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Covid takes its toll on organ donations in 2020
The total number of transplants done in 2020, till December 24 stood at 79, even as experts note that there is more awareness among families
Published on Dec 28, 2020 04:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Pune | Namrata Devikar
Pune hospitals find plasma therapy effective in moderate Covid-19 patients
ICMR study has found that this therapy is not as promising in bringing down the mortality rate
Updated on Oct 26, 2020 03:27 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Pune | Steffy Thevar
Maharashtra: After criticism, CM Uddhav Thackeray starts touring flood-affected areas
Heavy rain and floods claimed at least 48 lives in Maharashtra’s Pune, Aurangabad and Konkan divisions last week, while crops planted on lakhs of hectares were extensively damaged, leading to farmers demanding immediate relief
Updated on Oct 19, 2020 11:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Solapur | Dheeraj Bengrut
NTPC plans industrial parks
State-run NTPC Ltd wants to attract energy-intensive manufacturing units with inducements and benefits as part of the Atmanirbhar Bharat or self-reliant India strategy.
Published on Sep 23, 2020 04:56 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Utpal Bhaskar, New Delhi
Car rams container truck in Pune, five killed
The car was following the container truck, which came to an abrupt halt. The car rammed into the container truck and all five persons in the vehicle died on impact
Published on Sep 21, 2020 12:34 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Pune | HT Correspondent
Prakash Ambedkar arrives in Pandharpur, leads march to reopen temples
The local administration at Pandharpur has put up checkpoints at entry and exit points to the temple town while barricading the roads leading to Lord Vitthal temple in view of the agitation by the Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi (VBA).
Updated on Aug 31, 2020 02:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Pune | Nadeem Inamdar
Pandharpur police barricade roads leading to the temple
Updated on Aug 31, 2020 05:59 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Pune | HT Correspondent, Pune
Karnataka CM flags off first ever RORO train between Bengaluru and Maharashtra’s Solapur
“Roll-On-Roll-Off (RORO) service is hassle-free, reduces accidents on the road, is environment friendly, and presents a win-win situation to truck operators and industries,” Yediyurappa said in a tweet.
Updated on Aug 30, 2020 07:42 PM IST
Bengaluru | Asian News International | Posted by Kanishka Sarkar
Three more cops succumb to Covid-19 in Maharashtra, death toll in force rises to 118
Nearly 240 fresh Covid-19 cases have also been reported in the Maharashtra police force in the last 24-hours.
Updated on Aug 10, 2020 06:54 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Vijay Kumar Yadav | Edited by Sohini Sarkar
Rains lash Aurangabad, Solapur, Pune in Maharashtra
In the 24-hour period ending at 8.30 am on Sunday, Aurangabad received 86 mm downpour, Solapur-42 mm, Pune-26 mm, Ahmednagar-23 mm and Hingoli-17 mm, it said.
Published on Aug 02, 2020 02:00 PM IST
Mumbai | Press Trust of India| Posted by Susmita Pakrasi
Four arrested for duping two in Pune’s KCB
Jadhav and Gurav have together duped four more men in a similar way
Updated on Jul 24, 2020 07:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Pune | HT Correspondent
Maharashtra adds 9,895 Covid-19 cases; 298 die, 6484 recover
Maharashtra’s Covid-19 figures are as follows: Positive cases 3,47,502, new cases 9,895, deaths 12,854, discharged 1,94,253, active cases 1,40,395, people tested so far 17,37,716.
Published on Jul 23, 2020 09:24 PM IST
Mumbai | Press Trust of India| Posted by Susmita Pakrasi
‘Some think Covid-19 will vanish by building Ram Temple’: Pawar ahead of PM’s likely Ayodhya visit
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to lay the foundation stone (bhumi pujan) for the Ram Temple on August 5, according to the priests of Ayodhya. Pawar is currently on a tour of Solapur as it has the highest Covid-19 case fatality rate in Maharashtra (6.85%).
Updated on Jul 20, 2020 12:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Pune | Abhay Khairnar
Maharashtra Police adds 150 new Covid-19 cases in 48 hours, another cop dies
Barely three days ago, on Thursday, three more Maharashtra Police personnel had died of the infectious disease.
Updated on Jun 28, 2020 06:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | hindustantimes.com | Edited by Sohini Sarkar
Pune Customs seize drugs worth Rs2.10 crore
The Customs officials raided the trucks at 4:30 pm on Naldurg-Solapur road, near Boramani village, Solapur.
