Mumbai: Nagpur’s Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport has landed itself bang in the middle of controversy by operating without the requisite licence.

A year since the airport was handed over for Re1 to Mihan India Private Limited (MIPL) — the joint venture company (JVC) between the Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC) and the Airports Authority of India (AAI) — the company is running it without the mandatory licence from the Directorate General Civil Aviation (DGCA).

NAGPUR: If the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) has its way in the coming few years, each district, including remote places like Gadchiroli and Melghat, may have a medical college.

These need not necessarily be MBBS degree colleges but could be from any branch of medicine like ayurveda, homoeopathy, unani and dental.

The purpose behind the MUHS vision is to provide medical education to students from all over the state, especially from tribal and undeveloped areas.

NAGPUR: There are many cases of a daughter-in-law going to court or police against husband and inlaws complaining of harassment for dowry and other issues. However, Nagpur bench of Bombay HC on Wednesday heard a unique case in which a wife prayed for protection from harassment to her in-laws and husband by the police at the instance of her family.

Sukumar Choudhuri, the author of many remarkable as well as awarded books and recipient of 'Ekhon Kabita', 'Mayamegh', 'Durer Kheya', ‘Sadvaabana’, 'Sahityasetu' and many other awards of repute, has been invited to grace legendary ‘World Poetry Festival 2010' to be held at Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi, Kolkata between 19th and 21st March 2010. The three-day festival will be attended by more than 30 foreign poets and about 300 Bengali poets from different countries of the world.

National carrier Air India today created history of sorts when, at a little past midnight last night, the first all-women crew ultra long-haul Boeing 777-200 LR non-stop flight from Mumbai to New York was flagged off by Civil Aviation Secretary Madhavan Nambiar.

Flight AI 141 was the first of 22 all-women crew flights operated by the airline across its domestic and international network to mark the centenary of International Women's Day today.

NAGPUR: BJP corporator Sandip Joshi has finally arrived with the party nominating him as the chairman of Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) standing committee. TOI spoke to him about his plans for the next 13 months after the taking over ceremony on Saturday. Excerpts from the interview...

Q: What will be your priorities?

NAGPUR: The Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court has directed the state CID to investigate the death of a seven-year-old girl, who died in the car of BJP president Nitin Gadkari in May, last year.

A division bench of justice A P Lavande and justice P B Varale issued the directives on Friday on a criminal writ petition filed by Vimal and Ashok Thakre, the parents of Yogita Thakre, who had demanded a CBI probe into the death.

The HC bench directed the state CID to complete the probe at the earliest.