Pune: A nine-year-old girl with an end-stage kidney disease received the organ from her 69-year-old grandmother at Manipal Hospital, Kharadi, in what doctors described as a rare, but successful paediatric transplant.The girl was admitted to the hospital with fever, weakness and cough. She was found to have a haemoglobin level of just 3 g/dl (critically…
PUNE: Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant vision in India; it is actively transforming enterprises, industries, and citizen-focused sectors, experts said at the MIT-WPU CxO Meet 2025. The event, organized in collaboration with the IT Service Management Forum (itSMF) India Chapter, showcased how responsible AI adoption, industrial productivity, enterprise ROI, and societal impact are…
Pune: Bombay High Court has dismissed the election petition filed by Congress candidate Datta Rangnath Bahirat challenging the election of BJP’s Siddharth Shirole as MLA from Shivajinagar assembly constituency in the 2024 state assembly elections.The bench of Justice Sandeep V Marne held on Nov 17 that the petition, which was broadly based on allegations of…
Pune: Two workers were injured after a slab and section of a wall of an under-renovation shop caved on Dhole Patil Road, not far from Ruby Hall Clinic, around 1.30pm on Wednesday. After the incident, fire brigade teams were deployed to the spot to rescue the two workers. City fire brigade chief Devendra Potphode said,…
Pune: Panic ensued in Wadgaon Shinde, a village on the outskirts of the city, on Wednesday morning after several residents claimed to have spotted a female leopard accompanied by her cubs. The sighting triggered immediate alarm among villagers, who alerted forest officials about the potential presence of the big cat in their vicinity. However, the…
Pune: The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has informed the NGT that PCMC’s waste-to-energy (WTE) plant does not comply with the solid waste management rules.The board stated that the plant is among four such facilities across the country that do not act in accordance with the norms. Maharashtra figured on the list with two plants…
Pune: A sharp dip into single-digit temperatures— dropping as low as 8–10°C, well below normal for Nov — has begun to batter Maharashtra’s early grape and vegetable belts. Growers across the region are reporting berry cracking, delayed harvests, and mounting concerns over yield quality. The grape harvest, particularly in Nashik’s Satana region, has been hit…
Pune: The Wildlife Research and Training Centre in Nagpur’s Gorewada has confirmed that the leopard shot dead on Nov 4 was responsible for the fatal attacks on a 5-year-old girl and 13-year-old boy in Pimparkhed village in Shirur tehsil last month.Following the tragic incidents, forest officials despatched biological samples from the attack sites for forensic…
Pune: After a five-member panel flagged serious lapses in the 40-acre Mundhwa land deal, the state registration department on Tuesday ordered a full audit of all registrations executed by suspended Haveli No. 4 sub registrar Ravindra Taru.The committee found major irregularities in the Mundhwa sale deed, including inadequate document verification and failure to follow mandatory…
Pune: Commuters on the arterial Sinhagad Road faced major traffic congestion on Wednesday morning during peak travel hours, after an earthmover deployed for pipeline work of the civic body broke down near Hingne. The breakdown of the machinery created a bottleneck that heavily impacted traffic flow, and commuters reported facing major delays after being stuck…
