Pune: A 24-year-old woman died, while her husband and 4-year-old son sustained injuries after a truck hit their scooter around 3.30pm on Sunday at Varale village in Khed taluka.The North Mahalunge police identified the deceased as Laxmi Sidrayamma Swami of Khed taluka. Her husband, Sidramayya Swami (32), and son, Shreyash (4), suffered injuries in the…
Pune: Both night and day temperatures climbed sharply across the city on Tuesday, making it the hottest day of the year so far, even as air quality deteriorated following Holika Dahan bonfires, as per Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology’s (IITM) Air Quality Early Warning and Decision Support System. According to India Meteorological Department (IMD), Shivajinagar…
Pune: Ongoing tensions in the West Asian region have spiked worries for city-based exporters and traders, with sending of cargo to Dubai and Abu Dhabi completely halted for the last three or four days. As of Tuesday, traders said the situation is still volatile, with direct and regular flights from Pune to the United Arab…
Pune: While thousands of Indian nationals are stranded in various countries of West Asia amid the ongoing conflict, the travel embargo turned into a deep personal tragedy for 25-year-old Pankaj Phadtare, a resident of Daulatnagar in Satara district. The young seaman with a shipping firm, who happened to be in the UAE for work when…
Pune: Unabated tensions in West Asia on Monday prompted a number of Indian nationals stranded in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar and other countries to anxiously await the resumption of flight operations. Many said they are living in continual fear as the conflict shows no signs of halting just yet. Flight operations partially resumed…
Pune: Mundhwa police have registered a case of trespassing and unlawful assembly against 150 people after they entered PMC’s land in Keshavnagar and started building hutments in the last three days. A Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) official (38) from Hadapsar lodged a complaint in this regard with the police on Saturday. Pune: Dubai-Abu Dhabi Flights…
Pune: The term ‘mohalla’ implies a close-knit, locality-based social unit according to its definition. A key cog in the machinery of urban governance, this unit is central to the decades-old practice of ‘mohalla committee’ meetings — which in turn serve as an occasion for regular and direct contact of citizens with civic officials.But this end-of-each-month…
PUNE: Wadgaonsheri residents have raised pressing cleanliness and waste management concerns during a meeting with PMC deputy commissioner Avinash Sakpal, who heads the solid waste management (SWM) department. The interaction on Friday last week, conducted at the Nyati Meadows Clubhouse, was attended by Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) officials and members of the Clean Wadgaonsheri Group…
PUNE: In the first reaction from late deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar’s family to the release of the preliminary report by Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), his younger son Jay Pawar expressed his disappointment and demanded grounding of the entire fleet of VSR Ventures, the aviation firm which operated the plane that crashed on Jan…
Pune: The Pune Rural police on Saturday seized 479kg of ganja kept in two locked drums at a farm in Jalochi village near Baramati, about 105 km from Pune. The police suspected the ganja was smuggled into the district on the backdrop of Holi. “The accused abandoned it following stringent nakabandi operations, vehicle checks and…
