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It may be mentioned here that many hookah parlours in Nagpur are serving hookah under the garb of providing an upscale sitouts for the youngsters. Sources revealed that these properties include Carnations Rooftop Restaurant, Sadar; Sijazz Cafe Town Land Futala, Ambazari; Vipul house restaurant, Bharat Nagar, Ambazari; Lake Side Grill, Futala, Ambazari; GBS Restaurant, Futala, Ambazari; Kerbstone Lounge, Ravi Nagar Square, Ambazari; Koba Lounge, Ravi Nagar Square, Ambazari; Waffle House, Ravi Nagar; Flames Cafe Lounge, Ambazari; Spot 9 Restaurant, Ambazari; PaiPick Dreams Cafe, Utkarsh Apartment, Sadar; WTF Restaurant, MIDC; Ten11 Restaurant, Rana Pratap Nagar; Skyfall Lounge & Cigaars, Rana Pratap Nagar; Winds & Woods, Sadar; Checkmate Cafe Lounge, North Ambazari Road; Roof 9, Dharampeth; Fusion Cafe & Lounge, Dharampeth.

All these hookah joints and restaurants were raided by the police in year 2017 and 2018. The cops will now write a letter to NMC and press for cancellation of restaurant permissions to these establishments.

The top cop has accorded top priority to the issue and directed all units to compile data of action under Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) in every monthly crime meeting.

In his circular to police unit the DGP has asked the force to step in to crush the menace of hookah joints who were found violating rules of COTPA. “Write a letter to concerned officials of Municipal Corporation to cancel the license of the hookah joints immediately after the joint is raided also listing the violations,” the DGP has stated in the circular.

The joints have always remained under scanner of narcotics units and were also proving to be a social problem. Despite police action many of the hookah joints were refusing to mend their ways.

“More than 60 hookah joints are operating in the city. Police have registered cases under COTPA against around 30 hookah joints so far,” a police officer informed.

And yet, many of the joints were operating in the city without any fear of law. This was because the municipal corporation had not initiated any action against them.

After ascertaining the facts and the go-slow approach of the authorities, DGP Satish Mathur has now asked his force to pull up the socks and take stern action against the hookah joints.

Maha’s top cop orders licence cancellation of restros running hookah parlours

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Nagpur: Crime Branch of Nagpur Police arrested four robbers and claimed to have solved 15 robberies and dacoities reported at Rana Pratap Nagar, Bajaj Nagar, Sonegaon, Ambazari, MIDC, Dhantoli, Sakkardara and Nandanvan police stations.

The police recovered stolen valuables worth Rs 6.51 latch from their possession, informed Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Detection Sambhaji Kadam. Arrested accused are identified as Sagar Hanumant Nimbalkar (24), a resident of Plot No. 163, Rashtrasant Nagar, Narsala, Hudkeshwar, Gaurav Ashok Bhute (19), a resident of Plot No. 114, Sai Nagar -1, Hudkeshwar Road; Sagar Devidas Mutkure (22), a resident of Bahadura turning, Umred Road and Abhinav Ajay Shirpurkar (24), a resident of Manewada.

DCP Kadam informed that the accused were committing robberies by wearing helmets to hide their identify But the crime were record-ed in the CCTV cameras. After analysing the CCTV footage, an informer of police revealed name of an accused after which the cops took him in custody. During interrogation, the robber confessed for the crime and revealed names of the accused.

Sagar Nimbalkar is the leader of the gang. Another accused Abhinav Shirpuralcar was accused in a murder and an attempt to murder case reported in year 2014. Nimbalkar was running a paan-kiosk during Tajbhagh Urs last year where he befriended with other accused and formed the gang. Parents of Gaurav, Sagar and Abhinav are daily wage workers. After committing the crime, the gang was keeping the valuables with one Palash Wanlchede (24), a resident ofTrisharan Chowk, the police said. The gang have committed 10 chain snatching, three bag lifting, a theft, an attempt to commit chain snatch-ing and an attempt to commit dacoity. The police have recovered gold ornaments (104 gn) worth Rs2.92 lakh; Rs 25,500 cash; five motor-cycles, five sharp-weapons, five mobile phones from their possession.

