Nagpur: The Nagpur district on Thursday reported seven fresh cases and zero deaths attributed to the Covid-19. In the last 24-hours, six persons recovered from the virus borne disease.

Out of total cases, four cases were reported from Nagpur Municipal boundaries, while two cases were reported from Nagpur rural. One case was reported from outside the district.

With the latest update, the cumulative positive cases reached 4,93,103 and the number of deaths stand still at 10,119. The sum of 4,82,917 people have been successfully recovered from the virus borne disease.

The Covid recovery rate of Nagpur district stood at 97.93% while active cases stood at 67.

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Chinmay Pandit returns to Nagpur, Rakesh Ola appointed as ACB Suprintendant

Nagpur: The Second Capital of the State finally received its share of IPS transfers ahead of Ganesh Chaturthi on Thursday. While Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Zone 2, Vinita S and DCP Zone 5, Neelotpal have been transferred as Commander SRPF Group 5, Daud, Pune and DCP Mumbai respectively, Chinmay Pandit the former Nagpur DCP has returned to Nagpur city from his current posting of Suprintendant of Police (SP) Dhule.

SP Nagpur rural Rakesh Ola has been transferred as Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Suprintendant Nagpur Division. Manish Kalwaniya has also been transferred to Nagpur city from Gadchiroli.

Vijay Magar former DCP of State Intelligence Division (SID) has to lead Nagpur rural as new SP.

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Nagpur: Nagpurian’s in city were seen welcoming Ganpati to their home on Thursday. The 11-day Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations will begin on September 10 and will continue till September 21st till the visarjan of Bappa.

Here are some of the Pics clicked by Sandeep Gurghate

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The President of India Ram Nath Kovind has appointed R N Ravi as Tamil Nadu governor.

While Lt Gen Gurmit Singh, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd) has been appointed as governor of Uttarakhand, Prof Jagdish Mukhi, the governor of Assam has been appointed to discharge the functions of the governor of Nagaland in addition to his own duties, until regular arrangements are made.

Banwarilal Purohit, who was earlier the governor of Tamil Nadu holding additional charge of the governor of Punjab has been appointed as regular governor of Punjab.

The President has accepted the resignation of Baby Rani Maurya as governor of Uttarakhand.

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Nagpur: Five more MBBS first-year students of a private college tested Covid positive on Thursday. Four of them are girls and one boy. The girls are hostelites and have been shifted to the college’s Shalinitai Meghe Hospital and Research Centre (SMHRC) on the same campus in Wanadongri.

Datta Meghe Medical College (DMMC), had tested 100 students at the SMHRC, and advised 50 day scholars living in Nagpur city to also get tested after 11 of their batchmates tested positive early this week.

According to sources, all the students are doing well and mostly asymptomatic.

DMMC is likely to conduct RTPCR tests again of all the students five days after the first round.

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Nagpur: The Nagpur district on Friday reported seven fresh cases and zero deaths attributed to the Covid-19. In the last 24-hours, eight persons recovered from the virus borne disease.

With the latest update, the cumulative positive cases reached 4,93,110 and the number of deaths stand still at 10,119. The sum of 4,82,925 people have been successfully recovered from the virus borne disease.

The Covid recovery rate of Nagpur district stood at 97.93% while active cases stood at 66.

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HRD Forum of Vidarbha Industries Association organised a webinar on “Modernizing People Management” recently on Virtual platform.

Key speaker, Harini Sreenivasan, Partner of Semcostyle Institute India emphasized the participants on the role of HR in moving from command and control to trust and transparency, navigating your organization in the dynamic VUCA situation and Building agile teams that collaborate.

Sreenivasan advised that management should take advantage of the future of work by unlocking your employees/people by giving power to boost bottom line, increase ownership, improve retention, drive collaboration, build digital ready culture and get more out of agile.

On stability to volatility, Sreenivasan expressed with a quote of Ricardo Semler, SEMCO “As circumstances change, leadership must change. A certain set of skills, instincts, and personality traits may be perfect today, but useless tomorrow.

She said in earlier days, work could be stable, predictable environments, self-contained enterprise, top-down driven structure, rule bounded, manage and monitor, command and control. Now after the pandemic and present situation, she stressed that the future of work would be uncertain, changing environments because of business process networks, outcome driven, dynamic processes, etc. Management should empower his/her team members by doing their work autonomous and collaborative; inspire and coach them when it requires and conversations and trust them for better productivity and quality.

She further elaborated for building an agile culture in the organisation, they should give priority on customer focused innovation, which supported by a continuous leading mindset; building trust and transparency as the core of the organization, fostering extreme stakeholder alignment through clear definition of roles and expectations across the value chain, enabling leaders to be in control without controlling and creating the space for self-management to flourish by empowering people.

