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A Village Burnt Overnight: Tears, Loss and Survival in Dhamangaon Blaze

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  Sitting amid the blackened remains of his home, 32-year-old Nikesh Gawali carefully broke open a half-melted plastic box with a screwdriver. His hands shook slightly, not out of fear, but out of hope. “I’m trying to find my daughter Aarti’s gold earrings,” he said quietly, still focused on the box. “She’s just five. I got them made recently after months of labour work.” The plastic box, warped and blackened by heat, was one of the few things left from his two-room house on the outskirts of Dhamangaon village . All around him lay ash, broken tin sheets and charred wooden beams. The walls had cracked under the heat and the front room’s tin roof had caved in completely. What remained was a blackened debris all around - almost nothing to suggest a home once stood there. Nikesh earns his living as an agricultural labourer, like many in the village. Work is uncertain and depends on the season. Those earrings weren’t just jewellery - they were a small dream, a reward for his hard work,...
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Drunkard car driver knocks three motorcycle and crashed into road divider at Laxmi Nagar square

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This is the car which knocks three
motorcycles on late Friday night.
Passersby at Laxmi Nagar chowk on late Friday night witnessed horror when a drunken man lost control over the wheel of his speeding car and knocked down three motorcycles leaving four persons injured seriously. Later, the car rammed into a road divider, injuring the driver also very seriously. 
The Maruti Swift car (MH-31/DV-7856) first rammed into a motorcycle with two-riders in front of Hotel Ashoka on Laxmi Nagar Main Road (West High Court Road) and later knocked down two different bikes at Laxmi Nagar Square before crashing into a road divider at great speed.
API Datta Ingale of Bajaj Nagar Police Station informed that the car driver was identified as P K Ravindra Rao (55), a resident of Plot No. 27/3, Ujjwal Nagar, Somalwada. He was driving the car under influence of liquor, he said. 
The car came from RPTS road side and hit a motorcycle in front of Hotel Ashoka on which two youngsters - Jayesh Tejram Uike (22) and Ishan Qureshi (21), both residents of Bhandara - were riding. Soon after, the car driver accelerated his car and sped away towards Laxmi Nagar Square where he knocked down two different bikes at the square and crashed his vehicle against a road divider. Bike riders Santosh Agrawal (30) and Mahadev Ayyar (45) were injured in the accident at the square. 
A large number of passersby rushed to the both spots and informed police. Bajaj Nagar police arrived at the spot and sent the injured persons to the hospital. 
API Ingale said that the car driver was stuck in the car as it was badly mangled in the accident. He was rescued from the vehicle and transported to the hospital. He told the police that he was professor with a reputed college in the city. The front side of car was smashed and it’s left front tyre burst when it crashed into the road divider, police said. 
Injured Jayesh Uikey is pursuing Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) degree from a Pune based college while Ishan Qureshi is a student of Anjuman College of Engineering. They are living in a rented accommodation at Trimurti Nagar for study. The youths were going to Mominpura for dinner when the accident occurred, police said. The police have booked the car driver under Sections 279, 337 of Indian Penal Code read with Sections 184 and 185 of Motor Vehicle Act. 

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