Under the guidance of DCP Kadam and ACP Ashwini Patil, the arrest was made by PI Bharat Kshirsagar, API Kiran Choughule, PSIS Manish Wakode, Surajpal Rajput and staff including Battulal Pandey, Sanjay Devkar, Raju Dange, Sukhdev Madavi, Milin Moon, Nrusingh Damahe, Satish Meshram, Sudhalcar Dhandar, Suraj Bhongade, Harish Ganj re, Ravindra Raut,SatishNimje, Prashant Kodape, Ramlcallas Yadav, Avinash Thakur, Dhnyaneshwar Tandulakar, Govind Deshmukh, Rajendra Tiwari, Dipak Zade and others.

Nagpur Crime Branch busts gang of robbers involved in 15 robberies

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New Delhi: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who has been bragging about giving clean administration and corruption free government, is himself carrying a dubious distinction. Yes, the so called CM with clean image has the maximum number of criminal cases registered against him as compared to his counterparts in other states. This was surfaced in a recently released report by the Association for Democratic Reform (ADR) which has included India’s 31 Chief Ministers, into its survey. Ironically, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had the highest number of criminal cases, 22, registered against them with 3 “serious criminal cases”. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and Jammu & Kashmir CM Mehbooba Mufti had only one case each registered against their names. Out of India’s 31 Chief Ministers, 11 have criminal cases registered against them and only eight have “serious” criminal cases.

Devendra Fadnavis, Maharashtra, BJP: 22 cases
Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis tops the list of CMs with most criminal cases. Some of the charges against Fadnavis include serious charges such as “abetment of such assault, if the assault is committed”, “voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means”, being part of an unlawful assembly, rioting, voluntarily causing hurt and wearing garb or carrying token used by public servant with fraudulent intent.

Pinarayi Vijayan, Kerala, CPI (M): 11 cases
The Kerala Chief Minister has the second highest number of criminal cases registered against his name, with serious charges such as “cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property”, rioting and criminal conspiracy.

Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi, AAP: 10 cases
Delhi CM and Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal is number three on the list of CMs with criminal cases with most charges against him being unlawful assembly, obstructing a public servant from the discharge of their duty and defamation.

Raghubar Das, Jharkhand, BJP: 8 cases
Raghubar Das of Jharkhand has eight criminal cases against him, which include cases such as obstruction of lawful apprehension of another person, trespassing with preparation for causing hurt, criminal trespass, obstructing public servant from discharging their duty and wrongful restraint.

Amarinder Singh, Punjab, Congress: 4 cases
Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh, who also features on ADR’s list of three richest CMs in India, has four cases against him under several counts such as cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property, forgery, criminal breach of trust and causing disappearance of evidence.

Yogi Adityanath, Uttar Pradesh, BJP: 4 cases
UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath only has four cases against him but the charges all seem serious. These include charges of injuring or defiling a place of worship with intent to insult, rioting, trespassing on burial places, causing mischief by fire or explosive substance and criminal intimidation.

N Chandrababu Naidu, Andhra Pradesh, TDP: 3 cases
Andhra CM N Chandrababu Naidu, who emerged as the richest CM of India with assets worth Rs 177 crores, has three criminal cases registered against him. However, ADR does not categorise any of these as “serious” criminal cases.

K Chandrashekar Rao, Telangana, TRS: 2 cases
Telangana CM K Chandrashekar Rao has two criminal cases, which includes charges such as criminal intimidation, unlawful restraint and unlawful assembly.

V Narayanasamy, Puducherry, Congress: 2 cases
CM Narayanaswamy has only two cases against him that relate to “disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant (IPC Section-188)” and acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention (IPC Section-34)

Mehbooba Mufti, Jammu and Kashmir, PDP: 1 case
J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti has only one criminal case registered against her name and the only female CM who features on the list of CMs with criminal records. The only case against her is one for defamation.

Nitish Kumar, Bihar, JD (U): 1 case
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has one case registered against him but the charges are serious. He has been booked under section 302 of the IPC, which relates to murder.

Dubious Distinction : CM Fadnavis tops in criminal cases against chief ministers

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Nagpur: When opposition parties all over the country have been reacting and protesting over the Prime Minister’s statement of ‘Pakoras’ how can the opposition in Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) lag behind. The opposition party Congress in NMC made efforts to attack the ruling party BJP over the topic of employment.

The former ruling party leader and present Congress Corporator Sandip Sahare through a letter under section 44 of Act 2011 of Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporation (Revised) and Nagpur Municipal Corporation (Repeal) to Corporate Secretary Harish Dubey demanded that the unemployed be given place to sell Pakoras. The ruling party is stunned over the said demand. The ruling party has become alert and active to keep this problem away from the forthcoming meeting to be held on 20 Feb, 2018 and trying to find a legal solution.

