By Paritosh Pramanik: PRANAY Bandbuche, a 30-year-old mountaineer from Nagpur has successfully scaled Mt Everest along with 13 foreigners, Monday morning. The team of 14 members, along with seven Sherpas, climbed the highest peak at 8.30 am and stood atop Mt Everest. All the climbers are from Imagine Nepal Treks and found a second fair summit window on Mt Everest this spring season. Bandbuche was the only climber from India. Apart from Nagpur’s Bandbuche, climbers who made it to the ..

 Staff Reporter: Total power generation in the State on Monday was nearly around 16,776 MW while demand was 21,156 MW. To tide over the shortage, Maharashtra has drawn extra power from the Central pool. Its allocation was 3927 MW but it drew 4380 MW, that is 452 MW extra  State owned Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Limited (MSPGCL) has set a new record on generation front on Monday as it surpassed 10,000 MW mark for the first time. The milestone for the generation company ..

Students and parents from various profession raising slogans in front of Dean office at GMCH on Monday. (Pic by Satish Raut) Staff Reporter: On Tuesday, the Association will launch agitation at Samvidhan Square   Expressing displeasure over the decision of Maharashtra Government that has occupied 79% seats for the students of various reserved category, ‘Save Merit Save India’ Association staged demonstration in the premises of Government Medical College and Hospital ..

 By Ramesh Marulkar: The situation is manageable even though groundwater level has depleted in 53 tehsils  The Government machinery continues to take up measures as per the action plan to provide relief to rural masses in 53 tehsils of Nagpur division from water scarcity problem during summer. After submitting a report on the status of groundwater to the Collectors from six districts in the division - Nagpur, Gondia, Bhandara, Wardha, Chandrapur and Gadchiroli - a couple of months ..

 Employees of Kanak Resources cleaning Gorewada Lake premises. (Centre) Morning walkers cleaning the bank of the lake. (Right) Volunteer collecting plastic waste for disposing.  By Kaushik Bhattacharya: Gorewada lake is lifeline of the city of Nagpur. For, the city gets water supply daily from it. In return, sadly, the city is killing the lake. Sewage-riddled water, foul smell and frothiness hint at the sad reality of Gorewada reservoir nowadays. Gorewada premises including the ..

 Staff Reporter: Justice Sharad Bobde chairs second session of International conference on ‘Constitutional Identity and Universal Values’  Justice Sharad Bobde of the Supreme Court of India, and a Nagpurian, chaired a session in International conference on ‘Constitutional Identity and Universal Values’ held at St Petersburg in Russia. The conference was held within the framework of 9th St Petersburg International Legal Forum. Justice S A Bobde shared the ..

  By Vikas Vaidya: FOGSI and other organisations are trying to bring the MMR down  There is a good news, the Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) in India has come down from 556 in 1990 to 130 in 2018. At the same time the complete awareness about care to be taken during pregnancy is still lacking, especially in rural area. It has become a major obstacle in the efforts of Government which is taking measures to reduce the ratio further. Explaining the causes of maternal mortality, ..

Complex Maze: This is the sight right at ground zero, that is Pardi Square, where on one side pillars of NHAI’s fly-over stands tall and on the right side of road pier of Maha Metro is shaping up. Amidst this squeeze, people have to find a way out and carry on with their lives. (Pic by Satish Raut)   By Sagar Mohod: The ambitious project on at Pardi today is a turning out to be a case of vision gone wrong. Visit to the construction site leaves one confused since one cannot fathom ..

 This is how the residents of Ambedkar Nagar struggle to satisfy their basic need of water in Wadi area. Long queue of drums waiting says it all about the working of Wadi Municipal Council which is providing water through tankers in the area. Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran is supplying water from Ambazari lake still scene remains same in Wadi.  By Kaushik Bhattacharya:  Instead of 22 MLD, getting only 10 MLD from Ambazari lake  The water crisis in Wadi area is still ..

By Dheeraj Fartode: With an aim to rigorously implement special drive against errant riders, City Traffic Police has adopted a new mechanism of swapping police personnel among its eight zones. The idea is to increase effectiveness of concentrated action and special drives and instill discipline among rule violators. A police officer said that lower rung cops used to develop friendly relations with locals including autorickshaw drivers due to working in one particular area for longer period...

 By Ajay Mardikar: Principals and managements condemn V-C’s adamant attitude n Students from rural areas will be affected   Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU) has uploaded the list of 129 colleges affiliated to it, where admission to first year for different courses has been freezed. The action against these colleges was initiated in a phased manner. Some of them have removed the deficiencies. Many others, however, were not able to do it for various reasons. ..

 Staff Reporter; Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister, honoured Abhijit Bangar, Municipal Commissioner, Nagpur, with Arun Bongirwar Public Service Excellence Award in a ceremony held in Mumbai on Saturday. Apart from Bangar, other administrative officers honoured with the award included Dr Abhinav Deshmukh, Ashwini Sonavane, N Vasudevan, and Jitendra Ramgaokar. Bangar was chosen for the award in the category of Indian Administrative Service (IAS), for innovative application of solar energy ..

  By Dheeraj Fartode:BEHIND every happy daughter is a truly amazing parent who fights all odds for her. Rakesh Ola, a Judicial Magistrate-turned-Indian Police Service (IPS) Officer, is one such example. For seven years, Ola was serving in rural Rajasthan as Magistrate in Rajasthan Judicial Services (RJS). His postings in the hinterland posed a big question on providing quality education to his then four-year-old daughter. The thought of her future spurred Ola to opt for Civil Services examination..

