Pune: Transporters will halt operations across the city from Thursday, claiming that the new rule of the e-challan system is flawed. Passenger buses, office transport vehicles, and trucks will not ply, while autorickshaws and taxis will continue operations. School bus and van transporters stated they were unlikely to take part in the protest as examinations…
Pune: The Rs16,000-crore proposal to widen the Pune-Mumbai expressway into a 10-lane superhighway is undergoing a third-party appraisal before it’s tabled before the state cabinet for final approval, senior officials of the MSRDC said.The officials said Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) was examining the proposal. Once it submitted the report, the project would be placed…
Pune: A total of 676 motorists were nabbed in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad for driving under the influence of alcohol on the occasion of Holi.The Pune city police and the Pimpri Chinchwad police conducted a special drive on Tuesday to intercept drunk drivers. Deputy commissioner of police (traffic), Pimpri Chinchwad, Vivek Patil, told TOI, “We…
Pune: Citizens will have to answer all 33 questions enumerators will ask them during their doorstep visits in the first phase of Census 2027, starting from May 16 this year in the state. The queries based on living conditions, amenities and asset ownership will encompass house listing and housing operations. As many as 2.6 lakh…
Pune: The second hearing in Amadea Enterprises LLP’s appeal against the stamp duty demand in the Mundhwa land transaction has been rescheduled for March 9, as the earlier scheduled date of March 3 was a govt holiday, registration department officials said on Wednesday.Amadea Enterprises LLP — in which Digvijay Patil and Parth Pawar, son of…
Pune: The founder of city-based contemporary-experimental choirgroupEnsembleSahanaad, AabhaSaumitra, has curatedan ode toIndian novelist, essayist and poet Amrita Pritam, who wrote in Punjabi and Hindi (1919-2005), to presentonInternational Women’s Day on March 8. The revolutionary poet-novelist emboldened women for generations to come. Herworksexplored love and loss,as also desire, betrayal, displacement,violenceand survival often related to the partition…
Pune: Multiple recent seizures of high-end hydroponic weed at the city airport have seemingly prompted smugglers to try another trick to fox the authorities.On March 3, the air intelligence unit of Pune Customs recovered 745 packets of such weed concealed in one of the lavatories of an Air India Express aircraft, after the flight landed…
PUNE: With India cementing its position as the global capital for diabetes mellitus, the arrival of GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) receptor agonists — a class of injectable medications — has been hailed as a breakthrough for millions.GLP-1 is a natural hormone in the body that helps regulate appetite and blood sugar and the effectiveness of these…
Pune: A farmer (32) and his accomplice were arrested on Monday on the charge of killing the former’s cousin by deliberately ramming his car into the victim’s motorcycle over a property dispute.The Pune rural police identified the deceased as Mahesh Laxman Sathe of Bhavrapur in Haveli taluka. The cousin of the deceased Akshay Dashrath Sathe,…
PUNE: Four people suffered injuries after a heavy steel lattice beam collapsed during a Holi party at a private event venue in Mundhwa, off North Main Road, on Tuesday afternoon.“Over 1,000 people, mostly youngsters, had gathered for the party from various parts of the city. Just a few people were near the steel lattice beam…
