Rashly driven Starbus kills woman, two seriously injured

A Woman was killed while her husband and three-year-old son was seriously injured after a rashly driven Kanhan-bound Starbus hit them near Untkhana at Cantonment Area in Kamptee, on Tuesday Morning. Fearing public wrath, the bus driver fled the spot.

Identified as Urmila Kamde(25), the deceased was a resident of Prem Nagar, Nagpur. Her husband Sudhir(30) and son Nayan(3), who suffered serious injuries, were rushed to Sub-District Hospital, Kamptee. According to Nagpur (Rural) Police, Sudhir was returning to Nagpur with Urmila and Nayan from the House of his in-laws ona Honda Activa (MH-31/BF-9615). A Speeding Starbus (MH-31/6221) heading towards kanhan hit them. As a result, the couple and their son fell down. Urmila died of head injuries on the spot while Sudhir and Nayan sustained serious injuries. A huge crowd of onlookers gathered at the spot. Fearing Public violence, the bus driver fled ran away leaving his vehicle on the spot.

Kamptee Police are investigating the incident.

Youth dies after motorcycle slips off the road

A Youth died of head injuries after his speeding motorcycle slips off the road on the Model Mill turning in Ganeshpeth area on Monday night.

Identified as Ritesh Ramansingh Nikam(23), the deceased was a resident of Plot No.19, Neelkamal Society, Indira Nagar, Hudkeshwar.

The tragedy occured around 11.30pm when Ritesh was returning home from the bus terminus on the Bajaj Pulsar motorcycle. Ritesh lost control of his mobike on the turning in front of the Model Mill gate. As a result, the mobike slips off the road injuring Ritesh seriously. Ritesh was rushed to Medical College but on the way he succumbed to his injuries. 

Ganeshpeth Police are investigating the incident.

ZP chief flays MLA Bawankule for trying to get political mileage

Zilla Parishad(ZP) President Suresh Bhoyar and Vice-President Nitin Rathi, on Monday, accused Kamptee MLA of BJP Chandrashekhar Bawankule of trying to get political mileage for himself from the works sanctioned by the Government of Maharashtra owing to follow-up taken by ZP office-bearers.

Addressing a press conference, Bhoyar and Rathi said that due to ZP's consistent follow-up, the Government sanctioned Rs.4.6447 crore for construction of Panchayat Samiti administrative building at Narkhed, Katol, Parseoni, Mouda, Kuhi, Umrer, Bhiwapur and Kamptee. At Narkhed and Katol, works had already started and remaining work would commence from May 18. The works would take at least one year for completion.

ZP received fund with co-operation of then Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, Rural Development Minister Jayant Patil, Union Minister of Social Justice Mukul Wasnik, Food and Civil Supplies Minister Anil Deshmukh and due to follow-up by Congress-NCP led ZP.

"Still, Bawakule has alleged that ZP was not starting works of Panchayat Samiti building due to political vendetta. Bawankule never extends cooperation to ZP to fetch funds from Government.However, he is always on the forefront to claim credit for any development work." said Bhoyar. He also alleged that Bawankule was creating hurdles in development works being executed by ZP. Bawankule should focus on some other pending works try fetch funds for them, Rathi said.

Parts of Civil Lines in dark

Despite zero load-shedding, many parts of the city, especially coming in franchisee divisions are facing long power cuts, that too during night.

On Tuesday Night, many parts of Civil Lines plunged in darkness at around 6pm. The citizens started to lodge complaints with Spanco's helpline number. Many of the citizens have informed that their complaints were not received stating that the repairing work was going on.

They said that it is a violation of Standard of Performance(SOP) Regulations as the complaints of affected persons have to be registered with time and date. The power supply was not restored till 11pm and the citizens have to face severe problems. It may be mentioned here that, the power cuts in three divisions has become a common since May 1. Aggrieved residents stated that the time taken by franchisee's staffers for restoring the power supply is much longer.

Savalakhe joins as new CAFO at ZP

P P Savalakhe replaced Arvind Hemke as Chief Accounts and Finance Officer(CAFO) of Zilla Parishad(ZP) on Tuesday. Though it is termed as routine transfer, Nagpur Zilla Parishad Karmachari Mahasangh termed it as an impact of agitation notice served by it to the Principal Secretary(Finance). According to Rajendra Gangotri, President of Nagpur Zilla Parishad Karmachari Mahasangh, and N L Sawarkar, General Secretary, their union had been demanding transfer of Hemke.

Meanwhile, Castribe Zilla Parishad Karmachari Sanghatana district unit chief Sohan Chaware said that transfer orders of Hemke were not yet received at ZP.