The magisterial custody remand (MCR) of Vikesh alias Vickey Nagrale, accused of setting afire a 24-year-old female lecturer in Hinganghat, has been extended upto March 4. He was produced before court in Hinganghat on Thursday and later sent back to Central Jail in Nagpur. Vikesh has been put up in the Anda Cell at the Nagpur jail owing to security reasons...

Customers of Voda-Idea on Thursday were irked over the company as they faced network connectivity issue. They faced issues like poor coverage, call drop and worst Internet speed. “Such situation is arising since three months,” said Anil Jadhav, a customer who is associated with the service since 10 years. “I am a pre-paid customer and paid the amount for three months...

In a shocker for High Court lawyers here, a public interest litigation (PIL) filed by High Court Bar Association (HCBA) has been transferred to Principal Bench by an administrative order. This PIL (07/2015) was instrumental in facilitating improved physical infrastructure for all courts including the High Court and it was a very alive petition before Nagpur bench...

JCI Orange City recently organised a workshop on ‘Life Management and Mind Power’ with renowned motivational speaker and yog guru Dr Pankaj Shukla as the faculty for the session at Chitnavis Centre. Renuka Verma, Zone Director-International, JCI Zone-IX, was the chief guest for the workshop while chartered accountant Ashish Agarwal, President, JCI Orange City, presided over the session. The workshop began with the invocation of JCI Creed and welcoming of the guests. Samita Asai, Project Director of ..

Gittikhadan Police have detained a minor boy, previously involved in various cases of vehicle theft and house-breaking thefts, and recovered three two-wheelers stolen by him. The boy told the cops that he learned the tricks of breaking handle-locks of two-wheelers from YouTube and stole the vehicles. It all started with a case of motorcycle theft reported on December 16, 2019. Ravindra Bhimrao Dongre (22), a resident of Shirpur Bhuyari, post Dhamna, in Nagpur Rural tehsil, had parked his KTM motorcycle ..

City is gearing to celebrate Mahashivratri festival with religious fervour on February 21 and 22. Elaborate arrangements have been made in Shiva temples spread across the city to celebrate Mahashivratri. Sanatan Sanstha The organisation spreading scientific knowledge about deity Shiva will display three different stalls of spiritual literature at three different places in city on February 21. One stall will be displayed at Kalyaneshwar temple, Telangkhedi from 7.30 am to 10 pm, another stall will ..

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team has arrested absconding accused in Bhopal gas tragedy case from Gittikhadan area of city on Tuesday. The arrested accused Shakil Ahmed Qureshi (80), a resident of Indore, was hiding in Jafar Nagar area of Gittikhadan with his family, said a CBI official. Acting on a tip-off, a team of CBI New Delhi with local support raided at his house and arrested him. The CBI produced the accused in the court at Nagpur and obtained his transit remand...

Transfer of technology from college to village is no more a dream. Dream of Dr Vijay Bhatkar, an initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development’s (MHRD) Unnat Bharat Abhiyan and efforts of students and faculties has made it possible. Government College of Engineering Nagpur developed two projects for the two adopted villages 1. Smart compost bin and 2. Mobile On/Off Controller for 3 Phase Motor. They completed the projects by developing technologies and handed over those to the villages. Nagpur ..

A WhatsApp message related to alleged recruitment in Territorial Army (TA) at Nagpur from February 20 to 24, turned out to be fake. On Tuesday, believing in the message, a large number of aspirants gathered in front of Sitabuldi Fort. The authorities had to subsequently send them back, stated a press release issued by Group Captain Basant-kumar Pande, Public Relations Officer (Nagpur), Ministry of Defence...

“Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is not a political organisation. This organisation is working on the principles of Hindurashtra which are eternal, all inclusive and give a chance to prosper in life. Shri Guruji Golwalkar, the second Sarsanghachalak was instrumental in nurturing and building this great organisation and infused the sense of patriotism in each person,” said, Sarkaryawah of RSS Suresh alias Bhaiyyaji Joshi on Wednesday. Joshi was addressing as an invited speaker to a function organised ..

JCI Nagpur Medicos conducted a programme ‘Doctors For Environment’ at Hotel Hardeo, recently. Bhaskar Londe of Lokshahi Varta was the chief guest of the event. CA Mahesh Rathi; Dr Swati Sarda, President, JCI Nagpur Medicos; Shantanu Mukherjee; Dr Smita Pakhmode; Dr Dipika Chandok and Dr Minakshi Hande were also present as guests during the event...

DREAM Trust in collaboration with Indian Dietetic Association (IDA) organised seminar on Newer technologies in diabetes. Dr Sanket Pendsey gave talk on insulin pump therapy, CGMS continuous glucose monitoring system and i-port in diabetes. He gave live demonstration of insulin pump on a patient. Sharmila Chatterjee US-based diabetes educator talked on Medical Nutrition therapy MNT, carb counting and role of diabetes educator in treatment of diabetes...

