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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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104 SP/DCP rank police officers transferred in Maharashtra

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Rahul Maknikar, SP, ACB, Nagpur 


The Maharashtra government on Monday transferred 104 police officers of the rank of Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) and Superintendent of Police (SP). Of which, 11 officers transferred to Nagpur city and district.
Rahul Maknikar, Addl Superintendent of Police (Addl SP) of Nagpur Rural, is the new Superintendent of Police of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Napgur. The post was vacant after the transfer of Rakesh Ola to Ahmednagar as SP. Maknikar, a State Police Service (SPS) officer, has wide experience of policing in different capacities. He worked as Addl SP Nagpur rural for a year. Earlier, Maknikar was posted as DCP in Nagpur city police.
Dr Sandip Pakhale 

DCP Zone II Dr Sandip Pakhale will be the new Addl SP of Nagpur Rural police unit. DCP Zone III Gajanan Rajmane, who is known for deterrent action agaisnt criminals, has been transfreed as SP Force One in Mumbai, which is a specialised counter terrorism unit of Maharashtra police.
The top rank police officials of Nagpur city sigh a relief with the transfer order as six new DCP rank officers are shifted to Nagpur. The City police was operating with just four DCPs for the past one month.
Sudarshan Mummaka, Addl SP Parbhani district; Dhodopant S Swami, DCP, Zone VIII, Mumbai city; Anurag Jain, Addl SP, Latur; Gorakh Suresh Bhamre, Addl SP, Washim; Shravan Datt, Addl SP, Buldhana and Sunil Lokhande, DCP, Thane, will take charge as DCP in Nagpur city.
Similarly, DCP SID Mumbai Vishwas Pandhre has been transferred to Protection of Civil Rights (PCR) Nagpur as Prashant Khaire, SP PCR Nagpur shifted to Ahmednagar as Addl SP. Sunil Kadasane, SP ACB Nashik, will be the new SP of GRP, Nagpur. Rajlaxmi Shivankar, SP, Criminal Investigation Department (CID), Nagpur transferred as GRP, Pune as SP. She will be replaced by Vishwa Pansare, who earlier headed Gondia district as SP. Yeshwant Solanke Addl SP, Wardha appointed as SP of Highway Police, Nagpur. Pankaj Dahane, Commandant SRPF Group IV Nagpur posted as DCP Mumbai City.
Priyanka Narnawre , DCP, Pune City will be the new Commandant of SRPF Group IV Nagpur while Bhagyashri Nawtake, DCP, Pune City will lead SRPF Group XVII Chandrapur as Commandant. Vijay Magar, who headed Nagpur Rural, posted as DCP Pune city while SP CID Sambhaji Kadam transferred to Amravati City as DCP.

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