She said transformation will let you innovate anywhere, organise for rapid response, measure what matters most, employees make and own decisions and move from command and control to trust. The session was followed by a Q&A session.

Earlier, Suresh Pandilwar, Co-Chairman of VIA HRD Forum, welcomed the guest speaker and all the participants joined on virtual platform, in his welcome address said today’s topic is very relevant because after pandemic lots of rapid changes took place in our businesses and she will enlighten us how we should adopt new changes going on globally. Neelam Bowade, Convener of HRD Forum introduced the speaker. Prof Ashit Sinha, Mentor – HRD Forum summed up the session and proposed a formal vote of thanks and said now HR is moving from command and control to trust and transparency.

Program was attended by Aditya Saraf, Vice President of VIA, Hemant Lodha, Chairman of HRD Forum, Industrialists, HR & IR Professionals, and entrepreneurs joined in large numbers.

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Nagpur: Lightning strike killed two youths and injured one in Chankapur village under Khaparkheda Police Station, on Friday evening.

According to sources, a group of youth was hanging around near Hanuman Mandir in the village. In the evening, thick black clouds gathered and high intensity rain with lightning started in the vicinity. During the same lightning struck the group youth. While two youth succumbed to lighting, one youth was critically wounded in the incident and was rushed to Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH).

In the meantime Khaparkheda Police have registered a case of accidental death and started the investigation.

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Nagpur: Yashodhara Nagar Police rounded up a man for allegedly killing one Ajay Bharti here, on Friday night.

The accused has been identified as Akash Sunil Puri.

According to police sources, Bharti and Puri had shared a conflict over an unresolved issue. Following which duo picked an argument here on Friday night. In the fit of rage, accused Puri then stabbed Bharti. With grievous injuries Bharti succumbed on this spot.

Based on the complaint lodged, Yashodhara Nagar cops have accused Puri under Sections 302 of the IPC. Further details awaited.

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Nagpur: Nandanvan Police on Thursday booked 42-year-old rape accused for allegedly molesting and threatening a young woman for withdrawing rape case against him.

The accused has been identified as Tausif Abdul Hasan Khan, a resident of Sadbhavna Nagar.

The 26-year-old victim told police that she and Tausif used to sell plaster of Paris artifacts. On January 24 this year, Tausif raped her.

She lodged a complaint against Tausif who was booked by Wathoda Police on charges under Section 376 of the Indian penal Code against him.

Between September 3 and September 9, Tausif stormed into house. After outraging her modesty, he threatened to eliminate her if she failed to withdraw the rape case against him.

On the basis of the victim’s complaint, Nandanvan Police reg- istered an offence under Sections 452, 354, 506(b) of the Indian Penal Code against Tausif.

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Nagpur: In a late night operation, the vigilante sleuths of MIDC cops on Friday arrested a member of an ATM breakers’ gang from Wadi. Though, two accused had managed to flee, cops have seized vehicle and other materials.

According to police sources, during the night patrolling MIDC Police found a suspicious vehicle approaching them. However, when cops asked the driver to pull over, he tried to zoom away from the spot. Following which cops chased them down under Wadi Police Station and managed to nab the accused driver, however, two of his accomplices managed to evade the arrest.

The accused and the seized materials have been handed over to Wadi Police for further investigation.

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Nagpur: In a bid to minimise the inconvenience faced by the devotees in the busy Chitar Oli Ganapati Market during the 10-days long Ganeshotsav, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Zone 3 Lohit Matani on Saturday took stock of arrangements in the vicinity.

DCP Matani conducted foot patrolling and inspected in the area. He also discussed traffic and parking issues with local vendors and urged them to adhere norms set by the District Administration to prevent the spread of novel Coronavirus (Covid-19).

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Bargarh/Nagpur: A Nagpur policeman was caught red-handed along with three other accomplices while smuggling ganja in western Odisha Friday.

According to Bargarh police, three men and a woman were arrested while they were allegedly transporting around 22-kilogram ganja at Barapali railway gate on Friday.

Acting on a tip-off, police intercepted a vehicle at the railway gate and seized the contraband.

“Four persons including a Nagpur police head constable Roshan ugle attached to Watoda Police Station were arrested. A pair of handcuffs and a police logo has also been seized from his possession,” said Bargarh sub-divisional police officer Deepak Kumar Gochayat.

Three police teams have been formed to nab the accused and intercept the vehicle bearing a Maharashtra number, which was coming from Sonepur, he added.

