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 15-year-old girl committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan at her residence after she was scolded by her mother, who had asked her not to waste time on mobile phone, Mankapur police said.The deceased was identified as Sanskruta Chandrashekhar Singh, a resident of Waghoba Nagar, Godhani road.Sr Police Inspector Vaijayanti Mandawgade informed that Sanskruta was a student of standard IX. The mother asked the girl to have lunch immediately instead of wasting time on mobile phone on April 24 at 3 pm. The girl got angered and hanged herself from a ceiling fan in the bedroom. After noticing the dangling body of their child, the parents rushed her to hospital where she breathed her last on April 29. Her father is working with railways. A case of accidental death was registered by Mankapur police. Further investigation is on.
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