Pune: The civic body has decided to halt the implementation of its latest tree census following strong objections over rising costs.The decision was finalised during a standing committee meeting of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Thursday after elected members raised concerns regarding tender estimates. “The members questioned the rates quoted by the private contractor…
Pune: A five-member delegation from Maharashtra, led by state Chief Electoral Officer S Chockalingam, has been selected as international observers for the elections to the Congress in Colombia, scheduled on March 8.The selection is under the Election Commission of India‘s Global Engagement for Electoral Excellence (GEEE) initiative, which aims to study international best practices in…
PUNE: India’s summer heatwaves — the humid, suffocating kind that impact more than dry heat — are not just getting more frequent, but also more intense through a now-identified specific atmospheric chain reaction.Scientists traced the trigger to Rossby atmospheric wave patterns originating near Europe’s west coast.A Jan 2026 study by scientists from India Meteorological Department…
Pune: State minister Uday Samant on Thursday informed the legislative council that the govt will carry out a comprehensive investigation into alleged irregularities in the fire brigade department of the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC). He stated that the inquiry will be conducted by an officer senior to the municipal commissioner, and strict action will…
Pune:The Pune regional provident fund (PF) commissioner, Amit Vashist, has directed the Pune Zilla Parishad (ZP) to remit Rs1,084 crore to the PF accounts of 9,015 anganwadi workers engaged by the latter between Oct 1986 and March 2024.The amount determined has to be deposited within 60 days in the PF accounts of employee-wise details annexed…
Pune: Subhasis Das, Managing Director and Cluster President of Alfa Laval India Pvt Ltd, has been appointed Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) Pune Zonal Council for 2026–27. The announcement was made at the 26th Annual Meeting held on February 25, the industry body said in a statement.At Alfa Laval, Das has been…
Pune: A joint team of the state health department and the Pune crime branch on Wednesday bust an alleged illegal foetal sex determination activity by a BAMS (Ayurveda) practitioner at a private hospital in Shirur taluka of Pune district.The authorities took action under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994…
Pune: The state govt on Wednesday appointed Abhijeet Chaudhari, the municipal commissioner of Nagpur Municipal Corporation, as the new commissioner of Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA).A 2011-batch IAS officer, Chaudhari takes charge at a crucial time when PMRDA is executing major infrastructure projects aimed at easing congestion in the city’s fast-growing IT and manufacturing…
Pune: The long-delayed “missing link” project on the Mumbai–Pune Expressway is now 98% complete, with the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) aiming to inaugurate the stretch on May 1 — Maharashtra Day.Senior MSRDC officials confirmed on Tuesday that the April 30 deadline for civil works remains unchanged. Replying to a starred question in the…
Pune: A parking nightmare has started unfolding around the Pune Municipal Corporation’s Shivajinagar headquarters over the past two weeks, with a swarm of illegally parked vehicles virtually seizing the roads surrounding the old and new PMC buildings, causing severe congestion in the area during peak hours.Vehicular traffic began surging after the civic body resumed full-scale…