Sahare said that on 12 Feb he handed over the letters to the Corporate Secretary. According to rule any Corporator can request 7 days before the meeting to include their letters. Dubey who has become the Corporate Secretary with the help of ruling party is now busy how the letters of Sahare can be rejected from being tabled in the forth coming general meeting. Sahare feels, even though it is a political issue yet the educated unemployeds are increasing in limits on NMC and so it should give place to the unemployeds to set up their Pakora business on Footpath, Bazar, NMC’s vacant land as this will also help the NMC financially.

Give place to unemployeds to sell Pakoras, demands Corporator Sahare

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Nagpur: When opposition parties all over the country have been reacting and protesting over the Prime Minister’s statement of ‘Pakoras’ how can the opposition in Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) lag behind. The opposition party Congress in NMC made efforts to attack the ruling party BJP over the topic of employment.

The former ruling party leader and present Congress Corporator Sandip Sahare through a letter under section 44 of Act 2011 of Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporation (Revised) and Nagpur Municipal Corporation (Repeal) to Corporate Secretary Harish Dubey demanded that the unemployed be given place to sell Pakoras. The ruling party is stunned over the said demand. The ruling party has become alert and active to keep this problem away from the forthcoming meeting to be held on 20 Feb, 2018 and trying to find a legal solution.

Sahare said that on 12 Feb he handed over the letters to the Corporate Secretary. According to rule any Corporator can request 7 days before the meeting to include their letters. Dubey who has become the Corporate Secretary with the help of ruling party is now busy how the letters of Sahare can be rejected from being tabled in the forth coming general meeting. Sahare feels, even though it is a political issue yet the educated unemployeds are increasing in limits on NMC and so it should give place to the unemployeds to set up their Pakora business on Footpath, Bazar, NMC’s vacant land as this will also help the NMC financially.

Give place to unemployeds to sell Pakoras, demands Corporator Sahare

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Nagpur: Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s standing Committee members will be nominated on Feb 20 under the proviosion of Maharashtra Municipal Corporation Act.Those aspiring to become the Chairman of standing Committee are now busy approaching their godfathers to get themselves nominated. The decision regarding the nomination of the standing Committee Chairman is taken by the two big leaders, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, on the basis electoral reviews.

Keeping in mind the forthcoming Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections next year the Chairman of the Standing Committee will be nominated. If no one is found capable for this Chairman’s post the Sandip Jadhav can be given a second chance. There is also a talk that Jadhav according to these two minister will be the appropriate BJP candidate for North Nagpur. In this case Sandip Jadhav cannot be given a chance second time to be the Chairman of Standing Committee.

In the present situation the Mayor and ruling party leader will be from South-West Assembly area and the Chairman of Standing Committee may be from Central, East, North or South.

As per the strategy of BJP the term of Mayor is of 15 months and as soon as it ends a OBC woman candidate like corporators Divya Ghurde or ChetnaTank can get a chance. On the other hand for the Chairman’s posts the candidates can be from North like Vicky Kukreja, from Central Nagpur Halba Corporator Pravin Bhishikar or any other, from East Nagpur Pradip Pohane, Chetna Tank, from South Satish Hole, Pinto Zalke have a claim. Till now Divya Ghurde and Chetna Tank have not been given any big post. For Ghurde former Mayor is making all efforts while for Tank her fate would be decided by Gadkari and Fadnavis.

The Coporators of East Nagpur who were well known on their own were opposed by the BJP MLAs. Satish Hole has already been given a chance of Deputy Mayor by BJP while Vicky Kukreja is Deputy Chairman of Fire Department and is the deputy leader of BJP in NMC. Since he being a builder by profession he has taken lot of benefit of his post. In Fire Department no builder should be given a chance, people feel.

Gadkari, Fadnavis to nominate next Chairman of Standing Committee

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Nagpur – The State and Central governments had made big announcements and gave assurances to make the women independent. The savings groups have been getting financial help to prepare the products. District Rural Development Department has been making efforts to get the market for the products prepared by Savings groups. There are total 8668 savings groups in Nagpur district. The State and Central governments had made big announcements and given assurances to make the women independent. The savings groups have been getting financial help to prepare the products.

The Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had announced a mall to be constructed for the savings groups during a divisional conference of the Women’s Savings Groups organised on 26 Feb, 2016 in Divisional Sports Complex. Soon after this the Public Works Department of Zilla Parishad had prepared proposal and the cost was assessed to be Rs 25 crores. This first women’s mall in state was to come up at Badkas Chowk in Central Nagpur on the Zilla Parishad land . The ground floor was to be parking and the upper two floor for the women’s mall. The market value of this land is in crores.

The land was made available for parking but ZP is not getting any income from it. It is being run by some Bandu who has the support of self style leader. If the mall comes up the Zilla Parishad will get a regular income. The proposal prepared by the Public works department of Zilla Parishad a year back and sent for approval to Rural Development Ministry but till date no funds have been sanctioned, The government has just been making the announced nothing constructive is done. It expected at least in next financial year the funds will be made available.

First women’s Savings Groups’ mall lying in cold storage

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Nagpur- BJP MLA Ashish Deshmukh who has been targeting his own government has now he staged a road blockade with the agitating farmers demanding compensation for loss in his assembly constituency. Ashish Deshmukh himself demanded the chief minister assess the loss.

He further said, in the chief minister’s region itself there has been heavy loss but he has not visited to know the condition of farmers. The chief minister should come and see the loss or else he would agitate against the government, Deshmukh threatened.

The farmners whose crops have been damaged due to bollworm have still not got aid. He further said 170 percent farmers who are eligible for the loan waiver have still not got any help.

Ashish Deshmukh threaten stir against govt if CM does not assess damage

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Nagpur: Maharashtra: The Bajrang Dal took out a rally in Nagpur against Valentine’s Day celebrations, saying, ‘Agar unhe Valentine’s Day manaane ka haq hai toh humein apni sanskriti bachaane ka bhi haq hai.

If they have a right to celebrate Valentine’s Day, we too have a right to save our culture.” The Bajrang Dal said that if they found any couple on the street on Valentine’s Day, they would get them married

More details awaited

Bajrang Dal promises to marry off unwed couples celebrating V-Day

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Nagpur: Crime Branch of City police busted a racket of betel nut businessmen and criminals for stealing betel nut from a godown sealed by Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI). The police recovered stolen betel nuts worth Rs 17.501akh and two mini trucks from their possession. Arrested accused are identified as Sheikh Rainzan Sheikh Jamil (40), a resident of Minimata Nagar, Kalamna; Kuldip alias Paijama Subhash Ganvir (23), a resident of New Colony, Kalamna; Rajesh Dhanraj Kathane (32), a resident of Chilcali, Kalamna; Suryakcant alias Jagdish Marotrao Pise (32), Jitendra Purushottam ICurre (22), both residents of Gulinohar Nagar, Kalamna; Anil alias Barik Krishna Shahu (19), a resident of Vijay Nagar, Kalamna; Satish Laxminarayan Kesarvani (59), a resident of Lalganj and Rahul Gajanan Bawankule (28), a resident of Bharat Nagar, Kalamna.

In September last year, DRI officers from Ahmedabadhad seized a total of 120 tonne Indonesian betel nuts valued at Rs six crore. The betel nuts consignment was smuggled into India from Myanmar via Mizoram and Manipur. Two trucks loaded with smuggled betel nuts were seized by officers of Central Excise & Customs in Durg (Chattisgarh).

Acting on a tip off, DRI officers visited Gondia. They had seized four truck loads of betel nuts for not paying the custom duty and kept in a godown of Prakash Goyal situated at Umri turning on Bhandara Road. The DRI officers had also sealed the godown. Between October 25, 2017 and February 6, 2018, the accused gained entry into the godown by bending the shutters and took away 231 bags containing betel nuts weighing about 18 tonne worth Rs 45.18.

After stealing, the accused sold the betel nuts to Satish Kesarwania and Rahul Bawankule. The cops have recov-ered 89 sacks of betel nuts worth Rs 17.50 lakh, a Tata Ace van, a Mahindra Jeeto and sharp-weapons.

A senior police officer informed that Sheikh Jamil was accused in murder and attempt to murder case. He planned the theft with allegiance of betel nuts businessmen. City police have handed over the accused to Mauda police for further investigations. Under the guidance of DCP, Detection, Sambhaji Kadam and ACP Ashwini Patti, the arrest was made by PI Jagwendra singh Rajput, API D. Bhedodkar, Gaddime, Shiurkar, PSI Mangala Mokashe and staff including S. Kadu, Shailesh Thawre, Anil Dubey, Rajesh Kshirsagar, Sham Kadu, Atul Dawande, Milind Narsanne, Firoz Sheikh and Shariff Sheikh.

