Pune: Senior election officials on Tuesday directed municipal commissioners to ensure that electronic voting machines (EVMs) used in the municipal corporation polls were handed over to district collectors within two days of the counting to ensure smooth conduct of zilla parishad (ZP) and panchayat samiti (PS) elections. SEC on Tuesday announced that voting to 12…
Pune: In this year’s civic elections in PMC and PCMC areas, a peculiar brand of confusion is playing out at the ballot box. It isn’t about conflicting party symbols or shifting alliances, but rather a clash of identical surnames.In several wards, voters are finding themselves staring at panels where rival candidates share the same family…
Pune: A private insurance firm officer (37) lost Rs 21.6 lakh in an online share-trading fraud in Nov last year.The Phursungi police registered a case on Monday. An officer from the Phursungi police said last year in Nov, the victim was added to a group of investors on a mobile messaging app. He was promised…
Pune: The court of additional sessions judge, D K Anbhule, at Vadgaon Maval on Tuesday convicted and sentenced 10 accused to rigorous life imprisonment for the murder of an elderly farmer couple and their son at their farmhouse in Dhamane village near Talegaon, about 35km from the city, in the early hours of April 25,…
Pune: Police on Tuesday visited the office of a private election campaign management firm in the city, providing its services to NCP. Naresh Arora, the firm’s founder, told reporters, “The police personnel sought details about what type of work is done in the office and what work pertaining to NCP is carried out. My senior…
Pune: Campaigning for the elections to the Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad civic bodies, along with 27 other municipal corporations of Maharashtra, ended on Tuesday after two high-voltage weeks marked by rallies, roadshows and door-to-door drives by aspiring corporators.The loudest talking point came from the NCP manifesto for Pune which promised free Metro and PMPML bus…
Pune: Most of the aspiring corporators have grand plans to develop the cities’ infra, including solutions to traffic congestions, but their rallies on the last day of electioneering stalled vehicular movement on several roads on Tuesday.Different parts of the city were chock-a-block in the afternoon because of a rally of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief…
Pune: An Akasa Air flight to Bengaluru was delayed by over four hours on Tuesday morning because of a technical glitch, leaving flyers seated in the cabin for around one-and-a-half hours before they were deboarded.The flight QP1312 was scheduled to take off from Pune at 8.50am and land in Bengaluru by 10.30am. A source said…
Pune: The defence lawyer, Milind Pawar, on Tuesday filed a written objection before a special MP/MLA court in the city against the court allowing new material to be introduced at the evidence stage, without it forming part of the original record, in an ongoing defamation case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.Satyaki Savarkar, the grandnephew of…
Pune: Residents of Gharpure Colony have been facing frequent and prolonged power outages since the Hinjewadi–Shivajinagar Metro Line 3 work began three years ago. The most recent outage, which started around midnight last Friday, continued for nearly 18 hours, causing hundreds of residents — many of them elderly — to suffer. The colony in Shivajinagar…
