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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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … Continue reading →