami Vivekanand Nagar, near PSC, Kanhan in Parseoni tehsil, and Ashish Rajendra Khobragade (25), a resident of ..

A tribal woman receiving LPG connection.    Staff Reporter: CMRDF’s timely intervention and monitoring helps remote tribal villagers from Gadchiroli district get 200 LPG connections  Everybody is aware of the many deadly consequences of cooking over open fires the data suggest that more than three billion people around the world cook their food and heat their homes with open or barely contained fires, and while the smoke dissipates quickly, its accumulated ..

 Staff Reporter: Painter Kusha Jaiswal’s work on canvas profusely expresses her wavering mind, that throbs with creativity, getting drawn to colours and images that tend to convey a message. Kusha excels in acrylic on various bases. The very title of the exhibition of paintings, on display at the Jawaharlal Darda Art Gallery “Mera Mann” says it all. Her creations have also been given apt titles and the pictures places in four categories like Spiritual, Nature, Abstract ..

 Staff Reporter   Inauguration of Road Accidents, Disaster Management and Research Centre.   ROAD Accidents, Disaster Management and Research Centre was inaugurated at Kaushalya Mangal Karyalaya, Kuhi Bus Stand. Noted Shiv Kathakar Sumant Tekade inaugurated the centre. Founder President of Life Security Project Raju Wagh; social worker Shrikant Aglawe; Deputy RTO Pandavkar; Kuhi Municipal Council President Chanda Wankhede; VicePresident Sarita Kamal; corporator ..

 Staff Reporter STATE Government officials including engineers of various departments staged demonstration against misbehaviour by public representatives that happened twice in last few days. Government officials came together to record their protest against such act and met with Guardian Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule, State Minister Parinay Fuke and district collectorAshwin Mudgal and submitted a memorandum to them. Maharashtra Congress MLA Nitesh Rane, who took law into his ..

By Ramesh Marulkar  FOREST Department is neither capturing T1-C1 sub-adult tiger in Ralegaon jungle nor releasing T1-C2 sub-adult tigress in Pench even after passing of over six months,therebyjeopardizingfate of both off-springs of menacing T1tigress. Boththecubswerearoundone yearoldwhentheirmothertigress was shot dead on the night of November 2, 2018 by Asghar Ali Khan,sonofsharpshooterNawab ShafathAliKhan,followingshootat-site order issued by the then Principal Chief Conservator ..

(NIT)                                                                                                                (NMC)   Staff Reporter: Previous two deadlines of December 31, 2017 and June 15, 2018 ..

Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister; Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Guardian Minister of Nagpur district; and Yogesh Sagar, Minister of State, during the meeting of NMRDA held in Mumbai on Thursday.   Staff Reporter: Also gives nod to policy for online draw for housing under PMAY  Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister and Chairman of Nagpur Metropolitan Region Development Authority (NMRDA), gave nod to the annual budget of NMRDA for the year 2019-20. The budget of Rs 1,529.84 crore ..

 Staff Reporter: Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia, and his wife Anna Hakobyan along with a high-level delegation of the Republic of Armenia took a brief stop-over at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport here on Thursday while on their way to Hanoi (Vietnam). Ashwin Mudgal, District Collector of Nagpur; Dr Bhushankumar Upadhyay, Commissioner of Police; Shirish Pande, Deputy Collector, welcomed the Armenian Prime Minister and his wife with a bouquet. Mudgal ..

 Staff Reporter: Recommends various measures including speedy relocation of project-affected persons, unified control of tiger reserves, installing GPS in tourist vehicles to regulate tourism  In its latest report on Economic Sector, Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has pulled up Forest Department for ‘deficiencies’ in planning for conservation and protection of tigers, protection and conservation, allocation of resources, human resource management, support infrastructu..

 Staff Reporter: Admits PIL seeking probe into irrigation scam for final hearing  Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court on Wednesday admitted public interest litigations demanding probe into mind-boggling irrigation scam, for final hearing. The High Court while admitting the petitions also observed that it would keep a close watch on the ongoing probe conducted by special investigation teams of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) against the scamsters including political big-wigs of erstwhile ..

 (left)Water seeping from the false ceiling at one the stations of Nagpur Metro.(right)Water seeping from the false ceiling at one the stations of Nagpur Metro. Staff Reporter: Maha Metro has put the lives of Nagpurians in danger due to their adamant stance in starting commercial operations even before completion of the project in city. Exposing the chinks in Nagpur Metro project, Prashant Pawar, President, Jai Jawan Jai Kisan, alleged that sub standard construction now stands exposed ..

 Staff Reporter: Finance Department of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has proposed to utilise a substantial part of special aid of Rs 150 crore received from the State Government for ‘committed expenses’ instead of spending it on development of the city. The proposal will be discussed by Standing Committee of NMC in its meeting scheduled on June 5 (Friday). NMC had received the aid as second instalment of special assistance from the State Government on March 8, 2019, that ..