Principal CorrespondentLot of complaints made by teaching and non-teaching employees are pending for the last six months as Grievance committee constituted by Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU) for the redressal of complaints has become non-functional. This has led to piling up the complaints of the staff.  Nagpur University Teachers Association (NUTA) in a letter sent to Vice-Chancellor of RTMNU brought to his notice the status of the grievance committee. Dr Anil Dhage, ..

Staff ReporterState Excise Department have seized 1,600 litres of alcoholic spirit from a godown in Wadi area on Friday. Acting on a tip-off, a team of the department seized 600 litres of alcoholic spirit from Nagpur-Gondia Roadwasy, Shivaji Nagar, Wadi. Later, the team raided Ghatge Patil Transport, Sonba Nagar, Wadi and seized 1,000 litres of spirit.  The team of State Excise Department with seized spirit barrels.   An offence was registered against godown manager for the illegal ..

 By Rahul Dixit & Vikas VaidyaEVEN as ‘Mazi Metro’ chugs along from the Sitabuldi station, below its high pillars a nasty chaos reigns near Dhantoli Police Station every day. The intersection sees a swamp of vehicles squeezing for space for the entire day. Four wheelers, two wheelers, heavy trucks jostle for space in a constant state of confusion. Welcome to the Metro Mess! And find yourself a space to move around the huge pillars that stand right in the middle of the road.  ..

 By Kartik Lokhande: With less than a month remaining for Kharif agricultural season to begin, State Agriculture Department is facing a problem in managing its affairs in Nagpur Division. For, more than 37 per cent of its posts are lying vacant. This has obviously affected its functioning ahead of the crucial season. The shocking information is revealed in an internal review of the State Agriculture Department. The review was taken ahead of State-level Kharif planning meeting scheduled to ..

 Sensors like the one installed at Shankar Nagar Square besides CCTVs for capturing data relating to environment aspects in city. By Sagar Mohod: As debate rages about balancing development expectation and protecting the atmosphere, Nagpur Smart and Sustainable Development Corporation (NSSDC) rolled out a project to map city’s environment to a get a clear picture from ground zero. The process involves preparing database on 14 aspects related to environment for a correct assessment ..

 Staff Reporter: The project to supply water from Ambazari lake to Ordnance Factory Ambajhari (OFAJ) and Wadi Municipal Council has finally got started couple of days ago. Maharashtra Jivan Pradhikaran (MJP) commenced the process of water treatment and supply to cater the demand of above one lakh residents of OFAJ and Wadi area. MJP will releasing 10 MLD water daily from Ambazari lake to OFAJ and Wadi Municipal Council in this crisis situation.   Poor monsoon last year reduced ..

 Special Correspondent: DHANTOLI Police on Wednesday booked former Board of Directors (BoDs), office-bearers, officers and a few ‘selected’ borrowers of Navodaya Urban Co-operative Bank Limited in the infamous Rs 38.75 crore loan fraud. Shrikant S Supe, District Special Auditor (Class I) Co-operative Societies, Bhandara, lodged a complaint that former Board of Directors, office-bearers, and officers sanctioned loans to some persons without valid requirement between 2010 and 2017. ..

 Deceased Laxmi and Aachal Shahu. Staff Reporter: The unidentified driver of the ‘killer’ truck fled the spot after the accident  A SPEEDING truck crushed two sisters to death at Pardi on Bhandara Road in Kalamna area on Wednesday morning. The errant truck driver ran away leaving his vehicle at the spot after the tragedy. The deceased, Laxmi Ramshankar Shahu (21) and her sister Aachal (19) were residents of Plot No. 196, Bidgaon Road, near Jai Durga Shankar Kirana ..

 DSC Ashotosh Pandey and others showing ticket seized by the RPF staff.   Staff Reporter: A team of Railway Protection Force (RPF) of South East Central Railway (SECR) have raided five travel agencies and recovered illegally booked 40 live train tickets worth Rs one lakh and other material collectively worth Rs 3.50 lakh.  Addressing a press conference Ashutosh Pandey, Divisional Security Commandant (DSC) informed that the raids were carried out to put check on the illegal ..

 By Vikas Vaidya: ‘Urban Greening Guidelines, 2014 is the outcome of blatant and random concretisation of pavements in Indian cities. Of late, a number of Urban Development Authorities and Urban Local Bodies have undertaken large scale concretisation of pavements which has resulted in destruction of a large number of trees by first rendering those weak and reducing their lives and consequently most of them falling down on account of moderate winds and storms. In 2000, Ministry of Urban ..

 By Kartik Lokhande: Confident of winning Nagpur seat with a margin of 3.50 lakh votes  Even as the nation is heading towards seventh and the last phase of Lok Sabha elections, speculations are rife over the outcome for the political parties. As far as Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shipping, and Ganga Rejuvenation and senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is concerned, he is a relaxed man. For, he is confident that BJP-led National Democratic ..

 By Ajay Mardikar; The problem confronting Juvenile Justice Board can be sorted out easily by the Government, by providing facilities for assessment of child in conflict with law, at Government Medical Colleges in Nagpur. Unfortunately this mand..

