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Nagpur: The State Government earlier in June 15 made it mandatory for all Junior Science Colleges to install biometric attendance system in their respective colleges to mark attendance of students in order to crackdown on integrated programmes.

In this regards a circular has been issued to the education department to start the inspection in all the Junior colleges.

The method of marking attendance in this manner was for all the junior science colleges in Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Nashik and Aurangabad divisions of the state.

We have asked all the Junior colleges to submit there report till August 25 after which we will start the inspections to all the Junior colleges. We are preparing a team and will be team appointed with various college where they will conduct inspection.

If any college fails to install the biometric attendance system in the college then we will have to take actions against them and they even have to face de-recognisation as a punishment, informed Satish Mende Deputy director of Education.

Even after completing the inspection we can conduct a surprise visit to the college to check if the system is under usage or not he added.

Inspection in Junior Science College for biometric attendance to begin soon

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NAGPUR: Former Prime Minister Bharat Ratna Atal Behari Vajpayee breathed his last on Thursday evening after a prolonged illness. One of the legend Parliamentarians, great orator and renowened poet; Vajpayee had his followers and admirers among political adversaries also.

Being a volunteer of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Vajpayee had good relations with Nagpur that he cherished for his lifetime. He had visited Nagpur on 21 June 1986 to attend the last rites of Sundarlal Rai, the then Maharashtra State President of Jan Sangh. Then onwards, whenever Vajpayee came to Nagpur, he stayed at Rai’s residence thus playing a guardian’s role to his colleague family.

Rupa Rai, the neice of Sundarlal Rai and daughter of former Governor Rajni Rai, is currently a corporator in Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC). “He has always been a guardian to us. When he became the Prime Minister for the first time, I had gone to meet him at his Delhi residence, but the security guards and party workers stopped me outside. When he noticed me in the crowd, he walked up to me and asked as why I was standing there. When I told him about the incident, he asked the security guards to move aside saying that he wanted to meet his daughter,” Rupa Rai said while remembering Vajpayee.

She said that Vajpayee was a very humble person. “He was very fond of non-vegetarian food. Whenever he visited our residence, we used to request for his favorite dishes. He liked watching films and listening to music. If he learnt about any Kavi Sammelan or a play happening in the city during his visit, he would reach there without bothering about any invitation,” Rupa Rai said.

Rupa Rai remembers the humble person in Vajpayee

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NAGPUR: Infuriated over the deteriorating conditions of the hostels of Government Institute of Science, the members of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) staged a demonstration on August 14 in front of the office of Joint Director (Education) at Dr Vasantrao Naik College in Nagpur.

Due to the negligent attitude of the administration, the students of the Government Institute of Science are compelled to live in dirty and filthy premises of the hostels. Stray dogs and pigs are usually seen roaming and spreading dirt and filth in the premises thus creating unhygienic conditions for the students. The non-functional lights make it difficult for the students to walk in the premises in the dark. These careless approach of the administration is making it tough for the students to live in the hostel and concentrate on studies.

The ABVP members submitted a memorandum to the authority concerned and demanded urgent attention to the grievances of the students. They also warned of intensifying the agitation if their demands were not met in the stipulated time.

ABVP demands facilities at Institute of Science hostels

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Nagpur: A young man drowned in Beed Borgaon lake, about 10 kilometre from Hingna on Independence Day. The deceased, Chandu Baban Chauhan (35) was a resident of Bhoslewadi, Hingna.

Chandu and seven others had gone to a picnic in his farm situated near the lake. Around 2.30 pm, Chandu was bathing in the lake. Suddenly, he slipped and drowned.

Senior Inspector (Hingna) Moreshwar Barapatre, Head Constable Netaram and others visited the spot. Cops sent the body to Hingna Rural Hospital. Hingna Police registered an accidental death case.

Further investigations are underway

Man drowns in Beed Borgaon lake

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Nagpur: Jaripatka Police on Wednesday booked a 19-year-old boy for sexually exploiting a girl for almost five months by promising to tie the nuptial knot with her.

The 19-year-old victim lodged a complaint that Abhishek Ravi Wasnik (19) befriended her.

