Pune experienced a sudden, heavy downpour on Tuesday afternoon, lasting just over an hour PUNE: A sudden spell of heavy rain lashed Pune city on Tuesday afternoon, lasting for just over an hour from 12.20 pm to 1.30 pm. Several parts of the city experienced intense downpour during this period, even as rainfall over the…
PUNE: Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) may roll out a new Aadhaar application in Dec this year, after which no visits to an Aadhaar centre for updating cellphone numbers will be necessary. The app will best serve those using face authentication matching images with Aadhaar’s biometric records. Services requiring the capture of fingerprints and…
Pune: The National Highways Authority of India has turned to drones and artificial intelligence to identify and remove more than 1,000 encroachments along Maharashtra’s highways.These encroachments range from parked trucks and makeshift structures to construction material dumped on roadsides. High-frequency drones, deployed from moving vehicles, capture real-time images of highways. “Artifical intelligence (AI) is used…
PUNE/NAVI MUMBAI: Probe into the abduction of a heavy vehicle’s helper by an SUV driver during a road rage incident in Navi Mumbai on Saturday found that dismissed IAS officer Puja Khedkar’s father, Dilip Khedkar, a retired state govt officer, was in the SUV, police said.Both Dilip Khedkar and his chauffeur have absconded in the…
Pune: Potholes have resurfaced on many roads across the city following two days of heavy rain. Vehicles users are complaining of bumpy and risky rides and demanding continuous road repairs to improve their commutes. Many also said the poor condition of stretches, coupled with spells of rain, are causing major traffic snarls and delays. On…
Rahul (third from right) was felicitated by the Joggers Park group PUNE: Perseverance, family sacrifice and timely support helped Rahul Ghumre, son of an autorickshaw driver, secure admission to Government Medical College in Ambajogai, after clearing the NEET examination on merit.For over two decades, his father Tatyabhau, drove an autorickshaw in Pune to provide for…
Pune: Water was released from Khadakwasla and upstream dams on Monday after heavy overnight rainfall in the catchment areas, raising flood concerns in the areas along the Mutha river. The discharge peaked at 14,500 cusecs before being reduced in the afternoon amid drop in rainfall intensity. Irrigation department officials, however, said the alert for areas…
Pune/Nashik/Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: Heavy to extremely heavy showers lashed parts of Maharashtra with at least four people reported dead in rain-related incidents in the 24 hours ending Monday morning.A 23-year-old engineer from Kharadi in Pune died and his friend was injured after a boulder hit them following a landslide triggered by heavy rain in the Kalu…
Pune: Heavy to very heavy, and in some places extremely heavy, rain lashed parts of Maharashtra in the 24 hours ending Monday morning with Matheran in Raigad recording 270mm, the second-highest single-day rainfall since 1972. This is also the highest in seven years, after 362mm recorded on Sept 20, 2017.Other parts of the Konkan region…
Pune/Navi Mumbai: Chatushrungi police on Sunday night registered a case of obstructing public servant from performing his duty against “Manorama Khedkar, mother of dismissed IAS officer Puja Khedkar, and others” based on a complaint by sub inspector Deepak Kharat of Rabale police in Navi Mumbai.Rabale police had filed an FIR following a road rage incident…
