PUNE: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has proposed to set up 125 food testing laboratories in the country. The authority has also proposed to form guidelines to keep a check on flavoured drinking water, said V N Gaur, chief executive officer of FSSAI. The proposals have been submitted to the Union government for approval. Continue reading →
PUNE: A 66-year-old woman, Salma Abbas Vakharia of Dhankawdi, died and four others were injured after the car in which they were travelling hit a truck turning right at a gap in the divider near Gahunje on the Pune-Mumbai expressway on Friday morning.
Salma’s husband, Abbas Ahmedali Vakharia (75), son Hujefa Abbas Vakharia (40) and Hujefa’s employees Sanjay Meshram (35) and Continue reading →
PUNE: ‘Liaison psychology – making mental health care affordable and accessible through interdisciplinary collaborations,’ is the theme for the 38th National Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists – NACIACP 2012.
The three-day conference will begin at Yashada on January 27.
Diagnosis and certification of civil and criminal cases, animal assisted therapies and folk healing practices in India will be some of the topics of discussion at the meet. Continue reading →
PUNE: From just over six lakh in 1951 to 50 lakh now, the population of Pune’s urban agglomeration puts it alongside Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad. The three metros of Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata have a population of over one crore.
In the last decade, the population grew by 34.28 %, but the highest decadal growth (51.73%) was between 1971 and 1981, while the lowest (29.93 %) was between 1951 and 1961. Continue reading →
NEW DELHI: Inducted as an injury replacement last year, former India captain Sourav Ganguly has been retained by Pune Warriors for the coming Indian Premier League season.
Ganguly had signed up with the outfit after the start of the tournament last year. He had been a part of the Kolkata Knight Riders in the first three editions of the Twenty20 event and had led the side in 2008 and 2010. Continue reading →
PUNE: The city’s political cauldron has been stirred with the release of Pune’s member of Parliament Suresh Kalmadi from Tihar jail after the Delhi high court granted him bail in the Commonwealth Games scam. He is expected to reach the city on Friday.
His arrival may have a telling difference on the city’s political arena though there are just 28 days before the civic election. His own party is in a tizzy__ supporters are upbeat and have demanded Continue reading →
Maharashtra in terms of getting the maximum number of new industrial units, fetching Rs 37,700 crore worth of investment in the last five years. These industrial projects come under the mega-project policy of the state government announced in 2007 for a period of five years. Continue reading →
PUNE: The traffic jams in the last two days across the city have little to do with signals on the blink. If there is a sudden increase in two- and four-wheelers on the city’s roads, it is because of the rallies taken out by political aspirants and their supporters for the civic election. Continue reading →
PUNE: A team of representatives from NGOs, Childline (the 24-hour helpline for children in distress), police and other government departments will be formed to review orphanages and shelter homes in the city to ensure they are abiding to child rights norms, said Ujwala Masdekar, honorary director, Childline, Karve Institute of Social Services. Masdekar was speaking at the Childline’s city advisory board (CAB) meeting here on Friday. Continue reading →
PUNE: The night temperature in the city dipped to 7.8 degrees Celsius on Friday, down by 2.1 degrees Celsius from the 9.9 degrees Celsius that was recorded on Thursday. This was also 3 degrees Celsius below normal.
Cold and chilly weather conditions prevailed for the better part of the day despite the day temperature going up to 27.2 degrees Celsius on Friday as against 25.1 degrees Celsius recorded on Thursday. Continue reading →
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