Amid skyrocketing prices of tomatoes across the country, a farmer in Maharashtra's Pune district claimed to have earned more than ₹2.8 crore by selling tomatoes. Ishwar Gayakar (36) and his wife, who hails from Pune's Junnar taluka, do not intend to stop at this. The farmer couple has set a target to earn ₹3.5 crore with a stock of around 4000 crates of tomatoes available with him. Gaykar is farming since 2005. He took over farming from his father and now he works at his farm with his wife. Other than tomatoes, Gaykar also cultivates onions and flowers in respective seasons.
17 July,2023 05:20 PM IST | Mumbai
'Shelf Life' is a weekly series that explores the reading culture in Mumbai. In part three, Mid-day.com visits Nallasopara resident Kuldeep Kolhe, who has his book stall near the Vasai West railway station and has seen several hardships in his life. When the first one struck during the recession 14 years ago, he found his true calling in selling books. Now, despite pandemic setbacks, the 39-year-old continues finding hope in the printed page.
16 April,2022 01:23 PM IST | Mumbai
A group of conmen dupes a family on pretext of selling medicine to cure a family member whose left side is paralytic for past three years. Shyam Mende along with his son and daughter-in-law has been taking care of his wife Vandana who is bed-ridden for past few years. In the hope that her condition might improve their fell into a trap set by Tukaram Shinde and his group paid Rs 83,000 for false ayurvedic medicine. Police also refused to co-operate citing reasons that itu00e2u20acu2122s not case of fraud. Story & Video BY u00e2u20acu201c Debarati Palit,MiD-DAY, Pune
06 October,2010 12:00 PM IST
MiD DAY's Bhupen Patel and Shubha Shetty-Saha posed as a childless couple looking to buy a baby. Within a week, this woman (a cook at an orphanage) sold them a 6-day-old boy.
18 December,2014 10:31 AM IST
Two MiD DAY reporters posed as a couple and approached the syndicate operating out of the innocuous, even respectable, setting of an orphanage for disabled kids in the far suburb of Ulhasnagar. At the end of the seven days, a six-day-old male child was sold to the undercover scribes for Rs 2.30 lakh, with zero paperwork and no waiting time.
18 December,2014 05:57 PM IST
Two MiD DAY reporters posed as a couple and approached the syndicate operating out of the innocuous, even respectable, setting of an orphanage for disabled kids in the far suburb of Ulhasnagar. At the end of the seven days, a six-day-old male child was sold to the undercover scribes for Rs 2.30 lakh, with zero paperwork and no waiting time.
18 December,2014 08:52 PM IST
Two members of a gang of people who killed fruit bats, and allegedly sold their meat and oil extracted from them saying it can be used to cure asthma and joint pain, have been arrested
08 September,2017 09:38 AM IST
Chef Akshay Parkar was enjoying a fancy job in international luxury cruises and five-star and seven-star hotels. However, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Akshay Parkar was fired from his organisation where he had worked for 8 years. Now the Mumbai based Chef Akshay Parkar sells biryani at a roadside stall in Dadar West. Check the video to know more
05 December,2020 04:50 PM ISTADVERTISEMENT