 Staff Reporter: Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister, interacted with 21 Sarpanchs from Nagpur district through audio-bridge from Mantralaya in Mumbai and took stock of drought situation. After interacting with the Sarpanch and getting acquainted with the situation at ground level, he asked the administrative officers concerned to accord top priority to ensuring supply of drinking water and fodder in affected areas. As many as 452 villages in Katol, Narkhed, and Kalmeshwar tehsils in Nagpur ..

 (left) Jatinderpal Singh and Prakash Khemchandani along with the tree ambulance.         (right)Jatinderpal Singh and Prakash Khemchandani watering a sapling.  By Vikas Vaidya: Everybody knows about the ambulance that carries human patients. But nobody has ever heard about an ambulance that cares for trees, it reaches on the spot after receiving calls from any tree lover and makes efforts to save the trees. Like ambulance for humans, this ambulance too ..

 By Ajay Mardikar: The Board of Studies of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU) is facing difficulties in finalising optional subjects under the ambitious ‘Swayam’ scheme of University Grants Commission. Meetings of 56 Board of Studies (BoS) and 37 Ad hoc committees were held on May 8 and 9. The main issue for discussion was selecting optional subject from regular syllabus for making available Swayam subject for the students. Although the students have been ..

 By Kartik Lokhande: IN summers, hopes of citizens, farmers, and industries are pinned on release of water from irrigation projects. However, not many are aware that even the unutilised water in irrigation reservoirs is lost due to evaporation in the intense heat. The latest Water Audit report for the year 2016-17, released in March 2019, pegs the evaporation losses for irrigation projects in Maharashtra at an average 11.73 per cent of gross storage. As per the report, the gross storage ..

  Staff Reporter; SITABULDI   Police detected four theft cases by putting behind bars two thieves and recovered stolen valuables, including a Hyundai I10 car, and gold ornaments collectively worth Rs 6.03 lakh from their possession. Accused have been identified as Roshan Suresh Pache (23), Kanha Nagari, opposite Hingna Tehsil Office, and Ajay Ramsingh Warkhede (23), a resident of Lane No 1, Ramteke Nagar, Beltarodi. A police team on night patrol duty chased and nabbed Roshan, ..

 By Nandu Andhare;     Saptak Nagpur, an organisation started way back in 1980, by seven city-based Hindustani classical music addicts, has completed forty glorious years. Its growth has been like the proverbial roller-coaster ride, experienced by any organisation in its teething years, baptised by fire and raging thunderstorms. These magnificent seven, remained undaunted in the face of stiff hurdles and competition, remained aloof from limelight, to get down to work and gave ..

   By Vikas Vaidya His endeavors to ignite Government on the invention is not being heardFor the last 11 years he is endeavoring to sensitize Government and other agencies to make solar energy an alternative to electricity. One can say, Government has already started promoting solar energy but after in-depth study of solar energy aspect, he has come to conclusion, the solar energy being promoted by Government has some disadvantages while what he has invented has more advantages. ..

By Kartik Lokhande In the past decade or so, utilisation of water from irrigation projects in Maharashtra has attracted attention due to clash between rural and urban segments of population. The clashes may intensify in future as non-irrigation utilisation of water from irrigation projects is on the rise.  The latest Water Audit report published by Water Resources Department (WRD) in March earlier this year, has pointed out that water availability in river sub-basins in Maharashtra ..

 Staff Reporter: Over 150 passengers on-board Bengaluru-New Delhi flight (SG8720) of SpiceJet suffered a great inconvenience for almost eight hours as it made an emergency landing at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport, Nagpur, in the small hours of Saturday. The flight was scheduled to depart from Bengaluru at 10 pm on Friday. But, it took off from Bengaluru at 11.30 pm. This was just the start of what was ahead for the passengers.  The flight, which was supposed to reach New ..

 Staff Reporter: A WOMAN and her daughter-in-law suffered burn injuries when the auto-rickshaw they were travelling in caught fire at Ganesh Tower Square near Marartoli turning on Amravati Road on Saturday afternoon. Injured women Rama Hiralal Gaur and her daughter-in-law Bharati Ritesh Gaur were rushed to Sengupta Multi-Speciality Hospital at Ravi Nagar Square. Rama Gaur’s grandson, three other passengers and auto-rickshaw driver escaped unhurt.  According to Fire & Emergency ..

 Staff Reporter:  Four juveniles involved in more than 14 offences were held by Sitabuldi police and 10 motorcycles and seven mobile phones collectively worth Rs 5.61 lakh were recovered from their possession. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Zone II informed that a teenager was held by the police on Thursday when he was trying to committ a robbery. During questioning, the boy revealed names of the others involved in various crimes reported in recent months.  The juveniles were ..

Dr Pramod Sharma, Girish Gandhi, S N Vinod, Prabha Mehta, Nalini Kanetkar and others holding the book, ‘Ravi Rashmiyaan’ Staff Reporter: Some writer has said, like human being, every book has its own fate. The sayings came true in case of Prabha Mehta’s book ‘Ravi Rashmiyaan’. The writer gave birth to the idea of the book in 1980, while she was balancing her professional and personal life. After her retirement, Mehta brought the book into existence in 2012. ..

