Pune: As voting day nears, citizens’ groups are releasing their manifestos detailing their demands to make sure that when corporators are elected, they know exactly what their wards want. The residents want to ensure that they get the basics, before any more development is considered.Every corner of the city is echoing similar demands — adequate…
E ward’s political landscape is as layered as its geography. Over the decades, it has elected corporators from the BJP, Congress, Shiv Sena, Samajwadi Party and hyper-local outfits like the Akhil Bharatiya Sena, founded by gangster-turned-politician Arun Gawli. Its electoral history reflects a culture of personal connection over party loyalty. The Jadhav family — Yamini…
NEW DELHI: For the first time this millennium — except the Covid blip and 2008 economic downturn — Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) did not see its passenger footfall grow on a year-on-year basis in 2025.Last calendar year (CY), IGIA handled about 7.8 crore passengers — almost the same as the number in CY…
Pune: Excitement is at its peak in the 23 merged areas that are witnessing their maiden PMC polls. At least three former sarpanch, four zilla parishad members, and former chairpersons of panchayat samitis from these areas jumped into the ring, all with a common agenda of development of their areas long deprived of basic civic…
MUMBAI: The State Election Commission (SEC) is of the view that prima facie, the action of the Colaba returning officer (RO) Krishna Jadhav who did not allow the AAP and Janata Dal candidates to file their nominations on Dec 30, 2025 was legally sound and followed the rules, sources said. However, the SEC has sought…
New Delhi: A 45-year-old tea-seller died on Thursday after a large branch of a peepal tree fell on him during a pruning operation by Public Works Department (PWD) in west Delhi’s Naraina Vihar. A case of negligence has been registered.The victim, Mukesh, a native of Bihar, was residing in Naraina village. He is survived by…
Pune: The untimely death of a 25-year-old BHMS student in a Jalna two-wheeler accident on Dec 29, 2025, broke his family’s heart, but they gathered the strength to consent to organ donation that not only allowed a Pune patient to breathe on his own again, but gave lives to six more ailing people in various…
MUMBAI: In the first stay in the ongoing city corporation elections in the state, Bombay HC Thursday put on hold the poll process for Ward 17A in Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) after a BJP candidate, Nilesh Bhojane, challenged the rejection of his nomination form on Dec 31, reports Swati Deshpande.A Shiv Sena candidate had…
New Delhi: Delhi is set to flip the page again as the World Book Fair returns with its 53rd edition. Entry to the fair is free for all for the first time in its history.From Jan 10 to 18, Bharat Mandapam will transform into a universe of ideas, stories and debates, bringing together readers, writers,…
Pune: District collector Jitendra Dudi has directed concerned departments to carry out micro-level planning to ensure rider safety and smooth conduct of the international Bajaj Pune Grand Tour cycling race scheduled to be held from Jan 19 to 23 in Pune.Dudi chaired a high-level review meeting on Thursday and said the success of the race…
