Pune: The Maharashtra govt has outlined an expansive roadmap to strengthen Marathi cinema. The plan includes establishing new film cities in Nagpur and Nashik as also policy reforms to improve access, affordability and infrastructure for filmmakers and audiences.The announcements were made by Prashant Sajnikar, joint managing director of the Maharashtra Film, Stage and Cultural Development…
Pune: Life followed a simple, rhythmic pattern for Aman, a student at a govt school in Mumbai. Every afternoon after school, he would walk straight to his mother’s fruit cart. His mother worked as a street vendor, earning just enough to keep their small household running. Aman would sit beside her, helping arrange the fruits…
Pune: The Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), partnering with the Maharashtra government, is holding an industry consultation workshop at YASHADA today under the PM SETU initiative. Over 50 companies from sectors like construction, textiles, automobiles, FMCG, electronics, oil and gas, and renewable energy will participate. MSDE secretary Debashree Mukherjee will lead the event…
PUNE: Electronic voting machines (EVMs) used in the recently concluded municipal elections will be redeployed for the upcoming zilla parishad (ZP) and panchayat samiti (PS) polls across 12 districts. The State Election Commission (SEC) has directed that the memory cards from these machines be removed and secured in govt treasuries before the equipment is handed…
Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said Mumbai would have a consensus “Mahayuti” mayor and downplayed the Shiv Sena‘s move to shift its newly elected corporators to a five-star hotel, ruling out the possibility of poaching.“Just like I am meeting newly elected BJP corporators in Pune, Eknath Shinde may have called them for a…
PUNE: Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Saturday met his uncle Sharad Pawar at their hometown Baramati and both decided to continue the alliance of the two NCP factions for the zilla parishad and panchayat samiti elections scheduled to be held on Feb 5, sources said.This development, which came despite the alliance’s disastrous performance in…
BJP, with Shinde support, dethrones Thackerays from BMC & 2 other bastions PUNE: Not just Mumbai, BJP wrested two other cities — Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and Thane — close to Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray from the Thackerays as the party reaped gains in alliance with the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena, while Congress won maximum seats…
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad police on Saturday registered a case against a man (53) on the charge of thrashing a medical practitioner for lodging a complaint against the former man with the police.The victim (40), a resident of Bhamboli village, sustained injuries on his face, hands and legs. After being treated at the hospital, he…
PUNE: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) now faces the challenge of finalising mayoral candidates for PMC and PCMC following its spectacular performance in the civic polls. With several senior corporators eyeing the prestigious posts, the party is navigating a “problem of plenty”. In the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), the BJP secured a dominant 119 out…
PUNE: It will be a tightrope walk for deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar after the municipal corporation election results, as his party is most likely to be forced to play the role of opposition in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad civic bodies while being part of the Mahayuti govt in Maharashtra.Going solo, BJP managed to get…
