Nagpur

Nagpur: Pistols, bullets seized, 2 held

11:14 pm January 17, 2021

Nagpur: Two people were held in connection with the seizure of two country-made pistols and bullets in Jaripatka area of Nagpur, police said on Sunday. A car was stopped on Saturday night on a tip off andthe firearms and ammunition were seized, an official said. ”The firearms were smuggled from Indore in Madhya Pradesh. The […]

Man injured due to sharp kite string in Nashik district

20-year-old man dies after kite string slits his throat

8:14 pm January 12, 2021

Nagpur: A 20-year-old two-wheeler rider died after the `manja’ string of a kite slit his throat in Jatatarodi area here on Tuesday, police said. Pranay Prakash Thakre, a resident of Dnyaneshwar Nagar, Ajni, was returning from Tehsil area with his father and both were riding separate motorcycles. When they were passing through the Jatatarodi square, […]

Maharashtra: 3 killed in two road accidents in Nagpur

4:35 pm January 11, 2021

Nagpur: Three persons have been killed in two road accidents in different areas of Maharashtra‘s Nagpur district, police said. On Sunday, two men, aged 30 and 35, were going on a motorcycle when their speeding vehicle rammed into a jeep on Amravati road in Ambazari area here, a police official said. Both received grievous injuries […]

Nagpur registers 456 new COVID-19 cases; seven more deaths

10:11 pm January 8, 2021

Nagpur: At least 456 persons tested positive for coronavirus, while seven died of the infection in Maharashtra’s Nagpur district on Friday, a district official said. The new infections have taken the district’s COVID-19 tally to 1,27,110, the official said. With the latest casualties the toll in the district has reached 4,000, which includes 2,667 fatalities […]

COVID-19 vaccination dry run held in Maharashtra

9:59 pm January 8, 2021

Mumbai: A dry run to assess the readiness of the mechanism laid out for the imminent COVID-19 immunisation drive, was conducted across 32 of the total 36 districts in Maharashtra on Friday, a health department official said. A similar exercise had been conducted in four other districts of the state- Nagpur, Jalna, Pune and Nandurbar- […]