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Post-monsoon rains continued to lash Pune and most parts of western Maharashtra on Wednesday, affecting normal life and damaging crops. The city recorded 75 mm rains till Tuesday night, accompanied by strong winds, Medha Khole, director of Meteorological office, said. According to the Directorate of Agriculture, heavy downpour in Kolhapur, Sangli and Satara districts have adversely affected crops like grapes and cotton.Vehicular traffic was badly affected in the city.
The mystery surrounding the disappearance of four advertising professionals, including a woman, from Pune last week finally broke silence after the body of one of the missing was fished out of the Neera river along Pune-Satara road on Wednesday.
The actor was rushed to a hospital during the weekend, after shooting a gruelling sequence which required him to run through fire several times.
Founded by Chetna Gala Sinha, the Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank was formed with the active participation of illiterate, rural women in 1997.
The bus was carrying 34 staff members of an agriculture university in the Konkan region. It fell into a 500-feet deep gorge at Ambenali Ghat near Poladpur town, District Collector Vijay Suryawanshi said.
A memorial for 26/11 braveheart Tukaram Ombale and other 26/11 martyrs will be unveiled on Monday at his hometown Bhuinj in Satara district of western Maharashtra.
A moderately intensity earthquake, measuring five on the Richter scale, hit Mumbai and parts of western Maharashtra on Saturday evening with Koyna as its epicentre.
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13 fresh swine flu cases have been reported in Maharashtra since Wednesday with Pune accounting for nine of them, health officials said on Thursday.
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R-Infra quoted Rs 42-crore (Rs 420-million) premium over the bids of rival companies such as GVK Power and Infrastructure Limited, GMR Infrastructure, B Sennaih and C&C, JMC Srei and Sadhbhav, sources told Business Standard.
Traffic police created two 'green corridors' for speedy transportation of two livers for transplantation, one of them being a distance of 210 Km.
With increasing animal prices, labour and transportation charges, production cost has gone up significantly.
Abhi comes from a family which has served the Indian Air Force since World War II when his grandfather Simhakutty was a member of the air force.
The 26th edition of Lions Gold Awards was held on January 25.
Colonel Santosh Mahadik died during an operation in Kupwara last year. His wife Swati Mahadik says joining the Indian Army allows her to keep his memory alive.
Ahead of the elections, a lot had been spoken of the large number of leaders defecting from the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party to the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena. In fact, a month before the polls, more than two dozen Congress-NCP leaders quit and joined the BJP in hopes of riding high on the Narendra Modi wave. While for some the shift has brought in good fortune, for others it has brought loss. Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com analyses how these defectors have fared.
The overall voting percentage in the bypolls to 51 assembly seats was nearly 56.84 per cent, the Election Commission said while releasing data available till 7 pm, adding that the polling passed off peacefully.
Family members of the 14-year-old Pune girl, who died of swine flu are set to slap civil and criminal charges against the private hospital where she was admitted.
Invoking the Act enables the government to forcibly put swine flu patients under quarantine in government hospitals.
Dr Lagoo, who was a trained ENT surgeon, played important role in the growth of theatre movement in Maharashtra in post-Independence era.
India's steeplechase specialist Lalita Babar, who finished 10th in the recently-concluded Rio Olympics, said the transition from being a marathon runner to a steeplechaser wasn't an easy one.
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Woman steeplechaser Lalita Babar carries the fervent hopes of the sports fans to finally open India's medal tally on day 10 of the Rio Olympics on Monday.
Maharashtra, the country's largest cane and sugar producer after Uttar Pradesh, had, over the past few years, weathered adverse market dynamics brought about by a domestic and global sugar glut, mounting arrears and muted exports.
Bhide gave various references from the Ramayana and Mahabharata and attacked the current political and social system.
There have been several instances of traders dumping fruits and vegetables outside mandis. Or of farmers dumping produce outside their villages or feeding them to their animals.
The downpour also disrupted the long-distance Mumbai-bound trains.
The flooding in Kerala, Karnataka and Maharashtra has left people without homes and brought about destruction worth crores.
Mumbai-based couple Jyoti and Shrinath Iyer travelled 4,600 km by bike from Maharashtra to Kerala and back.
In Maharashtra, where the 'Mahayuti' alliance of BJP, Shiv Sena and smaller parties is against the 'Maha-agadhi' led by the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party whereas the ruling BJP is locked in a contest with the opposition Congress and the fledgling Jannayak Janata Party for the 90 assembly seats in Haryana.
A mild tremor was experienced in Pune and parts of Maharashtra with its epicentre at Koyna dam region in Satara district, Met office said on Wednesday morning.
An emotional farewell was given to the valiant army jawans who lost their lives in the Uri attack, as their last rites were performed in their respective native villages with full military and state honours.
Flash floods triggered by torrential rain have killed at least 22 people in India and forced more than 1,70,000 from their homes.
The organised sector now accepts accredited firms as labour providers for factory shop floors.
Housing Development Finance Corporation has joined hands with the Maharashtra government and State Industrial Investment Corporation of Maharashtra, its subsidiary, to bid for control of the troubled United Western Bank.
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