Dailydespatches — New port to come up at Wadhwan in Dahanu

NAGPUR: The Maharashtra Government would construct a new Rs 1100 crore port at Wadhwan in Dahanu taluka of Thane district in collaboration ...

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NAGPUR: The Maharashtra Government would construct a new Rs 1100 crore port at Wadhwan in Dahanu taluka of Thane district in collaboration with an Australian shipping company `P and O’ without displacing any inhabitants of the area, Pramod Navalkar, Minister for Ports told both Houses of Maharashtra Legislature on Thursday. Replying to a call attention motion by leader of the Opposition Chhagan Bhujbal and others in the council and a question in the Assembly, he said the government had received only one tender, from the Australian shipping company.

Gold worth Rs 40 lakh looted

MUMBAI: Four unidentified persons robbed 10 kilograms gold valued at Rs 40 lakh at Grant Road here on Thursday. According to police sources, one Abdul Razak Abu Baker had arrived from Dubai bringing with him 170 gold biscuits for a client. He was received at the Sahar airport at 8.30 am by the client’s men Ravindra Alami, Bashir Ahmed Coolie and Abdul Kadar. From there, they proceeded to a Grant Road hotel where they had booked a room in advance. Police informed that they had parked their car near Raj Automobiles petrol pump and were approaching the hotel when two motor-cyclists stopped them. Another two men armed with knives arrived on the scene and attacked the men. They decamped after snatching the bag containing gold biscuits.

Row over Queen’s portraits at varsity

PUNE: The Patit Pawan Sanghatana (PPS) on Thursday staged angry demonstrations at the University of Pune demanding the removal of the portraits of Queen Alexandra and the then British officials Lord George Canning, Sir James Carnack, Sir John Elphinstone among others which have adorned the Shivaji Hall at the university for a century now. The PPS also threatened to blacken the priceless portraits if the university did not remove them within eight days.

1998 to be women’s year in State

NAGPUR: The Maharashtra Government will observe 1998 as Women’s Year, Chief Minister Manohar Joshi announced in the State Legislative Council here on Thursday. Responding to a discussion on a resolution seeking special measures to promote the causes of women, initiated by the Congress Vidya Belose and others, the Chief Minister said that his government would retain all the good features of the women’s policy of the previous Sharad Pawar government, introduced in 1994. However, the government would amend the present policy and formulate a new one to be announced on March 14 next on the occasion of third anniversary of the Shiv Sena-BJP Government.