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TOI : PUNE: Come August 15, and the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) along with the forest department will not only charge an entry fees at the Sinhagad fort, but also impose a ban on the sale and use of plastics, cigarettes and gutkha here.

Two-wheelers riders will have to shell out Rs 20 and Rs 50 will be charged from four-wheelers as the entry fee. Moreover, entry to the fort will be banned after 7 pm and visitors, except those staying overnight, will not be allowed to remain here after 9 pm.

Sale of plastics, cigarettes, gutkha and consumption of non-vegetarian food as well as alcohol atop the fort has been strictly prohibited with effect from August 15.

The decisions came on Saturday at a joint meeting, held to discuss the Sinhagad fort area development plan, between officials from the PMC, the forest department, the Gram Panchayat and the Zilla Parishad. Representatives of non-governmental organisations were also present during the gathering.

It was decided that an apex body/federation consisting of officials from the PMC, the forest department and Sinhagad area development committee will be formed. This body will hold meetings as per requirement and decide on the modalities for implementing the rules and regulations.

Among the other decisions taken was that the wet garbage generated at the fort be used in vermin-composting projects. A deposit of Rs 50 will be collected from visitors at the base of the fort for carrying plastic items into the fort, which will be refunded upon return and on showing the plastics items.

Municipal commissioner Pravinsinh Pardeshi, additional commissioner M S Devnikar, civic officials and forest officers were present for the meeting held at the fort.
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TOI : PUNE: Pramod Salunke of Kalewadi in Pimpri-Chinchwad has been detected with dengue making him the first victim for August, said Nagkumar Kunchagi, chief medical officer (CMO), Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, here on Saturday.

Kunchagi said he was informed by mayor Aparna Doke that Salunke, along with two other family members — Vandana Namdev Salunke and Namdev Babu Salunke, had been admitted to the Chaitanya hospital, Chinchwad, on Friday.

Health department employees inspected the Salunke house in Jyotibanagar area of Kalewadi for mosquito breeding places.

He added that officials had found mosquito larvae in five utensils and in a tray below the refrigerator in the house. They even checked 30 residences nearby that house 253 people. Fogging was conducted in the area as a preventive measure.

In July, this year, 10 people were detected with dengue, as compared to the 20 cases in the same month last year. Kunchagi has appealed to people to not store water for too many days.

The CMO added that the civic body and the public needed to work together to prevent dengue cases. Residents have been exhorted to adopt dengue prevention measures at home and in the surrounding areas.

“I need to check whether there has been a rise in cases of people suffering from communicable diseases. I advise citizens to drink clean boiled water to prevent getting infected with water borne diseases,” said Kunchagi.
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TOI : PUNE: The civic health department has begun a sustainable drive to create awareness amongst roadside food vendors to improve hygiene at workplace and reduce onslaught of diseases.

With inflow of large number of students and young professionals in the city, the business of roadside fast-food sellers is thriving. Besides, booming construction activities have also increased the floating population in the form of labourers who also turn to the roadside eateries.

The health department has taken action against more than 300 stall owners since mid-June and confiscated about 3,000 kilograms of food stuff and 2,000 kilos of ice. Speaking to TOI, deputy health chief D.D. Chandakkar said, “Food on roadside stalls gets sold quickly inspite of unhygienic conditions prevailing there. However, consuming it could adversely affect health, hence concerted action against the vendors,” Chandakkar said.

The fine charged by the PMC ranges from Rs 300 to Rs 1000 and confiscation of eatables. The fine varies depending upon how the vendor disposes the left-over, used water and how he protects the eatables from flies and bugs.

“Most of these vendors have authorised license so no other action can be taken against them. But we make sure that repeated actions are taken at some spots so that at least out of fear of penalty they improve conditions in and around their stalls,” Chandakkar said.

Sustained actions have been taken at areas like Swargate, Kothrud, Paud road, Pune station area, Bibvewadi road and Aundh where such vendors are found aplenty.

“Besides, the PMC in association with SNDT College implemented a project earlier this year, wherein workshops were conducted for stall owners and vendors from different areas telling them about hygiene and cleanliness,” Chandakkar said adding that the workshop gave good results.
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TOI : PUNE: With the Mumbai police arresting five people in Juhu, the Pune rural police have claimed that they have solved the case of robbery that was reported on the Pune-Nashik highway on Tuesday night.

