PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Monday morning started removing debris and cleaning the stormwater drains to reduce waterlogging caused by heavy overnight rains. PMC officials said the drive was conducted at locations like Ganeshkhind Road, Sayyad Nagar, Mundwa, and Katraj areas. “We have alerted the residents of localities near the riverbanks. They have…
PUNE: A total of 44 people from Ashti taluka of Beed district and another five persons from Sillod taluka of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district have been stranded in flood water since Monday morning as overnight rains lashed many parts of Marathwada.Kada, Sobha Nimgaon, Ghata Pimpri, Pimparkhed and Dhanora are among flood-affected villages from Ashti taluka of…
PUNE: The Pune airport was a picture of total chaos and confusion due to multiple flight delays and diversions since the late night hours of Sunday due to continuous rains which affected visibility. A total of 14 flights belonging to different airlines were diverted while several delayed between 12am till 8am causing chaos at the…
Pune: Deputy chief minister and Pune’s guardian minister Ajit Pawar on Sunday said authorities should consider issuing stop-work notices to builders who fail to comply with civic regulations. Pawar made the statement during a review visit to Hadapsar constituency, where he interacted with Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) officials and local residents.Responding to citizens’ complaints about…
Pune: Intermittent rain continued in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad for the better part of Saturday night and Sunday, with Chinchwad recording 69mm showers between 8.30am on Saturday and 5.30pm on Sunday.During the same period, the IMD’s Shivajinagar observatory recorded 13.8mm rain, Talegaon (15mm), Hadapsar (13.5mm) and Magarpatta (10mm). The rainfall in the remaining parts of…
Pune: Parts of the city received heavy rain late on Sunday nigh coupled with lightning and thunder. Intermittent rain continued in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad for the better part of Saturday night and Sunday, with Chinchwad recording 69mm showers between 8.30am on Saturday and 5.30pm on Sunday.During the same period, the IMD’s Shivajinagar observatory recorded…
Pune: The Pune Rural police used drones to trace and arrest two criminals with police records who hid in a sugarcane farm near Jejuri and a man for robbing a farmer at gunpoint around 3pm on Saturday at Daundaj village in Purandar taluka.A Jejuri police team led by assistant police inspector Deepak Wakchaure nabbed Lakhandsing…
Pune: In the first eight months of this year, as many as 70 pedestrians have been killed in accidents on city roads. In the same corresponding (Jan-Aug) period in 2024, 65 pedestrians lost their lives, marking an uptick in fatalities year-on-year. In the entire span of last year, 119 pedestrians in total died in accidents….
Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday assured that the long-pending issue of faculty recruitment in state universities will be resolved soon, claiming that 80% of over 11,000 vacant teaching posts will be filled in coming weeks, while approval for the remaining 20% will follow shortly. Fadnavis admitted that the shortage of teaching faculty and…
Pune: The merger of 34 ‘fringe areas’ into Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) over the past decade has made it the largest civic body in Maharashtra.Spanning over approximately 520sqkm as per its official website, PMC beats even the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in size (around 440sqkm). Today, however, lakhs of residents living in neighbourhoods that were…
