Expressing deep concern over the environmental degradation, senior leader of Bharatiya Janata Party Dr Murli Manohar Joshi said, “High consumption is the root cause of mass destruction of environment. More consumption, more production will not help. Instead of sustainable development we must concentrate on sustainable consumption. Level of consumption should be as such where reasonable, dignified living condition for every individual has to be provided in a sustained manner centuries together.”..

“DATTOPANT Thengadi never limited himself to one philosophy, though he was a philosopher himself,” said Dr Mohan Bhagwat, Sarsanghchalak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at the inaugural function of birth centenary year celebration of Dattopant Thengadi, at Dr Hedgewar Smruti Bhavan, Reshimbagh, on Sunday...

When authorities found four canons during ongoing development work at Kasturchand Park (KP), everybody raised eyebrows with a questionmark whether any policy is being followed to maintain Grade-I heritage status of the ground. Experts say, it is not maintained the way it should have been. There should be a heritage committee, unfortunately it is not functioning at present. While playgrounds across city are vanishing, nobody is taking care of KP, once a glory of Nagpur. No authority or any leader has ..

Dr Vinky Rughwani has been unanimously elected as Vice-President (V-P) of Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC). He is the first person from Nagpur to become Vice-President of the state body. Earlier, Nagpur’s late Dr Kishor Taori was the Chairman of the council. Government of Maharashtra had nominated Dr Vinky Rughwani on Maharashtra Medical Council in 2017...

Oriya is a rich and and probably one of the oldest languages of the world. It is said that the language is very much close to Sanskrit. According to experts, not so aggressive efforts are being taken to promote the language. If Oriya culture, literature, music is promoted, the language can be popularised. With a view to know what efforts are being taken to promote Oriya language, ‘The Hitavada’ talked to a senior officer, teachers, social worker who threw light on the measures been taken by several ..

Five office-bearers and employees of Vidarbha Mahila Nagari Sahakari Pat Sanstha for siphoning of Rs 1.13 crore from the society. Hingna police have registered an offence against the accused persons. The accused have been identified as Pushpa Sunil Modak, Sunil Domaji Modak, Kashinath Kishan Chouke, Digambar Borghate, Pranay Itankar, all residents of Nagpur. According to police, the accused are office-bearers and employees of the society...

The contribution of Maharashtra, Bengal and Bengalis in promoting and preserving Indian culture, heritage through art, literature, music and dance is remarkable, said Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Surface Transport, here on Saturday. Gadkari was speaking after inaugurating the first Regional Conference of Nikhil Bharat Banga Sahitya Sammelan held at South Central Zone Cultural Centre in Civil Lines. Pradip Bhattacharjee, MP (Rajya Sabha) and All India President of sammelan, presided over the function. ..

  India and Bangladesh cricketers arrived in the city for the deciding third T20 International which will be played at VCA Jamtha Stadium on Sunday evening. Bangladesh won the first T20 at Delhi and India bounced back winning the second game at Rajkot thus making the third and final game interesting. Both the teams will be doing their practice sessions on Saturday at Jamtha. (Pics by Umesh Varma/Moonlight)..

Following stern directives of the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court to act against absconding accused, Chandrapur Police have obtained warrants against 158 such accused persons. In fact, 52 absconding accused have been arrested so far, two surrendered before the court while seven accused passed away during pendency of criminal trial against them. The information was furnished before the High Court by Additional PP Anand Deshpande during the hearing of a suo-motu proceeding initiated by the High Court. ..

Admitting that recent heavy rains damaged crops to a large extent in district, Chandrashekhar Bawankule, Guardian Minister said, “Government has vowed to provide all help to farmers and no peasant will be deprived of compensation. With a view not to have any loophole in providing the help, a proper calculation of damages would be conducted and put before the Gramsabha that would take final decision. Final report of crop damage would be ready by November 15.”..

Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Limited (Mahagenco) has approached State Government for ‘cancellation’ of Solar Parks proposed at Washim, Yavatmal, Latur, and Kacharala. For, it faced ‘difficulties’ in development of the allotted Solar Parks. Mahagenco mentioned this in its petition before Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC). In its petition, Mahagenco sought approval of MERC for deviation from guidelines for tariff-based competitive bidding to undertake development of ..

“Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) imbibes grooming to its Swayamsevaks in which ‘Jivhala’ is key factor. RSS work is ‘Jivhala’. It is their tradition. One has to have ‘Kalval’, stated Sarsanghchalak Dr Mohan Bhagwat, while addressing the gathering after felicitating Shikshan Maharshi Vivek Pandhrikar, of Ved Vidya Gurukulum and confering the ‘Jivhala’ award on him, comprising a cheque of Rs One Lakh, shawl, shrifal and citation...