Betel nut traders and criminals arrested for stealing betel nuts from DRI godown

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Nagpur: This may come as a shocker at a time when the young and going generation is celebrating Valentine’s Day throughout city. In an alarming trend, the young girls of Nagpur are fast catching up pregnancy before marriage. This is purely evident from the figures that turned out in response to an RTI query filed by a citizen named Abhay Kolarkar.

The RTI reply revealed that during the last six years till December 2017 a total of 1650 unmarried women opted for Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP). These figures are collected from the government and private hospitals along with those run by Nagpur Municipal Corporation.

However experts believe that though shocking, these figures may be far lower than the actual numbers happening. They believe that the actual number of unmarried women opting for MTP during these years may be much higher than what is supplied. This fact holds substance in the light of the fact that many cases do not come to light for the fear of societal pressures and the taboo attached to getting pregnant before marriage.

It may be mentioned that as per the government directives issued on December 2012, it is mandatory for the civic body to maintain the record of MTPs being performed in all the city hospitals. During the year 2012-13m 324 cases of MTP were registered while 472 MTP cases were registered in 2013-14. Similarly in 2014-15, 260 cases were registered.
The RTI reply also revealed that four unmarried girls died while undergoing MTP whereas three young girls died in 2015-16. One death was recorded in 2017. Civic body has registered 984 MTPs in its hospitals while 388 cases were registered in Mayo Hospital and 496 cases were recorded at Panchpaoli hospital.

Senior medical practitioner Dr Avinash Banait was of the view that lack of proper sex education could be the reason behind this alarming trend. Secondly the free availability of internet has made the access to porn sites easier than ever which has only added fuel to the fire. These result in such unwanted pregnancies, he added.

Dr Banait said that its high time parents should come forward and communicate with their children in order to make them aware about such complications.

V-Day Alert : MTPs among unmarried women on the rise in Nagpur

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Nagpur: Valentine’s Day has its own unique flavour when it turns to city of Oranges as the guys and gals in city pack their own style of celebration into this day. On Wednesday when the city folks were soaked up in celebration and set the mood in red (red rose, red dress and other reds!!!), the young girls from Muslim community made it a point to show that the day is not really meant for showing your loved ones how much you love them or opening up in thoughts. It also meant some amount of shyness too.

And that is why the nembers of Girls’ Islamic Organisation of India marked the Valentine’s Day in Nagpur as ‘Haya-Day’.

Many of the girls from the organisation took to streets with placards displaying “Haya Day 14th February.” The placards further present the word ‘Haya’ (means sharm in Hindi and shyness in English) embedded into a heart. The caption reads – Haya is the part of our faith.

The girls were seen consciously wearing burqas, holding the placards as they took silent march through city streets.

Burqa clad Muslim girls mark Valentine’s Day as Haya Day in Nagpur

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Nagpur: Wednesday proved to be a day of brickbats in the Mahal area as the two political parties, the Youth Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) were demonstrating. Youth Congress against the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) Chief and the BJYM against former Congress leader Mani Shanakar Aiyar for expressing his love for Pakistan. The Youth Congress workers raising slogans against Sangh Chief and BJP were proceeding towards the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh headquarter under the leadership of Nagpur Youth Congress President Bunty Shelke were stopped by the police. The Youth Congress were denied permission for demonstrations despite this they were marching towards the heradquarter. The demonstrators were arrested. Just half a kms away from this place the BJYM workers under the leadership of BJYM President Shivani Dani were demonstrating against Mani Shankar Aiyar’s comment, “I am getting more love in Pakistan , I get a lot more hatred in India”

Youth Congress hold demonstartions at Samvidhan Chowk

The Youth Congress held demonstrations on Wednesday at Samvidhan Chowk to protest against the RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat for comment on the army. The comment was said to be an insult to Indian Army. The Youth Congress workers took out a funeral to express their protest and some workers even tonsured their heads. Amidst the slogans and commotion the police arrested the youth workers.