With Essel Utilities searching for new partner to run SNDL, the distribution franchisee in city, Dineshchandra Saboo, Director (Operations), Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited, asked the company to submit proposal for ensuring uninterrupted power supply. The meeting was held at SNDL’s office at Nelson Square and lasted quite long wherein Saboo and his team took stock of gamut of issues that has again cast dark clouds over distribution franchisee. MSEDCL on its part ..

The residents of Ordnance Factory Ambajhari (OFAJ) and Wadi Municipal Council will likely to get water from Ambazari lake in a couple of days. “Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran (MJP) is going to release 10 MLD water every day to OFAJ and Wadi area to cater the demand of potable water soon,” revealed a senior official of MJP on the condition of anonymity to The Hitavada.According to senior official, MJP is waiting for a report of treated water of the lake which they will likely to get ..

 Staff Reporter: JUSTICE Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai, senior judge of Bombay High Court, is all set to become the judge of Supreme Court of India after his name for elevation as judge of the top court was cleared by the Supreme Court collegium headed by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi. With Justice Gavai’s elevation, the apex court will have three Nagpurians — Justice Sharad Bobde, Justice Uday Lalit and now Justice Gavai. Justice Gavai has joined the illustrious list of legal ..

 By Ramesh Marulkar: Palasagon village in the core area of Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve is being relocated outside fully by May 31. At present 75 per cent village has been relocated to Salori near Warora. The work of shifting remaining families would be completed by May-end. This was disclosed by N S Ladkat, Deputy Director, TATR (Core), Chandrapur, while talking to ‘The Hitavada’ on Thursday. He said that around 125 families shifted their house-hold materials after getting mobilisati..

 Padmashri Dr T P Lahane By Vikas Vaidya: Department of Medical Education and Research (DMER), Maharashtra Government has an ambitious plan to refurbish tertiary healthcare in Maharashtra. It involves better patient care, training to residents on communication skill to improve relationship with patients, to make arrangement for relatives of patients to stay, etc. Padmashri Dr T P Lahane, Director of DMER, a compassionate doctor, visionary administrator was in city to inspect two tertiary ..

 Staff Reporter; The campers of Personality Development Camp organised by Bhonsala Adventure and Sports Foundation (BASF) and The Hitavada Twinkle Club displayed the well co-ordinated team work, discipline and patriotism during the concluding event on Thursday at Bhonsala Military School premises. This ten-day summer camp got an overwhelming response from campers who learned various activities and skills.  The demos staged by the campers, reflected on the importance of extra curricular ..

 Staff Reporter: Total 1,442 farmers have benefited in Maharashtra through the Pradhan Mantri Krushi Sinchan Yojana launched by Central Government during the four-year period. The Central Government sponsored scheme is aimed at improving farm productivity by deepening the irrigation facilities among marginalised and small land holding farmers. During the four-year period staring 2015-16, Maharashtra Government had received funds to tune of Rs 4,444 crore under the scheme and 73 per cent ..

 Staff Reporter: Prisoners will henceforth have to fork out a fixed amount for police escort during their parole period. State's Home Department has framed the policy and issued a Government Resolution (GR) on Monday for Maharashtra Police after guidelines issued by Bombay High Court while disposing of a writ petition. As per the GR, state police will levy charges on prisoners for providing police escort and also bill them the vehicle expenditure incurred by the cops.  The amount will ..

 Staff Reporter: ON ONE hand, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has been appealing to the people to save water as there is crisis. On the other, half of the supply to the city is categorised as ‘NonRevenue Water’ (NRW ). NRW means that water is either lost in leakages, pilferage, or there is unbilled supply through public standposts. A few years ago, it was said that 55 per cent of water was lost due to leakages. Later on, NMC started saying that 55 per cent of water was in ..

 Staff Reporter: THE road repair works that were in full swing till a month ago in Nagpur city, have slowed down as the bids received for transporation of tar from refinery in Mumbai, could not be opened due to Model Code of Conduct for Lok Sabha elections in force. For the past some time, the repairs of tar roads in Nagpur city and laying of top layer have stopped. But, the problem is not restricted to Nagpur city alone. The road repairs and maintenance works, as well as construction of ..

 Staff Reporter: With peak travel season in full swing, Railway Protection Force (RPF) unit at South East Central Railway’s Nagpur Division intensified drive against cornering of tickets and its black-marketing by agents. In a co-ordinated drive, RPF teams cracked down at six places, four of them within Kamptee town on single day, to bust the rampant sale of tickets at inflated prices. Divisional Security Commandant, RPF, Ashutosh Pandey, had given the brief to force to ensure that ..

 Staff Reporter:  TWO passengers got down from Air Arabia flight that landed at Nagpur’s Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport at 4.15 am on Thursday. The team of Customs officials sensed something fishy in their movements. The scanner through which they passed, gave some indication so the officers checked the passengers but nothing was found. Customs officers were perturbed. They grilled them aggressively and finally both the passengers opened up.  The truth that came ..

  Staff Reporter: JAUHRAT ul Majd Mohammad ul Baqir Lohawala, a student of MSB Education Institute, Nagpur, has set an example of p a y i n g h o m a g e to her father by s c o r i n g overall 87 per cent marks in ICSE Class 10 board examination here on Tuesday. Jauhrat scored 78 marks in English Language, 98 in Literature in English, 83 in Hindi, 88 in History and Civics, 87 in Geography, 86 in Mathematics, 84 in Physics, 72 in Chemistry, 69 in Biology, 93 in Art and 74 in Economics. ..

