Nagpur

Coalgate: CBI to grill Dardas, raids Jayaswal

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday carried out searches of mining baron Manoj Jayaswal's residence in connection with the coal blocks allocations row. Jayaswal is a senior executive of the Abhijeet Group. Sources said that the 57-year-old was being examined in his hometown of Nagpur. The CBI first searched his residence for documents. Sources said that Jayaswal was under scrutiny for inflating his company's financials and...  

Nagpur: Student scolded for smoking, kills himself

Nagpur: Embarrassed over being scolded for smoking in school, a teenage boy allegedly committed suicide in Nagpur, police said on Friday. The student of class XII in a school in Dhantoli, was caught by a teacher recently while he was allegedly smoking in the school. The school authorities called his family and informed them about his behaviour, police said, adding that the boy was also allegedly scolded by a school...  

Over 2,000 Pakistanis overstaying in Nagpur: RTI

Nagpur: Over 2,000 Pakistani nationals are overstaying since 1995 in Nagpur despite the expiry of their visitors visa, a RTI query has found. As many as 9,705 Pakistani nationals had obtained visa for visiting Nagpur from the authorities for 30, 45, 60 and 90 days. "About 2,546 Pakistan citizens came on visa for longer duration and 533 of them were provided with Indian citizenship," it said. But about 2013 Pakistani...  

Vidarbha Express collides with local train, 3 dead

Mumbai: The Vidarbha Express on Thursday collided with a local train in Kasara near Mumbai, killing three and injuring at least 31 people. The Vidarbha Express, which was going towards Nagpur, collided with a local train that was already derailed. According to reports, while a total of four bogies of the Vidarbha Express got derailed in the accident, S-9 and S-10 bogies of the train got severely damaged. The incident...  

Woman who killed 4-yr-old daughter commits suicide

Nagpur: The woman, Sheela Bake (35), allegedly attacked her daughter Vaishali with a sharp weapon, inflicting injuries on the latter's neck and chest, resulting in her death, police said. Later, the woman fled from her home and boarded a train. She got down at Wardha and jumped before a running train on Friday. The Government Railway Police at Wardha sent her photo by email to Nagpur police, which confirmed her...  

Sanjay Joshi attends RSS function in Nagpur

Nagpur: After being forced out of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Sanjay Joshi on Monday attended a meeting of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in Nagpur on Monday. When the media approached him with questions, he said "I will talk to you tomorrow". Joshi was at the concluding function of RSS' annual training camp at their headquarter at Reshimbagh. At the function, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat accused successive governments at the Centre...  

Nagpur: IndiGo flight makes precautionary landing

Mumbai: A Delhi-bound IndiGo flight with 114 passengers on board made a precautionary landing at the Nagpur airport on Wednesday due to some technical snag. The flight 6E308 from Hyderabad to Delhi was diverted to Nagpur on Wednesday morning after the pilot received an engine vibration indication in the cockpit, a statement said. Owing to this indication, the pilot decided to land the plane at the Nagpur airport for an...  

15 held for protesting at Anna's rally in Nagpur

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,...  

Stones pelted at Anna Hazare's convoy in Nagpur

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...  

Nagpur: 3 persons lynched over sexual harassment

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...  

BS Yeddyurappa's rebellion very serious: RSS

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...  

Nagpur women protest against lack of toilets

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...  

BJP dumps Sena, occupy Mayor, Dy Mayor posts in Nagpur

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...  

Real Hero Vijay's 'slum soccer' transforms lives

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...  

Nagpur: Ruling BJP emerges as single largest

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...  

Maha civic polls: Nagpur Mayor from BJP loses

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...  

Maha civic polls: Sena-BJP combine retains Thane

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...  

Mumbai fails ballot test with just 46 pc turnout

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...  

Cong pledges to turn Nagpur into Singapore

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...  

UPA biased against Jharkhand: Arjun Munda

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...