The Sardar Dastur Nosherwan Girls’ High School organised its Annual Day.The chief guests for the first and second day were Sandhya Yannuwar and joint charity commissioner for Pune Division Rajni Kshirsagar, respectively.The annual report was presented. The annual prize distribution followed recognising exemplary students across academic and co-curricular domains. The evening’s zenith was the captivating…
Pune: The state govt on Friday admitted in the assembly that 387 of 913 mobile towers in Pimpri Chinchwad were illegal, but said it couldn’t act against them due to high court guidelines and provisions under the Maharashtra Telecom Infrastructure Policy.Industries minister Uday Samant was responding to a question raised by BJP MLC Amit Gorkhe,…
Pune: Industrialists from Pimpri Chinchwad met deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar during the ongoing winter session in Nagpur on Wednesday, urging the state govt to declare Kudalwadi an industrial hub.In Feb, the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) had conducted one of its biggest demolition drives, razing over 4,000 illegal scrap godowns and industrial units across…
Pune/Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Veteran Congress member and former Union home minister Shivraj Patil passed away after a brief illness at his residence in Latur district on Friday. He was 90.Patil is survived by son Shailesh, daughter-in-law Archana Patil, who is now with BJP, and two grandchildren. His family members said the veteran politician had been ill…
Pune: Seven gruelling hours and a minutely coordinated multi-agency effort led to the tranquilisation and safe capture of the adult male leopard at the city airport in the early hours of Friday. The operation was successfully carried out almost eight months after the animal was first spotted near the runway here. Forest officials said the…
Pune: The state revenue department has suspended 10 officials — four tehsildars, four circle officers and two talathis — after it was found that 90,000 brass (unit of volume used to measure quantity of minor minerals) was excavated in excess in an area reserved for afforestation in Maval taluka.Revenue minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule told the assembly…
Pune: A 24-year-old software engineer from Baner lost Rs69 lakh to cybercrooks in an online share-trading fraud between Aug and Sept this year. Similarly, four more victims from different parts of the city were duped by the cybercrooks on the promise of good returns on their investments in the share market. Collectively, five people lost…
Pune: A 45-year-old technical writer working with an IT company lost Rs25 lakh to an online task fraud in March this year. Additionally, three more victims fell prey to task frauds and collectively lost Rs25 lakh more to such crooks. Separate complaints have been registered in these cases with the Baner, Chatushrungi, Khadak and Chandannagar…
Pune: As many as 53 workers at Regional Mental Hospital staged a day-long protest on Friday demanding that the management take strict action against the contractor who they said had been paying them less than the stipulated minimum wages for the last eight years. They were supported by representatives of the Aam Aadmi Party-affiliated labour…
Pune: A sessions court in Pune granted bail to Hyderabad resident Oves Malik, one of the accused in a Rs 561-crore GST evasion case involving creation of fictitious entities without the supply of actual goods and services. The Directorate General of GST Intelligence’s Pune unit unearthed the alleged fraud and arrested Malik on Sept 13…