The arrested men are Prakash Doke (22), Sagar Pawar (23), Yogesh Thorat (20), Sunil Pansare (22) and Santosh Jambhale (21), all from Medankarwadi in Chakan. The Pune rural police’s local crime branch had traced the gang to Mumbai with the help of a stolen mobile phone.

A complaint in this regard was lodged at the Manchar police station by the victim, Shrikant Balwant Ghorpade, who was driving the rented car on the night of the robbery.

The police said that Ghorpade was in the business of providing cars on hire. On Tuesday night, Doke and his accomplices approached him and hired a car for Nashik. At around 1.45 am, as the car neared Khed, one of the suspects asked Ghorpade to stop the car. This aroused the driver’s suspicion, who only increased the vehicle’s speed. The suspect in the front seat pulled the hand break and stopped the car. One of the suspects in the back seat forced Ghorpade out of the vehicle at knife point. The suspects then assaulted the victim, snatched his mobile phone and Rs 4,000 and fled with the car worth Rs 2.55 lakh.

Ghorpade lodged a complaint on Wednesday. Meanwhile, he had received an SMS on his other mobile phone stating that another sim card had been inserted into his stolen handset. His stolen handset has a technology that not only alerts you (on an alternate number provided) about another sim card being inserted into the phone, but also gives the phone number of the changed sim card. Ghorpade passed on this information to the police. Sub-inspector Amol Gawali traced the location of that number to Mumbai and gave the suspects’ whereabouts…More

TOI : PUNE: The Regional Transport Authority (RTA) on Saturday gave green signal to hike in fare for the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) buses. The fares have been raised by 35 paise per kilometre. The revised structure will come into effect from August 4.

The decision was taken at the RTA meeting held on Saturday. The meeting discussed various issues pertaining to city traffic system, including the decision on the fare hike proposal submitted by the PMPML. Stops for six-seaters and the revival of the pre-paid and shared rickshaw systems were also okayed at the meeting.

The meeting was attended by divisional commissioner and RTA chairman Nitin Kareer, Regional Transport Officer R T Kharatmal, PMPML managing director S B Patil, deputy commissioner of police (Traffic) Manoj Patil and RTA member Baba Shinde.

The PMPML, in its proposal submitted to the RTA, had sought a nearly 18.5% hike in fares. Shinde said that the RTA has instead approved a nearly 16% fare hike. “The hike has been okayed considering the rise in diesel prices and other expenses. The PMPML proposal points out that diesel prices have gone up from Rs. 36.43 to Rs. 38.28 in the last three years,” he stated.

He said that 4 stops for six-seaters in the city have also been approved. The stops will be at Paud road (near the PMPML bus depot), Pashan (near the ARDA), Satara road (near the Vivekanand statue) and Sinhagad road (near Rajaram bridge). “The stops will be in the outskirts in order to avoid traffic jams in the city,” said Shinde. He said that two stops for six-seaters and taxis have been approved near Shahu bank in Katraj and on the Katraj-Dehu Road bypass near Chandni Chowk.

Shinde said that pre-paid rickshaw stands have been approved at Swargate, Shivajinagar, Pune station and Lohegaon airport. The functioning of pre-paid rickshaws will…More

TOI : PUNE: Be it on friendship, patriotism, ‘ishq-mijazi’ (love) or ‘ishq-e-haqiqi’ (divine love), Hakim Raazi Adeebi’s ’shayari’ or Urdu poetry is par excellence.

For Pune’s senior most and popular poet, shayari is an inseparable part of life. “Life is a poetry,” says the 88-year-old Unani practitioner in his 4×4 shop near Shivaji market in Pune camp.

So, what is it that brought out the shayar in you? Prompt came the reply: “Sukoone dil ka sahara mila na jab Raazi, to ikhtiyar ki ghabra ke shayari meine (On failing to find contentment of heart Raazi, so nervously I delved into shayari).

Recovering from his shayari mood, he says, “I have been fond of shayari since my school days at Yeola in Nashik district, where I was born in 1920. However, a chance meeting with my Ustad, Shaer-e-Hayat Hazrat Adeeb Malegaonvi, was a turning point in my life.”

