Indapur (Pune): Jaising Nagre makes a living by fishing in the Ujjani dam backwaters in Indapur. Nagre, who is from the Bhoi community, says that in the last decade around 3,000 fishermen from other states have settled down around the Ujjani dam and have evicted the locals from plum fishing zones. There are around 6,000 local fishermen from the Bhoi community who fish in the river waters.

A delegation of write-pickets from the Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP) an association elf waste-pickers from Pune, and the national alliance of waste-picker's' organisations, presented the Lok Sabha candidates with a petition asking them to pass a - "Recycling Policy', which gives due place to the waste-pickers and the informal recycling sector.

Pune You are playing with our lives, villagers tell PMC, district officials, MPCB

MUMBAI: Officials of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have seized huge stocks of three leading brands of energy drinks, collectively worth around Rs 2.64 crore, from Mumbai and Pune. The move comes close on the heels of recent amendments to the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act. Most of these drinks are sold in pubs and bars.

Pune In an innovative venture where farmers will get to sell their produce directly to consumers without middlemen, Akhil Bharatiya Grahak Panchayat (ABGP), a consumer right

Pune Beating recession blues, the Pimpri-Chinchwad Regional Transport Office has earned Rs 116.78 crore in the financial year 2008-09 overshooting its target by Rs 19 lakh, up from the Rs 102.26 crore which it had earned last year. It is raining money for RTO in the twin township of Pimpri-Chinchwad

Pune The election fever is catching up and candidates are busy reaching out to people. But in the same week as Pune will go for Lok Sabha polls, a conference will take place in the city. However, that convention will be different from those by the political parties.

MUMBAI: On the auspicious occasion of Gudi Padwa, Maharashtra

Pune As many as 147 out of the 215 TB patients who died in Pune in 2008 had HIV

The TB-HIV link is getting stronger in Pune. Out of the 215 tuberculosis (TB) patients who died in 2008 in Pune, at least 147 were infected with HIV.

In Pimpri-Chinchwad area, out of the 634 new sputum positive cases of TB, at least 94 have been tested HIV positive.