RSS Chief had recently said, the Indian Army soldier takes six months to get prepared where as the Sangh worker can be ready like a soldier within three days. There were protest all over the country and the Sangh had to clarify itself but despite this the matter did not cool down. According to Youth Congress, the BJP and RSS leaders purposely make such comments to divert the nation’s attention from the real problems. Youth Congress said that to divert the attention from the comment that Prime Minister had made and suggested that the youths should sell Pakoras.

Maharashtra Pradesh Youth Congress incharge Pratibha Raghuvanshi has demanded that the RSS chief should say sorry over his comment on Army.

Youth Congress protests RSS chief while BJYM against Mani Shankar Aiyar

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Nagpur: The parents are facing lot of problems in filling the RTE forms . The process of filling the RTE forms began on Feb10.

According to the information, the RTE forms are being filled but there is a problem in the distance between the house and school on Google map site. As per the parents the distance between their house and school is just half km but on Google map the school is not visible even within a km from their house and so the parents had to apply beyond three kms. There are also complaints that the location of house and the school area is not visible on Google map. Besides the site also hangs every now and then, which is creating problem for the parents as well as the institutions

RTE Action Committee Chairman Mohommad Shahid Sharif informed that their organisation received 600 from Nagpur and from all over the country 6000 children’s data. The problem has been arising while filling the RTE forms as the exact location is not found on the Google map site. Sharif blamed the technical Department for this. In this connection Primary Education Officer Deependra Lokhande was contacted but there was no response.

Google map sit creating problems in filling RTE forms

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Nagpur: Being in an alleged extra marital affair proved dear to a man who happens to be the husband of a BJP corporator. The woman corporator made a big scene out of the alleged affair and started thrashing her husband in full public view at Chhatrapati Square on Valentine’s Day morning.

According to the onlookers, husband of the corporator had been to Chhatrapati Square to give a rose to his love interest. When the corporator knew about it, she went straight to Chhatrapati Square and caught him while he was offering the rose to another woman.

She reportedly assaulted him. Though the news spread like a wildlife in the city, as there was no complaint, the Police did not register any case in this regard.

V-Day Blues : BJP corporator beats hubby for offering rose to another woman

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Nagpur: The Metro Rail works going on in a highly professional manner in Nagpur will see a documentation of the project through LED screening. In order to let the people see the project in full glory, Nagpur Metro Rail Corporation Limited (NMRCL) will install a huge LED screen at the back side of metro station facing Kasturchand Park (KP) as per the directions of Heritage Conservation Committee of Nagpur. This was decided in a meeting of the committee held at Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) office onWednesday.

Nagpur Metro will require 408 sq mts land of the ground for the metro work. The Committee has directed NMRCL to undertake maintenance of the KP ground. NMRCL has expressed its inability to upkeep the historic Kasturchand Park citing lack of manpower to undertake this mammoth task. Heritage Conservation Committee has given green signal to the construction at 4,000 sq ft land of the ground for the construction of Metro Rail with a rider to pay local body for the maintenance of the ground.

Dr Tapan Chakravorty, former Director of NEERI, chaired the meeting while historian Dr Shubha Johri, Assistant Director of Town Planning Pramod Gawande, Supriya Thool, Superintending Engineer of NIT Sunil Gujjalwar, and noted Architect Ashok Mokha were present in the meeting.
Objection over Ambazari project rejected.

The committee also rejected the objection taken by MLC Prakash Gajbhiye regarding Metro Rail construction near Ambazari Lake. NMRCL has submitted a technical report and security certificate from the competent authority to the Heritage Committee.Structural Engineer PS Patankar and Architect Ashok Mokha studied the report submitted by the Metro Rail and cleared the proposal with certain riders. The NMRCL assured to follow the guidelines issued by the committee and submit report every three months. The committee also cleared the proposal to conduct a marathon on August 20 on ‘Sadbhavana Diwas’.

Metro Rail to install huge LED screen at KP station

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Nagpur: Keeping a side the sanctioned plan of Nagpur Municipal Coproration’s Planning Department, permission has been granted by the concerned department of administartion to open a roof top restaurant named ‘Terrace wheel’ on the terrace of building at Zenda Chowk, Dharmpeth.The restaurant was started a few days back. The owner of this land in a letter to the Municipal Commissioner has asked to cancel the licence of this restaurant. The Municipal Corporation has failed to take cognisance of this.

