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Doctors initiate campaign to strengthen patients’ rights in the country
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Updated on Sep 06, 2019 02:38 PM IST
Dr Abhay Shukla launched a social media initiative with a tweet on Independence Day.
hindustan times, pune | ByRenu Deshpande Dhole
Pune assembly polls: Women hold key in Kasba; Hadapsar has most voters
Pune city has a total electorate of 30,82,021 as of August 31. In Kasba peth, women hold the key to the victory of a candidate as the constituency has more number of female voters as compared to male members.
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Updated on Sep 05, 2019 04:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Pune | ByYogesh Joshi, Pune
Assembly polls: In Pune, BJP hopes to relive historic 2014 win as Congress-NCP fights for survival
The BJP currently has 100 per cent representation in Pune through all eight assembly segments.
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Updated on Sep 05, 2019 04:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Pune | ByYogesh Joshi, Pune
Campus connect: 45% seats vacant in engineering diploma courses in Pune region
Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education started admissions early, held awareness events, but failed to reach 100% mark
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Updated on Sep 06, 2019 04:25 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Pune | ByDheeraj Bengrut
River rejuvenation project likely to get delayed in Pune
Pune Municipal Corporation has requested Centre its inability to bear the plan’s excess cost.
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Updated on Sep 06, 2019 03:16 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Pune | ByHT Correspondent
8 civic hospitals, including those named after Thackerays, lying wasted in Pune
18 hospitals, all owned and run by the Pune Municipal Corporation, are understaffed. However, eight in particular, one less than two-year-old, are simply going to waste
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Updated on Sep 05, 2019 02:48 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Pune | ByAbhay Khairnar
Four-day heavy rain warning for Pune district
Major Pune-Mumbai trains cancelled
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Updated on Sep 05, 2019 02:33 PM IST
Increasing girls’ enrolment and transforming infrastructure, this teacher in UP is an inspiration
Dilapidated buildings, broken toilets, creaking furniture, no power supply -- these are some issues that plague many of our government schools. But making a way through this gloom are torchbearers like Sangeeta Sharma of Badaun and Sarvest Kumar of Basti -- two teachers who transformed their schools through determination.
education
Updated on Sep 05, 2019 09:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | ByRajeev Mullick, Lucknow
Forward caste or OBC? BJP in a bind over new Bihar chief
Junior home minister Nityanand Rai continues to head the Bihar BJP, unlike his Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra counterparts who were relieved of their organisational assignment within months of their induction into the union council of ministers.
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Updated on Sep 05, 2019 09:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByKumar Uttam
JNUSU Polls 2019: AISA writes to JNU poll panel over violation of code of conduct
The students’ outfit demanded action against those who allowed the meetings to take place and ABVP candidates “who stand to benefit from it”.
education
Published on Sep 05, 2019 08:51 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent
Teachers’ Day: UP CM Yogi Adityanath presents state awards to 49 teachers
Teachers’ Day: The chief minister was speaking at the state teacher award distribution ceremony here on the eve of Teacher’s Day.
education
Published on Sep 05, 2019 08:42 AM IST
Prayagraj | ByPress Trust of India
Ex-Jharkhand minister Bandhu Tirkey held in national games scam case
Bandhu Tirkey’s arrest comes a week after the Jharkhand high court sought diary of the case to decide his anticipatory bail application.
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Published on Sep 05, 2019 06:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Ranchi | ByBedanti Saran
Two held for blackmailing Air Force official, wife in Bihar
They had taken the picture of his wife from her WhatsApp profile and had made p*rnographic images with the help of an editing software, Air Force official told police.
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Published on Sep 05, 2019 06:52 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhabua | ByPrasun Mishra
Delhi traffic cops breaking road rules to pay double penalty
The provision to penalise enforcing authorities higher than the general fine amount is stated under section 210-B of the newly implemented Motor Vehicles Act .
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Published on Sep 05, 2019 06:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | BySoumya Pillai
Two NIA staffers held for stealing fake currency from agency’s store
The currency, in the denomination of ₹2000 notes, was seized by the agency during raids in Gurugram in May last week.
