Pune: Armed dacoits looted gold jewellery worth Rs 52 lakh after threatening the store owner in Shewalwadi near Hadapsar on Saturday evening.The store owner lodged a complaint with the Manjari police on Sunday who registered a case against the five suspects. The shop is located on Pune-Solapur highway. Around 5.30pm on Saturday, four suspects entered…
Pune: Deputy chief minister and Pune guardian minister Ajit Pawar on Sunday said neither the state nor the Union government was at fault for the city’s civic problems, blaming the local leadership of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) instead for failing to resolve civic issues.Pawar was speaking at the ‘Vijayi Sankalp Sabha’ in Balewadi, organised…
Pune: In an interesting twist, although there was an infinitesimal decrease in people’s interest to buy registration numbers of their choice, the bid for digits that would adorn number plates was evidently high — a direct increase in revenue for the RTO.In 2025, until November, vehicle owners bought 48,808 choice numbers against 48,798 in the…
Pune: The election department on Saturday declared Jayashree Bhondave, an aspirant from ward 16B in Ravet-Kiwale are under Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, as the official NCP candidate and allotted her the party’s clock symbol following a hearing conducted by the municipal commissioner in compliance with a high court order.Bhondave approached the court after poll officials…
Pune: Haze, low humidity, and moisture incursion are driving hotter days and warmer nights in Pune and surrounding areas, according to officials from the India Meteorological Department (IMD).On Sunday, several parts of Pune recorded high minimum temperatures. Shivajinagar saw a low of 14.8°C, which was 4.5°C above normal. Pashan recorded 15°C, about 3.7°C higher than…
PUNE: Nationalist Congress Party leader Amol Balwadkar on Sunday delivered an emotional and combative address at the Vijayi Sankalp Sabha organised for PMC Ward No 9 in the Pashan, Sus and Baner area, highlighting what he termed as betrayal by the local BJP leadership and reaffirming his resolve to fight back through the democratic process.Balwadkar…
PUNE: The state transport department has so far received nearly 1 crore applications for affixing High Security Registration Plates (HSRP) in vehicles registered before April 2019 across MMR and the rest of the state.While over 73 lakh vehicles have now been fitted with the new special registration number plates, the remaining are expected to be…
Pune: The Cantonment police have filed a case against a former corporator and NCP candidate from Hadapsar and three others on charges of extortion and abetting a realtor’s death by suicide on Saturday evening. Preliminary police investigation revealed the four men and other suspects were involved in a property dispute with the victim, and were…
Pune: As many as 21 former corporators elected to Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation in 2017 switched political parties and are now seeking votes from the same electorate under different party symbols in the upcoming civic elections, adding to voter confusion.The turmoil within political alliances, especially following the splits in the NCP and the Shiv Sena,…
After three years without corporators, the civic body elections are scheduled to be held on Jan 15 — less than two weeks away.Life without corporators has had its advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, residents have learned to coordinate with the civic body themselves to get issues within their wards resolved. But on the…
