The accident took place around 4am at Shirwal in Khandala taluka of Satara district. Shirwal is around 50 kilometres from Pune city on Pune-Satara patch of the Pune-Bengaluru national highway.

“Our leaders Ajit Pawar and Jayant Patil held one-to-one talks with our MLAs as well as our associate independent and small party MLAs today. They tried to understand their problems during the discussions,” NCP chief whip Anil Patil said.

The incident took place at around 11 am in Moti Jagdhar village in Mahuva taluka of Bhavnagar when the victims were on their way home after participating in labour work being offered by the government under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA).

Take Home Ration, or THR, is provided to children between 6 months and 3 years, pregnant women and lactating mothers, as well as adolescent girls as part of the Centre's flagship Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS).

Abbas, 64 now, retired as a Class-II officer in the Gujarat government, and left for Sydney last week to be with his son, says Pankajbhai.

The festival was inaugurated on Friday by actor Girish Kulkarni. Senior artists Sudhakar Chawan, Subhash Pawar and Pramod Kamble were felicitated as well as prizes were given to Regional Camel Art Foundation Contest winners Surbhi Gulwilkar and Rupesh Sonar.

Ministry of MSME, National Institute of Naturopathy (NIN) Pune, AYUSH Ministry, Pune, Central Communication Bureau (Maharashtra & Goa), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and Pune Metro will jointly organise the Yoga Day celebrations in Pune on June 21.

The season, which lasted for 173 days, saw 200 mills crushing 1,320.31 lakh tonne of cane and producing 137.27 lakh tonne of sugar. This would be the first time in the past 10 seasons when the crushing season had extended well into June.

The stormwater drain is coming up under IPGCL’s plant. A PWD official said it will be ready in 6-7 days.

The farm unions, who held protests in 70 places across 23 districts of Punjab, have claimed that the government was asking for copies of farad (land records) to be submitted with the procurement agency before purchase of the moong and maize crops.

Of 64 groups put out on e-auction, only 14 groups had responded. The excise department has now extended the last date of bidding by five more days

Eyewitnesses said it was not clear what triggered the honeybee attack. "We were coming to Anti- Human Traffic Unit (AHTU) office in Sector 17 when we spotted the helpless man and woman struggling to save themselves from the bee attack.

The protesters, more than 150 in number, blocked the roads for over an hour and a half

Power department officials said that it will take at least 24 hours more to restore the power supply; at least a hundred residential colonies are currently facing a power outage apart from several villages on the periphery of Zirakpur

Accepting notice on behalf of the state of Punjab, the Additional Advocate General of Punjab, S P S Tinna, submitted that the challenged communication was only regarding “possession to be taken of those lands whereby there has been a decision in favour of the Gram Panchayats”.

Dr Priyadarshi Ranjan, Director, Urology, Robotics and Kidney Transplant Surgery, Fortis Mohali, explains in an advisory the causes and ways to detect renal cancer.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested a woman identified as Kalyani Singh in connection with the murder of Sippy Sidhu. Sippy was murdered in a public park in sector three Chandigarh on the night of September 20, 2015.

As per officers involved in the probe, Sippy Sidhu allegedly could access all the digital contents of the gifted iPhone remotely, which was one of the prime reasons why Kalyani had stopped using the device.

The Bhasha Research and Publication Centre (BRPC), which is providing skill training to at least 15 women each from around 40 families of the community living in Ahmedabad, will soon conduct an exhibition of their work in Ramol.

The daily requirement of water for industries in Dahej is around 200 MLD, which is currently fetched from the Narmada river. The industries will now get treated sea water for their use.

First four semesters of the courses will be classroom and lab centric, while the last two semesters will be on the job. The stipend earned in the third year of undergraduate course will take care of most of the expenditure of three years, univresity authorities said.

According to police, Dilip Vasava (30) and his brother Himmat Vasava (28) — both residents of Satvan village in Umarpada taluka of Surat district, were working as GRD jawans with Surat district police for five years.

According to the BJP, the party has 1.13 crore members in the state at present and is aiming to increase the number through the campaign in which workers are expected to enroll members in more than 50,000 booths across the state.

The championship was held at Maia, Portugal from June 2-5. He won the silver in the 30 minutes non-stop, long-cycle, clean and jerk - professional event and lifted a 32 kg kettlebell for 235 reps.