His Holiness Ramakrishnanda Saraswati Swamigal was an Atharva Veda Shankaracharya of Sri Vidya Peetam Rishikesh. He was an erudite scholar of Sri Vidya Upasana and also well versed in all four Vedas. He was known for his number of scientific research activities which had proved how the synergy of science and spirituality could help the entire mankind to solve number of problems. Swamiji was well connected with number of scientists in India and abroad. He was closely associated with former President ..

It is final. Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has decided to do rejuvenation of Naik Talao first. Earlier NMC had planned to go with the project involving Futala and Naik Talao both. But now NMC would go with Naik Talao only. Abhijeet Bangar, Municipal Commissioner told ‘The Hitavada’, “National Environmental Engineering and Research Institute (NEERI) had submitted Detailed Project Report (DPR) regarding rejuvenation of Naik Talao and we are working on it...

Untimely rains in October have caused heavy damage to crops in Vidarbha region. As per the preliminary report compiled by the administrative machinery, standing crops in 12,86,783.28 hectares in Vidarbha have been damaged. This has affected farmers in 8,179 villages in 11 districts of the region. Vidarbha has two administrative divisions -- Nagpur and Amravati. Nagpur division has six districts namely Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur, and Gadchiroli. Whereas, Amravati division has five ..

KRML into withdrawal mode, Municipal Commissioner appeals people to cooperate as garbage collection gets irregular across city In ensure city wears a clean look, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) is planning to introduce machines for sweeping streets. The process has already started. Within 15 days a tender would be finalised. After the process gets finalised, Nagpurians will see machines sweeping Nagpur streets clean, from January 31, 2020. “We have now cement roads everywhere, cleaning those can ..

For long, it is thought that research on air pollution is at a ‘nascent’ stage. To put this notion to rest, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) has launched India’s first web repository, documenting air quality studies done in the last 60 years in the country. The web repository titled Indian Air Quality Interactive Repository (IndAIR) was launched in Delhi on Wednesday. IndAIR archives around 700 scanned materials from ..

Sarang Helicopter Display Team - ‘The Peacocks’ is going to spread its feather on skies of Nagpur to enthrall the people on November 8 and 10. The Team has evolved from the Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) Evaluation Flight, which was formed at Bengaluru in 2003, to evaluate the indigenous helicopter ‘Dhruv’, prior to its induction into operational service. True to its name the ALH has been a guiding beacon, standing out like the Pole star in the Indian Aviation sector. Designed and conceived by Hindustan ..

AHEAD of Ayodhya verdict, police machinery has started preparations for maintaining lawandorder situation across State. Top brass ofStatePolicehasasked allunitcommanders to make action plan for sensitive areas and trouble-mongers. Sources informed ‘The Hitavada’ that the unit commanders have conducted first phase of meetings within-charge of police stations and directed them to prepare list of trouble mongers. Two policemen would be designated to keep watch on thethesetrouble-mongers.If anyone found ..

Taking a serious cognizance of ‘The Hitavada’ campaign on damaged footpaths in Nagpur, Nagpur Municipal Corporation has come up with a plan that would help in repairing the footpath. NMC is taking the work on war-footing. ‘The Hitavada’ ran the campaign ‘Where is the footpath’ for a month where the newspaper published the photographs of damaged footpaths on several roads making it difficult for the pedestrians to use them. When ‘The Hitavada’ talked to Abhijeet Bangar, Municipal Commissioner on the ..

The single road near Khapri will be kept open only for the commuters coming to Nagpur City Police have come up with the solution that would avoid traffic chaos during cricket T20 match to be held at Jamtha cricket stadium on November 10. With work of Khapri Road over Bridge (RoB) is in progress, the road near it got narrowed and people are experiencing traffic chaos almost everyday there. Considering this aspect, Nagpur city police officers team under the leadership of Dr Bhushan Kumar Upadhyaya, ..

With 456 criminal cases registered against Police personnel in the State, Maharashtra Police ranks first in the ‘unwanted list’ of committing crime in India. The shocking revelation came to fore in a report issued by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) for year 2017. In crime committed by Police personnel, the State recorded a jump of 256 per cent in year 2017 as compared to 173 cases in year 2016, reveals the study of the situation of two years ago. After Maharashtra Police, Gujarat Police ranked ..

The signature manoeuvres of the Surya Kiran and the Sarang Aerobatic teams of India Air Force are going to enthral thousands of spectators of Nagpur in ‘Air Fest 2019’ on November 8 and 10 at Vayusena Nagar. The two-day air show will be held to mark the 65th Anniversary of Head Quarters Maintenance Command (HQMC) and 87th Indian Air Force Day. The show will be held from 10 am to 12 Noon on both days. Instead of conducting this air show in Sonegaon Air force Station, HQMC is going to organise it at ..