In the line of death: This tree just outside the High Court, after getting embedded into cement, died in due course. It could not knock the door of High Court that is hearing the case of choking of trees. Other trees, in the same line, which are choked by the brazen act of contractors, are gasping for breath.  Staff Reporter: ‘The Hitavada’ Tree campaign receives overwhelming response   ‘THE Hitavada’ has been writing about the trees being choked because ..

Arya Daoo with her mother Gauri Daoo. Staff Reporter: “It is not important to chase success or fame. It is more important to do your best and give your hundred per cent. The success automtaically comes to you. I did the same in the examination,” said Arya Daoo of Bharatiya Krishna Vidya Vihar, who topped in Vidarbha and is second in the State in Central Board of Secondary Education Class X exam by securing 99.41 per cent marks. The results were declared on Monday. Arya secured ..

 A THIEF stole Rs 11 lakh cash from the bag of a businessman at India Son Hotel, Central Avenue, on early Sunday morning. Satish Jugalchand Sethia (58), a resident of Bokadi, Pune, who runs S M Enterprises, had come to the city for some work. He stayed in Room No 405 at India Son Hotel. On Friday night, he had gone to Hingna for some work. A thief entered his room by opening the door lock with a duplicate key and took away Rs 11 lakh from his travelling bag.  When Sethia opened his bag around ..

 Raghavi with her parents, Harshada and Praveen Shukla, sister Apala and grandfather Shubhshankar Mishra.  Staff Reporter: An all-rounder Raghavi made her parents proud by securing 99% marks in her tenth CBSE and becoming ‘second topper’ in the city. Regular studies with proper planning has definitely helped Raghavi, a student of Centre Point School, Dabha, to secure second position. She gives the entire credit of her success to her school teachers, tuition teachers and ..

 Staff Reporter; When ‘The Hitavada’ started the campaign to save trees that were getting choked in the process of development, it was sure that the heart of Nagpurians will bleed for the green cover. It did. The result is for all to see -- the administration of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has started de-choking the trees, individuals and some social organisations have started initiative to save trees. Though ‘The Hitavada’ has a reason to feel happy about ..

 Principal Correspondent:  Many senior Law teachers blamed the faculty of Humanities for using juniors for setting the question papers resulting in sufferings of brilliant students  How a casual approach can lead to messing up things is evident from the incident in which Rashtasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University (RTMNU) repeated two questions in the paper ‘Intellectual Property Law’ of LLB (three years) of Semester IV exam conducted on April 26. The question on ..

 Staff Reporter: Gangs of chain snatchers had a field day in city as they robbed five women of gold ornaments collectively worth Rs 2.5 lakh. A rising number of chain-snatching cases has left citizens worried as a total of seven chain-snatching incidents were reported with 72 hours and cops literally failed to identify the accused. Two chain-snatchings were reported in Sitabuldi and Mankapur area on Saturday. An old-aged woman was robbed of her gold chain worth Rs 35,000 by a bike-borne ..

  Staff Reporter: Urban Naxalism is not a new phenomenon but it became known to people after the arrests of some people in recent times. It needs a serious attention of the Government as well as the society, felt the speakers at a programme organised by Bharatiya Vichar Manch at Dharampeth Boys’ School here on Sunday evening. Bharatiya Vichar Manch had organised the programme to pay tributes to 15 policemen who attained martyrdom in a landmine blast triggered by Maoists in Gadchiroli ..

   By Vikas Vaidya: THOUGH they have not picked up remedial activities in full swing, civic authorities have certainly woken up to the reality that thousands of trees are likely to choke to death due to concretisation around them. The civic body has begun work of de-choking the trees, though not on large scale. Concretisation has left most of the tree bases covered with cement with no space for water percolation. ‘The Hitavada’ has been running a campaign raising the ..

   By Vikas Vaidya: Letting youths know about poets in the dark  An exercise inviting an academician, literatteur to explain everything about a poem  Somewhere a song ‘Tum itna jo muskura rahe ho’, sung by Jagjit Singh, was playing faintly and he was listening to it. Understanding the meaning of every word of the song, he was rejoicing. Then he, suddenly, became curious who the poet was. So he did research, and came to know who the poet was. He was Shahid ..

  By Dheeraj Fartode: In a bid to give cutting edge to policing in the city, a proposal is mooted to integrate CCTV cameras with artificial intelligence (AI). L&T that has put up 3,600 cameras at vantage points is tasked by Nagpur Smart and Sustainable City Development Corporation Limited to submit a report about integrating AI in the CCTV camera network. The officials privy to details of the project said that idea is to make effective use of the CCTV cameras network keeping in ..

This will help reducing crude oil import bill, said the President of Green Crude FoundationStaff ReporterPresident of Green Crude Foundation Dr Hemant Jambhekar said that India must promote biofuel for reducing its crude oil import bill. “Vehicles could be run on 30 per cent ethanol mixed fuel in India to cut down expenditure on imports,” he said, while addressing a seminar on biofuel organised by VNIT and Green crude Biofuel foundation at VNIT. Prof P M Padole, Director of VNIT, Chairman ..

Staff ReporterWomen Social Service Committee (WSSC) of Central Railway’s (CR) Nagpur Division felicitated Class IV employees in recognition of their efforts put in their long services in Railways. Employees who have put in 25 years of service were chosen for felicitation. The programme was held at Rail Club, Civil Lines, under leadership of Monika Shrivastav, President, WSSC, CR, Nagpur Division.  WSSC President Monika Shrivastav and other office-bearers snapped with railway employees ..

