NAGPUR: Nagpur is one of the 25 cities in the country shortlisted for the ‘Nurturing Neighbourhoods Challenge’. Through this three-year challenge, the cities will scale ways to improve public space and support childhood-friendly neighbourhoods under the government’s Smart Cities Mission.
The initiative is a joint collaboration between the ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA) and Bernard van Leer Foundation (BvLF) and World Resources Institute, India.
The first stage of the challenge, which was held recently and involved open applications from cities, saw participation of 63 cities across the country which submitted applications proposing neighbourhood-level pilot projects in public space, mobility, access to services to enhance the physical and psychological health of young children and their caregivers.
Devshri Trivedi also uploaded on YouTube videos showing her packing about 150 condoms in 12 packets on February 13 that she mailed to various address at Nagpur including the HC registry here and judge’s official residence
NAGPUR: A self-proclaimed political analyst from Ahmedabad sent a packet of contraceptives to Justice Pushpa Ganediwala to protest her controversial judgments that had sent “wrong signals to the criminals in the society”.
Devshri Trivedi also uploaded on YouTube videos showing her packing about 150 condoms in 12 packets on February 13 that she mailed to various address at Nagpur including the HC registry here and judge’s official residence. She also sent some packets to HC’s principal bench at Mumbai. Her videos have invited praise as well as censure.
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NAGPUR: Justice Pushpa Ganediwala, whose recent verdicts invited criticism, has only been given a 1-year extension as additional judge after the Supreme Court collegium refused to elevate her as a permanent judge of the Bombay high court. Her term had ended on Saturday.
Senior administrative judge at Nagpur bench, Nitin Jamdar, administered the oath to her in the presence of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta who attended the ceremony online from Mumbai.
The apex court’s collegium had recommended two years’ extension to Ganediwala after withdrawing its earlier suggestion to make her a permanent judge. However, the Union ministry for law and justice refused it citing her “controversial” judgments.
Pradeep Manmothy (left) with his wife Kiran who resturned from Al-Jouf province on Friday
NAGPUR: Twelve days after TOI reported the ordeal of a Nagpur woman who was allegedly under house arrest in Saudi Arabia’s Al-Jouf province since 2018 after being duped by a travel agent, the victim, Kiran Manmothe, 55, reached home on Friday. Kiran had an emotional reunion with her family members at their Christian Colony, Mecosabagh, residence.
Kiran got a job as a domestic help in Al-Jouf province on August 4, 2016, on a two-year contract for a monthly salary of Rs 23,000. “As per agreement, I was supposed to be paid Rs 12.42 lakh in four and a half years, instead I got merely Rs 1.55 lakh,” Kiran told TOI.