Pune: Residents of civilian pockets under the jurisdiction of the Pune and Khadki cantonment boards have expressed concern over the prolonged delay in exercising their democratic right to vote as there has been no progress in the proposed merger of these areas with local municipal bodies nor has there been an official word on election…
Mumbai: Govt departments and public authorities owe the BMC more than Rs 3,000 crore in property tax dues and the civic body has managed to recover only Rs 243 crore from them over the past five years, information shared by the BMC under the Right to Information (RTI) Act has revealed.The data was provided by…
New Delhi: Govt has ordered a probe into the case of an Air India Express pilot allegedly beating up a passenger at Delhi airport’s Terminal 1 on Friday. The two had a spat after which Captain Virender Sejwal allegedly assaulted passenger Ankit Dewan. Why no one, including CISF personnel posted at the entrance, intervened when…
Pune: The Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS) has launched an Artificial Intelligence (AI)–driven community screening programme for diabetic retinopathy (DR).The nationwide initiative will cover retired military personnel, their dependents, and the civilian population, with an emphasis on early diagnosis and timely treatment. The programme will initially be rolled out across eight major cities, including Pune,…
Mumbai: In the 1920s, when municipal corporator and civil engineer Muncherji Edulji Joshi, initiated a housing project for Parsi families in Dadar, his vision was to construct a model neighbourhood with two-storey buildings, large open spaces and gardens around them.A century later, redevelopment has slowly crept in into this verdant residential enclave popularly known as…
New Delhi: Observing that there exists “a prima facie case against the accused,” a Delhi court on Dec 19 ordered the framing of charges against Congress functionary Alka Lamba in connection with a protest at Jantar Mantar demanding implementation of women’s reservation in Parliament before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Additional chief judicial magistrate (ACJM)…
Pune: Senior Congress leader and Pune’s former deputy mayor Aba Bagul on Saturday joined Shiv Sena with his family members and supporters in the presence of deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde in Thane, serving a jolt to the grand old party’s city unit ahead of civic polls.Welcoming him to Shiv Sena, Shinde said Bagul was…
With a pair of thick glasses perched on his nose, Comrade Prakash Reddy, 75, peers out of the glass wall of his third-floor office. “The skyline has completely changed. Malls and residential towers have replaced mills and their chimneys, which dotted Parel and neighbouring areas,” sighs Reddy, a senior member of the Communist Party of…
New Delhi: Delhi Police arrested two men from Jaipur for allegedly creating a fake Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) website and cheating job aspirants.The accused were identified as Kuldeep, 30, a B.Com graduate pursuing a second-year LLB and his associate Piyush, 25, a B.Tech graduate in computer science. Police investigation revealed that the scammers advertised…
Pune: The Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) is likely to earmark an outlay of around Rs 6,000 crore soon for land acquisition for the proposed Purandar airport, sources in the state govt told TOI on Saturday. The Pune district administration has already sent the proposal, and the file is in the final stages of clearance,…
