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…
Priyanka Tembey, CTO and cofounder of US-based cybersecurity venture Operant AI, credits her competitive drive to the spirited rivalry between her school and a neighbouring one when growing up in Pune.Following her Bachelor’s in computer science from Cummins College of Engineering for Women in Pune, she faced two paths – joining IBM in Bengaluru or…
PUNE: A day after the major accident near Navale bridge on Thursday reignited concerns over the dangerous stretch, district collector Jitendra Dudi told TOI on Friday that a technical evaluation of the corridor will be conducted by an IIT Delhi team, marking the first time such a scientific audit will be carried out on this…
Pune: The Bharati Vidyapeeth police are on the lookout for four suspects from Mangalwar Peth and Dhayari for allegedly abductingm beating and threatening a 31-year-old private contractor with two guns.According to the police, the victim and the four accused are childhood friends. The contractor had relocated to Ambegaon Pathar and began succeeding in his business,…
Pune: Residents have raised concerns over several non-functional pollution control devices — dry mist fountains and air bin purifiers — installed across Pimpri Chinchwad despite the worsening air quality after Diwali.“The air bin purifier installed at Bhujbal Chowk has been non-functional for over six months. Pollution levels have increased after Diwali, but civic officials have…
Pune: Walking on the city’s footpaths has become a persistent obstacle course. From shoddy tilework to dumped debris, unauthorised vendors, illegal hoardings, missing patches, ill-placed DP boxes and badly parked vehicles — the reasons are never-ending.Pedestrians have for years been baying for the civic body to take a step in the right direction. Pune Municipal…
Pune: Ready-mix concrete (RMC) manufacturing units and real estate developers have sought more time to comply with the new guidelines issued by Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB). The regulator issued a notification introducing additional guidelines on Oct 17 and gave existing plants one month for compliance. The pollution control board recently conducted a meeting in…
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has sealed nine ready-mix concrete (RMC) plants in Tathawade, Punawale, Pimple Nilakh, and Moshi areas for violating environmental norms. The move followed a communication from the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB), which shared a list of 30 RMC units operating without adequate dust and emissions control systems within…
Pune: In three different online share-trading frauds, cybercrooks duped two senior citizens and a techie of Rs 84.52 lakh collectively.Separate cases were registered with the Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad police on Saturday.A 64-year-old man, who retired from a private company in Katraj, was cheated by the online fraudsters of Rs 29.7 lakh. Crooks promised him…