Between March20,2018 and August 15,2018,he sexually exploited her on fake promise of marriage.

On the basis of the complaint, Jaripatka Police registered an offence under Section 376 of the IP C against Abhishek.

API Bodele is investigating the case.

Teenage boy booked for sexually exploiting girl

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Nagpur: A gang of thieves burgled cash and gold ornaments collectively worth Rs 2.55 lakh from the residence of Sachin Santosh Soni at Plot No 19, Kalamna on Wednesday.

Soni (41) and his family had gone out.

The house was locked between 5.30 pm and 9.30 pm. A gang of thieves struck at the house. The thieves gained entry into the house after breaking window grill of the kitchen.

The intruders took away Rs 45,000 cash and gold ornaments worth Rs 2.10 lakh from an almirah.

Kalamna Police registered a case under Sections 457 and 380 of the IPC.

Rs 2.55 lakh burglary in Kalamna

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Nagpur Round Table 83, the premier table of Nagpur city, celebrated Independence Day with the children of Arya Prathmikshala, Sadar. A school where the students come from very poor and humble background.

The event started with flag hoisting and singing of the national anthem followed by poems and songs sung by the students. There after, there were few speeches given by the visiting guests in which the students were praised for their performances and motivated to bring freedom in their thoughts through their education and knowledge building and have a vision to achieve their goals as no feat is impossible to achieve.

Their success would enable them to be instrumental in the progress and prosperity of the entire country. The tablers then distributed snack boxes and stationary items to the students and had a visit of the school.

The school was the premier project amongst many undertaken by Round Table 83 in accordance with the motto of Round Table of providing education to all. Round Table 83 is credited with building classrooms for the said school along with many other school projects regularly undertaken by Round Table 83.

Prominently present on the occasion were LMF Tr. Ritesh Saraf (Chairman – Nagpur Round Table 83), LMF Tr. Rahul Agarwala (Vice Chairman), LMF Tr. Kapil Hirani (Secretary), LMF T. Sahil Jain (Immediate Past Chairman), LMF Tr. Piyush Daga (National Vice President), LMF Tr. Nishit Sharma, LMF Tr. Jairaj Lamba (Independence Day Project Convenor), Sq. Lg. Sharad Agrawal (Area HT), Twinkler Hursh Agarwala and other members of Round Table.

Nagpur Round Table 83 celebrates Independence Day with children.

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Nagpur: A criminal mind learnt the trick of breaking ATM to steal cash off the machine, from a You Tube, and tried to apply it on of the city ATMs. But never did he know that his plan would be foiled in the first place itself. Now the man has been nabbed by Lakadganj police station.

Laxman Jaisinghpure, 24, had made three failed attempts to break into ATMs at Wardhaman Nagar, Lakadganj and Vaishali Nagar before being nabbed by Lakadganj police’s team of PI Santosh Khandekar and PSI PG Gadekar. Having left a course of welding from ITI without completing it, Jaisinghpure is learnt to have decided to break ATMs for fast cash. He went online to learn how to cut ATMs but his self-education seemed to have remained incomplete as he could not gather skills about how to access currency after cutting open the machines.

PI Khandekar said Jaisinghpure was nabbed with the help of CCTV footage in which the image of his bike had been captured. “We seized cutters and gas cylinders from the accused and also a spray paint that he would use to cover CCTV cameras inside ATM outlets,” said Khandekar.

Meanwhile, Local Crime branch (LCB) team of PI Sanjay Purandhare under SP Rakesh Ola have busted an interstate gang of ATM breakers arresting five persons. The gang is learnt to have admitted to breaking into four ATMs in towns like Beltur, Kuhi and two other places in Nagpur district and another one in Madhya Pradesh. The gang, whose two more members including the mastermind are yet to be nabbed, has confessed to having broken into ATM in Chhattisgarh too.
PI Purandhare and his team has recovered three cars used for the visiting different places to find out ATMs at desolate places and also cash Rs 4.56 lakh stolen from ATMs. In this case too, LCB managed to detect the case with the help of CCTV footage that had captured the car of one of the accused in the case. Police have also seized gas cylinders and cutters from them.

