GONDIA: Statements made about fly ash use for agriculture during a seminar organized at Adani Thermal Power plant near Tiroda have drawn criticism from sarpanches of nearby villages. According to Suresh Patle of Dandegaon, Ashok Rinait of Ekodi and Mineshwarai Pardhi of Sejgaon, the seminar was an attempt to mislead cultivators who are experiencing crop damages due to fly ash from the power plant.Sanjay...

Source : Times Of India | 7 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Gondia

Gondia agriculture department raids two seeds factories

raided two seeds company in Dhimartoli village, 6km from Gondia and ordered stoppage of processing of the seeds.Acting on a tip-off, a team consisting of RN Pathan, Vandana Shinde and others raided two seeds factories - Vyankateshwar Processing Plant and Maa Durga High Breed Seeds Company, Nizamabad, - in Dhimartoli. While Vyankateshwar had the permission to sell its products in Maharashtra but Maa...

Source : Times Of India | 11 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Gondia

Rs 6 lakh fraud by truck driver

GONDIA: One Maniram Sharma (40) of Central Avenue, Nagpur, has lodged a complaint with Tiroda police station on June 2, 2013, that truck driver Raju Rajput of Samartha Nagar misappropriated 251 bags of Ferrosilicon booked from Bhutan for Nagpur. The estimated cost of the product is around Rs 6 lakh.Complainant Sharma had placed an order for ferrosilicon with a dealer in Tiroda. Accordingly, 251 bags...

Source : Times Of India | 13 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Gondia

2 from Gondiacaught bettingFor IPL matches

Friday night. LCD, gadgets and cash worth Rs75,000 were seized from the room. Police are interrogating the duo to get link of other people involved with them. Cops suspect a big gambling racket.Copyright © 2013 Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. All rights reserved. For reprint rights:Two persons from Gondia were caught by Hudkeshwar police while they were betting on IPL matches at Shiv Apartment Complex...

Source : Times Of India | 24 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Gondia

Bridegroom booked for dowry demand, lodges counter plaint

GONDIA: A would-be bride from Bhadanga village in Goregaon tehsil, Bharati Sharnagat has lodged complaint against the bridegroom. However, Bisen has lodged counter complaint against Sharnagat claiming that she is blackmailing him with the help of a fake PSI.The marriage was to be performed on May 23. In the night, Sharnagat lodged a complaint withalleging that Bisen family did not turn up for the wedding...

Source : Times Of India | 25 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Gondia

Three booked for demanding dowry

GONDIA: A prospective groom, his father and brother were booked by police after they cancelled the marriage at the eleventh hour citing 'non-payment of dowry'. The complaint was filed by the bride - an educated girl of Bhadanga village in Goregaon tehsil. In her complaint she said that Pramodkumar Bisen (29) refused to marry her because her parents couldn't fulfil their demand of Rs5 lakh dowry.According...

Source : Times Of India | 28 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Gondia

Two fake cops dupe old woman

GONDIA: A 70-year-old woman Prabhavati Janewar was duped by two fake policemen of 35 gramsPrabhavati, a resident Railtoli, was heading home when two persons came near her and told her to put her gold bangles in her purse as thieves are quite active in the area. In the garb of helping the woman put her bangles in the purse the duo cunningly stole the jewellery. The old woman realized the folly after...

Source : Times Of India | 32 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Gondia

Truck driver killed in accident

GONDIA: A driver was killed and three others seriously injured after two trucks collided head-on near village Tikayatpur in Gondia tehsil on Saturday.Gurudas Vaidya, a resident of village Bothali, was driving a loaded truck coming from Tiroda to Gondia when it collided with another truck. Vaidya died on the spot while conductor of his truck, driver of the second truck Jitendra Lanjewar and his helper...

Source : Times Of India | 50 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Gondia

Seven held for killing deer

GONDIA: Forest officials have arrested seven persons for killing a deer and distributing its meat in anear Timezari village in Kurhadi forest in Goregaon range on Friday. Two more involved in the crime are absconding. The arrested persons are: Suraj Ilpate, Jagdish Raut, Zanaklal Baghele, Lokchandra Shendre, Anushesh Sonawane, Jitendra Tembhurnikar andOn Thursday a deer accidentally veered into the...

Source : Times Of India | 65 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Gondia

Teacher booked for molesting student

GONDIA: Police, on Thursday, booked a teacher for allegedly molesting a student in Navegaon Bandh. The victim a student ofstation. An offence was registered against the accused after the victim narrated her plight before a vigilance committee set up by the district administration. However, the teacher is absconding.Copyright © 2013 Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd. All rights reserved. For reprint right...

Source : Times Of India | 87 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Gondia