Pune: The civic administration is preparing to set up over 4,000 polling stations across 41 wards for the municipal elections. The preliminary voters’ list for these wards includes 35.51 lakh electors, and each polling station is expected to accommodate around 900 to 1,000 voters.Pune Municipal Corporation’s election department has already begun the process of finalising…
Navi Mumbai: Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation organised a lecture titled ‘Economic Democracy and Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar’ delivered by senior economist Dr Ajit Ranade on Saturday at the Bharat Ratna Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Memorial in Airoli. Dr. Ranade said democracy is a way of life and economic democracy means equality of opportunities, highlighting educational reforms, land…
New Delhi: Two prominent journalists’ organisations in central Delhi were targeted with bomb hoax alerts on Saturday, triggering a large-scale emergency response involving police, fire services and specialised bomb squads. Delhi Fire Services received calls reporting bomb threats at the Delhi Union of Journalists (DUJ) near Shankar Market in Connaught Place at 1.11pm, and at…
Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is set to recruit 25 specialist doctors for Kamala Nehru Hospital to address persistent manpower shortages and the inability of existing staff to meet patient needs. To counter the low response from specialists caused by previous salary structures, the civic body has announced a drastic hike in remuneration. Pune…
Thane: Commuters travelling on Ghodbunder Road must brace themselves for at least another week of traffic nightmares as multiple civic and utility projects continue simultaneously across key stretches between Manpada, Patlipada and Ovala, with service road concretisation work near Gaimukh scheduled to drag on until the end of Dec.DCP of traffic, Pankaj Shirsat, urged motorists…
New Delhi: Chief minister Rekha Gupta on Saturday participated in a washing and cleaning operation on Ring road at Khyber Pass Chowk. This was the first time the entire stretch was washed as part of an anti-pollution campaign. CM took part in sweeping and water-sprinkling efforts, describing the initiative as a measure against persistent dust…
Pune: Vimannagar residents on Saturday criticised the organisers of a religious event held on Thursday after a key internal road was blocked for several hours, triggering massive traffic congestion during peak evening hours.Residents said the stretch between Datta Mandir and Kailash Super Market Chowk — an arterial link used by many commuters — came to…
Mumbai: A fire broke out at a ground-plus-one godown in Lakdawala Bazaar in Nagpada on Saturday evening. The incident was first reported to the Mumbai Fire Brigade (MFB) at 7:40 pm.Based on initial information, the blaze was confined to the two-storey storage unit. The MFB declared a Level-I call at 7:56 pm but quickly escalated…
Norms Had Sought To Limit Duty Hours For Pilots NEW DELHI: Govt has put on hold the new flight duty time limitation (FDTL) norms for pilots with “immediate effect for now” and expects normalcy in IndiGo operations to be restored by Dec 15.The aviation ministry’s decision came Friday when over 1,000 IndiGo flights – more…
Pune: NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday ruled out the possibility of an alliance with Ajit Pawar’s NCP for the PMC and PCMC polls in a meeting with the party’s Pune unit chief, Prashant Jagtap.Jagtap held a meeting with Pawar at the latter’s Pune residence on Saturday. “I presented my point of view over…