Is Urdu Shayari losing popularity. Not at all, says he. In fact, Urdu Shayari is gaining popularity.

“It’s a wrong assumption that today’s generation is not interested in Urdu poetry. Shayari is being printed in the Devnagari script for those who can’t read Urdu. This itself goes to prove that it is becoming more popular.”

For Raazi, writing or saying a sher (couplet) only depends upon his mood and that there is no fixed time for that. Give him a subject and there he is ready with a sher.

“Sometimes, it is ‘ilhami’ (natural). He again gets poetic: “Tadbeer wa amal dono zaroori to hai Raazi lekin; padta hai muqaddar pay duaon ka asar.” The poet has also received ‘khilafat’ from the late spiritual leader Hazrat Peer Abdul Ghafoor Bakhshullah Shah Ashrafi.

Known for his penchant for writing ’sehra’ (for bride and groom), friends and acquaintances throng to him with an invitation for marriage and a request for…More

TOI : PUNE: Be it on friendship, patriotism, ‘ishq-mijazi’ (love) or ‘ishq-e-haqiqi’ (divine love), Hakim Raazi Adeebi’s ’shayari’ or Urdu poetry is par excellence.

For Pune’s senior most and popular poet, shayari is an inseparable part of life. “Life is a poetry,” says the 88-year-old Unani practitioner in his 4×4 shop near Shivaji market in Pune camp.

So, what is it that brought out the shayar in you? Prompt came the reply: “Sukoone dil ka sahara mila na jab Raazi, to ikhtiyar ki ghabra ke shayari meine (On failing to find contentment of heart Raazi, so nervously I delved into shayari).

Recovering from his shayari mood, he says, “I have been fond of shayari since my school days at Yeola in Nashik district, where I was born in 1920. However, a chance meeting with my Ustad, Shaer-e-Hayat Hazrat Adeeb Malegaonvi, was a turning point in my life.”

Is Urdu Shayari losing popularity. Not at all, says he. In fact, Urdu Shayari is gaining popularity.

“It’s a wrong assumption that today’s generation is not interested in Urdu poetry. Shayari is being printed in the Devnagari script for those who can’t read Urdu. This itself goes to prove that it is becoming more popular.”

For Raazi, writing or saying a sher (couplet) only depends upon his mood and that there is no fixed time for that. Give him a subject and there he is ready with a sher.

“Sometimes, it is ‘ilhami’ (natural). He again gets poetic: “Tadbeer wa amal dono zaroori to hai Raazi lekin; padta hai muqaddar pay duaon ka asar.” The poet has also received ‘khilafat’ from the late spiritual leader Hazrat Peer Abdul Ghafoor Bakhshullah Shah Ashrafi.

Known for his penchant for writing ’sehra’ (for bride and groom), friends and acquaintances throng to him with an invitation for marriage and a request for…More

TOI : PUNE: Be it on friendship, patriotism, ‘ishq-mijazi’ (love) or ‘ishq-e-haqiqi’ (divine love), Hakim Raazi Adeebi’s ’shayari’ or Urdu poetry is par excellence.

For Pune’s senior most and popular poet, shayari is an inseparable part of life. “Life is a poetry,” says the 88-year-old Unani practitioner in his 4×4 shop near Shivaji market in Pune camp.

So, what is it that brought out the shayar in you? Prompt came the reply: “Sukoone dil ka sahara mila na jab Raazi, to ikhtiyar ki ghabra ke shayari meine (On failing to find contentment of heart Raazi, so nervously I delved into shayari).

Recovering from his shayari mood, he says, “I have been fond of shayari since my school days at Yeola in Nashik district, where I was born in 1920. However, a chance meeting with my Ustad, Shaer-e-Hayat Hazrat Adeeb Malegaonvi, was a turning point in my life.”

Is Urdu Shayari losing popularity. Not at all, says he. In fact, Urdu Shayari is gaining popularity.

“It’s a wrong assumption that today’s generation is not interested in Urdu poetry. Shayari is being printed in the Devnagari script for those who can’t read Urdu. This itself goes to prove that it is becoming more popular.”

For Raazi, writing or saying a sher (couplet) only depends upon his mood and that there is no fixed time for that. Give him a subject and there he is ready with a sher.

