Nagpur: Around 15 people demonstrating outside the venue of Anna Hazare's public meeting in Nagpur were detained on Wednesday night by police, even as the Maharashtra state Youth Congress president Vishwajeet Kadam reportedly "justified" the protest. They were demonstrating against circulation of a booklet allegedly containing some remarks against Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi, though it is not clear whether the youths were Congress workers,...
11:04 PM, May 16, 2012
Nagpur: A few miscreants on Wednesday pelted stones at one of the vehicles in the convoy of anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare. The veteran Gandhian was holding a rally in Nagpur when the incident occurred. Stones were pelted at a Scorpio car which was part of the convoy. Though Hazare's aide Suresh Pathare claimed one of the vehicles of the convoy parked near the stadium was pelted with stones, police denied...
08:24 PM, May 16, 2012
Nagpur: Three persons were allegedly lynched to death by an angry mob over sexual harassment in Bharat Nagar area of the city this morning, police said. One of the three men was apparently dressed in a saree, while the other two, in the guise of policemen, indulged in sexual harassment, following which an angry mob, including women, pelted them with stones and beat them with sticks. By the time police...
02:01 PM, May 09, 2012
Nagpur: Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh on Tuesday said the revolt by BS Yeddyurappa seeking reinstatement as Karnataka chief minister was "very serious", even as the BJP president Nitin Gadkari went into a huddle with Mohan Bhagwat and other top leaders of the organisation in Nagpur. "The rebellion by Yeddyuruppa who is demanding his reinstatement as the Karnataka chief minister was very serious and the BJP has taken a cognisance (of the...
09:24 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Nagpur: Protesting against lack of public toilets for women in Nagpur, a group of activists encircled a men's public toilet near Railway Station to press for their demand to construct public toilets for women. Led by city lawyer Smita Singalkar, the women activists also carried banners demanding women's toilets at prominent places in the city. Singalkar in a release said today that there were only 69 public toilets for women...
01:39 PM, Mar 08, 2012
Nagpur: Ruling BJP, which had struck pre-poll alliance with its traditional partner Shiv Sena, on Monday dumped the latter during the mayoral elections. The BJP for the first time did not offer the post of Deputy Mayor to the Shiv Sena. The BJP's city unit president Anil Sole became the new Mayor of Nagpur Municipal Corporation while party nominee Sandeep Jadhav was elected Deputy Mayor. Sole polled 86 votes and...
10:33 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Nagpur: A sports teacher in Nagpur has been giving hope to slum dwellers. Vijay Barse has given young runaways and former drug addicts a new identity by setting up slum soccer. Shehnaz would have been burning the stove and her dreams, cooking a meal for her family, in her tiny house. Drugs and alcohol would have consumed Akhilesh Paul as a young kid. Homkant, who ran away from home and...
09:22 AM, Feb 21, 2012
Nagpur: Though the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to emerge as the single largest party in the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), it received a jolt when the party candidate and Mayor Archana Dehankar and her deputy Shekhar Sawarbandhe of the ally Shiv Sena lost the polls. The election to the 145-member NMC was held on Friday and the counting took place on Saturday. The final figures show that...
09:39 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Nagpur: In an upset, ruling BJP's outgoing Mayor Archana Dehankar and Deputy Mayor Shekhar Sawarbandhe of Shiv Sena have lost to Congress nominees in their respective seats, as counting of votes for Nagpur Municipal Corporation is underway. Congress candidates Harshada Sabde and Prashant Dhawad defeated Dehankar and Sawarbandhe respectively. Out of 36 seats for which results are out, BJP has won 19, Congress 10, BSP, Shiv Sena 2 each, NCP...
01:41 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Mumbai: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena retained Thane in the Maharashtra civic polls. The Shiv Sena-BJP alliance took the top spot in the Thane Municipal Corporation polls on Friday. Out of the 130 seats, Congress and the NCP alliance bagged 52 and the Shiv Sena, BJP and RPI alliance 61 seats. Raj Thackeray's Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) did not fare well as it could win on...
01:18 PM, Feb 17, 2012
Mumbai: Mumbai on Thursday failed the ballot box test with only 46 per cent of Mumbaikars turning out to elect the people to run the maximum city. Mumbai's movers and shakers refused to budge on election day. At last count, a dismal 28 per cent of people from SoBo, as south Mumbai is fashionably called, turned out to vote. It's been billed as the mini assembly election in Maharashtra. Elections...
09:22 PM, Feb 16, 2012
Nagpur: The Congress-NCP led alliance is locked in a tough battle in the Nagpur Municipal Corporation with the ruling BJP-Shiv Sena combine which is facing anti-incumbency factor as well as allegations of misrule and corruption ahead of the civic polls in Maharashtra. Two top city-based leaders -- the local MP and General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), Vilas Muttemwar and BJP National President Nitin Gadkari -- are...
03:06 PM, Feb 14, 2012
Jamshedpur: Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda on Friday accused the Congress-led UPA government for adopting a biased approach towards them and "hampering the development process" of the mineral-rich state. "The national highways passing through the state were in pathetic state-of-affair but the Union government is not co-operating with the state government to improve their condition," he said after inaugurating a trade fair by CII in Jamshedpur. "Such a biased approach...
08:57 PM, Feb 03, 2012
New Delih: Two people are dead and seven labourers were injured in Nagpur when a multi-storey building collapsed on Monday night. The building was housing a small industrial unit. The deceased are yet to be identified even as the rescue operations are in full swing to extricate those who are still feared trapped under the debris, police said, adding one of the two workers died on the spot while the...
06:49 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Nagpur: Two labourers were killed and nine others, including two women, were injured when a four-storey building housing a small scale industrial unit on Monday night collapsed in Chikhli area on the city outskirts at Kalamna. The deceased are yet to be identified even as the rescue operations are in full swing to extricate those who are still feared trapped under the debris, police said, adding one of the two...
12:30 AM, Jan 31, 2012
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