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Reeda Shaikh's family members on Sunday afternoon hit back at union health minister Gulam Nabi Azad and state chief minister Ashok Chavan for their comments on the death of the 14-year-old. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Family members of Reeda Shaikh, the country's first swine flu victim, said that the Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has apologised to them for his remarks made in New Delhi on Sunday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Pune district collector Chandrakant Dalvi on Sunday suggested the general public not to wear masks, saying that the black marketing of masks in the city will automatically stop if the demand reduces. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Former president APJ Abdul Kalam on Friday suggested a three-tier strategy in combating terrorism in the country. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A career in the armed forces is highly rewarding and enriching, said former president APJ Abdul Kalam on Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Pune Cantonment Board's (PCB) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) DK Malik chaired a meeting attended by the elected members and heads of all departments of the board to deal with the situation arising from Influenza A HINI infections in the city. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The residents of Wadgaon Sheri are sore with the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for not doing enough to ensure adequate water supply in the area. At a meeting in Anand Park locality, they expressed their anger over the civic body's inability to provide sufficient drinking water supply. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The corporator from Wadgaon Sheri Sachin Bhagat has come up with a novel scheme of overcoming the water scarcity in his constituency. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Two more students on Tuesday tested positive for Influenza A H1N1 at Panchgani, taking the total number of cases to 25. Their throat and nasal samples were tested at the National Institute of Virology (NIV). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A troupe of 20 students from the Free Legal Aid Centre of DES Law College put up a spectacular show, depicting the impact of ragging on young and impressionable minds on BJ Medical College Campus on Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The residents of Vimannagar are likely to file a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Bombay high court on the issue of water affidavits. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) has geared up to deal with H1N1 cases in an effective way. It has issued directives to all the public dispensaries in cantonment to remain alert and be prepared for any eventuality. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A day after the samples of students at the century-old St. Peter's School at Panchgani tested positive for H1N1, the Satara district health authorities isolated four more suspected cases at the health centre located on the school premises. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The city-based RTI activist Vihar Durve has alleged that the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) administration has overcharged seven times from the applicants for furnishing information under Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Southern Command's rejection of the Floor Space Index (FSI) hike proposal mooted by the Pune Cantomment Board (PCB) has come as a surprise for many cantonment residents living in old and dilapidated buildings for over three decades. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Kargil Day Action Committee had organised a function to pay tribute to the martyrs of the Kargil War on its 10th anniversary on Sunday. The function was organised at the National War Memorial Junction near Empress Botanical Garden. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The front portion of a balcony of a two-storeyed building located at 275 Shimpi Lane in Pune cantonment collapsed on early Thursday. No one was injured in the incident. There were five members in the house at the time of the incident. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As a management graduate, thirtyfive-year-old Rajeev Kher's announcement to venture into the sanitation business 10 years ago brought on the sniggers from relatives and friends. "You wouldn't want to join this field being an MBA," he was often reminded. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Secretary of state Hillary Clinton may have been busy strengthening Indo-US ties recently, but two senior William J Clinton Foundation representatives were given a preview of portable toilets on Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Secretary of state Hillary Clinton may have been busy strengthening Indo-US ties recently, but two senior William J Clinton Foundation representatives were given a preview of portable toilets on Wednesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For 48-year-old homemaker Mrudula Hadke in Solapur Bazaar, Monday was a bad day. She hardly got enough water for her domestic chores, the reason being the low pressure of water supply in the area. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Students of Rabindranath Tagore Primary School in old Modikhana have been squatting on the cold floor and taking lessons from their teachers in the absence of benches for the past one year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) has given a no-objection certificate (NOC) to the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Cantonment General Hospital to start a police chowki on the hospital's premises. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) is considering a proposal to construct a flyover at Golibar Maidan. Board vice-president Anju Mathurawala said it will help ease the heavy traffic flow in the area. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Train services between Pune and Mumbai were disrupted for the second consecutive day on Wednesday following heavy rain. However, air and vehicular traffic from the city remained unaffected. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The incessant rain that lashed the city during the past 24 hours led to heavy water-logging in several low-lying areas, particularly the arterial roads in Pune Cantonment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Civic activists and voluntary organisations have expressed serious concern over the dumping of debris in the river bed and the banks of Mutha river from Koregaon Park, Kalyaninagar till Mundhwa. