Pune: Deputy chief minister and NCP chief Ajit Pawar on Friday hit out at minister of state for civil aviation and Pune’s BJP MP Murlidhar Mohol for levelling corruption allegations against Maharashtra Olympics Association (MOA) secretary Namdev Shirgaonkar.“Mohol has levelled the corruption allegations only because he is eyeing (MOA) elections,” said Ajit Pawar, who has…
Pune: When Abhijeet Gandhi entered a restaurant in 2023, and asked for a ‘table for one’, he was greeted by awkward stares and then given the corner-most table at the restaurant. “It was a table with no view, which no one would voluntarily choose. I took it anyway. I could see families of four, six,…
Pune: The Swargate police have initiated a probe against two individuals after they allegedly tried to withdraw Rs12.5 lakh from Employees’ State Insurance Corporation (ESIC)’s account by submitting its lost cheques with forged signatures in a bank between June and October.Inspector Vikas Bharmal of the Swargate police said, “A woman officer (42) of the ESIC…
Pune: The authorities may have to review the Pune station redevelopment plan, after railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday issued a directive to build permanent passenger holding areas at 76 stations before the festive season next year.Six stations under the Central Railway — Pune, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, Lokmanya Tilak Terminus, Nagpur, Nashik Road and…
PUNE: Qualcomm’s latest flagship mobile platform, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, pushes the limits of performance, power, and intelligence — and raises the question: how much further can silicon Qualcomm recently unveiled its most powerful mobile platform yet — the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 — at the Snapdragon Summit 2025 in Hawaii, USA….
Pune: A 38-year-old man died after being run over by an SUV while he was sleeping on the road under the Karvenagar flyover around 4pm on Tuesday. The Warje police have identified the deceased, a resident of Karvenagar. He worked as a mechanic in an automobile garage. The police also identified the SUV driver —…
Pune: Cybercrooks, impersonating officials from Mumbai’s Colaba police station, threatened a 55-year-old Wadgaon Sheri housewife with digital arrest before forcing her to transfer Rs14 lakh in phases to three different bank accounts between Sept 12 and Oct 25 this year. The woman submitted a complaint application to the police. After verification, the Chandannagar police registered…
Pune: State general secretary of NCP (SP) Rohit Pawar on Thursday called the Mumbai police‘s action of registering an FIR against two unidentified people on charges of making a fake Aadhaar card of US President Donald Trump in Mumbai laughable. He said the BJP has been rampantly using fake documents to add bogus voters, but…
Pune: State health minister Prakash Abitkar stressed the importance of developing the Maharashtra Institute of Virology (MIV) into a high-quality facility modelled after the National Institute of Virology (NIV) during his visit to city on Thursday.“We envision MIV laboratories becoming a benchmark in disease diagnosis and a pivotal hub for strengthening the public health infrastructure,”…
