Pune: A construction work supervisor was on Saturday arrested after the death of a young migrant worker a fortnight prior at a site in Punawale. The 18-year-old worker died after he fell from the 15th floor of an under-construction building on Dec 7, at which time the Ravet police had registered a case of accidental…
Pune: The Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has dominated the Phursungi-Uruli Devachi municipal council election, winning 19 of the 32 seats in play, when the results were announced on Sunday. Phursungi-Uruli Devachi went to the polls for the first time since it was formed following its demerger from Pune Municipal Corporation in 2024.NCP’s Mahayuti…
Pune: Residents of Pisoli, Undri, Mohammadwadi and NIBM Road have demanded basic dignity in the form of civic facilities before the upcoming Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) elections.Mohammadwadi-Undri Residents Welfare Development Foundation has highlighted the needs in a citizens charter. It includes a call for continuous supply of PMC water plus an end to the dependency…
Pune: Union home minister and senior BJP member Amit Shah’s instructions to party workers to ensure a victory from the Parliament to the panchayats is a target being taken quite seriously by the Maharashtra cadre. Once considered a party with an urban base, BJP has seemingly managed to expand its network into rural areas by…
Pune: This Christmas, there is a visible shift in decorations across Pune. Trees stand tall in malls, housing societies and living rooms, wrapped tightly in layers of light — but ornaments are sparse or even absent. The reasons are many — smaller urban homes, rising costs, changing aesthetics, global design influence and easier access to…
Pune: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has flagged serious gaps in the implementation of welfare and regulatory measures for building and other construction workers in Maharashtra, reporting poor registration, weak safety compliance and large-scale under-utilisation of funds between 2017-18 and 2021-22.In its report tabled on the last day of the state legislature’s…
Pune: Melissa Fernandes’ favourite time of the year is the weeks leading up to Christmas. She loves to sing, and feels that being part of the Christmas choir group at St Xavier’s church is a way to thank God for the blessings in her life.Behind the grandeur of the midnight mass hosted by churches across…
Pune: In a repeat of its performance in the assembly election a little over a year ago, the BJP-led Mahayuti registered a massive victory by winning the presidents’ posts in 207 of the 288 municipal councils and nagar panchayats that went to the polls in two rounds of the first phase on Dec 2 and…
Pune: Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Sunday proved his hold over Baramati, the Pawar family’s traditional stronghold, as the municipal council elections delivered a clear win for his faction of NCP in the first civic contest after the party split. The Ajit Pawar-led NCP won 35 of the 41 seats, the same as the…
Pune: At least 16 people, including two newly elected members from Jejuri Municipal Council, suffered minor burns after a fire broke out at the foothills of the Jejuri Gadh Tirthkshetra.“All of them sustained minor burns. They were discharged from the hospital after preliminary treatment,” Rajendrasingh Gaud, deputy superintendent of police of Bhor division, Pune Rural…