Youth learns ATM breaking trick on You Tube but fails in applying, arrested

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Nagpur: The contestants of &TV’s Love Me India Kids, a live singing reality show are all set to make their way into the hearts of millions. An original format developed by Essel Vision Productions, the contestants of the show are divided into four zones: North, South, East and West. Each zone will comprise a talented bunch of contestants aged between 5-15 years and have a zonal captain to mentor them. Launching the battlefield amongst the zones for the very first time, the show hosted a special music concert in the city of Nagpur, introducing the 20 West zone contestants. Joining hands with them in putting up a spectacular live performance was the captain of the zone and an exceptional singer himself, Abhijeet Sawant. Having charmed many through his singing talent years ago, he along with his talented team of kids mesmerized the audience, while they crooned to some of the most loved songs of the nation. Abhijeet made his grand entry with one of his first hit songs ‘Mohabattein Lutaunga’ and ended the evening with a spectacular performance on ‘Zingaat’ along with the little contestants. Held at Suresh Bhatt Auditorium, music lovers witnessed an evening full of electrifying and breath-taking performances by the singing superstar.

Thrilled about returning to the stage and performing live, Abhijeet Sawant said, “Maharashtra being my home, I am proud to lead the West zone in the show. I was really excited to perform in the beautiful city of Nagpur after a period of almost 10 years. While the experience was truly worth cherishing, it was absolutely amazing to see the warm support this city extended towards not just me, but also the contestants. The concert definitely helps bring contestants closer to the viewers and gives them an opportunity to showcase their talent first-hand. I wish that they continue to live vote and encourage them throughout the period of the show.”

“The 20 contestants have really surprised me. Their performance today reflected their dreams and aspirations which I can relate to. They are surely going to prove to be tough competition for the other contestants on the show. I can’t wait to begin this journey! I would once again like to thank the people of Nagpur for all their love and cheer in making this event a huge success,” he added.

Creating an edge for itself, Love Me India Kids raises the bar on interactivity amongst the audience, by engaging with its viewers on a real-time basis. From being able to choose their favourite contestants prior to the show going on air to owning a higher weightage of votes over the judges, the show will truly make every single audience vote count. With intense competition in the air, each zone along with their zonal captain is geared up to give each other a tough fight. While the North zone will be headed by the famous Punjabi singer Navraj Hans, the hearty voiced Anusha Mani along with the versatile singer Bhoomi Trivedi will be seen reigning over the South and East zones respectively.

The show will see a grand take off with each zone making their entry on the dazzling stage, while being welcomed by the esteemed panel of judges. Stepping in for the first time into the judging territory is the Punjabi pop sensation Guru Randhawa along with the soulful singer, Neha Bhasin. With a flair in judging several reality shows, Himesh Reshammiya will also be seen as a judge and evaluating each zone on various aspects.

Join us in this journey, as India chooses its next singing superstar with Love Me India Kids.

Abhijeet Sawant and contestants of &TV’s Love Me India Kids win hearts in Nagpur

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Splitsvilla fame gorgeous diva Divya Agrawal recently took the fashion circles of Nagpur by storm as she hit the city to attend a beauty Pageant contest.

As the dazzling damsel get over with her event schedule, Nagpur Today caught her in an unwinding mood in which she shared many things about her likes and dislikes.

She also shared her experience about Nagpur, her face off with Futala lake and many other places of interest in Nagpur.

Nonetheless, she also spilled beans over her brief glitch at Nagpur airport where she used her celebrity status as she got late and needed some time to manage extra baggage.

NT also got her to play a rapid fire in which she had to share her honest thoughts about few actors.
When we nudged her about her equation with her ex boyfriend and Big Boss season 11 contestant Priyank Sharma, she just got off saying, ‘Good time!!!’

During the course of interaction, Bunny Pali and event organiser Miss Babita also joined in revelry and all the fun.
Check out the video here….

Splitsvilla fame Divya Agrawal shows off her Nagpur swag!