Staff Reporter:Sreyashi Saha (98.4%) of Jain International tops in Science stream; Nidhi Punyani and Tanmay Chindaliya of Bhavan’s BVM, Civil Lines, are joint toppers in Commerce stream with 97.4% each; Isha Reddy of Bhavan’s BVM, Shrikrishna Nagar, scores 97.2% to top Humanities streamCENTRAL Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced the results of Class XII examinations on Thursday. The board has uploaded the results on its official website — cbseresults.nic.in or cbse.nic.in. As CBSE has tied ..

Staff Reporter:The 16% reservation applicable for admissions started only after Nov 30 last IN A major victory for medical and dental students opposing excessive reservation in post graduate courses introduced after the process was initiated, Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court on Thursday quashed the 16 per cent reservation provided for Maratha community under Special Economic Backward Class (SEBC) for current academic year. The High Court also set aside the seat matrix prepared on March 27 taking ..

  Gadchiroli Correspondent: DIRECTOR General of Police Subodh Jaiswal denied having any intelligence inputs regarding the Jambhul kheda blast in which 15 police jawans and a bus driver was killed on Wednesday, but admitted that there were some errors in the operational procedures that led to the incident. Addressing the media persons at the SP office here on Thursday evening, DGP Jaiswal who was earlier SP of Gadchiroli, informed that the Anti-Naxal Operations will continue with renewed ..

   Staff Reporter: WITH the advances in technology, swindlers are having a field day on net and a sum of Rs 9.69 crore were skimmed off from Nagpurians. It happened over a period of little over four years signified with rise in on-line transactions. These cyber cases termed as white crime are increasing a challenge before law enforcers since criminals operate from far off places and cops are bound by geographical boundaries. The information shared with Abhay Kolarkar is from 2015 ..

  Staff Reporter: Bramhapuri, Chandrapur and Wardha also in the top ten list of hottest cities in the world With heatwave intensifying in several parts of the country, United State’s El Dorado Weather has released a list of 10 hottest cities in the World on Tuesday. Among them, Bramhapuri, Chandrapur, Nagpur and Wardha of Vidarbha placed in the list with maximum temperature of above 45 degree Celsius. Bramhapuri recorded 47 degree Celsius while Chandrapur, Nagpur and Wardha ..

  By Dheeraj Fartode: The case, as per the sources, is that Borkar had forged documents of over 120 farmers and applied for Kisan Credit Card (KCC) in the Gondegaon Branch of UCO Branch  Prashant Borkar, a private agent who had swindled Rs. 2.70 crore from Gondegaon branch of UCO, suffered a set back after the adjudicating authority under Prohibition of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) upheld order of Enforcement Directorate (ED) to attach his properties. Borkar had committed the ..

 By Dheeraj Fartode: Traffic police have served massive 51,475 e-challans to motorists within three-and-a-half month  TRAFFIC Control Branch has recorded violations of traffic norms by 51,475 citizens in a period of three and half months. And among the eight traffic zones, highest violations of 9433 that is almost18.33 percent were reported from Sitabuldi Zone that comprises of middle portion of city. With 3,300 installed cameras, City Operation Centre (CoC) is helping police in ..

  By Sagar Mohod: Amidst the bustling market where space is premium, every other person is on the lookout for a green shade so that for a moment or two one can relax and then carry out the day’s chores. Especially when scorching sun heats up the atmosphere in summer, the one thing that everyone remembers is trees. But in the ever busy wholesale market area of Gandhibagh and Itwari, one does find time is short with people to take care of the precious green cover. So when the summer ..

  Staff Reporter: The cyclone ‘Fani’ that is moving towards Tamil Nadu from Bay of Bengal will not affect the weather over Central India and Vidarbha because possible cyclones in summer mainly move forward towards Bangladesh and Myanmar, stated a senior meteorologist to The Hitavada on Monday. “Heatwave condition, continuing in Vidarbha and Madhya Pradesh for many days, will likely to cross 46 degree Celsius mark in the first week of May. If the temperature crosses ..

  By Ramesh Marulkar: The ten-year Maharashtra Biodiversity Strategic Action Plan submitted by Maharashtra State Biodiversity Board (MSBB) to the State Government in December last is under active consideration of the government and it is likely to give final sanction to it in May. The plan has been prepared by the board with the view of sustainable use of bio- resources and their protection and conservation in the future. Since all other allied departments like Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, ..

  Staff Reporter:   City agog with talks of supari killing, police however prefer to wait and watch for autopsy report In a suspected case of murder, a city transporter's semi-decomposed body was found under the jurisdiction of Kondhali Police Station on Sunday. The body of Bhupendra Singh Manjit Singh Makan alias Bobby Sardar (46), a resident of Dixit Nagar, was found in a nullah at Kathalabodi village. Bobby was missing since last four days and his wife had reported the ..

  Sports Reporter: Enters Asian Book of Records by becoming first family of four from Asia to complete adventure sea swimming  FAMILY of international swimmer Sukhdeo Dhurve including wife Vaishali, son Sarthak and daughter Tanvi made Nagpur proud by entering into the Asian Book of Records when they successfully covered a distance of about 16 kilometres from Elephanta to Gateway of India on Sunday. The family members, in a relay, covered the distance in four hours and 31 minutes. ..