According to sources , Roshan ugle was on leave.

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Nagpur: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday launched ‘iRASTE’, an Artificial Intelligence-powered project, on a pilot basis in Nagpur in Maharashtra with the aim of reducing accidents by 50 per cent in Vidarbha’s biggest city.

A collaborative effort between the government, Intel, INAI, IIIT-Hyderabad, CSIR-CRRI (Central Road Research Institute), Mahindra & Mahindra and Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC), the project will focus on vehicle safety, mobility analysis and road infrastructure safety to move towards a ‘Vision Zero’ accident scenario, a release said.

Vehicles belonging to NMC will be equipped with collision avoidance technology that can reduce accidents and near misses by up to 60 percent, while sensors will help map the dynamic risk of the entire road network, which can be used by agencies to prevent and rectify accident-prone zones, also called black spots, the release added. Gadkari said 1,500 accidents, which cause 250 deaths, take place in Nagpur every year and the use of AI to map accident spots, which will be repaired by his ministry, will also help collect data on road surface condition, signage, marking, signal details, type of vehicles, models in use and utility assets.

“The crash severity index (which is found by calculating fatalities and serious injuries in an accident) in Nagpur was 21.22 in 2018, 24.83 in 2019, and 70.17 in 2020, this increase coming during the COVID-19 pandemic (when most areas were under lockdown), which is not a good thing at all,” he said. Nagpur was witnessing an average of eight road accident deaths for every one lakh people in the last three years, which was four times that of a much bigger city like Mumbai, and this situation needed to be addressed quickly, Gadkari added. Intel India Country Head Nivruti Rai and IITH Director Professor PJ Narayan, who spoke on the occasion, said the ‘iRASTE’ project would go a long way in creating a blueprint for the country in order to bring accidents to zero.

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Nagpur: Who love to play under lights, an artificial grass turf ground has been constructed at Mecosabagh School premises, in Kadbi Chowk. The Shalom Sports Academy, was inaugurated by Senior Inspector of Jaripatka Police Station Nitin Fatangare.

Rev DS Ramakrishna (Honourable District Superintendent, Methodist Church), Sandip Gaikwad, Principal, Mecosabagh Methodist High School, Helen Ramakrishna, Rohit Nikambe, Irfan Rajjak, Mohd Ashfaque Bera, Sunny Dudhani, Vikrant Waghchoure, Indu Waghchoure, Priti Bhaal, Pragati Bhalerao, Rajendra Gupta, Anugrah Pandey, Prajwal Gaikawad and others were prominently present.

The fully caged ground with artificial turf can be used for fut-sal tournament as well as box cricket. The ground can be used in the evening hours as well as it is well equipped with flood-lights. A futsal tournament has been organised at the venue early October.

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Nagpur: Around 12 cops, including a woman, deployed at different police stations in Nagpur city tested Covid-19 positive after returning from Pune where they had gone to attend a training between August 30 and September 9 this month.

It’s learnt around 33 cops had gone to attend a training at Maharashtra intelligence academy (MIA) as a part of their refresher course module.

After returning from the training, many cops had started developing symptoms following which the top brass had suggested them to go for testing.

Nagpur police are now coordinating with the health department of the Nagpur municipal corporation to shift the cops to different institutional quarantine centres. Contact tracing of the affected cops too have started on a war-footing.

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Vidarbha Taxpayers Association (VTA) held its 10th Annual General Body Meeting chaired by its president Shrawan Kumar Malu at Hotel Tuli International. At the very start of the meeting, one minute of silence was absorbed by the VTA members in memory of so many lost in the ongoing pandemic, including few close relatives of VTA members.

Shrawan Kumar Malu in his presidential address said that the Indian economy is booming strongly with much better opportunities ahead. We are also becoming atmanirbhar, with home production of many key items, including defense products. Despite all the pandemic odds, we are growing positively and recently our Olympic team also made us proud.

Audited Accounts of VTA for the year ended 31st March 2021 were adopted and passed. CA Akhil R Darda was again appointed as the statutory auditors for the year 2021-22.

New team of VTA for the year 2021-23 were elected; Shrawan Kumar Malu – President, Tejinder Singh Renu – Secretary, Hemant Trivedi & Yogendra Mohan Singh – Vice Presidents, Pawan K Chopra – Treasurer, Amarjeet Singh Chawla & Rajesh Kanoongo – Joint Secretaries, while J P Sharma will continue as IPP.