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Nagpur: In our lives, we encounter many unsupportive folks who put a wet blanket on our aspirations and make us question ourselves and our ability to do anything. ‘Tumse Na Ho Paega’ is their typical quip to hold us off from racing towards our dreams and achieving the impossible. Breaking the shackles of capability, Zee TV is set to launch a new fiction offering, Guddan…Tumse Na Ho Paega, a light-hearted story of a 20-year old girl, Guddan (played by Kanika Mann), who having bumbled and fumbled through most of her life and being told by her own family that she can barely get one thing right, finds herself becoming India’s youngest mother in law to three older daughters-in-law by a quirk of circumstances.

For the first time on television, we will witness a role reversal to the typical saas-bahu relationship as three daughters-in-law set out to seek a suitable bride for their 40-year old father-in-law, Akshat (played by Nishant Singh Malkani) and each, for their own vested interests, get him married to 20-year old Guddan. Being a new saas in a household where the older bahus have ruled the roost for the longest time, Guddan is the quintessential inexperienced outsider faced with resistance, challenges and is time and again stripped powerless by the phrase- Tumse Na Ho Paega. Will Guddan tide over self-doubt and brave all the daily challenges thrown her way to shut down her critics and cynics once and for all by proving Guddan Se Ho Paega? The show is produced by Shoonya Square and will premiere on 3rd September and air Monday to Friday at 8pm on Zee TV! To promote the show, Shweta Mahadik visited Nagpur today.

Guddan…Tumse Na Ho Paega will feature actors Nishant Singh Malkani and Kanika Mann in lead roles while Shweta Mahadik will be seen essaying the character of Durga, Akshat’s eldest daughter-in-law. She is a simple, traditional and dutiful daughter-in-law. The girl Durga and her sisters-in-law zero in on – Guddan is flamboyant, carefree and always ready to take risks, making her commit the silliest of mistakes, while their father-in-law Akshat is a perfectionist with immense maturity. Set against the backdrop of the vibrant city of Indore, Guddan Tumse Na Ho Paega will trace the journey of two contrasting personalities, as they struggle to find common ground to lead a happy married life. As Guddan and Akshat’s contrasting worlds collide, it leads to a lot of drama, some lighter moments and the eternal quest for Guddan to prove that she can take on any challenge and nail it, no matter what her naysayers say.

Talking about her character, Shweta Mahadik said, “Durga is a simple and responsible daughter-in-law. She wants her father-in-law Akshat to get married because she believes that he too deserves a companion. This is my first outing with Zee TV and I am really excited to be a part of a show like Guddan Tumse Na Ho Payega that delivers a strong message about the myths surrounding self-doubt and capability. I have visited Nagpur a couple of times in the past and I am happy to be promoting my show in the city today. I am looking forward to relishing some yummy food and exploring the beautiful city while I am here.”
Guddan Tumse Na Ho Paega will also see actors like Sehrish Ali, Daljeet Soundh, Mayank Verma, Rehan Roy and others in pivotal roles.

Guddan Tumse Na Ho Paega will premiere on 3rd September and air Monday to Friday at 8pm on Zee TV

Actor Shweta Mahadik visits Nagpur to promote the show

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Nagpur : Vidarbha Institute of Technology celebrated the Independence Day with zeal. The management staff, faculty members and students saluted the nation and freedom fighters on the occasion.

The function started with Flag Hosting which was done at the hands of Dr D.J.Tidke, Former Principal of YCCE followed by national anthem. After Flag Hosting, Dr.D.J.Tidke addressed the students; he inspired the students to develop devotion for the nation.

He guided students further to inculcate compassion towards others and love and bring the glory to the country. On the occasion patriotic speeches were delivered & songs were sung by student of VIT. The NSS volunteers participate in parade and recreate a micro version of the Independence Day parade at Red Fort.

Dr.Sanjay S Uttarwar, Principal VIT exhorted the students to understand the significance of the freedom and develop the patriotism along with punctuality and sincerity among themselves.

