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Nagpur: Eight days after the process to soft-release female cub of Pandharkawada tigress PKT1 aka Avni started, the three-year-old tigress was reunited with the wild on Friday.Sources said the gate of the enclosure was opened last Friday but as the tigress did not step out, it used to be closed by evening. However on March 5, the tigress moved out of the enclosure around 6.45pm.PKT1-C2, now renamed as PTRF-84, was housed in the in-situ enclosure at Titralmangi in Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR), Maharashtra, since December 22, 2018, when she was captured and shifted here.“The cub was rewilded as per the…

Nagpur: The Nagpur bench of Bombay high court on Friday directed release of poet PV Varavara Rao on cash surety of Rs50,000. Justice Anuja Prabhudessai directed the Gadchiroli sessions court to send his release order to Taloja Central Jail, Mumbai, by email or any other electronic mode after he furnishes the surety amount. Currently, the poet is recuperating in Mumbai’s Nanavati Hospital.The 82-year-old had been earlier released on temporary bail on February 23 on medical grounds by the high court. However, the Gadchiroli court had refused to accept his two solvent sureties of Rs50,000 on the ground that they were…

Nagpur: City birder Narendra Shankar Nikhare has sighted and recorded a rare Tickell's Thrush female at Seminary Hills. This is said to be the first record of the bird in the district.As reported by TOI, the bird was sighted in Yavatmal district in April 2016. Nikhare said the bird was recorded from his CPWD quarters terrace at Seminary Hills recently. Bird expert Pushkar Kulkarni said, “There is no last record available in Nagpur district of this bird. It may be the first sighting of this bird in the district. Some well-known bird watchers have also confirmed the identity.”As per the…

Nagpur: Doctors in both private and government set ups are getting inquiries from HIV patients whether they can take the Covid vaccine. There are queries if HIV is in the list of comorbidities and would doctors issue a certificate for those in the age of 45 years and above, said sources.“The format for issuing certificates has a list of 20 diseases. This includes HIV infection too,” said Dr Milind Bhrushundi, a private practitioner and governing council member of AIDS Society of India.“It’s just the beginning and I have issued 12 certificates so far. There have been dozens of calls each…

Nagpur: Ruling party leader Avinash Thakre on Tuesday informed leader of opposition and former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis that there is resentment among citizens against ruling party corporators due to lack of development works in the city.Citing fund crisis, the civic administration has stopped all development works, as a result of which corporators were facing public wrath. There is huge dissatisfaction among citizens and corporators are being held responsible for this, Thakre said in a letter to Fadnavis.In addition, as NMC general body meeting has been taking place online, corporators were facing many difficulties in presenting people-centric issues. Therefore, there…

Nagpur: Can the survival of saplings be more than the number of saplings planted? For the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), which has always been in the eye of the storm for poor plantations, it is possible.According to information received under the RTI Act by city-based green activist Jaydeep Das, the project implementation unit (PIU-I), Nagpur, felled 48,376 trees for road widening of highways and other construction activities and planted 82,401 trees under its jurisdiction. The information pertains from 2001 till 2020.Under PIU-I, projects include road widening of NH-6 & NH-7 and Umred road and Saoner-Gondkhairi roads, ROBs at…

Nagpur: Increased testing, strict restrictions on public movement and semi-lockdown like conditions in Akola, Amravati and Buldhana have started showing results.On Saturday, Vidarbha region reported 2,896 new cases, less than the 3,000 mark for the first time in the last three days. Moreover, 11 districts in the region together conducted more than 27,000 tests on Saturday which itself is a record.Despite more tests, the number of new cases has gone down as compared to the last three days, which could be a positive indicator that the infection is coming under control. With Akola and Amravati extending their semi-lockdown situation up…

Nagpur: Though the entire Vidarbha is being considered as a Covid-19 hotspot with over a thousand cases reported from Nagpur district in the last three days, figures show that there is better control on the infection in Nagpur division compared to Amravati division.Less than 7% of the total samples tested in Nagpur division tested positive on Friday. These include samples from Nagpur district where a record 12,396 tests were conducted and 1,074 of them tested positive, which is nearly 8.6% of the total samples. Barring Wardha, where 11% of the 1,572 samples tested positive on Friday, not a single district…

Zonal DCP Neelotpal and his team conducted a raid at the wedding venue at the Kamptee Road on Wednesday following a tip-off of a turnout of around 1,500 guests. An offence was registered at New Kamptee police station for violations of the Covid norms.It’s learnt there were two wedding ceremonies underway simultaneously. Owner of the lawn, Surendra Singh, has been booked along with others. tnn Source link

Nagpur: State director general of police Hemant Nagrale, in city to review law and order in Vidarbha, said on Thursday his office in Mumbai was working with only 50% staff strength as a precautionary measure against Covid, as per the government advisory.He said district SPs and city commissioners may observe the functioning of the DGP office and may take similar steps to reduce attendance in their respective offices so as to curtail crowding in transportation and also workplaces. Nagrale also admitted there had been a rise in criminal activities in the state especially at the grassroots but said police had…