Maharashtra News Live: Pune records 3,073 new Covid-19 cases; 16 more casualties
Maharashtra News Live: Pune records 3,073 new Covid-19 cases; 16 more casualties
Nagpur has announced lockdown-like curbs from March 15-21. More places in Maharashtra could go into lockdown and strict restrictions could be reimposed in closed spaces that attract huge footfalls, like offices and hotels, CM Uddhav Thackeray has warned. Stay with TOI for everything from your city.
THE TIMES OF INDIA | Mar 13, 2021, 22:01:01 IST
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22:01 (IST) Mar 13
Nagpur district registered 2,261 Covid-19 positive cases on Saturday which was second highest on a single day in year-long pandemic and highest of ongoing second wave. Active cases further increased to 16,014 and the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) claimed no shortage of beds in its own, government-run hospitals and also private hospitals.
Garbage on busy Nadanvan road in Nagpur on Wednesday June 17th 2020
Nagpur: Garbage and civic problems are mounting for the residents of Central, East, North and part of West Nagpur as the indefinite strike by workers of door-to-door garbage collection firm continued on its second day on Sunday.
Garbage was not lifted for the second consecutive day in five zones Gandhibagh, Satranjipura, Lakadganj, Ashi Nagar and Mangalwari zones of the city with 850 workers of BVG India, one of the garbage lifting companies, striking work over sacking of 113 employees by the company.
The city (with 10 zones) generates around 1,000 to 1,100 metric tonne garbage per day and AG Environ (Laxmi Nagar, Dharampeth, Hanuman Nagar, Dhantoli and Nehru Nagar) lifts 500 to 600 metric tonne of garbage per day. Similar is the quantum of garbage lifted by BVG workers from rest of the five zones.
Nagpur: The nuisance detection squad of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) on Monday penalized five shopkeepers for keeping and selling plastic kites, which have been banned.
The team led by commandant V Tambe seized 225 banned plastic kites and recovered Rs5,000 fine from the shopkeepers.
The NDS team of Laxmi Nagar zone caught one shopkeeper after it found banned plastic kites on sale. Similarly, the civic cops from Satranjipura and Ashi Nagar zones raided shops under their jurisdictions and found two shops each selling banned plastic kites. Fine of Rs1,000 each have been recovered from these four shopkeepers, the action taken data procured from the NDS revealed.