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,...
A Covid-19 positive woman committed sucide by jumping off the fifth floor of AIIMS Nagpur on Thursday night, police officials said. The deceased was identified as Renuka Ramesh Aldhare (45), a resident of Takalghat Colony No. 2, Hingna. According to police, the woman was admitted in Covid ward on the fifth floor of the hospital on May 3. Due to the severe effect of Covid on her mental health, she was talking to herself. She jumped off from the fifth floor at 7.45 pm and ended her life. A police official said that the woman was observing fast when she attracted the virus. A case of accidental death was registered by Sonegaon police. Further investigation is on.
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