Dinesh Kamble, acting registrar of the university, said, “The committee was set up with the Maharashtra Public Universities Act. It is routine procedure and the committee recently held a meeting with us.”

Special Public Prosecutor Vaibhav Bagade had submitted before the children’s court that the offence was serious and against a public servant.

Fisherwomen say the new location does not have toilets, electricity or water supply. The place also has no facility to ice and store the fish they are unable to sell in the day for use the next day. Others say the new place’s location opposite a burial ground is inauspicious.

An FSL official said, “While in the initial years, DNA tests were seen as purely an evidentiary tool, over the years, the police have also been approaching us for DNA tests in unsolved cases.”

The Maharastra Forest Department is planning to set up Bamboo Craft Research and Training Centres at three public universities.

The agreement, which was signed on May 11, will facilitate jobs through personality development workshop, counselling sessions and employment fairs.

Police said Bhargav had joined a one-month swimming course at Silver Gym in Wakad and had completed it on May 8, but continued visiting the pool for practise.

The Integrated Tribal Development Project (ITDP), Ghodegaon, will be signing Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with universities to encourage tribal students to take up more research work.

One person was killed and hundreds of others injured when violent clashes broke out on January 1, when lakhs of people had gathared at the Jaystambh in Perne to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Bhima Koregaon.

Following public outrage over encroachment and deforestation at the Dr Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary, Pune Municipal Commissioner Saurabh Rao visited the park on Saturday to review the ground situation.

Naval Kishore Ram, the new Pune District Collector, talks to Atikh Rashid about the major responsibility ahead.

In May 2016, the IAF had agreed to provide 15-acre additional land for airport expansion, if the govt provides a land of its choice admeasuring the same area in exchange.

Days after they started distributing milk free of cost to protest against low procurement prices, dairy farmers in Maharashtra have threatened to take their protest all the way to Mantralaya in Mumbai.

THE Maharashtra government has issued a notification to attach 124 properties, 276 bank accounts and 46 vehicles of real estate developer D S Kulkarni, his wife Hemanti and other officials of the DSK Group.

THE GOVERNMENT has set up State Relief and Rehabilitation Authority to look into the rehabilitation of around 50 lakh villagers, who had been displaced to make way for various public sector projects in Maharashtra.

Ten people were killed and 32 injured after a tempo carrying a marriage party was hit by a speeding tanker on Latur Mukhed Road on Saturday.

While the Kolkata-based corporate lawyer has relished Alphonso mangoes at her office in Mumbai, she confesses nothing matches the joy of plucking mangoes from farms and having them amidst nature.

They had then told the police that they were trying to escape because they were being served poor quality food at the home.

The man denied that he had sent bulk messages to more than 2.5 lakh people, asking them to call Bhide’s cellphone and landline numbers to protest the construction of a metro car shed in Aarey Colony.

A time trend of the data obtained also shows that the most number of ARI cases and that of fevers and age-related ailments were observed during the winter.

“An auto-rickshaw suddenly cut ahead in front of the tanker. The driver of the tanker tried to avoid hitting the auto-rickshaw and turned sharply to the left where he crashed into the parked vehicles,” said Kiran Kale, senior inspector, Versova police station.

The police said Rashid Ansari, 30, succumbed to his injuries, while the second victim, Mohomed Rizwan Qureshi, was critical after being wounded on his hand and stomach.

BMC officials said in the first phase of the project, floating trash booms will be installed in Dahisar, Mithi, Oshiwara and Poisar rivers as well as in storm water drains at Irla, Mogra nullah and Lovegrove pumping station.

At the time of the incident, those present in the house at Suniti building in Nariman Point included Roy’s wife Bhawna, his orderly and personal assistant, three relatives and three domestic helps.