Science pointed the way. Legs carried it through. A routine VO2 max test — a measure of how efficiently body uses oxygen under increasing workload — redirected Army runner Sawan Barwal from track to marathon. Two years later, it delivered a national record, erasing a 48year-old mark.Barwal, 28, a havildar, clocked 2:11:58 on his marathon…
Group Seeks Reforms In Institute’s Functioning Pune: Alumni of ILS Law College have written to its chairman, seeking urgent reforms in the functioning of the institution amid allegations of illegal fee collection, suppression of students’ protests, lack of transparency and serious governance lapses.The letter, dated April 23, 2026, comes amid the ongoing fee row at…
Pune: Cybercrooks duped a retired engineer (66) from Salunke Vihar of Rs 1 crore after promising him handsome returns on investing in share-trading between Dec last year and Feb.After verifying his complaint, the Pune cyber police registered an FIR on Monday.According to the police, the complainant came across an advertisement about investing in stock market…
PUNE: In a costly bid to recover losses of a share-trading scam, a private firm employee (57) again fell prey to another purported global investment platform and lost another Rs 51 lakh between Oct last year and Feb.The resident of Rupinagar in Pimpri Chinchwad lodged an online complaint application. After the preliminary investigations, a case…
Pune: Extreme heat with 42-47°C in parts of Maharashtra has begun scorching vegetable crops in the fields, with farmers and grower groups warning of steep production losses and a likely surge in prices.Reports from districts such as Amravati and Akola indicated that standing vegetable crops are unable to withstand the prolonged heat stress, leading to…
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has formed two special squads to disconnect the water supply of housing societies that have failed to make their sewage treatment plants (STPs) operational despite repeated notices.The move came a day after Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) chairman Siddhesh Kadam announced a statewide audit of housing societies and…
Pune: Two boys, aged 12 and 8, drowned in a farm pond at Ballalwadi in Junnar taluka, about 95 km from Pune, on Tuesday.The bodies were brought out from the pond by a rescue team and Pune Rural police. They were later sent for post-mortem. The deceased have been identified as Soham Navale (12) and…
Pune: Several trains on the Pune-Mumbai route and to other destinations were rescheduled or delayed by hours on Tuesday morning under the cascading effect of the derailment of CSMT-Solapur Vande Bharat Express near Pune Junction station on Monday evening.Hemant Kumar Behera, the divisional commercial manager and PRO of the Pune rail division, said as many…
Pune: Sangvi police on Sunday recovered collectively 74kg of ganja worth Rs 37 lakh from Patethan village of Daund taluka after the arrest of an accused on April 16 from Sangvi.The police caught the accused, Ganesh Chavan, 30, of Shirur, with 14kg of ganja in the Sangvi area on April 16. During the custodial interrogation,…
Pune: Senior district administration officials on Thursday said the land acquisition process for the proposed Purandar airport would probably miss the state govt’s May-end deadline, citing two reasons.First, the compensation package is yet to be finalised. Second, Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC)’s funds disbursal is progressing slowly.The MIDC has so far released Rs400 crore. It…
