Pune: Bhigwan Chowk is where party offices are in Baramati town. It is also where election victories are celebrated and losses are quietly dissected. Whatever the result, the chowk remains the epicentre of all political activity, and it has rarely ever looked as quiet as it did on Thursday, as Baramati prepared to bid farewell…
Mumbai: The BMC has proposed introducing a ‘Pay & Use’ system for six bio-toilets installed along the Mumbai Coastal Road, charging a Rs 5 user fee for men and women.The toilets are set up at six locations along the promenade. Civic officials said the user charge would discourage misuse and careless behaviour, while ensuring the…
Palghar: Police have arrested two men for allegedly stealing gold jewellery worth Rs 3.5 lakh from a senior citizen woman by offering to polish it. The accused, who run an eatery, approached Hansi Kundansinh Rautela (73) while she was shopping at Boisar vegetable market on the eve of Makar Sankranti, said deputy superintendent of police…
Pune: The State Election Commission (SEC) on Thursday rescheduled polling for 12 zilla parishads and 125 panchayat samitis across the state to Feb 7 from the earlier Feb 5 schedule, following the death of deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar in a plane crash in Baramati on Wednesday morning. The counting of votes has also been…
Mumbai: Observing that no material is found on record to prima facie indicate the complicity of the accused in siphoning funds from the bank, the Bombay High Court on Tuesday granted bail to Abhimanyu Bhoan (45), former chief executive officer of the New India Co-operative Bank Ltd, a year after he was arrested in connection…
Navi Mumbai: A 58-year-old man from Panvel, working as an accountant with a private firm, was duped of Rs 1.3 crore by a four-member gang of cyber fraudsters. They contacted him on social media and told him that his life insurance policy maturity was due. To get returns, they made the victim transfer money to…
Mumbai: Bombay High Court on Wednesday said gangster Abu Salem can be given four days of parole leave excluding travel time, but he would have to pay for police escort charges. Justices Ajey Gadkari and Shyam Chandak were hearing Salem’s petition for 14 days of parole to travel from Nashik prison to Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh…
Mumbai: The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Customs on Tuesday arrested a duo for attempting to smuggle 1.5 kg of 24-karat gold dust worth Rs 2.1 crore at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport.The accused have been identified as Vikram Bane (29), a staff member employed with HRPL, and Mohammad Morshedul Alam (27), a Bangladeshi…
MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has expanded the newly created ‘Blue Category’ of industries by including eight additional services that support the circular economy. The category was introduced by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in February 2025 to ease documentation and fast-track approvals for essential environmental facilities.The CPCB classifies industries into Red,…
MUMBAI: “Even as generations, curricula and technology have evolved, Balbharati’s textbooks have retained their emotional connect and educational value”, said education minister Dada Bhuse while inaugurating the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of the Maharashtra State Bureau of Textbook Production and Curriculum Research (Balbharati).Speaking at a function held at Bal Gandharva Rangmandir in Pune, Bhuse said several…
