Farmers’ suicide continues in Nagpur div despite good rains; Yavatmal worst hit
Nagpur: Even the good rains last year could not contain the suicide of farmers at satisfactory level. Especially Nagpur and Amravati division in Vidarbha where the government efforts failed to bring end to the farmers' woes. Dashing the government's hope...
Disappearing Gandhi – Modi as Mahatma?
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has been a totem for half a century and more. His ideas, even when he was alive, were seen by his peers and protégés as impractical pieties. It is appropriate that the tokenism that surrounds his legacy...
Video: Mother Nature’s finest moment: Goat feeding milk to two helpless deer fawns
Lawless at midnight – when rules of the jungle took over
Representational Pic Nagpur/Bengaluru: After all the hullabaloo one has been hearing of women molested at midnight on 31st December, New year's eve, in Bengaluru I watched some of the videos of various 'incidents' that have gone viral on internet. My curiosity...
Farmer suicides rise alarmingly in state – is there any solution in sight?
Figures do not matter any more - facts do. And they paint a very frightening picture. Let us digress for a bit here. What is the ONE thing that human beings all over the world HAVE to do to survive? Whether we...
Om Puri: Rag-picker who became a legend
'I belonged to the working class, not the middle class.' 'I was a rag-picker. I used to pick up coal from the railway tracks.' 'I was rejected from the FTII, as I was very unkempt and skinny.' 'I did not...
A Well-Kept Open Secret: Washington Is Behind India’s Brutal Demonetization Project
In early November, without warning, the Indian government declared the two largest denomination bills invalid, abolishing over 80 percent of circulating cash by value. Amidst all the commotion and outrage this caused, nobody seems to have taken note of the...
Guru Gobind Singh Jayanti 2017: Read why we celebrate this festival
India is celebrating 350th birth anniversary, or ‘Prakash Parv’ of Shri Guru Gobind Singh today. Celebrating anniversaries of Gurus as “Gurupurb” is an important feature of the Sikh way of life. Gurpurb is a compound word made up of “guru”, the...
97% banned notes said to be deposited in banks in blow to Modi’s black money fight
New Delhi: Indians have deposited nearly all the currency bills outlawed at the end of the deadline last year, according to people with knowledge of the matter, dealing a blow to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s drive to unearth unaccounted wealth...
Nagpur City through the eyes of a newcomer
Nagpur: The moment you come out of the airport premises, one can behold lush green trees on both sides of the road and the obvious Metro construction which is underway. Soon you are in a concrete jungle with trees disappearing...
Video : Truck driver being caned mercilessly breaks the internet
Video : CM Fadnavis presents the next gen aspirations of ‘.nagpur’
Nagpur: Riding high on the spate of ongoing developments and many more coming up, Nagpur seems to have bright prospects in 2017. As Nagpur gets its new logo '.nagpur' recently, it implies that the city has many more possibilities...
Video: Citizens feel helpless, let-down with hike in price of petrol, gas cylinder
Anonymous poster in Mumbai ‘A person from Nagpur’ Comment irks BJP
Nagpur/Mumbai: The posters erected at various parts of city mentioning that “a person from Nagpur (read Fadnavis) will transform Mumbai has evoked sharp reactions from BJP. Mumbai BJP Chief Ashish Shelar without naming Shiv Sena made a reference to the party...
Is Reliance Group’s defence project at Mihan SEZ in doldrums?
Nagpur: Yet another “high-end investment drama” at MIHAN has come to the fore. The Reliance Group Chairman Anil Ambani had with great fanfare announced an investment worth Rs 6,500 crore to set up a greenfield aerospace project in 289 hectares...
Narendra Modi Just Dug Himself a Great Big Hole
In a speech full of faulty economic reasoning, Modi made one factual claim – the number of Indians with official incomes greater than Rs 10 lakh is just 24 lakh. If demonetisation really works, he needs to up that figure...
Metro man Brijesh Dixit : Administrator of the year 2016
MD's visit at site on launch of 1st Span on 20.08 Nagpur: Pune’s ambitious R11,420-crore Metro Rail project has finally taken off with the commencement of the topographical surveys and geo-technical investigations. Physical work on the project is likely to...
निःसंदेह गड़करी ही 2016 के शिखर पुरुष
नागपुर: संतरानगरी के सार्वजानिक जीवन से यदि वर्ष 2016 के लिए शिखर पुरुष का चुनाव करना हो तो केंद्रीय मंत्री नितिन गड़करी के आगे शेष सब या तो धूमिल नजर आते हैं या फिर उनके कद्दावर व्यक्तित्व के आगे फीके। पिछले...
अखिलेश यादव ने दिखाए बगावती तेवर! सीएम ने जारी की 235 उम्मीदवारों की अपनी लिस्ट
लखनऊ: दिनभर में खींचतान के बाद गुरुवार देर शाम उत्तर प्रदेश के मुख्यमंत्री अखिलेश यादव ने अपने बगावती सुर को और बुलंद करते हुए 235 उम्मीदवारों की लिस्ट जारी कर दी. अखिलेश ने पार्टी से हटकर अपनी लिस्ट में 64...
Modi goes missing from Nagpur NMC posters!!!
File Photo Nagpur: According to BJP President Amit Shah, superman Modi gets the credit for his party's victory in various local elections held recently all over India. If that is indeed so, why has Prime Minister Modi gone missing from...
Not demonetization, this is demoralization! opine the moneyed too
Hindustan Times this photo of old man crying in a bank touches a raw nerve, his spot at the State Bank of India, New Colony branch, in Gurgaon, went viral on Twitter. (Parveen Kumar/HT) Nagpur: Serpentine queues outside banks and...
