Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has achieved record-breaking property tax collection in the first quarter of the 2025-26 financial year.This is largely due to the effective use of data from its “City Hub for Data Communication” (CHDC) project.In the first 90 days, the PCMC has collected Rs522 crore towards property tax, which is…
Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Tuesday refused to interfere with the state govt’s decision to set up a memorial for late Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray at the mayor’s bungalow in Shivaji Park.“We do not find that any valid ground of challenge is made out…” said Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Sandeep Marne,…
New Delhi: Delhi govt has directed the labour department to make necessary changes in laws to allow women to work night shifts, but only with their consent.Officials said the directions were issued during a meeting chaired by lieutenant governor VK Saxena, which was also attended by chief minister Rekha Gupta, some of her colleagues in…
Pune: The state’s public works department (PWD) received a mere Rs 9,068.49 crore in the supplementary budget tables on Monday, barely 20% of the Rs 46,000 crore required to clear pending contractor dues, despite the department requesting Rs 20,000 crore to address urgent infrastructure needs and mounting liabilities.The supplementary budget, totalling Rs 57,509 crore, was…
Mumbai: With the monsoon picking up, the city reported 884 malaria cases last month, nearly double of June 2024’s 443 cases, shows BMC’s data. Chikungunya saw a concerning jump—from zero to 21 cases in the same period.According to the BMC data, Mumbai recorded 105 cases of dengue and 936 of gastroenteritis last month. Doctors said…
New Delhi: Along with the Jessica Lal and Nitish Katara murders, the killing of Priyadarshini Mattoo formed a triumvirate of cases that revealed the dark underbelly of India’s criminal justice system.It wasn’t just the severity or brutality of the crime but the way the court trials were delayed and botched, witnesses threatened to turn hostile…
Pune: State public works department’s (PWD) officials told TOI on Tuesday that their revamped Pothole Complaint Redressal System (PCRS) app has ensured that around 90% complaints are addressed, two months after it was overhauled.Out of 498 complaints received as of June 2025, 458 were resolved, and only 40 remain pending, said PWD officials. The data…
Kolapur: Maharashtra’s school education improved in 2023-24 compared to the previous year, according to the Union ministry of education’s Performance Grading Index (PGI) report for 2023-24. Kolhapur district claimed the top spot in Maharashtra in learning outcomes in the Centre’s PARAKH Rashtriya Sarvekshan report released on Tuesday and it also secured the first rank among…
New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has reinstated its in-house entrance exam, JNUEE, for its two academic programmes; Korean Studies Programme under School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies (SLL&CS) and Cinema Studies Programme under School of Arts and Aesthetics (SAA). “All Deans have accepted this process and it is signed by them. It is…
Pune: The Bombay high court has directed a five-member expert committee, appointed on June 26 last year, to submit within two months a report to state govt on the issue of replacing the demarcations of flood lines in 2017 development plan for Pune city and superimpose them with those demarcated in the maps, dated March…
