
Navi Mumbai policeman climbs one more step to target of 7 highest peaks
The Hindu
Sambhaji Gurav scales Mount Kilimanjaro on I-Day
Assistant police inspector Sambhaji Gurav, attached to the Navi Mumbai police, who is on a mission to climb the highest mountain peaks of all the seven continents within a year, finished his third summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa on August 15. ‘Reverence for freedom fighters and salute to the soldiers’ was the motto of this journey. “I consider myself lucky to have unfurled the Tricolour on Mount Kilimanjaro on the 75th Independence Day. With this, I became the first Indian policeman to scale the three highest peaks of three continents, including Mount Everest, in three consecutive months,” Mr. Gurav said.
In , the grape capital of India and host of the Simhastha Kumbh Mela every 12 years, environmental concerns over a plan to cut 1,800 trees for the proposed Sadhugram project in the historic Tapovan area have sharpened political fault lines ahead of local body elections. The issue has pitted both Sena factions against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leads the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra. While Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief, and Uddhav Thackeray, chief of the Shiv Sena (UBT), remain political rivals, their parties have found rare common ground in Tapovan, where authorities propose clearing trees across 34 acres to build Sadhugram and a MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) hub, as part of a ₹300-crore infrastructure push linked to the pilgrimage.












