Pune: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is looking to open its account in all major municipal corporations and will go solo in the civic polls expected to be held in Jan 2026.The move comes nearly 15 years after AAP launched its Maharashtra chapter.AAP is a member of the INDIA bloc at the national level. While Congress,…
Pune: Police are looking for an employee of a jeweller from Pune Camp, who fled with gold worth Rs 6.4 lakh on Dec 5 at Bhosari. The jeweller lodged a complaint on Tuesday.An officer from the Bhosari police station said that on the night of Dec 5, the complainant and his employee were travelling on…
Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday cleared sewerage projects worth Rs 1,209.08 crore for 27 villages within the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) limits under a revised administrative approval. The works, cleared under the urban development centres, will benefit a population of 39.42 lakh, officials said.An official said Fadnavis chaired a PMRDA meeting…
Pune: In a significant move toward transforming amputee rehabilitation in the country, Vice Admiral Arti Sarin, director general of the Armed Forces Medical Services (AFMS), on Thursday announced that all armed forces medical hospitals will soon adopt a protocol to fit prosthetic limbs within two days of amputation.Speaking at a two-day Continuing Rehabilitation Education (CRE)…
Pune: A Special Passport Mobile Seva Kendra will be set up at the Fergusson College campus from Dec 13 to 20, during the Pune Book Festival.Visitors to the festival 2025 will be able to apply for passports without having to visit the Regional Passport Office (RPO).The facility – set up by the RPO, Pune, under…
Pune: Following the Goa nightclub fire incident on Dec 6 that left 25 dead, the police here have issued an advisory for restaurants, clubs, and event venues, while the city fire brigade has urged establishments hosting parties to comply with conditions of the no-objection certificate (NOC) they issue. Pune city fire brigade chief Devendra Potphode…
Pune: Business executives are postponing scheduled meetings and resorting to virtual conferences amid the IndiGo flight crisis. Some businesses have drawn on their experience of the pandemic to make the switch more quickly and effectively. The move to avoid travel will continue until the situation normalises, said many corporate officials. Given a choice, air travel…
Pune: The Maharashtra state registration department has issued a final order directing Amadea Enterprises LLP, in which deputy CM Ajit Pawar‘s son, Parth, is a partner, to pay a Rs 21-crore stamp duty shortfall in the registration of the controversial sale deed relating to a govt land parcel at Mundhwa in the city. The department…
PUNE: After months of remaining elusive, the fully grown male leopard, which was sighted multiple times at the Pune airport since April this year, was finally caught in the wee hours of Friday by a joint team of forest department and RESQCT members.Forest officials said that the carefully planned operation was assisted by the personnel…
Pune: The state prosecution on Thursday told a magisterial court that police were investigating possible cash transaction between arrested power of attorney (PoA)-holder Sheetal Tejwani and other accused in the Rs300 crore Mundhwa land parcel deal after a scrutiny of her bank account showed no entries related to the declared consideration for the land. Tejwani…