Mr.Jitesh.N.Maheshwari (Chairman,VIT), said, “Today’s students realize their strengths and abilities and step out in order to contribute to the nation and the world consequently.” Dr.Pooja Maheshwari (Secretary, VIT) along with Dr.G.S.Natrajan (Director, VIT) and Dr.Sanjay.S.Uttarwar had appreciated the efforts taken by the NSS cell of college.

VIT Celebrate Independence Day 2018 with full enthusiasm

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Nagpur : The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) & Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) have planned a 18-hour shutdown for an interconnection of existing 600 mm dia Medical feeder line at Sadar area (Near Meshram Square) which is infringing in construction of Sadar Flyover, from Liberty Talkies to Mental Hospital, with newly laid by-pass pipeline. from Aug 19 Midnight (12AM) to Aug 20 at 6 pm.

The new by-pass pipeline has been laid by NHAI, through KCC Buildcon Ltd.

The NHAI-NMC 18- hours shutdown of 600 mm dia Wanjari NagarFeeder Line will start from 12 @ midnight on Aug 19 (Sunday) to 6 PM on Aug 20 (Monday). Following this shutdown water supply in Jattarodi No. 1, 2, 3 Indira Nagar, Immamwada, Rambag, Untkhana, Great Nag Road, Patel Timber Market, Dhamma Nagar, Borkar Nagar, Ajni Railway, Government Medical College & Hospital , TATA CAPITAL, Rajabaxa will remain affected on Monday, August 20.

Water supply through Tankers will also be not possible as the Medical feeder line totally dry. NMC-OCW has requested people from these areas to store sufficient water for their use.

NHAI to interconnect Medical feeder with new pipline for sadar flyover

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Nagpur: Ajani police has booked MP woman, working with a marketing company for allegedly blackmailing colleague’s wife over a video that captures her changing cloths.

It is learnt that the accused Dipmala Chetan Chaudhary resident of Indor, MP used to work with complainant’s husband reside under the jurisdiction of Ajani police station.

Being work colleague she has visited victim’s native frequently. According to 35-year old complainant, Dipmala has visited her home on November 13, 2017. However the accused has allegedly recorded her when the victim was changing cloths.

The matter came in to light, when complainant received a parcel on July 23 this year comprising a book, threat letter and video CD. When she played that CD she was stunned to see herself changing cloths in it.

According to victim, her and Dipmala’s relation had turned sour and she’s caring out this act as revenge. In letter, accused has threatened victim to public the video.

Ajani police has registered a case under relevant sections. Further probe is underway.

With objectionable content MP woman attempt to defame colleague’s wife in Ajani

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Nagpur/Parseoni: Arvind Indo Public School at Parseoni, which has been in the news for dubious reasons has once again come to light for yet another glitch. It is learnt that the school principal has secured post graduate degree in Master of Arts through regular course at Nagpur university. Recently, the school was found running 8th and 9th classes without any permission.

When the matter was exposed, the principal and school director hastily transferred the students to Arvind Public School at Heti Surla in Saoner where they were originally given admission.

Now in an inquiry sought by RTI activist Shekhar Kolte the information regarding the latest glitch has come to light. Kolte has filed RTI application before Pariksha Bhawan in Nagpur University.

The information revealed that the school principal Rajeshri Prabhakarrao Deshmukh had taken admission in MA in 2015-16. She completed the course from Mahatma Gandhi Arts and Commerce college which runs under the same institution.

As per the rules, no officer or employee can pursue course as a regular student while being in service. However the options of pursuing course from open universities like IGNOU and Yashwant Rao Chavan Open University are open, but these are also subject to prior permission from the senior officers of the institution as well as education department.

The examinee may take leave during the examination to complete the studies but he or she would not be paid any salary during the said leave period.

On the contrary, sidelining all the norms Principal Deshmukh went on to pursue regular MA course from in-house institution, which has now brought her degree as well her position under scanner.

Kolte has also complained about the glitch to Education Minister, Guardian Minister, Deputy Director of Education, Education Officer and Group Education Officer, and demanded action into the matter.