ABSENCE of rulebook needed for joining at new postings after General Transfers (GT) is becoming a handy tool for a section of police officers to twist the process to enjoy ‘desired postings’. Establishment Board of Maharashtra Police starts process of GT in February and transfer orders are issued in last week of May every year. The transfer process has become most time consuming process as record of the policemen is yet to be digitised, claimed sources. As per the rule, the transferred officer should ..

EXPORT and trade of life-saving injectables, ophthalmic products and anti-cancer medicines have been badly hit by the Coronavirus outbreak in China. Vidarbha’s pharma industry is among the worst-affected by the pause in supplies from China as manu￾facturing of emergency injecta￾bles needed for critical surgeries has come to a halt. In MIDC Hingna, Arco Life Sciences (India) Pvt Ltd manu￾factures pharmaceuticals indictable and ophthalmic prod￾ucts.The company manufactures and exports life-saving emer￾gency ..

DECISION by Central Railway of shift￾ing Duronto Express to Ajni station has resulted in miseries for com￾muters. As part of their experiment, authorities at Nagpur Division uni￾laterally decided to start the premi￾um Express train ex-Ajni, a suburban station. However for travellers, the decision has not gone down well as they say, Ajni lacks amenities neces￾sary for running a prestigious train like Duronto Express. Incidentally, Duronto Express was initiated from Nagpur Railway Station and it was ..

GAIMUKH is an ancient pil￾grimage centre in Tumsar tehsil of Bhandara district. This small villageissituatedonthefoothills ofSatpuda range.Thevillagehas a very sacred Lord Shiva temple knownas‘ChhotaMahadev’.The Lord Shiva temple at Pachmarhi in MP is famous as ‘Motha Mahadev’. Pachmarhi is very famous amongst devotees of Lord Shiva, but the place Gaimukh is not so famous as it isindenseforestinBhandaradis￾trict and people in Vidarbha do notknow muchaboutthisplace. This place is also considered as ..

RAILWAY Protection Force (RPF) of Ajni has recovered a missing purse of woman passenger containing gold ornaments worth Rs 27 lakh from 12289 Duronto Express on Tuesday. A press release of RPF informed that Trishala Krishna Kumar Dhengare (52), a resident of C/302, JP Heights, Byramji town, was travelling in the train from Mumbai to Nagpur in the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday...

There are several factors that must be considered while discussing design and engineering interventions to improve pedestrian safety on road and designing safer streets. Some of these factors were pointed out by the participants of training workshop on ‘Creating Cities Safer by Design’ on Monday. ..

Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examination to be conducted by Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education will begin on Tuesday with first paper of English to be held between 11 am and 2 pm. The examination will end on March 23, 2020. Last year 1,66,235 students had enrolled for the examination. This year the number rose to 1,68,508. This year the number of students have been increased by 2,273 than those enrolled last year. ..

The Higher Secondary School Examination (HSSC) conducted by Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education would begin on Tuesday February 18. It will conclude on March 23, 2020. Board has made all preparations. Divisional Chairman Ravikant Deshpande said that Board has reputation of conduction examination without being facing any untoward incident. This time also Board has kept flying squads ready that would monitor students involving in the act of copying. Examination would ..

Lamenting lack of action against employees who obtained public employment without caste validity certificate, the High Court has sought details of all such employees from the State Government within four weeks. If at all the Government is serious about all this, it will enact measures otherwise every bogus caste certificate holder will escape the consequences of law, the High Court observed tersely while putting the Government on notice...

Rotary Club of Nagpur, along with the Department of Social Welfare- Zilla Parishad, organized ‘UDAAN’- A Day Long Event for Specially Abled Children. Every year Rotary Club of Nagpur celebrates Valentine’s Day with specilly abled children to motivate and support these children in sports and to boost their confidence. This year again, around 750 special children, from 36 specially abled schools, took parts in various sports activities. These include deaf and mute, blind, mentally challenged and physically ..

India will watch a biggest programme of Mahashivratri night by Isha Foundation. There are number of articles, advertisements and promotions to celebrate Mahashivratri 2020 with Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev. According to Sadguru, “Mahashivratri is very significant for people who are on the spiritual path, and also for people with careers and in family situations. For people living in family situations, Mahashivratri is worshipped as Shiva’s wedding anniversary. The ambitious see it as the day Shiva conquered ..

Crime Branch sleuths have nabbed a four-member team of Sisodiya tribe involved in multiple thefts at marriage functions. For first time cops in Maharashtra have managed to track down the thieves, said Nilesh Bharne, Deputy Inspector General of Police (Crime), while interacting with newspersons on Sunday. Among the four are a minor and a woman while the other two men are mastermind of the gang. Bharne said the quartet are Sunny Hariprasad Chayal (32), a resident of Kadiya, Sansi, in Rasonda tehsil ..

