Pune: The month of Dec has brought the familiar transformation of local markets, as streets and lanes in Camp, Budhwar Peth, and Bohri Ali have been taken over by stalls stacked with Christmas trees, ornaments, and decorative lighting. From compact tabletop trees to boxes of baubles and coils of fairy lights, the city’s traditional shopping…
Pune: The Nanded City police on Friday registered a case against two teachers of a govt-run school for children with disabilities for beating up and abusing a 32-year-old teacher due to work-related issues on Dec 8.The victim lodged a complaint with the police.The school is located in Dhayari.Senior inspector Atul Bhos of the Nanded City…
Pune: The civic body claims that its appeal to stray dog feeders in the city to share details of feeding spots has received 125 responses in five days. On the flipside, several animal welfare workers in the city pointed out that Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) chequered history in stray management and lack of transparency about…
Pune: The airport police registered a case under relevant provisions of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act against a Kharadi-based software engineer (28) when he attempted to fly out from Lohegaon Airport with a trivial amount of marijuana around 8.30pm on Thursday.Senior inspector Govind Jadhav of the airport police told TOI, “The techie…
Pune: Online fraudsters, posing as a manager and officials of a public sector bank, siphoned off Rs 2.6 lakh from the bank account of an Aundh-based woman (69) in March.The crooks sent her a remote access software link under the pretext of updating her KYC. The woman registered a complaint application to the Pune cyber…
Pune: Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande, Jaipur-Atrauli gharana’s stellar vocalist, brought the curtains down on the third day of Sawai Gandharva Bhimsen Mahotsav at Maharashtriya Mandal grounds in Mukundnagar on Friday.She recited raga Jog, a slow composition in the 10-beat Jhap taal and a sprightly tarana in the 16-beat Teen Taal, and raga Bageshree followed by Bhairavi for…
Pune: Parts of Madhya Maharashtra experienced coldwave conditions on Friday and Saturday, with several locations reporting minimum temperatures in single digits. India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday indicated that these chilly conditions would likely persist over the next few days, although a slight rise in temperatures was expected in view of shifting wind patterns.IMD data…
Pune: The National Green Tribunal’s western zone bench in Pune has allowed construction at a real estate project in Baner to continue but ordered monitoring by the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board to ensure there are no further violations of noise and dust pollution norms.The bench, comprising justice Dinesh Kumar Singh (judicial member) and Dr Sujit…
Pune: Will fly or won’t fly — flyers are perplexed about their future travel plans with IndiGo flights still being cancelled.Camp’s working professional Kanishka Agarwal is worried about his mid-January IndiGo flight to Bengaluru, booked in November. “Pune airport posts information about cancelled flights on its social media handle a day before the scheduled departure…
Pune: The city’s huge day-night temperature swing is fuelling a sharp rise in pneumonia and bronchitis, medical practitioners told TOI on Saturday. Most cases last winter involved common cold and cough.Dr Rajeev Adkar, pulmonologist at Ace Hospital, said, “We are seeing patients with upper respiratory infections, mostly viral. So far, we haven’t encountered pneumonia cases,…
