Pune: Numerous prime city localities faced disruptions in water supply on Friday after PMC’s 1,000mm pipeline, which brings water from Khadakwasla dam to the Holkar and Warje water units, developed a breach in Karvenagar on Friday night. The areas affected include Kothrud, Paud Road, Baner-Balewadi, Bavdhan, and Pashan. Pune Headlines Today — Key Stories You…
Pune: Amid complaints of rising air pollution levels across the city, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board has asked the Regional Transport Office (RTO) to monitor heavy vehicles violating emission norms. The pollution regulator also asked Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) to take various anti-pollution measures, such as increasing the frequency…
Pune: Two days after resigning from NCP (SP), former Pune mayor Prashant Jagtap on Friday joined Congress in Mumbai in the presence of party’s state unit chief Harshvardhan Sapkal and other senior members, including Vijay Wadettiwar and Mohan Joshi.Speaking to media persons after his induction, Jagtap refused to comment on his exit from NCP (SP)…
Pune: Chinchwad MLA of the BJP Shankar Jagtap on Friday said the party will release its first list of candidates for the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) elections on Sunday. Jagtap, who is also the BJP’s election in-charge for PCMC, said the local unit had submitted the final list of aspirants to the state leadership….
Pune: A special MCOCA court has allowed gangster Suryakant alias Bandu Andekar, his daughter-in-law, Sonali Vanraj Andekar, and his sister-in-law, Laxmi Udaykant Andekar, all arrested in the Sept 5 murder of his grandson, Ayush Komkar (18), to file their nomination papers on Saturday with police escort for the upcoming PMC elections.Special judge SR Salunkhe noted…
Pune: A special POCSO court in the city convicted and sentenced a farmer to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a nine-year-old Std IV school girl known to his family, on Aug 28, 2020, in Shirur.The court of special judge Mahendra K Mahajan on Dec 19 primarily relied on the medical evidence and stated,…
Pune: A city activist has said Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) should make its data more accessible and transparent, even as the varsity skirted the matter over access to public records.President of Sajag Nagrik Manch Vivek Velankar filed an RTI seeking implementation of a general administration department (GAD)’s 2018 circular that requires public authorities to…
Pune: The Regional Provident Fund (RPF) commissioner, Pune, in a quasi-judicial case, directed the Sinhagad Technical Education Society (STES) to remit Rs120.9 crore in the provident fund (PF) accounts of the society’s employees for the default period from March 2014 to Dec 2018.The amount is to be remitted within 60 days from Dec 17 when…
Pune: Former BJP corporator Uday Joshi (64), who was lodged in Yerawada Central Jail following his arrest in a cheating case last year, died while undergoing treatment at the Sassoon General Hospital on Friday morning. Joshi and his son were arrested in Dec 2024 on the charge of allegedly cheating people of over Rs1 crore…
Pune: Senior politicians of the Shiv Sena on Friday intensified their demand for a larger share of seats in the alliance with BJP for the upcoming Pune Municipal Corporation elections, particularly in the Wadgaon Sheri assembly constituency.During a news conference held at the party’s contact office in Yerawada, Sena sub-city organiser Uddhav Galande said the…
