Melbourne, Nov 20: Steve Waugh wants skipper Ricky Ponting (Photo right)to stop defending his actions on the India tour and rather suggested him to concentrate on saving the world champion side from becoming vulnerable.
The former skipper advised the current leader of the team to leave behind the bad memories of the India tour and move on.

NAGPUR: A driver belonging to Gadchiroli district police has been arrested by Ganeshpeth police on Wednesday he was found misusing warrants for
state transport buses with forged official seals.

Ganeshpeth police registered the case on Wednesday after receiving complaint from Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation officials. They have seized from the driver’s possession 36 warrants that had forged signature and seals of superintendents of police of Yavatmal, Nagpur rural and Gadchiroli.

NAGPUR: The untimely rains that brought relief to several parts of Vidarbha on Wednesday proved to be a bane for seven people of a family in
Katol.

All seven of them were burnt alive in the thatched house after lightning, which accompanied the rains, caused a short circuit, triggering sparks and the subsequent fire reducing the house to ashes.

NAGPUR: The parents of children with special needs (CWSN) (physically handicapped, blind, deaf, mute etc) need not have to run from
pillar-to-post anymore to get state government benefits for their children. In a novel gesture Nagpur Municipal Corporation education department plans to provide special identity cards and state government benefits under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan to the CWSN students during a weeklong camp beginning November 24 across nine zones in the city.

NAGPUR: The city’s central museum, popularly called ‘Ajab bangla’, is facing a curious predicament. Its municipal water connection has gone
virtually dry for nearly two years or so. However, that is not preventing the Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s water works department from sending it a bill of around Rs 25,000 every 3-4 months.

THE Australian team is on notice. There is an immediate need for Ricky Ponting and his men to reconnect with the true followers of the game in this country and regain their respect.

For all their success of recent years, the elite of Australian cricket lost the support of much of their constituency last season.

Young and old and especially former first-class and Test players were saddened if not sickened by the boorishness and triumphalism of the Australians against an admirable if pesky opponent from India.

National air carrier, Air India, plans to launch its domestic cargo operations from Nagpur next month, a senior National Aviation Company of India Ltd official said.

"We plan to launch our domestic cargo operations from Nagpur next month with four dedicated freighters," the official told here on strict condition of anonymity.

NACIL is the holding company, formed after the merger of Air India and Indian (erstwhile Indian Airlines) into one entity.

YAVATMAL/CHANDRAPUR: Six persons were killed in separate mishaps in the region in last 24 hours. Three youths died on the spot when their
speeding motorbike rammed into a stationary truck on Sunday midnight at Dodki diversion, near Watfali village on Ner-Amravati road while in Chandrapur district three more died in different mishaps.

Three youths were killed on the spot when their speeding motorbike rammed into a stationary truck on Sunday midnight at Dodki diversion, near Watfali village on Ner-Amravati road.

Nagpur, Nov 18 (IANS) A savagely mauled tiger cub’s 15-day battle for life ended Tuesday in the Maharajbagh zoo here despite unprecedented efforts by veterinary doctors, forest authorities and wildlife enthusiasts to save it.Jui, the seven-month-old female cub, was beaten up by villagers in a forest in north Bramhapuri forest range of Chandrapur district in Maharashtra along with her sibling over a fortnight ago.

NAGPUR: Television is in a kind of time-warp. With an impasse between the directors' guild and the workers union stalling the shooting of new
episodes of almost all daily programmes, entertainment channels are mostly relying on re-runs of their popular soaps reality shows to fill up the time slots.

Surprisingly, housewives in Nagpur do not seem to be suffering from withdrawal symptoms even though their daily dose of melodrama and household intrigue is gone.