Pune: Working president of NCP (SP) Supriya Sule has written to State Election Commissioner Dinesh Waghmare expressing concern over the trend of many candidates winning unopposed in the first phase of the local bodies polls. She called it a threat to democracy and demanded that SEC take cognisance of the complaints of threats issued to…
Pune: A 54-year-old operational director of a multinational company from Pimpri Chinchwad lost Rs21.26 lakh to cyber crooks in an online share trading fraud between July and Aug this year. The victim filed a complaint application with the cyber police recently. After preliminary investigations, a case was registered with the Sant Tukaramnagar police on Monday.An…
Pune: As many as 18,891 farmers across Pune district will soon receive compensation as the agriculture department has completed its assessment of the crops damaged by unseasonal rainfall in Oct, officials said.According to the district agriculture office, the final panchanama report reveals that standing crops on 7,436 hectares were affected by the prolonged spell of…
Pune: The civic administration will take up corrections in the voters’ list even as Pune Municipal Corporation received 358 fresh objections on Tuesday. A total of 777 objections have been received so far on ward-wise voters’ lists, with a majority pertaining to abrupt shifting of voters’ names to other wards.Officials from PMC’s election department said…
Pune: New global evidence now identifies air pollution as the second leading cause of lung cancer, prompting doctors to urge a shift in public health strategy from a smoking-centric view to broader air quality control. Clinicians say screening models must reflect the growing number of cases in people who have never smoked, including traffic police,…
Pune: The city may experience a slight dip in night temperatures over the next two to three days, after a relatively mild week.India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials said the temperature fall would be marginal — about 1°C to 2°C. An IMD official said, “Minimum temperatures could go down to around 15°C in parts of the…
Pune: A ground staff member sighted the “smart” leopard on the airport premises again in the early hours of Tuesday, prompting the forest department to install three more trap cameras on the campus to spot the animal.Assistant conservator of forests Mangesh Tate said a total of eight trap cameras and three trap cages had been…
Pune: Long-pending proposals to widen existing rail underpasses in Khadki and Range Hills areas are set to gather pace, with PMC deciding to appoint a consultant for the project.The administration has also formally approached the Ministry of Defence to acquire the land necessary for expansion. Daily commutes through these underpasses have become increasingly difficult for…
PUNE: Over 100 Delhi-bound flyers were stranded at the city airport for three hours on Tuesday morning after the captain (one of the pilots) of an IndiGo aircraft refused to fly, citing flight duty time limitations.“The captain is not flying the aircraft, and we are waiting at the airport now,” Nitu Bapna, a flyer of…
Pune: Leopard-related incidents are being reported across Pune, Ahilyanagar, and Nashik districts, prompting experts and senior officials of the state forest department to stress he urgent need for a comprehensive leopard census in affected regions. The officials are saying that updated and reliable data on leopard population, movement patterns, and habitat distribution is now essential…