Apart from some changes in the pattern of examination, Council of Architecture (CoA) has introduced some other changes also in holding National Aptitude Test for Architecture (NATA). NATA is the exam conducted for admission to BArch and BPlan courses in Schools of Planning and Architecture (SPAs) at New Delhi, Bhopal and Vijayawada. The NATA score is also used by other architecture colleges across the country for offering admission to BArch and BPlan courses...

What impacts human senses more -- a wonderful voice or a beautiful sound of a musical instrument? This was the question that remained unanswered in the minds of the music-lovers who attended the first day of C R Vyas Memorial Music Festival. The members of the audience could not decide whether it was the Sitar performance of Chintan Katti that struck a chord with them, or a matured voice of veteran vocalist Alka Deo-Marulkar that lingered on in their memory-box of melodies. The two-day C R Vyas Memorial ..

Thousands of devotees of Sant Gajanan Maharaj across the city participated in the grand celebrations of 142nd Pragat Dinotsav of Sant Gajanan Maharaj on Saturday. All the temples of Sant Gajanan Maharaj in city in different areas were seen flooded with the devotees right from early morning. Religious programmes like Rudrabhishek, Abhishek, Paduka Pujan, Bhajan, Distribution of Mahaprasad and Shobhayatra were held in city. Long queues of devotees of Sant Gajanan Maharaj were seen in front of many temples ..

Cyber Cell of Nagpur city police investigated the links shared by NCRBStaff ReporterCity police have registered offence against unidentified persons in connection with uploading of clips of child pornography. As part of nationwide crackdown on child pornography, the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) alerted police organisations in country about spurt in uploading of child pornography clips on porn websites.   Special Inspector General of Police, National Crime ..

Staff ReporterOn rampage, miscreants let loose a wave of terror in Yashodhara Nagar police station area during wee hours of Friday. Brandishing swords and sticks, the gang of six youth went on damaging two wheelers and four wheelers parked by road side. Nearly 25 to 30 vehicles suffered damage during the spree by the thugs.   The incident occurred in Dhammadeep Nagar and Vandevi Nagar in North Nagpur area and primary reports said it was fallout of rivalry between two groups. The entire ..

Staff ReporterNagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has dismissed a Tax Collector with Laxmi Nagar Zone office, for misapropriation of Rs 93 lakh.   Tukaram Mundhe, Municipal Commissioner, dismissed Anand Laxmanrao Fulzele. Fulzele was suspended for misappropriation. He had collected Rs 93 lakh from the property owners in the financial years 2014-15, 2015-16, and 2016-17. He had given receipts also to the taxpayers. However, Fulzele had not deposited the amount with NMC. Later, he ..

THE law-abiding citizen was not at fault, waiting in his car for the signal to turn green at Kriplani Square. As he moved ahead, a bike rider coming from the newly-carved Jail Road jumped signal and crashed into his car. Fortunately, there was no casualty. As he lay down on the road, volunteers of ‘Janaakrosh’ helped the biker to the side of the road and counselled him. He promised to abide by the rules. Nagpur’s roads have bikers like the one aplenty, but people like ‘Janaakrosh’ volunteers are too ..

“Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words. Be careful of your words, for your words become your actions. Be careful of your actions, for your actions become your habits. Be careful of your habits, for your habits become your character. Be careful of your character, for your character becomes your destiny,” with these words of wisdom, Arvind Kumar, Centre Head of Tata Consultancy Services inspired the Diploma..

Though Vidarbha region’s financial backlog came to an end some years ago, the physical backlog of four districts in Amravati division is yet to be over. This backlog exists in irrigation sector. Currently, the backlog is pegged at 1,63,139 hectares and it will require Rs 15,488.04 crore for removal, said Chainsukh Sancheti, Chairman of Vidarbha Development Board (VDB). Addressing a press conference at VDB on Thursday, after the board meeting, Sancheti said that the backlog removal programme for the ..

Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court, on Thursday, rejected an application to join Union of India, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Enforcement Directorate (ED), Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), and Principal Chief Commissioner of Income-Tax as party-respondents in the ongoing public interest litigations (PILs) in irrigation scam. The application moved by activist Atul Jagtap was vehemently opposed by counsel for Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar dubbing it as politically motivated with ..

THE outbreak of Novel Coronavirus in China is set to affect supply of key medicines to India. Nagpur, too, is likely to face shortage of medicines for malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, cancer and diabetes if domestic production is unable to cope with the demand. China is a supplier of about 70 to 80 per cent Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) to India. APIs are a raw material used to make a pharmaceutical drug. India imports APIs from China and the Indian Pharmaceutical Companies convert these APIs ..