In Brief 8212; Pune

The idol is 20-inch tall and 11-inch wide and shows Lord Vishnu bearing shankh, Gada, chakra and lotus in his hands and wearing an intricately carved crown.

According to senior archaeologist Dr Deglurkar, the idol belongs to the Gupta school of art mainly predominant in north India and dates back to sixth or seventh century. He identified the other two smaller idols on either side of Lord Vishnu as that of a man carrying lotus in his hand and Kaumudki devi.

Godbole said that given the fact the the idol is intact, it suggests that it was not a part of any panel of idols and hence not used for worshipping. Godbole underlined the need for studying the association of the idol with the history of Pune.

Joshi re-elected
Karad: Subhash Joshi was re-elected chairman of Karad Urban Cooperative Bank at the recent elections for the board of directors.

The new board has founder-chairman of the bank D S Erram, Vitthal Jadhav, Anand Palkar, Vitthal shikhare, C V Doshi, Prakash Chavan, Ravindra Shinde, Rajkunwar Chavan, Sunil Potnis, Vasanti Deshpande, Dr Ramesh Patil, Dilip Jadhav and Jaywant Patil.

Kale elected
Ahmednagar: Former MP Shankarrao Kale was elected unopposed chairman of the Kopargaon cooperative sugar factory for the fourth consecutive term.