A Silver Spitfire aircraft which is a World War-II vintage landed at Air Force Station Sonegaon, on November 4. The aircraft is on its historic world tour expedition which is covering approx 27,000 miles and nearly 29 countries with a stopover at 100 different locations. The aircraft entered Indian air space on November 2 at Kolkata and now is in Nagpur...

Michio Harada, Consul General of Japan in Mumbai joined six months ago but within a short span of time he understood Indian culture, interest, traditions well. He visited several parts of Maharashtra , Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Goa and the places impressed him. He wants to promote those places at Japan as according to him both the countries have a very little flow of tourists from each other. But he is optimistic that Indians will start visiting Japan very soon. Michio Harada is the one who, 10 ..

Former MLA Ashok Dhawad, on Monday, surrendered before special Maharashstra Protection of Interest of Depositors (MPID) court in connection with Rs 38.75 crore loan fraud of Navodaya Urban Co-operative Bank Limited. Soon after, he was arrested by the Economic Offence Wing (EOW). He will be produced in the court on Tuesday by EoW for police custody remand. A senior official of EoW said that they would interrogate Dhawad over his alleged involvement in the loan fraud case. It may be mentioned that Dhantoli ..

Congress candidates were defeated because of lack of coordination of party’s leadership. This was echoed in the meeting of defeated candidates of Congress from Vidarbha. The meet was initiated by Dr Ashish Deshmukh who was defeated by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in recently held State Assembly elections from Nagpur South West constituency. Meeting was held at Ansuyabai Kale hall. Ex-Education Minister Vasant Purke who got defeated from Ralegaon, Shekhar Shende, Satish Warjukar, Swati ..

Indian Railways is aggressively pushing eliminating level crossing on the mainline to achieve its goal of having seamless movement of the trains. For the same, Railways is going for mass construction of limited height subways (LHS) as an alternative mode for road transport. At Central Railway along side construction of new lines, LHS work is being taken up simultaneously as per the new guidelines from Railway Board. In a major policy shift, Railway Board made it mandatory that no new level crossings ..

Increasing demand of mobile phones in India has also raised the malware threat drastically. India is second in the world after United States of America (USA) which has the highest percentage of malware threat, revealed Internet Security Threat Report 2019 issued by Symantec Corporation, a USA based company recently. India second in the list with 23.6 per cent while USA is on top with 24.7 per cent. Whereas, the other countries have the overall percentage of 31.3 per cent...

Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Nagpur Division has recorded its lowest conviction rate in the last three years with mere 13 per cent convictions this year till October. According to the information provided by the ACB, graph of conviction rate is more or less static, nor there is any significant rise nor any alarming drop. Before 2017, ACB’s recorded 24 per cent conviction rate in the year 2017 and later dropped to 16 per cent in year 2018 and now dipped to all time low of 13 per cent. The trend of ..

Kavikulguru Kalidas Sanskrit University (KKSU), Ramtek, has been honoured with prestigious Auropath Global Award 2019, by Auropath, organisation working in association with Shri Aravind Society, Puducherry. The Sanskrit University has been selected as Best Upcoming University. The award was given at the hands of Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Bhupesh Baghel, during a function held at Hotel Sayaji, Raipur, on Saturday. The Auropath Global Awards are given to universities, colleges, schools and their ..

Food Safety Officers (FSOs) of Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) Nagpur division, on Saturday, seized edible oil worth Rs 20,20,717 under a special drive. According to Joint Commissioner (FDA) Chandrakant Pawar, “FDA had conducted a special drive against the food products. As a part of the drive, a team of FSOs conducted inspections of M/S Dixita Trading Company; Tanker No. MH 35/K-1411 of Anand Santosh Kesharwani and M/S Jethanand Company at Ambedkar Nagar Square, Central Avenue. Suspecting adulteration ..

‘Dehdaan’, the short file directed by Nagpur’s Nagesh Wahurwagh has been selected for Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Award. First Ambedkarwadi Vishwa Sahitya Sammelan is being organised by Jagtik Ambedkarwadi Sahitya Mahamandal on November 8 and 9 at Nelson Mandela premises at Bangkok, Thailand. Wahurwagh will receive award during the same Sammelan. ‘Dehdaan’ is a social movie and has given a message of body donation. The film was produced under the banner of Sant Kabir Film Productions the idea ..

Queering the pitch for two established federations representing nearly 12 lakh workforce of Indian Railways, Secret Ballot for recognition of workers union stands postponed again. There was intense speculation that ballot was due by November end and even preparations were also afoot. But latest information with Federations is that Railway Board has dropped hints that it is highly unlikely now..

After completion of State Assembly elections, the electoral winds have started blowing in Graduate constituency. As it is it’s wont, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is moving with focussed approach while Congress is still celebrating its victory...