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Nagpur: Nitin Gadkari, Shekhar Suman grace Basant Lall Shaws autobiography launch ‘Mera Jeevan Pravah’

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Union minister Nitin Gadkari and Bollywood actor Shekhar Suman graced the book launch of Nagpur’s eminent industrialist and chairman of Jayaswal NECO Group of Industries Basant Lall Shaw. The book titled ‘Mera Jeevan Pravah’ is an autobiography of the steel magnate Shaw, which chronicles around his early experiences, trials and tribulations in life.

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Gadkari launched the book on Sunday evening at Hotel Radisson Blu in the presence of family members and close friends. Shaw in his autobiography narrated some interesting incidents that occurred during World War II, regime change of British Government to Indian Government, etc.

Gadkari said, People are eager to help or fund politicians who are in power but Jayaswalji helped me when he himself was facing a cash crunch. He gave me money to fight elections; it pained me.

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Born in pre-independent India, Shaw (88), also spoke the time during 1940s when government decided to ban currency notes to bring down the inflation.

Basant Lall Shaw in 1976 commenced his business of manufacturing iron pipes and fittings at Nagpur. After earning some revenue, he also established his second unit at Bhilai in Madhya Pradesh in 1987. With further increase in demand in iron pipes, the third unit was established in 1991.

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Nitin Gadkari graces screening of ‘Me Vasantrao’ at Sudama Theatre in Nagpur

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Radhika Dhawad | Photographer : Nitin Mankar | Photographer : Bhavesh Mahalle | Nagpur

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari graced the special screening of Marathi movie ‘Me Vasantrao’ – a movie based on the life of Hindustani classical singer and violinist Vasantrao Deshpande.

The screening was held at Sudama Theatre in Nagpur on Sunday evening in the presence family members, friends and the cast of the movie.

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Mayor Dayashankari Tiwari kicks off polio drive in Nagpur

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Nagpur Mayor Dayashankar Tiwari, on Sunday, launched Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s (NMC) door-to-door polio campaign drive. He, along with Deputy Mayor Manisha Dhawade visited Rognidan Centre in Mahal, Nagpur and inaugurated the campaign by giving polio drops to a toddler.
As per NMC officials, ten Zonal Medical Officers and Ten Health inspectors would visit every house in their respective zones, in order to vaccinate children between the ages of zero-five to immune them against polio.
NMC had recognised Sunday as the official day for polio vaccination. Under Polio Ravivar, they plan to vaccinate more than three lakh kids in Nagpur. They also urged Nagpurkars to vaccinate their children at pulse Polio Booths near their homes from 8 am- 5 pm, on Sunday.
NMC Standing Committee Chief, Corporator Vijay Zalke spoke to Nation Next regarding this campaign and said, This year’s polio drive is going to be bigger than last year. We are planning to vaccinate around 3- 3.15 lakh kids. NMC is bearing the cost of infrastructure and execution. The state government provided us with the doses.
He further stated that there were special teams to vaccinate the homeless during night. ?When it comes to the health of Nagpurkars, money is not a factor we should think about, said Zalke when asked about NMC’s current financial crunch.
As per Zalke, vaccination facility would also be available in slums,, factory areas and other outskirts of Nagpur.

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Congress legislator caught watching porn in Karnataka Assembly

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Congress leader Prakash Rathod, on Friday, was caught on camera while allegedly scrolling through few adult content clips in the State Assembly. This turned out to be a huge embarrassment for both, Congress and Rathod as regional channels aired the video, in which he was ?caught in the act.
The MLC member was present in the house during the proceedings of the legislative council. While the house was in session, Rathod was watching adult content on his smartphone.
However, he threw these charges under the bus and said, I was looking for materials for a question I wanted to ask the government in question hour.
?When I was looking for question material, I deleted too many messages as my phone storage was full. What the media has shown or seen, I don’t know. I would never do such things or see such things, he added.
This was not the first time in Karnataka that such an incident had happened. Back in 2012, three Bharatiya Janata Party ministers were caught on camera allegedly watching adult content in the State Assembly. Following the scandal, they resigned from the state government due to public embarrassment.

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