Pune: The district administration has imposed a strict Dec 10 deadline for contractors to complete road upgrades along the 436-km route designated for the Pune Grand Cycle Tour 2026. Any delay beyond this date will incur a hefty penalty of Rs1 lakh per day.The international cycling event, slated for Jan 19 to 23 next year,…
Mumbai: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has started inspecting stores to check if cough syrups and other medicines are being sold without a prescription in Maharashtra. FDA officials said 88 sellers have been ordered to immediately stop the sale of medicines, while 107 sellers have been issued show-cause notices asking why their licences should…
New Delhi: The same smog that clouds Delhi’s skyline may also be clouding the body’s defences. Doctors have warned that air pollution is quietly turning immune systems against their own bodies, fuelling a surge in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) cases across NCR.At the 40th annual conference of Indian Rheumatology Association (IRACON 2025), being held from Oct…
Pune: The Baba Bhide bridge is set to reopen for vehicular movement from 6am to 11pm from Saturday to manage Diwali rush in Peth and Deccan Gymkhana areas.Officials from Maha Metro said the decision to reopen the bridge for vehicles for the next few days was taken in a joint meeting held recently to discuss…
Mumbai: An unidentified pedestrian died after being struck by a speeding car on Eastern Express Highway near Kamraj Nagar underpass in Ghatkopar (E) on Tuesday night.According to the FIR, the incident took place between 9.30pm and 9.45pm near Garodia Nagar autorickshaw stand. When a police team reached the scene, they found a crowd gathered and…
New Delhi: A massive power blackout on April 28 caused disruptions in the metro networks in Spain and Portugal, impacting hundreds of trains and lakhs of passengers. At the time of the sudden blackout, 230 trains of Metro de Madrid were running, affecting 1,50,000 passengers. As many as 44 trains stopped in tunnels, prompting a…
Pune: Two PMPML buses got stuck on Thursday morning on a newly concreted stretch of Sinhagad Road, leading to traffic diversion and slow movement of vehicles.The incident occurred at Hingne Chowk, near the landing of the Wadgaon Budruk-Hingne flyover, where recent work to shift power utilities had concluded. Following the utility relocation, the contractor had…
Mumbai: School education minister Dadaji Bhuse on Thursday announced that Marathi language and the state anthem, ‘Jai Jai Maharashtra Maza’ will be made mandatory in all schools across Maharashtra, including those affiliated with CBSE, ICSE, Cambridge, and international boards.Bhuse, during a joint meeting of school principals, board coordinators, and education officials, further said that students…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee (CEC) has approved a proposal to build a museum-cum-research and socio-cultural centre in the institutional area of Vasant Kunj. The site falls inside the morphological ridge, which has similar physical and ecological features as the officially designated ridges and is granted the same level of protection.The committee…
Pune: The draft voter list for the upcoming elections to zilla parishads, panchayat samitis, nagar parishads, and nagar panchayats in the state was published on Oct 8 Voters can now check if their names are included in the draft list by visiting https://mahasecvoterlist.in. The state election commission has set July 1, 2025, as the cut-off…
