Pune: Citizens woke up to a chilly Monday morning with Pune recording its first single-digit minimum temperature this winter. The minimum temperature in Pashan dropped to 9.8°C, while people living in Shivajinagar also felt the chill at 10.2°C — both significantly below normal for this time of the year. On Sunday, Pashan’s daytime temperature was…
Pune: For a city-based couple, the recent birth of their baby girl was filled with both joy and worry as she weighed only 630g at 27 weeks and three days. The baby arrived fighting for every breath and needed immediate intubation, surfactant therapy, and advanced neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) support, including total parental nutrition….
Pune: A cab driver was beaten up, robbed, and his vehicle was vandalised by two assailants at Varsoli village in Maval taluka on the old Mumbai-Pune highway on Nov 15, allegedly over the suspicion that he was there to pick up passengers from the area. Police have arrested one of the suspects involved in the…
Pune: State forest minister Ganesh Naik announced on Monday that the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has formally approved Maharashtra’s proposed leopard birth control project, which would be rolled out “scientifically and with utmost caution” in the Junnar forest division.This marks the first-ever sterilisation-based leopard population management programme sanctioned in India. Naik…
Pune: Five vehicles were damaged after a container truck driver lost control of the wheel and hit a pickup truck, leading to a pile-up of vehicles on Bhumkar Bridge along the Katraj Dehu Road Bypass on Monday afternoon. Fortunately, no one was injured. The incident took place around 1.30pm, when all the vehicles involved were…
Pune: A 20-year-old college student, riding pillion on her father’s scooter, was run over by a dumper after she fell as their two-wheeler wobbled over an uneven drainage chamber near Kolte Patil society in Punawale, close to Hinjewadi, around 1.35pm on Monday.Police identified the deceased college student as Tanvi Sakhare. She came under the rear…
Pune: Divisional commissioner Chandrakant Pulkundwar on Monday ordered a citywide crackdown on traffic violations, directing that every offender be fined and driving licences suspended after more than three repeated offences, besides vehicle seizure if violations continue. He also instructed the district collector to hold mandatory monthly reviews on road safety and ensure that all pending…
Pune: Pawar family’s hometown Baramati will witness another round of battle between the two factions of NCP, while the election in neighbouring Indapur tehsil for the municipal council has also become interesting following the decision of Pradeep Garatkar — once a staunch supporter of NCP chief Ajit Pawar and Pune district president — to quit…
Pune: Police on Sunday registered a case of forgery against the manager of a dharamshala in Alandi on charge of creating fake entry passes for Sant Dnyaneshwar Maharaj temple and selling them to devotees. Police recovered four fake passes from four devotees in the temple on Sunday morning. The accused was charged under Section 340…
Pune: The Pune chapter of the Builders’ Association of India (BAI) will conduct its annual national contest, ‘Well Built Structure Competition’, which recognises excellence in construction and infrastructure development. This will be the 29th year of the event, which awards 16 projects across various categories.Entries are first screened through a preliminary review based on documentation…
