Новости за 01.10.2015

The Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU) Academic Council has approved 18 new courses, along with a special Bachelor of Education course, for the visually and hearing impaired candidates.

Motorists in Navi Mumbai, Thane, Kalyan-Dombivli and other parts of the state, barring Mumbai, had to pay the new ‘drought surcharge’ on fuel as well as local body tax (LBT) due to confusion over the government’s imposition of the tax and withdrawal of LBT at the same time.

The Kalwa police arrested six persons for their alleged involvement in the murder of a 20-year-old youth reportedly over a failed drug deal last week

With Nashik inching close to the Smart City tag, residents feel that the upgrade of the existing health facilities and awareness would be a big step ahead towards a smarter life.

Omaxe City, a township that boasts of high profile businessmen, politicians and judges as its residents, has had a meager power supply for the past ten days. The situation took a turn for the worse on Thursday with a complete blackout.

The Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) is going to a become a "smart MIDC" soon - courtesy the state government's policy on the lines of the Centre's 100 Smart Cities and Digital India programmes.

After members of the Marathi film industry and the Ganeshotsav mandals across the state, now the priests who perform rituals such as Shraddha and Tarpan have came forward with help for the drought-affected farmers of Maharashtra.

The entire Mehmoodabad hostel gathered outside the vice-chancellor’s office on Thursday in protest against insufficient water and power supply.

At a time when the entire state is reeling under a drought-like situation, a farmer from Belgaon Dhaga village near Nashik has in a unique endeavour started polyhouse farming.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials raided five sweet marts in Mira-Bhayandar area recently and seized 1,568kg of barfi worth Rs 2 lakh. The sweets were found stored in unhygienic conditions

TMC has decided to act tough against litter louts dirtying city streets and are considering deploying an army of ex-servicemen as cleanliness marshals for the purpose. They would be armed with an authority to penalize those found spitting or littering city streets

The police probes into the brutal thrashing of a woman at the Lalbaugcha Raja pandal last week by woman constables and the Juhu cops trying to knock off money from a diamond merchant at gun point have not reached anywhere. The reports in both cases were to be submitted on Wednesday.

The civic administration has flagged off its online payment system for tax collections making payment of property tax as easy as payments on e-commerce portals

The Manjuls in Old City's Karbala Colony never thought that their forgotton legacy could be so precious.

The Manjuls in Old City's Karbala Colony never thought that their forgotton legacy could be so precious.

The residents of Nashik have to pay some extra bucks in the form of Local Body Tax (LBT) on petrol and diesel despite its ban by the state government from October 1 over and above the hike in the prices of fuel with effect from Thursday.

Day 1 of the nation-wide protest by transporters against the central government received a lukewarm response on Thursday, even as the All India Motor Transport Congress claimed that more than 10,000 trucks in the district stayed off the highways as mark to join the nationwide indefinite strike.

The indefinite strike by transporters is likely to continue on Friday, with 90 lakh trucks across the country off the roads and a significant number of heavy vehicles stalled in Mumbai and Navi Mumbai. The agitation, however, has not affected the supply of essential commodities like vegetables, fruits, medicines, milk in the city.

Virtually every irrigation project approved in the past decade seems to be riddled with irregularities as more dirt emerges in the mega dam scam.

Plans are afoot to receive Panchavati Express on Nashik station's platform number 1, with its length being extended to accommodate 23 coaches, during the train's journey from Mumbai in evening - a long-pending demand of commuters here.

Founder of the All India Andha-shraddha Nirmulan Samiti (ANS), Shyam Manav, has alleged that the Sanatan Sanstha (SS) is ‘brainwashing’ men and making them murder rationalists like Govind Pansare.

The state anti-corruption bureau (ACB) on Thursday caught Shirish Yadav, the deputy chief executive officer and competent authority for the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad, accepting Rs 5 lakh as bribe from a builder to mark a religious place as illegal in an SRA scheme.

A management student who was beaten and robbed of Rs 7,000 in broad daylight chased the three culprits and caught one of them on the road that runs between the Pune railway station and the state transport bus stand on Wednesday.

The Air Force Station (AFS), Lohegaon, has begun constructing a 10-ft high compound wall to demarcate and secure possession of its land on the western end of the runway. The air base is spread over 34 acres.