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Published on Sep 05, 2019 06:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent, New Delhi
Shamsher Singh transferred, Preet Pal to become new Gurugram ACP (crime)
Shamsher Singh took up his post in Gurugram in November 2017 and led the crime unit in the city. He was instrumental in solving the biggest jewellery heist in the city.
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Published on Sep 05, 2019 06:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | ByHT Correspondent
Delhi slips 6 places in world’s most liveable cities’ ranking
The study was conducted in 140 cities around the world, in which Vienna remained the most liveable city for the second year in a row.
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Published on Sep 05, 2019 06:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent
Pregnant women in Delhi miss out on central scheme as dispensaries run out of vaccination cards
Over 500 Delhi government-run dispensaries and urban health centres in the city have run out of these cards, which will be a vaccination record for both mother and child.
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Published on Sep 05, 2019 06:02 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByVatsala Shrangi
Need more youth in power, will bat for under-30 quota, says Shashi Tharoor
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said: “This government only specialises in sloganeering. There are no jobs and students who will soon be graduating from their colleges and looking for the jobs will be impacted most by it.”
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Updated on Sep 05, 2019 06:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent
Worried over repeated car battery theft, Gurugram RWAs demand action
Hindustan Times spoke to a few owners of automobile workshops who revealed the city has a big market of second-hand or used car batteries that sold approximately between ₹1,500 and ₹5,000, depending upon the life of the batteries.
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Published on Sep 05, 2019 05:34 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Gurugram | ByHT Correspondent, Gurugram
Municipal Corporation of Gurugram shortlists two sites for new zonal offices
Besides poor transportation, MCG officials acknowledged they are also running out of space in their existing office, prompting them to branch out to other locations in the city.
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Published on Sep 05, 2019 05:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Gurugram | ByHT Correspondent
Delhi zoo’s last Cape Buffalo dies after eating plastic
In his Independence Day speech this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged citizens to avoid using plastic bags and rid themselves of the habit of using single-use plastic by October 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
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Updated on Sep 05, 2019 06:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByJoydeep Thakur
Makeshift schools in Gurugram firing up young dreams
Over the years, however, organisations, as well as individuals, have pitched in with support—classes that used to take place under a transmission tower are now taking place in sheds.
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Published on Sep 05, 2019 05:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Gurugram | BySadia Akhtar, Gurugram
23 killed in Batala firecracker unit blast
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Published on Sep 05, 2019 01:45 AM IST
BySurjit Singh and Vishal Sally
Gangster running drug racket from jail; 2 aides held with 400gm heroin
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Published on Sep 05, 2019 01:44 AM IST
ByHT Correspondent, Tarn Taran
Sikh UK MP shames Johnson for ‘letter box’ burqa remark
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Published on Sep 05, 2019 01:42 AM IST
Associated Press | ByAssociated Press
BARGARI SACRILEGE CASES: Consent withdrawn, CBI can’t probe further: State to court
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Published on Sep 05, 2019 01:41 AM IST
ByShailee Dogra, Mohali
Injured recount blast horror at Amritsar hospital
Some of those injured in a firecracker factory explosion at Gurdaspur district’s Batala on Wednesday afternoon recounted the horror at Guru Nanak Dev Hospital (GNDH) where they were brought for treatment. Seven of the injured were referred to GNDH by the Batala civil hospital as one of the factory owners, Amrit Singh, 32, was declared dead on arrival.
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Published on Sep 05, 2019 01:40 AM IST
ByAnil Sharma and Mandeep Kaur Narula, Amritsar
Cong does a balancing act, appoint Selja as Hry chief, Hooda as CLP leader
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Published on Sep 05, 2019 01:36 AM IST
ByHitender Rao
Malavika’s Mumbaistan: Something’s lost and something’s gained
The fact that the Kapoors will not be participating in this year’s Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations for the first time in seven decades seems emblematic of the larger theme of well-established and long-cherished Mumbai traditions disappearing, one by one.
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Updated on Sep 14, 2019 06:50 AM IST
Hindustan Times | ByMalavika Sangghvi