Nagpur

Foreign experts reach gas well blowout site in Assam

Gas leak still on from OIL well in Assam

8:42 pm June 4, 2020

Guwahati: Gas is “uncontrollably” flowing out of a natural gas producing well of Oil India Ltd (OIL) in Assam after a blowout eight days ago and the public sector undertaking on Thursday said an expert agency is monitoring the environmental impact of the leak. Pumping of water to the well through the casing valve is […]

2,940 new coronavirus cases found in Maharashtra, 63 deaths

11:15 pm May 22, 2020

Mumbai: Maharashtra recorded 2,940 new coronavirus patients on Friday, the highest one-day spike so far, taking the overall tally in the state to 44,582, health officials said. As per the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, 1,751 new cases were found in the state capital Mumbai. With 63 COVID-19 patients dying, 27 of them in Mumbai, the death […]

Woman hangs self in toilet of Nagpur government hospital

11:57 pm May 19, 2020

Nagpur: A woman allegedly committed suicide in the toilet of Nagpur’s Government Medical College and Hospital on Tuesday, police said. An official identified the deceased as Mamta Bhade (37), a resident of Madhya Pradesh, and said her husband Bhimrao was admitted in the hospital. “She entered the toilet of ward 6 and hanged herself from […]

Soldier commits suicide near LoC in JK's Poonch

Nagpur: CRPF jawan kills self with rifle in Gadchiroli

11:19 pm April 26, 2020

Nagpur: A 30-year-old CRPF jawan shot himself with his service rifle on Sunday in Bhamragadh taluka of Gadchiroli, some 170 kilometres from here, police said. He was identified as Uttarakhand-resident Deepak Kumar attached to the force’s battalion number 37, an official said. “He shot himself in the chest with his Insas rifle at around 2:30pm. […]

COVID-19 cases in Nagpur city touch 100-mark

6:01 pm April 24, 2020

Nagpur: With two persons testing coronavirus positive in Nagpur on Friday, the tally of such patients in the city reached 100, officials said. These two patients had already been quarantined, but their test reports came on Friday, the district information office said. They are close contacts of the the patients who had tested positive earlier, […]