Arvind Indo Public School Principal gets regular MA degree while in service

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Nagpur: After the life-threatening ‘Blue Whale Challenge’ and the weird ‘Kiki Challenge’, yet another form of challenge has come to the fore, which is leaving kids mentally bruised and depressed. The alarming trend of Momo Challenge is fast catching up among young kids in Nagpur too. The Momo challenge is a new online game spreading like a wildfire on social media.

It is learnt that a list of challenges is first given to the user which seems easy initially but pressure starts to build up as one escalates to further levels. Any failure to comply with Momo’s order leads to users’ account being hacked, causing them mental harassment by sending disturbing images to their accounts along with all the personal data to be leaked over the internet in no time.

As young children and teens are getting more connected and vulnerable to these new challenges thrown across internet, Nagpur police has stepped up to alarm parents on this.

The city police have taken to Twitter to appeal parents to keep an eye on their children activities.

Momo suicide game risking your teens after #Bluewhale . The Momo game refers to an online challenge for which an avatar of a grotesque woman is being used. Pay close attention to your kid's behavior and have open communication with them. pic.twitter.com/974gWKbxQn

— NagpurCityPolice (@NagpurPolice) August 16, 2018

In its tweet shared through its official handle Nagpur police commented, “Momo suicide game risking your teens after #Bluewhale . The Momo game refers to an online challenge for which an avatar of a grotesque woman is being used. Pay close attention to your kid’s behavior and have open communication with them.

Nagpur police alert parents about Momo Challenge affecting kids

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Nagpur: As the rains have brought alarming growth of weeds in the city water bodies, Housing and Urban Development Corporation (Hudco) has come up with a noble move. Hudco has expressed its willingness to donate a weed cleaning boat to the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC).

Sources confirmed the development saying that Hudco has expresse interest in donating a weed cleaning boat to the NMC to clean and maintain city’s water bodies.

The NMC has also prepared a detailed project report for Hudco. The city has 13 lakes and the prospect of water hyacinth choking almost 10 water bodies looms large as both the civic authorities — NMC and Nagpur Improvement Trust — have failed to control the weed. Due to lack of corrective measures by the NMC to control pollution, water hyacinth has spread over most water bodies in the city, affecting aquatic life as well as water quality.

The NMC could take two measures to keep the water bodies clean — either by stopping pollution or cleaning the water bodies manually. However, the NMC has taken no measures to stop pollution by letting in sewage water, immersion of idols and dumping of solid waste. For the last couple of years, the NMC had launched a mega awareness drive to save lakes from immersion of idols and dumping of nirmalya.

But as there was no measure to curb sewage water entering the lakes, the effort proved futile. Huge spread of weed has cropped up over Lendi Talao, Naik Talao, Ambazari, Pardi and even Futala lake. As manual cleaning is not conducted regularly, the NMC has failed to de-weed the lakes, admitted a senior official from NMC’s environment section. “The swathes of weed over the water body prevent penetration of sunlight reducing the quality of water.

The decaying vegetative parts too add to the environmental hazards,” he clarified. The ‘special boat’ costs around Rs1.30 crore and Hudco has agreed to donate it to the NMC under its corporate social responsibility. “The NMC has also urged Hudco to maintain the machine for at least seven years, while the civic body has agreed to bear the fuel cost,” he said.

Once the civic body receives the weed cleaning boat, it will prepare a roster on rotation basis to clean the lakes, the official said, adding the NMC will go in for periodical de-weeding of the lakes and it should not be a one-off affair because weeds would grow soon after the de-weeding exercise.

Hudco to donate weed cleaning boat to maintain city lakes

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Indian Youth Conclave is Central India’s Largest Youth-fest which celebrates being young and passionate. IYC brings together TEDx speakers, YouTube Fan-fest Performers, Entrepreneurs, Writers, Poets, Artists, Musicians, Geeks who have taken the country by storm is all set for August 18 and 19 at Chitnavis Centre,Nagpur.

Which will feature 1000+ Delegates | 7+ Stages | 40+ Speakers | Workshops | Startup Expos | Live Performances | Music | Theater | Open Mics | And You.

