Pune: The Bhimashankar temple will remain closed for three months for devotees starting January 9 as the district administration is set to carry out renovation works. However, the temple will remain open during the Maha Shivaratri period from February 12 to 18.District collector Jitendra Dudi, in an official statement, said that the decision was taken…
Pune: The National Green Tribunal‘s (NGT) Pune bench has allowed 56 appeals filed by stone quarry units against an order of the Gujarat State Environmental Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA), which had rejected the environmental clearances granted to them.In its Jan 1, 2025 order, the SEIAA cancelled the clearances issued by district-level EIAAs, stating that the…
Pune: The execution of recovery warrants issued by Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority (MahaRERA) remains sluggish across the state, with just a third of the total amount due to homebuyers recovered so far.Official data as of last week shows that against Rs 791.55 crore to be recovered in 1,287 complaints, authorities have realised only Rs…
Pune: Water supply to parts of the Kothrud-Karvenagar and Baner-Balewadi areas remained affected for the second straight day on Saturday as repairs continued overnight to fix a damaged 1,000mm pipeline. Pune Municipal Corporation completed the repairs on Saturday morning, following which supply resumed to the Warje and Holkar water supply units. However, distribution of water…
Pune: A retired govt officer’s two trysts with cyberfrauds within a span of a month ended on two different notes — bitter and some solace.A group of cybercooks turned him into a pauper in a digital arrest fraud in Oct. A month on, another criminal with the same objective guided him to the Cyber police…
Pune: A magisterial court in Paud on Saturday remanded the Mundhwa land’s power of attorney (PoA) holder, Sheetal Tejwani, in 14-day judicial custody in the stamp duty waiver case. Deputy commissioner of police, Pimpri Chinchwad, Vishal Gaikwad told TOI, “Tejwani was produced before the magisterial court and was remanded in judicial custody.” She was later…
PUNE: Arrested gangster Bandu, alias Suryakant Andekar, went to the Bhavani Peth ward office on Saturday to file nomination for the PMC polls but could not complete the process in the absence of requisite papers.His daughter-in-law, Sonali, and sister-in-law Laxmi, also went to the same ward office. They, too, could not submit their nominations.Kalyan Pandhare,…
Pune: Years go by, the PMPML’s bus breakdown trend doesn’t change — rather the scenario worsens.According to the transport utility’s figures, a total of 20,345 bus breakdowns of various kinds were recorded between Jan and Nov this year. The number for the same period last year was 19,446. The PMPML (Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited)…
Pune: A private driver, Akash Vishnu Dodke (35), was arrested by the Phursungi police on Saturday early morning for strangling his wife to death late on Friday night at their rented home in Bhekrainagar in Hadapsar.Senior inspector Amol More of Phursungi police said, “Dodke walked into the Hadapsar police station late on Friday night and…
Pune: A two-year-old son of an autorickshaw driver was successfully treated at a city hospital after being brought in an extremely critical condition with a rare and life-threatening combination of complications, including a perforated appendix, doctors said.The boy was admitted to Sahyadri Hospitals’ MomStory on July 2 with a rare and severe combination of a…
