Pune: The PMC’s water supply department has announced a water closure in the city’s various areas on Thursday to assist with the works of the transmission line, installation of valves and flow meters, and works of boosters. Water supply from Khadakwasla Dam to Parvati water works will remain closed for the entire day on Thursday….
Pune: A 45-year-old small-time builder from Yevalewadi lost Rs2.5 lakh to an online RTO challan fraud on November 1. In a complaint registered on Sunday, after verifying his application, he informed the Kondhwa police that the crooks sent him a remote access file titled ‘RTO challan.‘ He downloaded the .apk file and filled in the…
Pune: The city and Pimpri Chinchwad have seen a sharp and alarming spike in air pollution in just two weeks, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) sliding from ‘Satisfactory’ to ‘Poor’ and raising serious public health concerns. Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data confirms the steep deterioration across both municipal limits, driven primarily by PM10…
Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) recently announced the repair of 900 potholes and rough road surfaces across various parts of the city over the past two weeks, as part of its “pothole-free roads” campaign. However, civic activists and regular road users are now calling for continuous, independent audits of these repairs to ensure contractors…
Pune: The Pune Rural police arrested a criminal on the police records and detected three recent burglaries in the district. The police recovered gold jewellery worth Rs14.38 lakh from the accused, Vishal Tandale (28) of Manchar. Tandale has 28 cases registered against him. A crime branch team led by inspector Avinash Shilimkar took Tandale into…
Pune: A vegetable trader from Charholi was duped of Rs13 lakh as two conmen sold him 2kg of bogus gold bars between Nov 5 and 11 in Charholi.The victim approached the Dighi police on Sunday and lodged a complaint. The police registered a case under sections 316 (criminal breach of trust) and 318 (cheating) of…
Pune: A protest march was organised by the Maharashtra State Secondary School Non-Teaching Staff Association from Shaniwarwada to the education commissioner’s office in Pune on Monday to demand the start of recruitment for non-teaching staff in state schools. According to Shivaji Khandekar, an office-bearer of the association, despite govt issuing an ordinance for recruiting non-teaching…
Pune: Three youngsters, engrossed in chatting while walking close to the railway tracks in Manjari near Hadapsar, died after the Pune-Daund DEMU train hit them around 9pm on Sunday.Senior inspector Sanjay Mogale of the Hadapsar police said, “We have identified the deceased as Prathmesh Nitin Tinde (18), Tanmay Mahendra Tupe (17) and Tushar Shinde (17),…
Pune/Nagpur: In several places of Maharashtra, members of alliances in the state are pitted against each other for the upcoming elections to municipal councils and nagar panchayats, nominations for which ended on Monday. For instance, BJP and NCP have joined hands to contest against Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena, their partner in Mahayuti, in north Maharshtra’s…
Pune: State election commissioner Dinesh Waghmare said on Monday that booth level officers (BLOs) across Maharashtra have been told to complete verification of all probable duplicate names in the electoral rolls by Nov 30, exactly 48 hours before polling for the municipal council and nagar panchayat scheduled on Dec 2.The large-scale verification exercise comes ahead…
