Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad police on Thursday announced traffic diversions from midnight till 8pm on Sunday in Talegaon, Dighi, Chakan and Alandi areas in view of vote counting for the local body elections.According to the plan, vehicular movement will be restricted between Jijamata Chowk and Talegaon Station Chowk. Additionally, vehicles will not be allowed from…
PUNE: The Sanay Chhatrapati Shasan Party will contest the upcoming municipal corporation elections independently in all 29 civic bodies across Maharashtra, party national president Prof Namdeorao Jadhav said on Tuesday. The party will go to the polls with the agenda of “making cities like Singapore” and will field candidates for all 165 seats in the…
PUNE: The human–wildlife conflict in Maharashtra has reached alarming proportions, with crop losses caused by wild animals exceeding Rs 10,000 crore annually and incidents of loss of human lives on the rise, Rajya Sabha MP Prof Dr Medha Kulkarni said in the Upper House on Tuesday. She urged the government to implement concrete and immediate…
PUNE: Praj Industries Limited takes immense pride in sharing that the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay has inaugurated a newly reconstructed, state-of-the-art dining facility at Hostel 4, named in honour of Dr. Pramod Chaudhari, Founder Chairman of Praj Industries and a distinguished alumnus of IIT Bombay from the B. Tech, 1971 Batch.With a seating…
Pune: Three people, including an Army officer from Pashan, collectively lost Rs 11.33 lakh to separate online RTO challan frauds between Dec 5 and 15.Complaints were registered with the Chatushrungi, Sinhagad Road and Chinchwad police stations on Wednesday.An Army officer (49) from Pashan received a challan link on Dec 15. When he opened the link,…
Pune: A day after deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde‘s brother, Prakash, refuted the opposition’s allegations that he had links to the drugs manufacturing unit recently busted in Satara by Mumbai police, Shiv Sena (UBT) deputy leader Sushma Andhare on Thursday called Prakash’s claim a lie and sought an inquiry to probe his role in the…
Pune: State Election Commissioner (SEC) Dinesh Waghmare has directed district administrations and police authorities to enforce stringent preventive measures to ensure peaceful polling and counting during the upcoming municipal council and nagar panchayat elections across the state on Dec 20 and Dec 21.Waghmare issued the directions after video conferences with district collectors, police commissioners, superintendents…
Pune: A special MP/MLA court in Pune on Thursday allowed Satyaki Savarkar’s plea to submit two pen drives containing Rahul Gandhi’s speech as evidence in the ongoing defamation case against the Congress leader. Satyaki, the grandnephew of Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, filed the defamation case over the alleged objectionable remarks made by the Congress…
Pune: The Narendra Jadhav Committee, constituted to review the three-language policy in Maharashtra, is likely to submit its final recommendations by Jan 4, 2026, following the conclusion of public consultations across the state.The committee was formed in the wake of criticism over a proposal to mandate Hindi as a third language under the National Education…
Pune: Chancing upon an incomplete, ‘kachcha’ dirt road amid an otherwise smooth concrete stretch in a prime city area may just mean you’ve stumbled upon a ‘missing link’.Today, areas falling under Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) limits host 678 such missing links spanning across 459km, all mired in different stages of completion. By definition, this piece…