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005 is a path-breaking achievement for citizens and activists and all efforts must be made to protect and strengthen RTI in the country, Central Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi said on Saturday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Seventy-year-old dentist Dr Villoo Anklesaria has been fighting a lone battle over the alleged unfair compensation sanctioned to her by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on the land acquired from her for widening of the BT Kawade Road. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Central Information Commissioner (CIC) Shailesh Gandhi said that Maharashtra was losing an annual revenue of Rs25,000 crore because of the non-renewal of land lease rates of public property given to individuals and corporate institutions decades ago. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Southern Command headquarters has rejected the Pune Cantonment Board's (PCB) proposal seeking Floor Space Index (FSI) relaxation in Pune Cantonment stating that the proposal was not in the interest of the overall development and will be detrimental to the character and environment of the Pune Cantonment. (See box) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Various social and voluntary organisations working for water conservation have come down heavily on the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for its inability to conceptualise an integrated approach of water distribution in the city. They have also asked citizens to realise the importance of saving water. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Although the ex-servicemen in the city welcomed the announcement on One Rank One Pension (OROP) for personnel below the officers' rank in the Union budget, most of them are not ready to react on the issue till the details of the pension plans are available. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Commuters passing through Pune cantonment areas are miffed about the delay in the drainage infrastructure work. These, coupled with a number of bad arterial roads that have bore the brunt during the past year, have made commuting a problem. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Heritage conservationists and urban designers have stressed the need for railway authorities to use professional expertise while converting Pune into a world-class railway station. The railway station building is a heritage structure. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For Manishi Maini, secretary of Konark Co-operative Housing Society at Vimannagar, and the other residents, the water nightmare has stretched too far. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A bizarre Right to Information (RTI) Act application was recently received by the Pune Municipal Corporation. The Akhil Bhusari Colony Vikas Mandal Trust led by president Sachin Dhankude filed an application on May 20 seeking information on the legal ways through which citizens and activists groups can lodge their protest with the civic body. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Senior citizen Perin Bokdawalla of Pune Cantonment area has moved the Central Information Commission (CIC) after she was denied information under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, 2005, by the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) about a property within its limits. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Baramati Lok Sabha MP Supriya Sule inaugurated the Zee Institute of Creative Arts (ZICA) - a full-fledged classical and digital animation training academy - at Parth Complex in Navi Peth on Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chairman Madhavan Nair on Sunday said that the successful candidates in the UPSC's civil services examination should emerge as the true leaders of the country to serve and shape the destiny of the country. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The entire Pune cantonment area on Wednesday evening faced water shortage after the electricity cable connected to the water motors of cantonment water supply division got burnt. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) has decided to initiate measures to make the roads safer for pedestrians, especially the senior citizens, in the cantonment area. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Telecom major Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) on Thursday lambasted the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) for imposing hefty charges on digging roads for laying underground broadband cables. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Kumbharbawdi market - a vegetable and fruit market in Pune Cantonment - has started raising a stink with Cantonment residents accusing the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) of not maintaining cleanliness in the area. A large number of people visit the market everyday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Pune Municipal Corporation's water supply department has asked the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) to crack down on illegal water connections. The move will ensure equitable distribution of water to cantonment residents. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sixtythree-year-old bishop of Vasai Bishop Thomas Dabre took the holy oath as the sixth bishop of the Pune diocese at the St Patrick's Cathedral in a historic ceremony on Sunday evening. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Maharashtra government's decision to dilute the role of Brahmin teacher Dadaji Konddev in the life of Chhatrapati Shivaji as a child is in sharp contrast to the observations made by eminent historian Sir Jadunath Sarkar and the immensely popular Amar Chitra Katha series. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) has undertaken a drive to clear debris and choked drains in the area taking into account the flooding that took place in the area last year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) has decided to take up the issue of illegal water connections with the Pune Municipal Corporation and will soon write to the the civic body about the inequitable distribution of drinking water in the area. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The safety of the residents living in dilapidated buildings in Pune Cantonment area is still at stake. With the monsoon approaching, the residents have sought permission to carry out repairs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]