Pramod Patil

Services on the Konkan railway route were suspended late on Wednesday after a high-end sports car belonging to Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) MLA Pramod Patil rammed into the railing of an over-bridge crashed onto the railway tracks on the Diva-Panvel route.

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) MLA Pramod Patil on Wednesday warned the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) to remove hawkers from outside Dombivli station on Wednesday.

In a wake up call for the forest department, only 11 Great Indian Bustards (GIBs) were sighted in the state during the daylong census on Sunday.

An alert local and a railway staffer helped avert a major tragedy on Wednesday night after a ‘speeding’ Ford Mustang owned by MNS’ Kalyan MLA Pramod Patil fell off a bridge and landed on the railway tracks, right in the path of oncoming outstation trains at Nilje village, near Shilphata, Dombivli.

The GRP has been unable to trace an SRPF constable who abandoned his service weapon at CST and fled last week, apparently afraid of taking up his new posting in the Naxal-affected Gadhchiroli region.

With spurt in active Covid cases in the last one week, the NMMC has decided to invite applications for temporary recruitment of experienced medicos and healthcare workers to cater to Covid patients on a contract basis.

The Bombay high court on Wednesday restrained the state from publishing the final merit list of in-service doctors for PG medical courses.

The Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) on Tuesday wrote to the Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC), the watchdog of the medical profession, to take further action against NeuroGen Brain & Spine Institute in Seawoods, for commercially providing stem cell therapy to children with autism.

Karnataka Rashtra Samiti (KRS) president Ravi Krishna Reddy was arrested by Mandya police in Pandavapura on Thursday as he tried to barge into Pandavapura tahashildar’s office along with his party workers, to hold a sit-in dharna alleging that the taluk administration is corrupt.

A traffic police constable sustained serious injuries after a car hit his motorcycle at Reclamation near Bandra-Worli Sea Link on Saturday. The person driving the car, Dhondiram Chauhan (38), has been arrested for rash and negligent driving.

A 17-year-old youth succumbed to the injuries sustained when he came under the wheels of a rashly-driven truck in Manjari near Hadapsar on Saturday afternoon. The truck driver was arrested for rash driving.

Three people have been booked by the Kolhapur police under various sections of Child Marriage Prevention Act, 2007.The suspects include the youth, who had married the 13-year-old girl, his mother and the minor’s mother.

A former manager and a cashier of a credit society’s Kamothe branch have allegedly misappropriated Rs 32.19 lakh from 101 bank accounts.

NMMC intends to file a caveat in the Bombay HC seeking to be heard on a possible appeal filed by NeuroGen hospital.

City-based ornithologist Pramod Patil, who was recently awarded the prestigious Whitley Award popularly dubbed the ‘Green Oscar,’ has managed to raise £52,000 for the conservation of the Great Indian Bustard.

Environmentalists have expressed concern over the lack of ideal breeding sites for the Great Indian Bustard in the Nannaj sanctuary in Solapur district, which they say, has contributed to the rapid decline in the number of the critically endangered bird.

Former Maharashtra Navnirman Sena MLA Pramod Patil criticized the state government for the delay in completing the Palava Rail Over Bridge (ROB) project started in 2018. He questioned why the work on the Nilje ROB for the Dedicated Freight Corridor was completed promptly while Palava ROB remains unfinished, alleging financial issues and involvement of shell companies causing delays.

Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation acted against illegal constructions in Titwala. KDMC demolished two houses on Nadap Road and other structures in Shantabai Nagar. Locals protested, but police controlled the situation. Ward Officer Pramod Patil curbed illegal construction in Ward A. Patil took charge a few months ago. He acted against hundreds of illegal constructions.

The annual fest of Central India College - Manthan 2015 - saw a large number of students participating in a variety of cultural events staged during the course of the affair.

The Bombay Natural History Society scientist Dr Pramod Patil has won the Whitley Award for his research project on conservation of the Great Indian Bustard.

City-based ornithologist Pramod Patil has been conferred the prestigious Whitley Award, popularly called the ‘Green Oscar’, for his work on the conservation of the critically endangered Great Indian Bustard.