Yo-Yo -- Pune

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE

Keeping track of this week's snakes and ladders' score
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Leaders, With the life of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj being captured in 11 life-size oil paintings and displayed at the Lal Mahal and the institution of the Lokmaya Tilak Museum at the Tilak wada in Narayan Peth - a storehouse of information on Tilak's life and times. The youth could do with lessons on valour based on the lives of these great men.

Health, As an estimated five lakh children, under the age of five, were administered oral polio drops in the Pune district in the second phase of the nation-wide Pulse Polio campaign.

Jyotsna Bhole, The stage luminary and well-known singer noted for her bhav geet, who was presented with the Lata Mangeshkar Award instituted by the Cultural Affairs Department.

Environment, That received a shot in the arm thanks to the Pune Municipal Corporation's (PMC) endeavour to renovate existing public gardens in the city and open seven new ones. A concrete example of its efforts is the beautiful artificial waterfall created at Kawdewadi in place of the ditch that had existed earlier. From waste to hip, eh?

Students, With the Maharashtra State Junior College Teachers' Federation withdrawing its 42-day-old strike, bringing a ray of hope in the lives of those appearing for their HSC examinations, since 20 per cent of their syllabus is yet to be completed. For once, everyone's happy to return to the grind.

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The shiv chhatrapati sports complex at balewadi, That had one of the saddest birthdays for a five-year-old on January 16. There were no celebrations for the stadium that was inaugurated with such fanfare in 1994 but which already looks neglected, decrepit and aged.

Safety and security, A woman travelling by an auto-rickshaw had her necklace, valued at Rs 27,000, snatched at a junction by a man following her on a motorcycle. Thieves broke into a flat at Pradhikaran, and made off with cash and valuables worth Rs 31,500. Sixty-five-year-old R. Singhania was murdered in his flat in the Kalpataru Housing Society. Eight members of the Arun Gawli gang thrashed five jail staffers at the high-security Yerawada Central Prison. A parcel bomb exploded at the Vallabhnagar ST bus stand, injuring two ST employees. Who are we trying to compete with? Chicago?

Railway commuters, Who had to spend a long night on the Solapur Railway Station platform as their Bangalore-bound Udyan Express was stranded there for 12 hours due to a bomb hoax. Lack of metal and explosive detectors ensured that combing the compartments took a record amount of time.

Buffaloes, Who have lost their daily bath pond at the quarry near the B J Medical College, with the PMC's imminent plans to convert the quarry into a lake garden and introduce boating there. Water, water everywhere not a drop to bathe?

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