least six policemen were killed and three injured when their vehicle rammed into a tree in Maharashtra's Amravati district early Wednesday, police said.The accident occurred around 5.30 a.m. when a police vehicle hit a tree on the Washim-Amravati Road, around 200 kms from Nagpur."The victims belonged to the Amravati ACB (Anti-Corruption Bureau) and had come to Washim for a trap case along with our...

Source : Webindia123 | 18 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Washim

HC quashes list of works approved by Washim guardian minister

Nagpur bench of Bombay High Court has quashed the list of works 'approved' by the Washim district guardian minister Dr Vijaykumar Gavit, after the elected members of the Zilla Parishad there alleged the minister had undermined the authority of the Parishad and approved the works.A division bench of the court, comprising Justice Bhushan Dharmadhikari and Justice Ravi K Deshpande, also recently quashed...

Source : Webindia123 | 54 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Washim

Washim brand of Marathi movies big draw in western Vidarbha

Sometimes facts are stranger than fiction. This is a fact in case of an industry in Vidarbha that basically churns out fiction. Inand Akola districts in the western part of the region, a quiet revolution is whirring into place with low budget films produced to entertain rustic and semi-urban audiences doing brisk business.Jamil Khan, the producer-cum-director-cum-script writer-cum-lyricist-cum-cho...

Source : Times Of India | 217 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Washim

Tension in Washim area after murder

candidate Sharmila Wankhede as Krishna, wife of the accused Kailas Gore, Washim unit chief of, was contesting the polls from prabhag number 7. This added fuel to the anger of the prime accused and created enmity between the two families.After committing the crime, Kailas absconded while his colleagues Maroti Satav, Santosh Gore, Ganesh Ingole and Madhav Chatarkar were arrested in the wee hours of ...

Source : Times Of India | 321 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Washim

Cops rescue girl sold for Rs 70,000

offence of selling a girl for Rs 70,000 has surfaced when the girl stated before the police that her father sold her to one Raju Chaudhri ofThe incident took place in Washim district. Bhimrao Borkar, a resident of Rithad in Risod taluka of Washim district sold his daughter, but misled the police by filing her missing report on December 7, 2011. After this, Shivaji Borkar and Rambhau Borkar filed a...

Source : Times Of India | 342 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Washim

City to remain under cold cover for few more days

night in four years, the temperatures over the next two days fell a notch lower. The mercury dipped to the level of 9.0 degrees on Friday as well as Saturday, which is almost six degrees below normal.The city was the coldest in the region on Saturday, with Gondia, Akola and Washim following at 9.8, 10.3 and 10.4 degrees respectively. Nagpur's maximum temperature was 28.1 degrees. Washim also experienced...

Source : Times Of India | 462 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Washim

DPDC sanctions Rs 45-cr draft plan for backward region development

sitting Lok Sabha member of Yavatmal-Washim Parliamentary Constituency Bhavana Gawali, at theon Saturday. The issue involved in finalising the works to be executed under the Backward Region Development Fund (BRDF).In the beginning of the meeting, Gawali insisted for recording her grievances in the minutes of the proceedings which was recorded after a hot discussion. She said, "I am totally neglected...

Source : Times Of India | 671 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Washim

Poor rains panic Vidarbha farmers

Even as top agriculture officials of Nagpur and Amravati division are hopeful that rains in the next couple of days could save the situation, farmers in some areas have already started counting their losses.Except for Bhandara district which recorded a good rainfall of 28% above average, the other 10 districts of Vidarbha are reeling under below average rains till date for the monsoon period accounted...

Source : Times Of India | 686 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Washim