The Executive Body Members being Ashwin Mehadia, Adv Sanjay K Agrawal, Rohit Agrawal, Praveen Agrawal, Saqib Parekh, Manoj Moryani, Krishna Dayma, Govid Patel, Rohit Kanoongo, Hemant Sarda, Veru Balani, Rahul Agrawal, Sharad Sonkule, Hemant Sharma, Rajwantpal Singh Tuli, Haresh Kumar Soni, Shrikant Oke, Rajesh Rokde, Harmanjeet Singh Baweja and Pratish Gujarathi.

Other members of VTA who attended were Surendra Jaiswal, Vicky Osan, Mukesh Mundhada, Pankaj Roshan, Chanchal Singh Renu, Yash Trivedi, Sachin Jain & Rakesh Rathi.

Proceedings of the meeting were conducted by Tejinder Singh Renu with assurance that all members that participated AGM were fully vaccinated; while vote of thanks was proposed by Rajesh Kanungo.

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India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted ‘heavy to very heavy’ rainfall during the next three days in Mumbai, Thane, Palghar and several other parts of Maharashtra. IMD has issued a yellow alert for Mumbai with a forecast of heavy rain at isolated places of the city for the next two days.

The revival of rain has given some relief to parts of Maharashtra as the dams are overflowing and the water woes are over but the alert has also increased the worries of the administration especially in districts like Palghar, Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg.

Catchment area of Koyna Dam is receiving very heavy rain. Heavy downpour was witnessed in Satara District including Mahabaleshwar yesterday. Water level of Koyana Dam has increased and warning has been issued to the villages on the bank of the rivers in the district. Nashik district also received very heavy rain and many dams are about to overflow in the district. Many other districts are witnessing heavy rainfall for past two days.

The weather department has predicted extremely heavy to very heavy rain till September 15 under an orange alert for Palghar region. For Thane district, local officials have been told to remain prepared for heavy showers till Wednesday.Raigad, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Nasik, Pune, Satara and Kolhapur districts are expected to receive heavy showers at isolated places for the next two days. The weather department has also issued an yellow alert for Nagpur, Wardha, Bhandara, Gondia, Chandrapur, Gadchiroli, Amravati, Akola, Yavatmal, Buldhana and Washim till September 13.

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Nagpur: LOCAL Crime Branch of Nagpur Rural police seized 1,104 kg of Ganja (Marijuana) worth Rs 1.10 crore from a truck packed systematically in 40 gunny bags and concealed between 354 bags of coffee beans. The truck driver and cleaner were arrested and handed-over to Butibori police for further investigation. The accused have been identified as driver Rohit Lakhan Jaiswal (25), a resident of Kathara village, Tehsil – Gunnur, District – Panna, Madhya Pradesh and cleaner Sonu Kawarsingh Chavan (31), a resident of Devsar village, District – Bhivani, Haryana.

Acting on a tip-off, the LCB team stopped the truck (RJ27/GA-8804) near Butibori on Saturday night. The contraband was packed neatly in the gunnay bags and concealed between bags of coffee beans. On thorough examination, the police discovered 40 bags containing Ganja. The consignment was loanded at Khammam in Telangana and likely to be delivered in Punjab.

Investigation revealed that the driver and cleaner were indulged in the smuggling in connivance of Telangana based smuggler. After loading the contraband, the smuggler informs the driver on mobile phone about delivery location the next day, said a police official. An offence under Sections 20, 22, 29 of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. The cops are checking crime records of the accused persons.

Under the guidance of Superintendent of Police (SP) Rakesh Ola, Addl SP Rahul Maknikar, the arrest was made by Police Inspector Anil Jittawar, APIs Rajiv Karmalwar, Jitendra Wairagade, PSI Javed Sheikh, Gajendra Choudhary, Mahesh Jadhav, Narendra Patle, Rama Aade, Satyasheel Kothare, Rajesh Rewatkar, Ashish Mungale, Kishore Wankhede, Mahesh Bisne, Amrut Kinge, Rohan Dakhore, Sahebrao Bahale, Ashutosh Lanjewar and others.

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Nagpur: Unidentified thieves broke the shutter of cash dispenser of an automated teller machine (ATM)of State Bank of India(SBI) at Ashirvad Nagar, Dighori Road in Sakkardara area and stole Rs 1.10 lakh cash from it.

Jitendra Asaramji Basakhetre (33), a resident of Plot No 125, New Subhedar Layout, lodged a complaint that the shutter of the ATM’s cash dispenser was found broken and Rs 1.10 lakh were stolen by unidentified persons(s).

Theincident took place between 12.36pmand12.55pmonAugust 30, he added. On the basis of the complaint, Sakkardara Police registered a caseunderSection380oftheIPC and started investigation.

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