Nagpur: Offences were registered against three persons engaged by a private steel company having investment plans in Gadchiroli for allegedly operating drone without prior permission in Chamorshi tehsil. They were allegedly surveying the area where the company is looking for land for its proposed project.Gadchiroli, once a Maoist-affected zone, remains a no-flying zone.Land acquisition in…
Chandrapur: Four migrant labourers from Chandrapur district were killed and 27 others injured after the vehicle carrying them met with an accident near Ramagundam in Telangana on Wednesday evening.The victims had travelled to the neighbouring state for seasonal paddy transplantation work, a yearly migration driven by limited employment opportunities in their native villages.The deceased were…
Nagpur: The Maharashtra govt has transferred Rs 713.96 crore directly into the bank accounts of 8,83,965 farmers affected by natural disasters in the Nagpur division during the 2025-26 financial year.The assistance, released through the Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) system, covers crop and farmland losses caused by heavy rain, floods and unseasonal rain. The disbursal followed…
Hyderabad: Telangana high court on Tuesday directed the state govt to continue the bomb resistant vehicle (BRV) allotted to former IPS officer and BRS general secretary RS Praveen Kumar.Questioning why notice was not issued to Praveen Kumar before the decision to withdraw the BRV was taken, the court remarked that though the authorities concerned have…
Nagpur: Frontal organisations have incited locals of Gadchiroli against acquisition of their land for industrial projects like the JSW Group’s steel plant or the airport, thus stalling the process, said district’s co-guardian minister Ashish Jaiswal on Saturday. The counter, he said, is making lucrative offers that would prompt locals to themselves come forward to give…
Chandrapur couple gets custody of minor girl Nagpur: The Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court has ordered an immediate restoration of custody of a minor girl to a Chandrapur couple, ruling that the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) acted illegally by taking charge of a child who was neither orphaned nor abandoned, despite allegations surrounding…
Nagpur: Gadchiroli ranked among top 10 of the 112 districts in the country covered under central govt’s Aspirational District Programme in allocation of performance-based incentive funds, district collector Avishyant Panda said on Thursday.Panda was speaking at a review meeting held after three-day visit of Niti Aayog adviser Dadhich Indrodiya to the district and aspirational blocks…
CM Devendra Fadnavis inaugurates the new manufacturing facility at Ranjangaon MIDC on Wednesday in the presence of railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday proposed the railway ministry to create a dedicated rail freight corridor linking Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Navi Mumbai and the upcoming Vadhvan port with Samruddhi Expressway to…
Special Intensive Revision of the electoral rolls will start on June 30 in Maharashtra Pune: The district has mapped 54.1% of its electorate under the Election Commission of India’s ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, with several key urban constituencies in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad recording some of the lowest coverage levels in the district…
As many as 32,000 girl candidates wrote the nursing CET Pune: Four students from Maharashtra secured a perfect 100 percentile score, while no student from outside the state achieved the top rank in the results declared by Maharashtra State Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell for admission to BSc Nursing and General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM)…