“Sometimes, it is ‘ilhami’ (natural). He again gets poetic: “Tadbeer wa amal dono zaroori to hai Raazi lekin; padta hai muqaddar pay duaon ka asar.” The poet has also received ‘khilafat’ from the late spiritual leader Hazrat Peer Abdul Ghafoor Bakhshullah Shah Ashrafi.

Known for his penchant for writing ’sehra’ (for bride and groom), friends and acquaintances throng to him with an invitation for marriage and a request for…More

TOI : PUNE: Be it on friendship, patriotism, ‘ishq-mijazi’ (love) or ‘ishq-e-haqiqi’ (divine love), Hakim Raazi Adeebi’s ’shayari’ or Urdu poetry is par excellence.

For Pune’s senior most and popular poet, shayari is an inseparable part of life. “Life is a poetry,” says the 88-year-old Unani practitioner in his 4×4 shop near Shivaji market in Pune camp.

So, what is it that brought out the shayar in you? Prompt came the reply: “Sukoone dil ka sahara mila na jab Raazi, to ikhtiyar ki ghabra ke shayari meine (On failing to find contentment of heart Raazi, so nervously I delved into shayari).

Recovering from his shayari mood, he says, “I have been fond of shayari since my school days at Yeola in Nashik district, where I was born in 1920. However, a chance meeting with my Ustad, Shaer-e-Hayat Hazrat Adeeb Malegaonvi, was a turning point in my life.”

Is Urdu Shayari losing popularity. Not at all, says he. In fact, Urdu Shayari is gaining popularity.

“It’s a wrong assumption that today’s generation is not interested in Urdu poetry. Shayari is being printed in the Devnagari script for those who can’t read Urdu. This itself goes to prove that it is becoming more popular.”

For Raazi, writing or saying a sher (couplet) only depends upon his mood and that there is no fixed time for that. Give him a subject and there he is ready with a sher.

“Sometimes, it is ‘ilhami’ (natural). He again gets poetic: “Tadbeer wa amal dono zaroori to hai Raazi lekin; padta hai muqaddar pay duaon ka asar.” The poet has also received ‘khilafat’ from the late spiritual leader Hazrat Peer Abdul Ghafoor Bakhshullah Shah Ashrafi.

Known for his penchant for writing ’sehra’ (for bride and groom), friends and acquaintances throng to him with an invitation for marriage and a request for…More

TOI : PUNE: Be it on friendship, patriotism, ‘ishq-mijazi’ (love) or ‘ishq-e-haqiqi’ (divine love), Hakim Raazi Adeebi’s ’shayari’ or Urdu poetry is par excellence.

For Pune’s senior most and popular poet, shayari is an inseparable part of life. “Life is a poetry,” says the 88-year-old Unani practitioner in his 4×4 shop near Shivaji market in Pune camp.

So, what is it that brought out the shayar in you? Prompt came the reply: “Sukoone dil ka sahara mila na jab Raazi, to ikhtiyar ki ghabra ke shayari meine (On failing to find contentment of heart Raazi, so nervously I delved into shayari).

Recovering from his shayari mood, he says, “I have been fond of shayari since my school days at Yeola in Nashik district, where I was born in 1920. However, a chance meeting with my Ustad, Shaer-e-Hayat Hazrat Adeeb Malegaonvi, was a turning point in my life.”

Is Urdu Shayari losing popularity. Not at all, says he. In fact, Urdu Shayari is gaining popularity.

“It’s a wrong assumption that today’s generation is not interested in Urdu poetry. Shayari is being printed in the Devnagari script for those who can’t read Urdu. This itself goes to prove that it is becoming more popular.”

For Raazi, writing or saying a sher (couplet) only depends upon his mood and that there is no fixed time for that. Give him a subject and there he is ready with a sher.

“Sometimes, it is ‘ilhami’ (natural). He again gets poetic: “Tadbeer wa amal dono zaroori to hai Raazi lekin; padta hai muqaddar pay duaon ka asar.” The poet has also received ‘khilafat’ from the late spiritual leader Hazrat Peer Abdul Ghafoor Bakhshullah Shah Ashrafi.

Known for his penchant for writing ’sehra’ (for bride and groom), friends and acquaintances throng to him with an invitation for marriage and a request for…More