Nagpur

 Staff Reporter :  The torrential rains on Tuesday in city triggered panic among citizens and recalled the catastrophic September 23, 2023 flash floods that wreaked havoc among people of Nagpur. In 2023, city witnessed 110 mm of rainfall in just..

Despite recently installed advanced storm water drainage and pumping system, the Narendra Nagar Railway under Bridge (RuB) once again got water-logged after the heavy downpour on Tuesday. The newly installed water drainage and pumping system, which was introduced with assurances of resolving the long-standing waterlogging problem, failed to prevent flooding, leaving commuters stranded. Following intense rainfall, both sides of the underpass were submerged under several inches of water...

A four-hour spell of heavy rain on Tuesday created a dangerous situation at Somalwar School’s Nikhalas Branch (Nikalas Mahila Mahavidyalaya too) on Rana Pratap Nagar Road in Khamla, where students and teachers were stranded after floodwater inundated the school premises. Rescue efforts were launched with the help of ropes to safely evacuate children from the water-logged campus...

School children were among the worst affected by the heavy rains that lashed the city on Tuesday. Water-logged roads, flooded school premises and traffic jams left several students stranded for hours while returning home. Rains intensified around noon, coinciding with closing hours of several schools. Within a short span, roads and school premises in different parts of the city were flooded, making it difficult for school buses and vans to ferry students home. At a reputed school on Inner Ring Road ..

  Staff Reporter : A SERIOUS security lapse came to light after a notorious burglary accused made a good escape from the custody of Hudkeshwar Police on Monday morning. The accused gave police a slip while being taken to the restroom inside..

  Staff Reporter : BUILDERS across the city are in for a tough time ahead as Guardian Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule ordered freezing fresh registry of units in multi-storey buildings in case they have not complied with norms. As public..

   Staff Reporter :  For nearly a month, one of the city’s busiest intersections offered a rare glimpse of how much road space can influence traffic movement. With the statue of Maharaja Agrasen and the central traffic island tem..

   By Simran Shrivastava :  Nearly seven years after it was announced as India’s first Broad Gauge Metro project, the proposed regional commuter rail network connecting Nagpur with neighbouring satellite towns is still unimplemen..

   By Anupam Soni :  HAVING impressed the national selectors with his knack of taking wickets, Vidarbha pacer Yash Thakur made his India debut at Harare Sports Club ground in Zimbabwe on Saturday. The right-arm seamer became sixth Vid..

   By Paritosh Pramanik :   IT HAS been 51 years since India won its first and only hockey World Cup gold medal. The final against Pakistan at Kuala Lumpur Stadium in Malaysia in 1975 saw, for one last time, India’s dominanc..

   Staff Reporter :  The Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court has quashed the departmental enquiry against three Central Jail Nagpur officers accused of extorting money from an undertrial prisoner. The court said the enquiry was not c..

 Staff Reporter : Despite being home State of Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Maharashtra has emerged as the State with the highest number of National Highway projects running beyond their original completion schedu..

A few spell of rains have proved the Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s (NMC) extensive pre-monsoon exercise futile as repaired potholes have re-surfaced on city roads. The rains also exposed the civic body’s tall claims of using advanced construction techniques for construction of roads. Potholes, officially logged as rectified just weeks ago, have re-emerged at the exact same spots with loose gravel and washed-out bitumen creating hazards for motorists. Contrasting pictures can be seen in the city, ..

The Crime Branch Unit 2 of Nagpur City Police apprehended an accused with 2.69 kg of marijuana (ganja) from Dhantoli Police Station area on Wednesday. According to information, the Unit 2 team raided Sontakke’s house in Saraswati Nagar, Takia, Dhantoli area and apprehended the tenant identified as Asif Arif Khan (32)...

The Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s (NMC) Nuisance Detection Squad took stringent action against across the city and fined those who litter, throw garbage, spit, and use plastic bags less than 79 microns in public places. On Wednesday, the Nuisance Detection Squad registered 49 cases and collected a fine of Rs 47,200. About 18 cases were registered against handcarts, stalls, hawkers and small vegetable vendors for spreading uncleanliness and collected fine of Rs 7,200. Meanwhile, 8 cases under registered ..

