Pune: As thick mats of water hyacinth clog Pune’s rivers and aggravate mosquito menace, city MLAs have taken up the issue with Pune Municipal Corporation and other agencies to find a possible solution to the growing problem.Shivajinagar MLA Siddharth Shirole recently inspected the Holkar bridge stretch of the Mula river, where vast portions of the…
Pune: India is witnessing a silent but alarming shift in public health. On World Liver Day today, hepatologists warned that non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) — recently renamed metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) — is rapidly rising among children and adolescents, and no longer remaining a condition confined to sedentary adults.Dr Prateek Agarwal, a…
Pune: Until last year, Std III student Yash Khomne from a zilla parishad school in Marathwada rarely raised his hand to answer in class. He struggled with basic reading and often sat silently through lessons. Today, he leads his class in singing, answers questions confidently and even helps peers solve simple arithmetic problems.His transformation began…
Pune: The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Pune Cantonment General Hospital has scaled up surgical care for hundreds of patients after the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC) deployed its specialised doctors at the facility.The collaboration is a major relief for the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) which has been financially constrained. Budget limitations have left it struggling to…
Pune: The National Commission for Women (NCW) has directed authorities to fast-track forensic analysis and submit progress reports every five days in connection with the Paratwada case in Amravati. It also sought application of stricter legal provisions while flagging gaps in the ongoing probe into the alleged creation and circulation of obscene videos and images…
Pune: The Wagholi police on Friday registered a case of forgery and cheating against a Shirur-based man (32) for using a fake registration plate on his SUV to evade taxes and car loan EMIs.“The SUV owner is a businessman from Loni Kand and stays in Shirur. About a year ago, he bought the SUV on…
Pune: Villagers of Pimparkhed, Shirur tehsil, about 100 km from Pune, are fearful after fresh sighting of leopards and the capture of five big cats over the last fortnight. The development comes barely four months after three fatal attacks though forest officials intensified efforts to track and catch the animals.Reportedly, new big cats have moved…
Pune: Prajakt Tanpure, the nephew of former state NCP (SP) president Jayant Patil and a former MLA, has indicated that he might soon leave the party to join BJP. Tanpure is expected to announce his decision on April 20, coinciding with chief minister Devendra Fadnavis’s visit to Rahuri.Tanpure was initially the frontrunner for NCP (SP)…
Pune: The Wagholi police on Saturday registered a case of abetment to suicide against a techie (39) after his wife was found hanging from the ceiling fan at their rented flat in Wagholi around 10pm on Friday. Senior inspector Nandkumar Gaikwad of Wagholi police said, “The techie, his wife and three-year-old daughter moved to Pune…
Pune: The Union transport ministry has granted permission to state govt to resume manual fitness tests of vehicles until Oct this year, Pune MP and MoS for civil aviation Murlidhar Mohol said on Saturday.Earlier, the ministry had mandated that vehicle fitness tests could only be conducted at Automated Testing Stations (ATS). However, with many RTOs…
