Новости за 23.06.2015

At a time when 31,000 students battle for 2,200-odd seats in Tamil Nadu this year, the state government’s efforts to increase the number of MBBS seats have come a cropper.

A man tracked down his wife’s boyfriend on Friday, seven months after they eloped, murdered him and disposed the body in a Porur canal, police said.

Chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s election campaign in R K Nagar on Monday brought north Chennai to a standstill. Normal life was disrupted as vehicles piled up on roads with police either stopping or diverting traffic on many thoroughfares.

Standing committee chairman Ramesh Shingare presented his first budget for Nagpur Municipal Corporation on Monday and promised to focus on old projects that have been non-starters for many years.

In an interesting move, the NMC has planned to take over powers on Gunthewari layouts and plots from the Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT). The civic body is expecting revenue growth of Rs 200 crore if the plan materializes.

Girls at Gobindopur railway colony would never dream of building their lives on their own terms with hardly any of them ever getting the opportunity of attending school and most of them being married off by 16.

In good news for athletes, budgetary provisions have been made for the first time to host the Orange City Run Marathon. The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) will hold the event in January 2016.

A paper containing 85 sketches of old ruins in Amravati, mistaken to be those of Deccan Jainism, that was presented by Surveyor General of India Col. Colin Mackenzie at the Asiatic Society in Kolkata in 1820 was the first step towards rediscovering Buddhism in its country of birth after nearly 1,200 years in oblivion.

Crumbling buildings and filthy roads at Tiretta Bazar — or Old Chinatown — bear evidence to the depleting fortunes of the Chinese community in the city.

NMC will pay its share for Nagpur metro rail project in the form of land it will provide to the Nagpur Metrol Rail Corporation. It has not made any separate financial allocation for the ambitious transport project, standing committee chairman Ramesh Shingare revealed after presenting the standing committee’s budget for the year 2015-16 on Monday.

The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has continued to neglect improvement in water services and revenue. Standing committee chairman Ramesh Shingare expected revenue of Rs150 crore from the water works in this fiscal. Unfortunately, despite execution of projects worth crores and roping in a private water operator, the target has not increased for the last three years.

NMC budgets have now gone beyond being a joke. Every year the standing committee chief presents a budget that looks more ridiculous than the previous year’s. The revenue envisaged has no connection with actual income. This year’s budget sets a new record by adding almost Rs1000 crore as imaginary revenue to actual inflow of Rs976 crore last year.

MGP president Pandurang ‘Deepak’ Dhavalikar on Monday said if AAP can produce the list of students who passed BSc (subsidiary) from Chowgule College in 1978 and if Sudin’s (Ramkrishna Dhavalikar) name is not on it, he (Deepak) will quit politics.

Almost all types of taxes hiked in budget

Citizens will have to bear hike in all types of taxes being levied by Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) in this fiscal. In fact, the civic body has already started recovering some of the hiked taxes and will implement some more hikes soon.

The CID has filed the chargesheet in the Ranaghat gangrape and dacoity case. The chargesheet filed on the 86th day — four days before the stipulated 90-day timeframe — has the mention of the rape but there’s no specific allegation against anyone committing the crime.

Close on the heels of law and order review meeting on Monday, the state government transferred eight IPS officers in the evening.

With the Union health and family welfare minister J P Nadda reiterating the Central government's commitment to open second AIIMS in Bihar to provide better healthcare system in the state, hopes have been rekindled for the establishment of the same in Bhagalpur.

An extremist as well as a villager received bullet injuries during an encounter between Maoists and CRPF-local police combine atop Buddha Hills under Rupoh police station in Nawada district on Monday.

Parthasarathi Mukhejee, an assistant teacher at Langulia High School near Suri, was assaulted by a group of guardians for advising girls not to marry before they complete education.

CM Nitish Kumar on Monday directed all DM and SPs to review land dispute cases every Saturday and redress the genuine grievances of people as such disputes breed crimes in the society.

13 years after the cine-style sensational lynching of notorious goon Swapnil, alias Pintu, Shirke inside District and Sessions Court premises here, the Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court, on Monday, maintained lifer of seven convicts while convicting other four persons.

Even as the state government has started a crackdown on illegal sand mining along Damodar, three Trinamool Congress supporters were killed in alleged intra-party clashes in Burdwan’s Wari on Sunday night as rival factions fought to control the sand mafia.