More than 40 State Government administrative offices are located on the premises of the Divisional Commissioner’s office. Every day, thousands of Government employees and public visit the sprawling campus for official work. However, the area is plagued by parking chaos caused by haphazardly parked vehicles. Dug-up drains, muddy roads and poor infrastructure near the administrative buildings expose the poor state of affairs on the campus. Given the volume of footfall it attracts every day, one would ..

A 52-year-old woman and her 33-year-old son were found dead inside their flat in Mahal area. Police suspect they died by suicide after consuming poison. A suicide note and two bottles of poison were recovered from the house. The deceased have been identified as Abhaya Anant Khankhoje (52) and her son Advait Anant Khankhoje (33). They lived at Shri Guru Mauli Apartment under Kotwali Police Station limits...

An eight-year-old boy died after suddenly collapsing during the recess break at a private school in Jaripatka on Tuesday. The incident shocked students, teachers and parents. The deceased has been identified as Fanit Shaligram Katre, a resident of Samta Nagar. He was a student of Class III at Rajkumar Kewalramani School. According to police, Fanit’s mother dropped him at school in the morning as usual. During the recess break, he came out of his classroom with other students. While running in the ..

A 65-year-old retired Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) employee was killed and three others were seriously injured during their morning walk at LAD Square after they were run over by a mini-truck carrying milk, on Tuesday. The mini-truck was earlier hit by a speeding Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) bus due to which it went out of control. The deceased was identified as Sunil Anandrao Jadhav (65), a resident of Corporation Colony...

Relentless and incessant rain lashed Vidarbha in last 36 hours helped to cool down the weather throughout the region on Tuesday. With 62.3 mm rains, Nagpur witnessed the highest rainfall in last 36 hours in Vidarbha. In Nagpur city, the rain started on Monday late night around 11.30 pm and continued till late evening on Tuesday. It was the first widespread rainfall in city since the onset of southwest monsoon. Water-logging was reported at some places on Tuesday, however no water accumulation was ..

Now robots will be deployed on field as part of the project envisaged by Maharashtra Government to put an end to the practice of manual scavenging. The procurement is being handled by Mahatma Phule Magasvarg Vikas Mahamandal and about 100 robots are going to be procured at the cost of Rs 45 crore. These units along with vehicles would be distributed to local bodies for utilisation in carrying out menial work of cleaning choked sewage chambers as the Government has outlawed manual scavenging. Robots ..

The District Planning and Development Committee (DPDC) approved an outlay of Rs 1,503.50 crore for the Annual Plan 2026-27 during its meeting held at Niyojan Bhavan, on Monday. Chandrashekhar Bawankule, State Revenue Minister and Guardian Minister, chaired the meeting and directed all departments to prepare a three-year integrated development blueprint to make district planning funds more outcome-oriented and development-focused. The DPDC also approved expenditure of Rs 1,327 crore incurred under ..

the City Police have uncovered a financial fraud in which bank accounts opened in the names of women were allegedly used to route transactions worth over Rs 7.68 crore. Investigators believe the accounts may have been used as mule accounts in cyber fraud cases. Separate offences have been registered at Tehsil and Shanti Nagar Police stations. The accused have been identified as Manda Gopalrao Gumgaonkar (42), a resident of Jagannath Budhwari, Pathrabe Mohalla, and her associate Shubham, who is currently ..

In a major crackdown on organised crime, the city police and the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) on Monday demolished illegal shops linked to a notorious MCOCA accused and his associates at Shanichara Market in Kamal Chowk. The action came just four days after a gang war and firing incident in Pachpaoli. The demolition drive began around 4.30 pm amid heavy police deployment. Shops encroaching on municipal land and linked to Ajay Chinchkhede, who has been booked under the Maharashtra Control of ..

The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Nagpur Police on Monday arrested another ICICI Bank branch manager, Dinesh Krishnarao Nagpure, a resident of Shesh Nagar, in connection with the Rs 23 crore fake gold loan scam. A court remanded him to five days of police custody for questioning. According to EOW officials, Nagpure is suspected to have played an important role in the scam in which fake gold ornaments were pledged to obtain loans from ICICI Bank branches in Nagpur. During the investigation, it emerged ..