http://www.citybengaluru.com Latest news from Bangalore, India and the World Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:14:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.citybengaluru.com/nagpur-man-aims-to-unite-lonely-elders/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/nagpur-man-aims-to-unite-lonely-elders/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:13:11 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=81357 Nagpur, Feb 6 (IANS) Advocating the need for companionship in the autumn of life, a Nagpur octogenarian has taken up the task of mooting live-in relationships for senior citizens who are leading a lonely life after outliving their spouses. “The relationship might not be sexual only. They can live together as friends or define their [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/nagpur-man-aims-to-unite-lonely-elders/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/two-labourers-killed-in-nagpur-building-collapse/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/two-labourers-killed-in-nagpur-building-collapse/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:55:26 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=79984 Nagpur, Jan 31 (IANS) Two labourers were killed and at least nine injured when a four-storied industrial building collapsed in Chikhli industrial area here, police said Tuesday. The under-construction building housed a cold storage plant which collapsed late Monday, trapping the labourers working there. The body of 50-year-old Samtaram Bharati was removed from the debris [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/two-labourers-killed-in-nagpur-building-collapse/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/congress-civic-poll-hopefuls-ask-god-for-party-ticket/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/congress-civic-poll-hopefuls-ask-god-for-party-ticket/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:26:16 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=75775 Nagpur, Jan 11 (IANS) Trusting god to ensure party ticket for the coming civic polls in Maharashtra, many Congress hopefuls slipped their application forms in the donation boxes of famous temples here. ‘The trend came to light when I went to the Ganesh Tekri temple here to offer prayers for my newly-born grandson,’ said city [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/congress-civic-poll-hopefuls-ask-god-for-party-ticket/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/suspected-maoist-slaps-defamation-case-on-government/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/suspected-maoist-slaps-defamation-case-on-government/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:59:41 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=74292 Nagpur, Jan 4 (IANS) A suspected Maoist, Arun Ferreira Wednesday slapped a Rs.2.50 million defamation case against the Maharashtra government after walking free at the end of over four years in jail. Lawyer Surendra Gadgil said the case had been filed in a local court, alleging violation of human rights and denial of fundamental rights [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/suspected-maoist-slaps-defamation-case-on-government/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/chavan-demands-land-for-ambedkar-memorial/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/chavan-demands-land-for-ambedkar-memorial/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:29:24 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=71137 Nagpur, Dec 20 (IANS) Grabbing the initiative from the opposition, Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan Tuesday demanded that the central government hand over a mill premises in Mumbai ‘free of cost’ to the state for constructing a memorial to Dalit icon Bhimrao Ambedkar. A resolution to the effect, moved by Chavan, was unanimously passed in [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/chavan-demands-land-for-ambedkar-memorial/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/farmers-threaten-to-donate-govt-aid-to-maoists/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/farmers-threaten-to-donate-govt-aid-to-maoists/#comments Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:14:12 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=70687 Nagpur, Dec 18 (IANS) Refusing to accept the state government’s ‘paltry’ Rs.2000 crore aid package, some farmers in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region have threatened to donate the amount, averaging Rs.1,700 per head, to Maoists active in the state’s eastern districts, an activist said here Sunday. The decision was taken Saturday, Dec 17 by nearly 20,000 farmers [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/farmers-threaten-to-donate-govt-aid-to-maoists/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/nagpur-woman-worlds-shortest-eyes-acting-career/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/nagpur-woman-worlds-shortest-eyes-acting-career/#comments Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:51:33 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=70542 Nagpur, Dec 17 (IANS) Nagpur woman Jyoti Amge, declared the world’s shortest woman by Guinness World Records, is all set to act in a Kannada movie slated for release next year. ‘I always wanted to make a career in acting. This title of world’s shortest woman will take my career to new heights,’ Amge, who [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/nagpur-woman-worlds-shortest-eyes-acting-career/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/maharashtra-wants-belgaum-to-be-declared-union-territory/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/maharashtra-wants-belgaum-to-be-declared-union-territory/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:16:14 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=70371 Nagpur, Dec 16 (IANS) In a new dimension to the Maharashtra-Karnataka boundary dispute, the Maharashtra assembly Friday passed a unanimous motion urging the centre to declare Belgaum in Karnataka as a union territory till the Supreme Court delivers its final verdict on the dispute. Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, who was replying to an adjournment motion [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/maharashtra-wants-belgaum-to-be-declared-union-territory/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/declare-belgaum-union-territory-demands-maharashtra/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/declare-belgaum-union-territory-demands-maharashtra/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:06:27 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=70334 Nagpur, Dec 16 (IANS) Adding a new dimension to the ongoing Maharashtra-Karnataka boundary dispute, the Maharashtra assembly Friday urged the central government to declare Karnataka’s Belgaum as a union territory till the final verdict of the Supreme Court on the issue. Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, who was replying to an adjournment motion on the issue, [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/declare-belgaum-union-territory-demands-maharashtra/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/vinod-tawde-new-opposition-leader-in-maharashtra-council/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/vinod-tawde-new-opposition-leader-in-maharashtra-council/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:13:54 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=70230 Nagpur, Dec 16 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Vinod Tawde has been appointed the new Leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Legislative Council, replacing Pandurang Phundkar, a top party official said here Friday. A formal announcement was made here by senior party leader Venkaiah Naidu after holding a meeting with party legislators, at which [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/vinod-tawde-new-opposition-leader-in-maharashtra-council/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/maharashtra-journalists-protest-attacks/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/maharashtra-journalists-protest-attacks/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:57:20 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=70147 Nagpur, Dec 15 (IANS) Hundreds of journalists took out a procession Thursday to the Maharashtra legislature here demanding protection from attacks on the media fraternity in the state. The journalists, sporting black flags and raising anti-government slogans, marched from the Patrakar Bhavan in Nagpur to the legislature building where the winter session is underway. A [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/maharashtra-journalists-protest-attacks/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/vidharba-farmers-protest-chavans-peanuts-bailout-package/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/vidharba-farmers-protest-chavans-peanuts-bailout-package/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:06:47 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=70075 Nagpur, Dec 15 (IANS) A day after four farmers committed suicide in Vidarbha, farmers of Maharashtra’s eastern region Thursday staged a road blockade on two highways to press their demand of better support prices for cotton, soya and paddy. The four suicides take the toll of farmer suicides in the state to 722 in 2011 [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/vidharba-farmers-protest-chavans-peanuts-bailout-package/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/vidharba-shutdown-thursday-for-farmersdemands/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/vidharba-shutdown-thursday-for-farmersdemands/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:02:28 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=69845 Mumbai/Nagpur, Dec 14 (IANS) Even as Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan declared a Rs.2,000 crore bailout package for the state’s crisis-ridden farmers, the Shiv Sena-BJP-RPI alliance has vowed to intensify the Vidarbha shutdown called by them, party officials said. ‘The alliance of the Shiv Sena, Bharatiya Janta Party and Republican Party of India has called [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/vidharba-shutdown-thursday-for-farmersdemands/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/tribal-labourer-allegedly-tortured-to-death/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/tribal-labourer-allegedly-tortured-to-death/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:30:06 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=69828 Nagpur, Dec 14 (IANS) Barely three weeks after a tribal labourer was allegedly tortured to death, a second case has come to light in Thane, a Maharashtra legislator said Wednesday. Vivek Pandit from Vasai said Ramdas Shankar Valvi, a suspected bonder labourer, was tortured to death this week. ‘Three days ago, the owners of a [...]

]]> http://www.citybengaluru.com/tribal-labourer-allegedly-tortured-to-death/feed/ 0 http://www.citybengaluru.com/maharashtra-bjp-legislators-burn-paddy-in-assembly-one-suspended/ http://www.citybengaluru.com/maharashtra-bjp-legislators-burn-paddy-in-assembly-one-suspended/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:40:10 +0000 admin http://www.citybengaluru.com/?p=69537 Nagpur, Dec 13 (IANS) Uproarious scenes continued in the Maharashtra assembly for the second consecutive day Tuesday with some Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators burning paddy inside the legislature premises, leading to their suspension for an year. BJP members Nana Patole, Pasha Patel and Nana Shamkhule made a bonfire of paddy straw outside the legislature [...]

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