  Staff Reporter:  The first batch of Bhonsala Adventure and Sports Foundation and The Hitavada Twinkle Club Personality Development Camp, concluded at Panchavati   “The demos staged by the campers, participating in the Bhonsala Adventure and Sports Foundation and The Hitavada Twinkle Club Personality Development Camp, reflected on the importance of extra curricular activities and studies, needed for overall development of one’s personality. One should stay hungry ..

  Staff Reporter: It’s another morning. A group of trees zooms with fresh blowing breeze. Soon, it realises that not much has changed. With their bases stuck in cement slabs marking boundary of foootpath and road-shoulder shrunk due to tar road’s invasion on footpath, these trees shake their branches for a while. Soon, the leaves stop moving, as if the trees have resigned to the unfortunate fate that one of their own met -- of being reduced to only a stump. Yes. There is ..

  Staff Reporter; As the Air India server suffered a breakdown all over the country, Nagpur’s Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport, too, experienced its heat on Saturday. Several flights were affected because of which over 160 air passengers got stranded at the airport. The flight that takes off for Delhi at 8.25 am was delayed by seven hours and took off at 3.20 pm.  This flight takes off from Raipur and reaches Nagpur at 8.10 am. But due to the technical snag in ..

  Staff Reporter: Railway Protection Force (RPF) raided Balaji Airlink office in Jaripatka for illegally booking train tickets. The raiding party have seized illegally booked 17 tickets of Mail/Express trains and other material collectively worth Rs 70,000 from his possession.  Acting on a tip-off, the RPF team raided office of Balaji Airlink in Jaripatka area on Saturday and checked his computer systems and bill registers. The raiding party have seized 17 live tickets worth Rs ..

  By Kartik Lokhande:  “It is my conviction that with every thread I draw, I am spinning the destiny of India. Without the spinning wheel, there is no salvation for this country of ours,” Mahatma Gandhi once said, when he was asked about the significance of spinning yarn on ‘Charkha’. He treated ‘Charkha’ or spinning wheel as a tool for reforms, and lending strength for self-reliance to villages of the country. Now, as the nation is gearing up to ..

By Vikas Vaidya Taking serious cognizance of choking of trees due to road concretisation work, Commissioner of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) Abhijit Bangar asked all the officials of all the zones to de-choke the trees in their areas by May 23 or face action. ‘The Hitavada’ has been consistently publishing the reports and photos about the trees being choked due to the road concretisaion work. The thoughtful action of Nagpur Municipal Commissioner Abhijit Bangar created a ..

 “One must look beyond our body, mind and intelligence to seek happiness. This vision can only be obtained through Vedas. Today, it is the need of the world, to revive knowledge of vedas” exhorted Dr Mohan Bhagwat, Sarsanghachalak, Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), after unveiling the model of the Sri Sri Gurukul Vedpathshala and Vedic Anusandhan Kendra, to be constructed at Dahegaon, Kalmeshwar Road, Nagpur at the Art of Living Ashram. Present on the dais were Trustee of Vedic ..

The heat wave for the past two days has impacted life in Nagpur as city roads wore a deserted look throughout the day on Friday. Nagpur recorded the highest maximum temperature of this summer with 45.2 degree Celsius on Friday.A look at the public places like bus stand, railway station and even market places, is enough to reveal the impact of summer.The ongoing cement road construction and metro work is increasing the temperature on city roads and it was a tough job for rickshaw-pullers and roadside ..

  By Vikas Vaidya:  Due to widespread concretisation of city roads, percolation of rain water would be adversely affected, which is likely to impact groundwater reserves in a very big way leading to larger environmental hazard, the survey revealed  Compaction due to concretisation within the tree’s root zone is likely to adversely affect the tree. Trees are likely to die due to such compaction. However, in most places, no scientific effort is visible in order to provide ..

  Staff Reporter:  Permit 32 ineligible students with less than 60 per cent attendance to write LL B (fourth semester) exam: HC  Expressing deep anguish over decision by authorities of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar College of Law to ignore compulsory attendance norm while permitting ineligible students to appear for the university examination, Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court on Thursday directed the university and college to allow one more student with 22.72 per cent attendance ..

  Staff Reporter: Bhonsala Adventure and Sports Foundation and The Hitavada Twinkle Club Personality Development Camp has reached mid way in its ten-day tenure  Children need exposure. They need to be kept busy and there could not have been a better option than sending these brats to a military and adventure camp. The first batch of the Bhonsala Adventure and Sports Foundation and The Hitavada Twinkle Club Personality Development Camp has 236 Boys and 119 Girls, divided into ..

  By Vijay Phanshikar: The city of Nagpur appears headed to a point when it will no longer be able to claim to be the country’s “Second Greenest City”, perhaps after Bengaluru. Its civic and political leaders seem perpetually engaged in the task of denuding the city of its wonderful green arboreal cover by engaging in a willful neglect of its trees that once offered wonderful, cool shade even at the peak of summers. They appear committed to making efforts to choke ..

 By Sagar Mohod:  In aftermath of heavy rains, rain water gushes into homes for which a nullah was to be laid across North Ambazari road but work has still not started leaving citizens confused  For residents of Ambazari area, it may be yet another year of slip between cup and the lip. After having suffered year after year during rainy season due to gushing of rain water in their homes, there was a ray of hope when work finally got sanctioned to resolve the problem. The proverbial ..

