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A moot court to discuss the present and future of Marathi language, public interview with lyricist Jagdish Khebudkar, round-the-clock poetry meet and eight seminars devoted to important topics would be the highlights of the 84th all-India Marathi literary meet to be held in Thane in December. The programme for the meet was announced by the working ...

The state agriculture minister, Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, on Tuesday said the recent untimely rains damaged crops on 2.47 million acres in the state, affecting 1.3 million farmers. He said the state cabinet would decide on the compensation and financial assistance to the farmers at a meeting on Wednesday. He was talking to media persons at the agri...

Students from various schools in the city have sent Diwali greetings to soldiers manning the border posts in remote areas of the country. The initiative was taken to reassure these brave men that civilians had not forgotten them while celebrating festivals like Diwali. The Diwali greetings prepared by students were sent to border areas of Jammu and...

Here is some good news for the diabetic community in the city: Laxmi Road-based Sarpotdar Caterers has introduced sugar-free motichur ladoos along with their fair price Diwali sweets packs.The ladoos and Diwali packs would be available on demand through an SMS and their mobile ladoo selling counters. Sarpotdar Caterers proprietor, Kishor Sarpotdar,...

City-based teacher, Narendra Sidhaye, launched an initiative, 'Search the teaching talent from childhood' 15 years ago. Now a success story, his method is the subject of a paper to be presented at a conference organised by Unesco in Bangkok, Thailand. The paper will be presented by a mathematics teacher from Pune, Anjali Anaspure. The 14th UNESCO-A...

Zilla parishad (ZP) members in Pune will be equipped with laptops in the near future. The general body meeting of the ZP will discuss the issue on Tuesday.ZP members Ramesh Konde (Haveli), Sudam Ingale (Purandar) and Rahul Kapre (Daund) have forwarded the proposal and followed it up.Konde told DNA that providing laptops is not a big deal as the ZP ...

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will participate in the Jaldindi, the annual river-ecology awareness campaign, with its Harit Rath (green chariot) to spread awareness about the burning issue of global warming. It is for the first time that a political party is participating in the Jaldindi. City-based Jaldindi Pratishthan started Jaldindi in 2...

The Pune district administration on Thursday issued a show cause notice to the producers of the reality show Bigg Boss asking why shooting should not be stopped in the wake of potential law and order disturbances caused by the show. Additional collector R K Gaikwad told reporters that he had issued the notice in his capacity as the district magistr...

A moot court to discuss the present and future of Marathi language, public interview with lyricist Jagdish Khebudkar, round-the-clock poetry meet and eight seminars devoted to important topics would be the highlights of the 84th all-India Marathi literary meet to be held in Thane in December. The programme for the meet was announced by the working ...

The state agriculture minister, Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, on Tuesday said the recent untimely rains damaged crops on 2.47 million acres in the state, affecting 1.3 million farmers. He said the state cabinet would decide on the compensation and financial assistance to the farmers at a meeting on Wednesday. He was talking to media persons at the agri...

Students from various schools in the city have sent Diwali greetings to soldiers manning the border posts in remote areas of the country. The initiative was taken to reassure these brave men that civilians had not forgotten them while celebrating festivals like Diwali. The Diwali greetings prepared by students were sent to border areas of Jammu and...

Here is some good news for the diabetic community in the city: Laxmi Road-based Sarpotdar Caterers has introduced sugar-free motichur ladoos along with their fair price Diwali sweets packs.The ladoos and Diwali packs would be available on demand through an SMS and their mobile ladoo selling counters. Sarpotdar Caterers proprietor, Kishor Sarpotdar,...

City-based teacher, Narendra Sidhaye, launched an initiative, 'Search the teaching talent from childhood' 15 years ago. Now a success story, his method is the subject of a paper to be presented at a conference organised by Unesco in Bangkok, Thailand. The paper will be presented by a mathematics teacher from Pune, Anjali Anaspure. The 14th UNESCO-A...

Zilla parishad (ZP) members in Pune will be equipped with laptops in the near future. The general body meeting of the ZP will discuss the issue on Tuesday.ZP members Ramesh Konde (Haveli), Sudam Ingale (Purandar) and Rahul Kapre (Daund) have forwarded the proposal and followed it up.Konde told DNA that providing laptops is not a big deal as the ZP ...

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will participate in the Jaldindi, the annual river-ecology awareness campaign, with its Harit Rath (green chariot) to spread awareness about the burning issue of global warming. It is for the first time that a political party is participating in the Jaldindi. City-based Jaldindi Pratishthan started Jaldindi in 2...

The Pune district administration on Thursday issued a show cause notice to the producers of the reality show Bigg Boss asking why shooting should not be stopped in the wake of potential law and order disturbances caused by the show. Additional collector R K Gaikwad told reporters that he had issued the notice in his capacity as the district magistr...