With the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation elections 2026 approaching, the Bharatiya Janata Party formally launched its campaign in Ward No. 25 with a padayatra in Punawale Gaothan. The march began at the Kal Bhairavnath Temple and passed through Borge Wada, Oval Vasti and the Savatamali Temple area before concluding at the Punawale Highway Chowk. The campaign…
MUMBAI: When S Krishnan, Secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, inaugurated the PARAM SHAKTI supercomputing facility at IIT Madras earlier this month, it marked more than the launch of a machine. It signalled a maturing phase in India’s scientific infrastructure — one where scale, sovereignty and scientific ambition are beginning to converge.At…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court has enhanced the interim maintenance payable to a woman by her estranged husband, saying it cannot be presumed at this stage that she was earning without any proof.Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma observed in a recent order while dealing with a woman’s plea challenging a family court order granting her monthly…
Pune: The civic administration’s preparations for the Jan 15 polling are in full swing. Voting for Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will be held at 4,011 polling stations spread across 41 wards. Additional municipal commissioner Omprakash Divte said poll campaign would end at 5.30pm on Jan 13. As Makar Sankranti is on Jan 14, a close…
In an exclusive pre-poll interaction with the Times group on Friday, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis spoke on a range of subjects. Excerpts:Q: The Thackeray cousins questioned your right to speak about Mumbai saying you were not born here.A: Who understands Mumbai? One of the great names that comes up is the late Balasaheb Thackeray, but…
NEW DELHI: Two months after a blast near the Red Fort injured over 30 people, 10 survivors said the promised compensation has still not reached them.Among them is 28year-old Ankush Sharma, a gold and silver craftsman, who lost an eye and suffered multiple injuries to his ear, head and legs. He continues to receive treatment…
Pune: Andhra Pradesh has a “double engine bullet sarkar”, which has attracted Google data centre, IBM quantum computer and ArcelorMittal-Nippon steel plant among the key investments, said Nara Lokesh, state minister for IT, electronics, communications and human resources development, on Friday.“Quite a few states have double engine govts. We have a double engine bullet sarkar….
Image Used For Representational Purpose Only MUMBAI: Three members of a family, including a 19-year-old woman and a 12-year-old boy, died after a fire broke out in a residential structure at Bhagatsingh Nagar in Goregaon (West) in the early hours of Saturday.According to the Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB), the fire was reported at around 3.06…
New Delhi: Delhi High Court on Friday sought the response of Directorate of Education (DoE) and lieutenant governor on a batch of pleas by several minority schools challenging the constitutional validity of a law mandating govt approval for fee hikes. A bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and justice Tejas Karia issued notice to the…
Pune: A public interest litigation (PIL) has been filed in the Bombay high court challenging the State Election Commission (SEC)’s practice to declare candidates elected unopposed without any polling in wards where only one valid nomination remained, saying it violated voters’ constitutional and fundamental rights.Filed by Pune-based social activist Dnyaneshwar Bajirao Darwatkar, the PIL comes…
