Pune: As the drizzle continues post-Diwali, the city finds itself struggling under heaps of garbage that were slated for clearance weeks ago.Across neighbourhoods, discarded furniture, mattresses, and renovation debris lie abandoned on roadsides. What began as a promising festive clean-up drive by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has clearly lost momentum, leaving behind a trail…
Pune: Maharashtra govt has directed the sugar commissioner to form a committee to audit funds utilisation by Pune-based Vasantdada Sugar Institute (VSI), which is headed by NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar.The NCP (SP) brass described the govt’s decision, taken at a cabinet meeting, as vendetta politics. Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, however, said no inquiry was…
Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is set to intensify monitoring of daily garbage collection and lifting operations across 15 ward offices, warning waste collectors of stringent action in case of lapses. The move follows recent findings of irregularities in waste management and growing complaints from citizens about uncollected garbage in residential and public areas.During…
Pune: Two days after developer Vishal Gokhale of Gokhale Landmarks LLP said via email that he will withdraw from the controversial land deal involving Seth Hirachand Nemchand Digambar Jain Boarding Trust’s 3.5-acre property in Model Colony, the trustees informed the charity commissioner on Tuesday that they too are willing to cancel the agreement.In an application…
Satara doctor’s cousin demands SIT probe, alleges political and police pressure before her suicide KOLHAPUR: Officials at the Phaltan sub-district hospital confirmed that the doctor, who ended her life on Oct 23, performed 113 out of a total of 431 postmortems since joining the hospital as a medical officer on contract in Jan 2023.A postmortem…
Pune: The city airport recorded a spike in cargo movements (imports and exports) in Sept and Oct this year compared to the corresponding period in 2024, airport officials said. “In Sept 2025, the pre-Diwali period, 4,792.5 metric tonne (MT) of cargo was handled — an increase of nearly 33% compared to 3,612.2 MT handled in…
India is set to experience the U.S. collegiate esports phenomenon, May Madness, through a partnership between Asymmetrical Learning and the Collegiate Esports Commissioner’s Cup PUNE: The Nadathur S Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) incubated Asymmetrical Learning led by Siddharth Rahalkar, has partnered with the Collegiate Esports Commissioner’s Cup (CECC) to bring the U.S. collegiate…
Pune’s emergence as an education and investment hub is spurring global schooling models, with Global Schools Group opening its third campus there PUNE: Pune’s growing role as an education and investment hub is driving a new wave of global schooling models, says Atul Temurnikar, chairman and co-founder of Global Schools Group (GSG), which is set…
Pune: When farmer Amrita Bharati entered the zilla parishad school in her village, Karanjgaon, last Sept, she was shocked by what she saw: children eating directly from thin plastic bags and then discarding them on the ground. Concerned about the health and environmental risks of carrying food in plastic, she visited two other schools in…
Pune: The head of the Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) health department and the dean in-charge of civic-run Bharatratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical College are at loggerheads over authority after the former sent a letter seeking an explanation from the latter about faculty members allegedly not attending to patients at Kamala Nehru Hospital, which is affiliated…
