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…
Pune: The garbage crisis in Loni Kalbhor and neighbouring villages along the Pune-Solapur Highway, roughly 20km from the city, intensified on Wednesday after MIT-ADT students blocked trash-laden trucks from entering the illegal dumping ground on the Mula-Mutha riverbed behind the campus through the institute’s gate. The students’ move followed years of administrative inaction, especially after…
Pune: The traffic police have taken strict action against motorcyclists over the last one week for using illegal modified ‘ silencers and horns and increasing noise pollution in the city.Action was initiated against 2,822 riders during the special drive. Additional commissioner of police Manoj Patil said, “We have seized and removed 900 modified silencers fitted…
Pune: The court of additional sessions judge MG Chavan on Feb 26 rejected the anticipatory bail plea of a jeweller accused of receiving stolen ornaments worth nearly Rs16 lakh, observing that his custodial interrogation was necessary as the jewellery involved in the crime was yet to be recovered. The jeweller had sought relief apprehending his…
Pune: Doctors at a private hospital in the city have successfully treated a nine-year-old boy battling hyper IgE syndrome (a rare primary immunodeficiency) and Burkitt lymphoma (an aggressive blood cancer).The case presented a clinical dilemma. The boy’s pre-existing immunodeficiency meant his body could not fight infections, yet the aggressive nature of Burkitt lymphoma required intensive…
80 students among 111 Pune residents back from Dubai (Uma Kadam/ TOI) PUNE: A total of 111 residents from Pune district, including students stranded in Dubai due to the ongoing US-Israel-Iran military conflict, have safely returned home, the district administration confirmed on Wednesday. Authorities said that 184 residents from Pune were initially stuck in the…
Pune: Flyers desperate to return home from countries in West Asia amid the ongoing conflict are paying exorbitant airfares on flights arranged for them by different airlines. Bibvewadi resident Kiran Oswal and his family, who returned to Mumbai on Wednesday morning from Fujairah near Dubai on a SpiceJet flight, paid Rs41,000 per one-way ticket for…
Pune: The civic body during a drive on Wednesday demolished at least 18 illegal constructions spread over 78,000 sqft in the Lohegaon and Nagar Road areas. These razed structures included concrete ones as well as tin sheds, with both residential and commercial properties targeted. As per a statement issued by Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) officials,…
Pune: The Sahakarnagar police have booked four individuals for allegedly cheating 16 people of Rs35.55 lakh by promising permanent jobs for their special children in the Indian Railways.According to the police, the accused collected between Rs1.5 lakh and Rs2.5 lakh from each victim between July 2025 and February this year, but failed to secure any…
Pune: The PMC has finalised 34 sites near Metro stations for parking and the work at four places has started. “A joint committee of the PMC (Pune Municipal Corporation) and Metro officials carried out a survey of the possible sites, after which these locations were finalised. The sites are on all the three lines of…