 By Vikas Vaidya: Sakkardara lake is shrinking but people continue to dump waste into it. When one visits this waterbody one would find a lot of waste, idols at its bank lying since long as it is. Civic authorities along with the public representatives of this area should be held responsible for the condition of this historic lake. South Nagpur MLA Sudhakar Kohle, Leader of Opposition in Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) Tanaji Wanve, Chairperson of Nehru Nagar Zone Rita Mule, Deepraj Nilawar ..

 Staff Reporter: Dr Nitin Raut has resigned from the post of President of Scheduled Caste Cell of Congress. He has sent his resignation to Congress President Rahul Gandhi. Recently Nana Patole, who bit dust in Nagpur Lok Sabha election resigned as President of Kisan Cell of Congress.  Dr Nitin Raut in a letter sent to Rahul Gandhi has said that though every volunteer workd to his or her best something lacked because of which Congress was defeated. After the resignation of Rahul Gandhi, ..

  By Vikas Vaidya:  When one reads the book ‘Aaj Bhi Khare Hai Talab’ by Anupam Mishra, one realises the importance of lakes. The book should be given to every policy-maker to read. It is the lakes that kept life in Rajasthan. Had the state not maintained the lakes, it would have got declared drought State. Nagpur is facing the extinction of waterbodies, fortunately civic authorities are trying to rejuvenate them. How far they would succeed at this state is to be seen. Naik ..

 Madhusudan Ade  By Kaushik Bhattacharya: Having three Post Graduation degrees is a lifetime achievement for many, but this 68-year-old man of Nagpur who holds 11 PG degrees, is now planning to achieve more in academics. Meet Madhusudan Charandas Ade, an Indian Information Service (IIS) cadre of 1983 batch and a former Incharge (News Section), Aakashwani Nagpur, who recently received his 11th PG degree in ‘Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Thought’ from RTM Nagpur University ..

 By Sagar Mohod: As every drop of water is precious, awareness about using clean water judiciously is rising among citizens and stress is now on conserving it. While rain water harvesting idea is fast catching up among citizens, there are other aspects related to conserving water and recycling is one among them and still to gain popularity in the society. On wider scale, respective corporations do have invested heavily in treating waste water but at household level also water can be easily ..

 Special Correspondent: Nagpur city joined the State in the massive 33 crore tree plantation drive on Monday. The drive in the city was launched at the hands of Chandrashekhar Bawankule, In-charge Minister for Nagpur district at Water Treatment Plant, Mihan, Wardha Road, in presence of Nanda Jichkar, the Mayor. Forest Department and Maharashtra Airport Development Company jointly organised the programme. Bawankule planted a seedling and performed pujan to mark inauguration of the ambitious ..

 By Vikas Vaidya: Futala is the third largest water body within the city limits and is located in the western part of the city. The lake is spread in an area of around 40 hectares and its proximity to Seminary Hills adds to its beauty. The lake water is no longer potable and it serves only a recreational value. Preservation of lake can help in keeping several water resources alive.  Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has taken this lake along with Naik Talao as part of its rejuvenation ..

 Staff Reporter: Fifth anniversary of Digital India launch today  On Monday, the nation will celebrate fifth anniversary of launch of Digital India initiative by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Since the launch of the initiative on July 1, 2015, the city of Nagpur -- especially Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has also been gearing up to set the systems in place. As the official data reveals, these efforts have borne fruits and the number of people making payment of property tax ..

 By Dr Swapna Khanzode:   In today’s scenario, where progress is the new happiness everywhere, aggress seems to be the new harness. Of late, the angst against doctors has risen to a different level and we are witnessing it more than often. We as doctors, are given the Hippocratic oath at the very beginning of our career, where one of the important vows says, Primum non nocere...meaning above all else, first do no harm. We strive and try to give best possible treatment in ..

 Special Correspondent: Devendra Fadnavis, the Chief Minister, to inaugurate main function at Anandvan, Warora in the morning   The ambitious 33 crore tree plantation programme will begin in Maharashtra from July 1 with Devendra Fadnavis, the Chief Minister, inaugurating the main function at Anandvan, Warora tehsil in Chandrapur district at 9.30 am. Sudhir Mungantiwar, Forest Minister, who took initiative in plantation of a total of 50 crore in the State two years ago, will ..

Staff Reporter: 70,156 farmers in Nagpur district get loan waiver of Rs 434.52 crore  As against the farm loan distribution target of Rs 979 crore, so far, loans of Rs 775.80 crore have been disbursed to 24,953 farmers in Nagpur district. “The banks should meet the target by organising loan camps in villages,” said Ashwin Mudgal, District Collector, while addressing the officials in a meeting called to review farm loan disbursement.  D K Singh, Assistant Manager of ..