Cops arrested two smugglers and recovered 70 boxes of liquor from their truck
Chandrapur: In a major crackdown against liquor mafia, local crime branch (LCB) sleuths seized a truckload of booze being smuggled into district from Washim, on Sunday.
The police have arrested two smugglers and have seized booty worth Rs37.47 lakh.
Production and consumption of liquor has been banned in Chandrapur district after imposition of prohibition in 2015.
Following the directives of superintendent of police Arvind Salve, LCB has formed eight teams in the district to curb liquor smuggling and keep a tab on liquor mafia. One of these teams got a tip off that a large consignment of illegal liquor is being transported into Chandrapur district from Karanja Lad in Washim.
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NAGPUR: A 75-year-old woman from a well-known business family in the city had a massive heart attack last week. The wall between the right and left chambers of the woman’s heart (medically known as ‘septum’) was badly ruptured. This complication is called ventricular septal rupture, and the survival rate of elderly patients is less than 10%.
The woman not only survived, but also recovered quickly and is close to getting discharge from a city hospital, thanks to the latest technique of heart surgery used by the team of cardiac surgeons.
Cardiac surgeon Dr Nikunj Pawar, cardiologist Dr Aziz Khan and their team performed an unconventional heart surgery on this 75-year-old woman with the help of latest technology.
A seven-year-old girl flying on a Lucknow-Mumbai GoAir flight with her father was declared brought dead at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) after
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NAGPUR: A seven-year-old girl flying on a Lucknow-Mumbai GoAir flight with her father was declared brought dead at Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) after being rushed there following an emergency landing at 7.25am on Tuesday at Nagpur airport.
Ayushi Punvasi Prajapati, resident of Seheri Khat, Siddarth Nagar, Chaffa in Uttar Pradesh, and her father were on GoAir flight G8307. Officials said they appeared financially backward and the father could barely explain the girl’s condition.
The exact cause of Ayushi’s death is not known. GMCH officials said the viscera samples have been preserved to ascertain the cause of death. Prima facie, they said it appears she collapsed due to cardiac arrest triggered by high altitude.
Nagpur: Taking advantage of the fact that gram panchayat elections are not contested on party symbols, all the four major political parties of the state – Congress, NCP, BJP and Shiv Sena – claimed to have won maximum number of panchayats in Vidarbha. Over 3,800 panchayats had gone to the polls on January 15.
In Nagpur district, both Congress and BJP claimed to have won in maximum number of panchayats. District Congress president Rajendra Mulak claimed that his party had won 83 panchayats out of 129 while BJP had won in only 25. According to Mulak, NCP had won in only 14 villages while Shiv Sena’s figure was 5. Other parties and independents had won in two panchayats.