Pune: Cybercrooks duped a private pharmacy college principal (44) of Rs77.6 lakh between Dec 2024 and July on the pretext of a technical manager’s job in a pharmaceutical company in the Netherlands.A case was registered with the Wakad police on Monday and later transferred to the Pimpri Chinchwad cybercrime police for further investigations.Assistant police inspector…
Thane: As incessant rainfall continued to batter Thane district, traditional Ganpati idol makers in Majiwada bore the brunt of waterlogging and poor drainage, with several workshops reporting significant damage to clay idols and substantial financial losses.Sachin Narvekar, an artisan whose family has been in the idol-making business for nearly 80-90 years, said his workshop near…
New Delhi: Families and friends of the four colleagues who lost their lives in Monday’s blaze at an electronic store in west Delhi sat outside the mortuary at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital on Tuesday with tear-streaked faces, bound by their collective grief.Payal, 19, the youngest victim of the fire, was one of five sisters who…
Pune: Nearly 20,000 of 39,500 National Health Mission (NHM) employees, which include 1,500 from Pune district, began an indefinite strike across Maharashtra on Tuesday over what they called state’s failure to implement a govt resolution on regularisation of posts.The strike is organised under the banner of the ‘NHM Integration Committee, Maharashtra’, with multiple health workers’…
Navi Mumbai: Commuters are expressing frustration as Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) has not opened the Rs 190-crore bus depot despite its completion a year ago. The existing Navi Mumbai Municipal Transport (NMMT) bus depot at Sector 9-A, Vashi, was shut down in October 2019 for the construction of a terminal, forcing commuters to queue…
New Delhi: The wall collapse near the Vasant Kunj metro station on Aug 9, which caused a portion of the Mahipalpur-Mehrauli Road to cave in, has led to a traffic nightmare for commuters. Locals claimed that since the Delhi Metro has not yet repaired the damaged portion of the road, traffic has been re-routed onto…
Pune: Rain activity picked up over Maharashtra on Tuesday as the well-marked low pressure system over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a depression and moved inland over south Odisha.The system, which formed off the north Andhra Pradesh–south Odisha coast on Monday evening, lay centred over south interior Odisha by Tuesday morning and was likely…
Mumbai: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday unveiled the official logo for the Ganesh festival. Last month, the govt declared the 10-day festival as “Rajya Mahotsav” (official state festival).The logo, with a saffron background, has an outline of the map of Maharashtra in yellow, a depiction of Lord Ganesh in red atop a pole, and…
New Delhi: Delhi University has decided to retain the rule requiring student candidates in the upcoming Delhi University Students’ Union (DUSU) elections to furnish a Rs 1 lakh bond, despite strong objections raised by sections of the student community. Senior officials said that the clause could not be withdrawn as it was introduced through an…
(Photos by Gitesh Shelke being mailed to desk by him, also posted on TOI Pune app)Pune: Chaos erupted on Sinhagad Road again during Tuesday’s peak morning hours as a road contractor began barricading work, sparking a massive traffic jam. Residents gathered at Vitthalwadi Chowk to protest the PMC’s plan to install dividers, which they claimed…
