Training people — with a minimum qualification of Class VIII — on how to use a hand-held camera for mass screening for retinal diseases and glaucoma, the campaign will be launched across Pune, Nashik, Solapur, Miraj and Sangli.

The police said that in March, the principal had allegedly shown a pornographic video to the boy. Later, the boy reportedly complained to the school counsellor, but she allegedly asked the student to keep mum.

In a communication to the civic body, the MahaMetro has said that it has already appointed an agency to start constructing the elevated Metro rail route from Shivajinagar to Ramwadi.

"The strikes showed that India has arrived on the global stage and that India is strong. I hope the film will inspire youngsters,” said Piyush Goyal.

Club foot is a birth defect, with an incidence of one in 800 births, in which a child's feet are out of shape or twisted.

According to Maharashtra police, the incident took place on two occasions between September 11 and 18.

Based on recommendations of the previous commission, the Narendra Modi government had earlier increased the share of states in central tax collections to 42 per cent from the previous level of 32 per cent.

“On August 29, after a large number of investors forcibly entered the firm’s office in Saki Naka, Saksena got a sense that he was in trouble and left the country the same day,” said a senior police official.

The eponymous Badlu Rangari lane is a tribute to that person, whose services were all the more invaluable just months before King George V and Queen Mary were to visit India in December that year.

Legislators raised the issue during the winter session of the Assembly, and insisted that it was not right to ask MLAs to use the Right to Information Act to seek information.

The lawyer for Sonavane’s parents had claimed that the case hearings were being delayed as the video recording of the case was not happening, despite the court ruling the permission of recording the trials almost a year ago.

After this, Air India will be the only full service carrier that offers snacks or meals in all categories of economy fares on its domestic flights.

In a complicated operation being planned in Gokuldas Tejpal (GT) Hospital, doctors will now attempt to remove the screw from the 41-year-old labourer’s chest and re-conduct the entire spine surgery.

Cyclone-30 is in the first phase of production generating Flourodeocyglucose (FDG), a radioisotope used for date imaging and oncological tissue imaging.

Kamlesh Nilkanth Vyas, a nuclear physicist, has been the director of BARC for over two years now. Having completed Mechanical Engineering from MS University, Vadodara, he enrolled in the 22nd batch of the BARC Training School in 1979.

The revellers are caught in a tricky situation as crossing the tracks during the immersion procession is convenient for them, but civic officials consider the act to be illegal.

After the G K Gokhale bridge near Andheri station collapsed on July 3, railway officials began inspecting FOBs and ROBs in the section.

The court was hearing a petition filed by Awaaz Foundation and others on the noise pollution caused during various religious festivals.

The petition has been filed by Professional Audio and Lighting Association, owners of sound and light rental companies, seeking to declare that there is no prohibition/ban on use of sound system/DJ system in Maharashtra.

Health officials estimate that with light spells of rain amid sunny days, mosquito-breeding will increase, leading to greater risk of viral infections spreading.

Gambhir Padheriya told the court that on May 7, 2007, he had made an application to the then Inspector General of Police, Geeta Johri, seeking to make 13 persons as accused for the alleged fake encounter of Sohrabuddin Shaikh on November 26, 2005.

Calling it an “aggravated” offence, Special Judge MA Baraliya, said, “The letter of accused, dated 11.02.2017, itself shows that accused was knowing his involvement in such a heinous crime of molesting the minor girl, who was his housemaid.

Investigators said Sarfaraz purchased a Pulsar 220 in January, for which he had taken a loan of Rs 80,000 and made the down payment. Police said he was supposed to shell out Rs 3,600 as monthly instalments, which he failed to pay.

A total of 419 polling booths have been set up in the district. Out of the total polling stations, 82 have been declared sensitive and 49 hyper-sensitive.