Published on Jun 26, 2020 04:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Pune | Shalaka Shinde
Pune gets its normal rainfall quota of June in just 20 days
“There are three reasons due to which Pune has received more than normal rainfall in just 20 days, that is cyclonic rains due to Nisarga, good moisture incursion and normal onset of monsoon,” said Anupam Kashyapi, IMD director.
Published on Jun 21, 2020 04:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Pune | Jigar Hindocha
Monsoon arrives in Maharashtra, coastal areas receive showers; Mumbai misses its date
IMD said the monsoon onset line passes through Harnai in Ratnagiri district and Solapur district in southwest Maharashtra.
Updated on Jun 11, 2020 04:09 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Badri Chatterjee
Dharavi records its biggest daily rise in Covid-19 cases
In Dharavi, where roughly 800,000 people live in cramped houses and 12 people often share two-room tenements, four deaths were reported on Tuesday even as the total number of infected patients crossed 300 and stood at 330.
Updated on Apr 29, 2020 12:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Surendra P Gangan and Sagar Pillai
Three killed, two injured after car tyre bursts on Pune-Solapur highway
Two women suffered injuries in the mishap and were rushed to a nearby hospital, the official said
Updated on Nov 01, 2019 04:33 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Pune | HT Correspondent
73-yr-old dies of cardiac arrest in Maharashtra, family blames PMC crisis stress
Sadarangani is the fifth Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank account holder to have lost her life since it was put under regulatory restrictions by the Reserve Bank of India in September following a Rs 4355 crore fraud.
Updated on Oct 22, 2019 03:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Revati Krishna
EC finds ₹53 lakh, jailed MLA in a flat in Thane
Kadam has been in jail since August 2015 for his alleged involvement in the Annabhau Sathe cooperative scam.
Updated on Oct 19, 2019 05:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Thane | Megha Pol
‘Never been in jail’: Sharad Pawar on Amit Shah’s contribution question
On September 1, Shah questioned Sharad Pawar’s contribution to address farmer distress in Maharashtra when the latter was a minister in the erstwhile UPA government at the Centre.
Updated on Sep 17, 2019 07:36 PM IST
Mumbai | Faisal Malik
Act against NHAI for excavation work inside bird sanctuary: Mumbai HC
Based on previous HC directives, Vijay Hinge, then divisional forest officer (wildlife) Pune, Maharashtra forest department, had confirmed through an affidavit before the HC on October 30, 2014, that quarrying work was in fact carried out by NHAI and its concessionaire inside GIB Sanctuary.
Updated on Sep 14, 2019 01:16 AM IST
Mumbai | Badri Chatterjee
NCP chief Sharad Pawar to embark on Maharashtra tour
The party has witnessed a mass exodus from across the state. Its key leaders, who had enjoyed ministerial berths and were with the party since its inception two decades ago, have quit the party.
Updated on Sep 13, 2019 10:38 PM IST
Mumbai | Surendra P Gangan, Mumbai
Shiv Sena launches yet another programme to woo women voters
The party has entrusted the charge of the ‘Pratham Ti’ programme to 20 women Sena leaders to hold phase-wise meetings across 25 districts of the state.
Updated on Sep 10, 2019 12:40 AM IST
Mumbai | Swapnil Rawal, Mumbai
Hit by Solapur work, trains from Mumbai to south India to resume by Aug 29
Central Railway is in the process of doubling tracks between Wadsinge and Bhalwani in the Solapur division, due to which train speeds have been restricted at many points on the way.
Updated on Aug 22, 2019 01:31 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Aroosa Ahmed
Maharashtra gets surplus rain but 11 districts remain parched
IMD revealed that states like Manipur, Delhi and Haryana were poor monsoon performing states which recorded 59 per cent, 35 per cent and 33 per cent rainfall deficiency in this season.
Updated on Aug 18, 2019 04:42 PM IST
Pune | HT Correspondent
State and Centre can’t issue guidelines on maintenance grant to wives: Bombay high court
The bench clarified that while considering maintenance pleas, it would rely on guidelines contained in the legal provisions concerned and binding judgments of higher courts.
Updated on Aug 17, 2019 12:47 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Kanchan Chaudhari
Maharashtra floods: Highways in Sangli and Kolhapur opened
As many as 4.74 lakh people from 95,206 families in five districts of western Maharashtra are living in 596 temporary shelters, while the district administration has geared up for rehabilitation of people from flood-affected areas.
Updated on Aug 13, 2019 01:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | Surendra Gangan
Maharashtra government’s forensic lab in Solapur in a shambles
There is no equipment and no place for the officials to sit, let alone conduct any tests.
Published on Jul 01, 2019 12:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Jayprakash S Naidu, Mumbai