<p>Thane: Social activist Pushpa Agashe passed away in a hit-and-run case in Thane on Thursday.</p><p>Agashe, 73, was returning from her morning walk when a vehicle hit her, police said. She was taken to the hospital and was declared dead on arrival.</p><p>Police are looking for the vehicle based on the CCTV footage in the area, an official said.</p>.One killed, BJP state secretary among 4 injured in UP's Raebareli hit-and-run case.<p>She worked for 28 years with the Department of Atomic Energy and had received DAE's best employee award for 2008.</p><p>She was working for awareness about eye donation since 1981 with her husband Shreepad Agashe. She was also actively involved in promoting organ donation, skin donation and body donation.</p><p>Incidentally, her eyes were donated successfully, courtesy help from doctors at Sahiyara Eye Bank, at the Thane civil hospital where her body was brought after the accident.</p>.<p>On retirement, she devoted her energy to helping blind students. Over the last decade, she was active in the drive to reuse plastic waste and limiting plastic use.</p><p>She was also involved in looking after abandoned children. She was an active member of the widely successful “Dhanya Bank” which supports under privileged people with food grains.</p><p>She also played the role of Sadhana Amte in Samruddhi Pore-directed film "Prakash Vaata" which had Nana Patekar in the lead role.</p><p>Pushpa Agashe is survived by husband, two sons, including PTI journalist Ashish Agashe, two daughter-in-laws and a grandson. </p>
<p>Thane: Social activist Pushpa Agashe passed away in a hit-and-run case in Thane on Thursday.</p><p>Agashe, 73, was returning from her morning walk when a vehicle hit her, police said. She was taken to the hospital and was declared dead on arrival.</p><p>Police are looking for the vehicle based on the CCTV footage in the area, an official said.</p>.One killed, BJP state secretary among 4 injured in UP's Raebareli hit-and-run case.<p>She worked for 28 years with the Department of Atomic Energy and had received DAE's best employee award for 2008.</p><p>She was working for awareness about eye donation since 1981 with her husband Shreepad Agashe. She was also actively involved in promoting organ donation, skin donation and body donation.</p><p>Incidentally, her eyes were donated successfully, courtesy help from doctors at Sahiyara Eye Bank, at the Thane civil hospital where her body was brought after the accident.</p>.<p>On retirement, she devoted her energy to helping blind students. Over the last decade, she was active in the drive to reuse plastic waste and limiting plastic use.</p><p>She was also involved in looking after abandoned children. She was an active member of the widely successful “Dhanya Bank” which supports under privileged people with food grains.</p><p>She also played the role of Sadhana Amte in Samruddhi Pore-directed film "Prakash Vaata" which had Nana Patekar in the lead role.</p><p>Pushpa Agashe is survived by husband, two sons, including PTI journalist Ashish Agashe, two daughter-in-laws and a grandson. </p>