Mumbai: Preparing for a second wave of swine flu in winter as predicted by WHO, Maharashtra Government has decided to organise a series of workshops to train family doctors and paramedicals statewide to battle the H1N1 virus.
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Pune With Pune city facing continued water shortage for the last two months, with many parts of the rural areas going dry for most of the summer season as well as the monsoon, the Pune Zilla Parishad has readied a Rs 10-crore plan to tackle water shortage. The plan has been forwarded to the district collector Chandrakant Dalvi for approval.

Swine flu virus is mild; unpreparedness resulted in panic fifteen-year-old Preshita Padhye tested positive for H1N1 virus on July 27. She spent the next five days at the isolation ward of the Aundh general hospital in Pune.

Pune A resident of Charoli has alleged that Vishrantvadi police have been harassing him for the past two weeks because he dared to take on a PCMC contractor who according to him is responsible for uprooting five sandalwood and other fruit trees at his farmhouse in Charoli while building a road.

Rajesh Singh, the alleged mastermind behind the marmoset theft, had struck a deal with a 72-year-old man in Pune to sell the rare monkeys, police said on Monday.

Pune The Bharat Forge multi-product SEZ at Chakan is all set to embark on its second phase of land acquisition that will see 1,900 hectares being acquired from seven villages. The first phase of rehabilitation and settlement package was completed last year and is at present being showcased by officers as the ideal package.

Pune It might not be before 2011 that the farmers of Avsari Khurd village, some 40 kms from Pune city, will have their own Special Economic Zone (SEZ). The 1,800 farmers have now decided to form the SEZ after the Chakan airport comes up.

Project site to be finalised in two-three months.

Alka Kshirsagar

Pune, Aug. 28 A day after the Maharashtra Government ordered that a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) promoted by electronics and white goods maker Videocon at Wagholi be scrapped, Group Chairman, Mr Venugopal Dhoot, said the SEZ would come up at another location in Pune district.

Pune Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Wednesday announced that the proposed Videocon SEZ at Wagholi would be scrapped, ending a two-year standoff between the villagers and the state government.

With four more swine flu deaths in Banglaore and one in Pune, the national toll touched 74 on Wednesday. The total number of those afflicted with H1N1 virus rose to 3,095 with more cases detected across India.