    Staff Reporter:  Enforcement Squad of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), on Wednesday, removed encroachments in Hasanbagh area. There was tension for a while as the shop-owners resisted the drive initially. But, Enforcement Squad squad went ahead with the drive amid police bandobast. NMC’s Enforcement Squad squad went to Hasanbagh area to remove encroachments, unauthorised shops, extensions, and tin-sheds. The squad started removing encroachments of shops on the ..

  Staff Reporter: After passage of one year of ground-breaking ceremony of city’s first waste-to-energy plant, the project is yet to take-off. Nagpur Solid Waste Processing and Management (NSWPMPL), a company incorporated by EIL (Essel Group), was expected to develop the project with an investment of over Rs 219 crore with Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC). The bhoomipujan was performed with much fanfare in the presence of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Union Ministers ..

  Staff Reporter: A group of sand-mafia on Tuesday attempted to kill three officials of Revenue Department including a Naib Tehsildar in Nandanvana area. According to police, Naib Tehsildar Sunil Salwe, Circle Officers H P Maliye (Sitabuldi) and Mukunda Madavi (Pardi) were conducting a special drive against illegal transportation of sand in Nandanvan area in the morning hours. The officials stopped two trucks (MH-40/AK-8056 and MH-36/F-4157) at Wathoda Ring Road and shot the video of ..

  By Ramesh Marulkar: Even as four months have passed by, the Forest Department has not met with any success in capturing the T1-C1 sub-adult cub moving in Pandharkwada Forest Division of Yavatmal district. It has raised a question mark on the operation as to whether forestmen really want to capture the beast moving in Loni and Sarati areas in Ralegaon tehsil or not. Officials and teams of Forest Department and Forest Development Corporation of Maharashtra (FDCM) had captured orphaned ..

 Legal Correspondent:  State CID to take over Rajura tribal girls’ sexual abuse case investigation  Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court on Monday awarded an interim compensation of Rs 50,000 each to six sexually abused minor scheduled tribe girls with Infant Jesus English Public School, Rajura. The compensation has been awarded as per the provision made for this purpose in the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.   The amount will ..

  Staff Reporter: The COURT on Monday extended the police custody remand (PCR) of accused Mohammad Ikhlaq Mushtaq Khan and Aishwarya alias Priyanka Champati involved in elderly couple’s murder case till April 26. Aishwarya (24), adopted daughter of Shankar Atulchandra Champati (72) and Seema (64), and her boyfriend Mohammad Ikhlaq (23) had killed them with sharp-edged weapons at Plot No 1, Suraksha Nagar, Dattawadi on April 14. Shankar and Seema Champati were against the affair ..

  Staff Reporter: A joint team of Government Railway Police (GRP) and Railway Protection Force (RPF) on Monday rescued more than 2,000 birds at Nagpur Railway Station. The birds were being transported to Mumbai from Howrah though Dyaneshwari Express in inhumane manner. An alert train passenger - Shubrat Das - he was travelling in 12102 Howrah-LTT Dnyaneshwari Express, noticed the love birds, white rabbits stuffed in cages and transported in SLR coach of the train. He immediately shot ..

  By Ajay Mardikar:  Men, particularly above 50 years of age, are most neglected person and get a feeling of loneliness in the family. The problems faced in this age are related to heart, sex and depression. Most of them can be corrected through counselling by a qualified person. The experience of Dr Sanjay Deshpande, noted sexologist, who has also studied psychology, get such persons in vast majority. Even a touch everyday expressing love, by wife or children can help in getting ..

  By Kartik Lokhande: In an era when many often question the need for protecting the monuments, the responsibility to protect these symbols of rich heritage and past glory rests with the Government. However, a shocking fact has come to fore that there are only 80 security guards protecting 378 monuments in Maharashtra. State Directorate of Archaeology and Museums looks after 378 monuments in Maharashtra. These include over 150 temples, 49 forts, 20 caves and others. However, only 100 ..

 Dr Hozie Kapadia By Vikas Vaidya: Dr Hozie Kapadia is President of Maharashtra State branch of Indian Medical Association (IMA). He was in city to grace the installation of new body of IMA, Nagpur. He took out time from his busy schedule to share his views with ‘The Hitavada’ on how to make health care affordable in India. Excerpts: Which are the three things you planned while taking over as President of Maharashtra IMA? I planned many things but out of those the three ..

  By Ajay Mardikar: Development cannot be achieved unless the benefits of modern technology reaches rural population. This is the major goal in mind, while working in Saikheda in Saunsar taluka of Chhindwada district of Madhya Pradesh. This was stated by Dr Sudhir Meshram, who recently joined G H Raisoni University at Saikheda. Dr Meshram, founder Head of Rajiv Gandhi Biotechnology Centre of RTM Nagpur University and former Vice-Chancellor of North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon, is ..

 (left)Entrance to Waste Management Park, inside which one cansee models explaining waste management in a simplified way.  (right)On visiting the Waste Management Park, one can also see things made out of scrap. By Vikas Vaidya: Civic authorities, various Non-Government Organisations and other people are endeavoring to make people aware about waste management. Often, they get limited success. But there are some who never give up. They strive hard selflessly to bring about ..