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.

ANURADHA MASCARENHAS
PUNE, MARCH 19

THE child sex ratio (below six years) has been on the decline in the country and villages and districts are now hitting a new low. Pune city, and district, has clearly made its choice and opted for the male child.

Pune: Pune-Based entrepreneur Rajiv Devkar seems to have hit the jackpot in his quest to preserve mangoes without the use of cold storage facilities. Devkar experimented with honey, a natural preservative as an alternative, putting two alphonso mangoes in a jar of honey in May and found them well-preserved in December.

An excuse to privatize irrigation project STARTED in 1984, the yet to be completed Nira Deoghar irrigation project in Maharashtra has run into rough weather. A recent judgement by the three-member water regulatory authority has put on hold the privatization of the project in Bhor taluka, Pune district. Aimed at irrigating 45,000 hectares the project when conceived was to cost Rs 62