Narhari Parmanand Joshi the owner of the land where this building has come up had written the letter last week to Municipal Commissioner Ashwin Mudgal and informed him that he is a joint owner of this Gokul Roshan building which is situated at Zenda Chowk. The joint owners of the land had made an agreement with Pankaj Construction for constructing a building. The owner of Pankaj Construction company Panakj Dhawan got the plan sanctioned. After this the construction company carried out construction work against the sanctioned plan. A complaint regarding this was made to NMC Town Planning Department and Dharmpeth Zone. In the meantime The construction company to get the constructed part authorised gave a new map for sanctioning. A revised map along with application was submitted to town planning Department.

Joshi informed the Municipal Commissioner that the Town Planning Department had rejected this plan in year 2015. Despite this Dhawan did not demolish the illegal structure instead opened a roof top restaurant in the month of Febraury. On the Valentine Day a party was organised and till late night the clamour of youths was heard. Before starting the restaurant Dhawan had not taken permission from the land owners. Joshi demanded legal action against the illegal restaurant.

It may be mentioned that the police Department has instructed the NMC administration to take action against those running roof top restaurants with city illegally. Now it remains to be seen what action NMC takes in such cases.

Illegal roof top restaurant on Gokul Roshan building

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Nagpur: Police have arrested three persons for planning dacoity. The names of these three are Sudesh Purshottam Kanoja, 20, Rohit Bundela Gravkar,21 and Chetan Santosh Gwalwanshi, 21 all residents of Thakkargram, Panchpaoli.

According to police, when PSI T M Dhakulkar along with his colleague was patrolling he got an information that some miscreants are planning dacoity in Dadra Pul Bhamkheda area. PSI Dhakulkar immediately reached the spot with his colleagues and caught Sudesh Kanoja, Rohit Gravkar and Chetan Gwalwanshi. The police seized knife, iron rods Betelnut cutter, rope, chilli powder, Wheeler MH31/CW 9483 and material worth Rs nearly 30,000.

In Tehsil police station a case of conspiring dacoity has been registered and police are further investigating.

Police patrolling party gets tip off, nabs three for planning dacoity

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Nagpur- Nagpur City Traffic Police had formed Nagpur Traffic Club (N-Tracs) in 2017. Through this on local level arrangements have been made to put forth people’s traffic problems. The people can intervene to regularise the traffic.

Under the jurisdiction of all police stations the traffic problem arises. The traffic Department had formed beats and there is one beat in-charge for every beat. A whatsapp group has been formed. Those interested in joining the whatsapp group need to send their name, address,on traffic whatsapp number 9011387100 to the Beat in-charge officer and join the (N-tracs) traffic Club and become the member. The members can take the photos regarding flouting of traffic rules and send on whatsapp group. After this beat -in-charge can solve the problems of th people and the people will no about the action taken. Presently, in Nagpur there are total 1575 people who are the members of N-Tarcs.

Since the formation of Club it has received total 603 complaints on traffic Club whatsapp group. Their problems are redressed. The people have been urged to join the traffic club by calling on 9011387100.

N-Tracs of Nagpur City Traffic Police to solve problems

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Nagpur- The Nagpur Municipal Corporation schools however good they might but still the parents are not interested in sending their children to these schools. There is feeling that the standard of the NMC schools is not good.

Even the poor parents would not like to send their wards to NMC schools but to private English Medium school as they feel proud about it. NMC’s school which is equivalent to any private school is NMC’s Durganagar, Madhyamik School on Manewada Road. This school was set up in 1992. The school is from 5th standard to 10th standard.There are total 276 children.

In this school there is one section of english medium and one of Marathi medium. The school has total 14 teachers, 3 peons. From some months there is only one peon working here. The surrounding is spick and span. There are two security guards for day and night.

Water arrangement not good in school

The the water arrangement here is not good. The girls, toilet is cleaned every day but still emits bad odour. Though there are 9 computers in school but just 7 are working. CCTV cameras have been installed in classes so that the principal can keep a watch on all classes.

There is school van for the students and has been hired for Rs 15,000 per month, there is also a rickshaw for the students. For all this the teachers pay money. There is bio-metric system in school. The building is big with a good ground were children play.

All students want school bus

According to the principal of the school Kavita Thavare, to increase the number of students she went to the parents of all the children in the area to convince them to send their wards to NMC school. Some students have increased as they have come from other schools. The students coming to the school all want school van facility. This NMC school has been affected because of the private English medium school.

CCTV cameras installed in all classrooms of Durganagar Middle School