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IYC 3.0 India’s largest youht-fest on August 18,19

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Nagpur/Parbhani: Even as the rains have remained a far fetched event for almost a month in Maharashtra, the dry spell has left the farmers in distress, as they rested hopes on the predictions by Indian Meteorological Department (IMD).

Agitated and frustrated over the incorrect weather predictions in the state, the farmer groups in have lodged a complaint with the Parbhani rural police seeking action against the officials under Section 420 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Back in Nagpur region too, the farmers are reportedly finding the Met department on the wrong end as the latter came up with false prediction about rains.

Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghtana’s President Manikrao Kadam accused the IMD of duping the farmer community by predicting rainfall during the monsoon season while several parts have been reeling under a dry spell.

The monsoons have taken a break since the third week of July. Corroborating over the same, state agricultural commissioner said that the cumulative rainfall in the state till the second week of August stood at 607.4 mm which is at least 20 per cent short of the 723.7 mm of rainfall normally reported in the state during the above time period.

Meanwhile, Kadam said, “Since the beginning, the weather office has been predicting a normal monsoon for the current year. Based on their prediction, the farmers have invested their capital in seeds and carried out sowing activities. However, rains are absent during the crucial growth phase and the only thing the farmer can now do is to watch his hard-earned investment going waste.”

More than 13.14 lakh hectares of land has been sown this year. Sowing of the majority of the pulses and oilseeds barring soybean has reportedly seen a major dip in the state as farmers have put on hold their on hold their sowing activities. Of the 355 talukas in the state, only 92 have reported above normal rains.

As the farmer community continues to be enraged about this development, the IMD has indicated that rains will make a return in the days to come. Change in weather conditions was reported by the IMD after farmers complained about crop loss due to the dry spell.

Farmers lodge plaint against Met deptt over false prediction of rains

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NAGPUR: Hearing the Rs 5 Crore Hawala case, the Nagpur Sessions Court on Saturday granted bail to police constable (writer) Vilas Wadekar against the security of Rs 5 Lakh. The court however rejected bail applications of police constable (driver) Sachin Bajbhuje and other informers.

The accused have been lodged in the Nagpur Central Jail since last four months. Advocates R P Joshi and Sameer Sonawane appeared in the court on behalf of accused constable Vilas Wadekar.

API Sunil Sonawane of Nandanvan police station is also an accused in the case. His advocate Sameer Sonawane informed that the API had not filed any bail application in the Session Court so far.

As per sources, Assistant Police Inspector of Nandanvan police station Sunil Sonawane had usurped Rs 2.50 crores of Hawala seizure. Sonawane is accused of allowing the accused namely Sachin Padgilwar, Pintu Wasnik and Gajanan Munmune to flee the spot. This was established in the investigation done by the Crime Branch. Therefore, API Sonawane, constable Sachin Bhajbuje, constable Wadekar and one more accused were arrested in the case.

It may be recalled that one early Sunday morning in April 2018, police had intercepted a Duster vehicle near Prajapati Square on Pardi Road and seized crores of rupees of Hawala from the car. The money belonged to Khajan Thakkar, the owner of Maple Jewellers in Raipur. The money was being transferred to Hawala businessman Prashant Kesani in Nagpur. This was informed by vehicle driver Rajesh Mendhe, a resident of Minimata Nagar in Kalamna, and Gulabchand Jain, a resident of Tulsi Nagar in Shanti Nagar.

That morning, police has summoned Prashant Kesani but instead one Manish Khandelwal reached the police station. Manish had provided the keys of the locker in the Duster car. On opening the lockers, police had seized cash of crores of rupees. API Sonawane and his associates had illegally parted crores of rupees among themselves. This was suspected by Manish Khandelwal and ACP Nilesh Bharne had instituted an enquiry in the matter. The investigation report had found API Sonawane guilty of the crime.

Meanwhile police had arrested Sachin Padgilwar, Pintu Wasnik and Gajanan Munmune from Mahabaleshwar. Deputy CP of Crime Branch Sambhaji Kadam had interrogated police officials and employees in the case and found the charges to be true.

Nagpur court grants bail to constable in Hawala case