PUNE: In a stunning victory for veterinary medicine, a heavily pregnant Marwari mare has defied the odds to survive a double strike from a Russell’s viper. The 5.5-year-old mare, from Junnar taluka, required an unusually high dose of 60 vials of antivenom to neutralise the lethal toxins.The life-saving effort was spearheaded by toxinologist Dr Sadanand…
The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ordered a spice and dry fruits shop owned by the family of Siya Goyal PUNE: The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has ordered a spice and dry fruits shop owned by the family of Siya Goyal — the woman accused of murdering Pune realtor Ketan Agarwal…
(L) Ketan Agarwal (C) Siya Goyal and Chetan Chaudhary (R) PUNE: Police investigating the murder of Pune realtor Ketan Agarwal have visited a temple in Rajasthan to verify reports that the two accused, Siya Goyal and Chetan Chaudhary, secretly married there. Separately, Maharashtra’s food regulator has ordered the closure of a spice and dry fruits…
Women teachers say their contact numbers are made public and calls come from people at unearthly hours with complaints against them to their supervisors if they fail to pick up while in class Pune: For years, teaching jobs rested on a simple thought that students deserve the fullest attention. But in Maharashtra, for thousands of…
Property registration office in Haveli Pune Pune: Maharashtra’s first privately operated model sub-registrar office (SRO) is coming up in Kothrud and is slated to become operational in the first week of Aug, state registration department officials said on Wednesday.The Kothrud facility, along with two model SROs in Mumbai, one in Navi Mumbai and another in…
Corporators on Wednesday demanded decentralisation of waste management in PCMC’s general body meeting Pune: Decentralisation of waste management dominated Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation’s general body meeting on Wednesday, with corporators across party lines urging the civic administration to reduce the city’s dependence on the Moshi waste depot in the wake of the July 8 tragedy…
Moshi’s waste-to-energy plant Pune: Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) on Wednesday suspended chief engineer of the environment department Sanjay Kulkarni and executive engineer Yogesh Alhat for alleged negligence in the July 8 Moshi waste-to-energy plant tragedy that claimed nine lives.Municipal commissioner Vijay Suryawanshi ordered a departmental inquiry against the two after rejecting their replies to…
Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) chief Harshwardhan Sapkal Pune: State Congress chief Harshwardhan Sapkal on Wednesday said the INDIA bloc would collectively take a decision on the delimitation bill amid speculations that some opposition parties were planning to support it in the monsoon session of Parliament.BJP-led NDA is trying to gather more support in favour…
Pune: State agriculture minister and senior NCP member Dattatray Bharne on Wednesday said chief minister Devendra Fadnavis should get an opportunity to become the Prime Minister.Bharne made the statement amid speculations that Fadnavis may be elevated to the centre soon.Opposition members like Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut have publicly said the Maharashtra…
The suspects assaulted the shopkeeper with sharp weapons Pune: Three people have been detained in connection with an assault on a 35-year-old shopkeeper with billhooks over a family dispute at Dahanukar Colony, off Karve Road, in Kothrud on Tuesday afternoon.The shopkeeper, a resident of Shashtrinagar, lodged a complaint with the Alankar police against the suspects….
