Pune: The proliferation of encroachments across city areas and the lack of impact of sporadic action taken against them has sparked a multitude of reactions in citizens. TOI speaks to those affected.Illegal stalls have caused traffic congestion as well as accidents at Bhakti Shakti Chowk. Multiple attempts by the Pune Municipal Corporation to relocate hawkers…
New Delhi: Delhi govt has approved the creation of nine posts of wildlife inspector in the Department of Forests and Wildlife, a major step to strengthen wildlife conservation and enforcement in the city.Until now, Delhi had only one sanctioned wildlife inspector, posted at the department’s headquarters. The absence of dedicated inspectors in the four field…
Pune: Just as restaurants and hotels in the city were beginning to stabilise operations amid recent LPG supply disruptions, a fresh challenge has hit them — prolonged load shedding in the last two to three days following unseasonal rain.Across several parts of the city, commercial establishments have reported daily power cuts lasting three to five…
NEW DELHI: Delhi-NCR woke up to cloudy skies on Friday, with a dust storm sweeping parts of the region. Delhi had recorded a maximum temperature of 36.8 degrees Celsius on Thursday, 2.8 notches above the seasonal average, while the minimum settled at 18.9 degrees Celsius. The weather department has predicted thunderstorms accompanied by rain on…
Pune: Fifteen revenue officials, including three deputy collectors, have been sent on compulsory leave in the district following a govt probe into illegal manipulation of land records. The investigation flagged 13 “very serious” instances where ownership was illegally changed through the misuse of Section 155 of the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code (MLRC).Confirming the move, Pune…
3 held for repackaging, selling expired food in Delhi (Representative image) NEW DELHI: Delhi Police have busted a racket in Dwarka involving the repackaging and circulation of expired food and beverage products, arresting three men and seizing a large stock of items from multinational brands with tampered manufacturing and expiry dates, officials said on Friday….
Pune: Large parts of Pimpri Chinchwad have been grappling with a power crisis over the past few days, with repeated outages fraying nerves. Anger is simmering in areas like as Akurdi, Nigdi, Pradhikaran and Wakad, where residents say the constant power cuts are disrupting daily life.For many, the outages have been long, sudden and unforgiving….
AAP leader Raghav Chadha hugs Arvind Kejriwal (PTI, file photo) NEW DELHI: The fault lines within the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have burst into the open, with senior leaders publicly taking aim at Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha in an unusually sharp and direct escalation a day after the party removed him from the deputy…
Pune:Nearly 50 passengers travelling to Dubai from the city were in a bind on Wednesday after their flight was delayed, allegedly without any information, for more than seven hours.Hadapsar resident Shravan Surase, who was going to the emirate to rejoin work, said the SpiceJet flight, which was scheduled to take off from Pune at 8.50pm…
Image Used For Representational Purpose Only NEW DELHI: Delhi Police has filed an FIR following a complaint by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) alleging that certain social media handles of influencers, possibly in collusion with insiders, circulated content intended to “create distrust and harm the organisation’s reputation”. Police have written to…
