Pune: The contract National Health Mission employees on Wednesday called off their indefinite strike following a meeting with health minister Prakashrao Abitkar in Mumbai, who assured them that state govt would fulfil 10 of their 13 demands.The minister handed over a letter in this regard to office bearers of the National Health Mission (NHM) Coordination…
Pune: An 83-year-old retired defence official from Kondhwa was cheated of Rs1 crore between July 22 and August 19 in yet another digital arrest fraud targeting senior citizens. The crooks posed as CBI officials and claimed that they found financial transactions between the elderly man and a businessman, accused in a Rs400-crore money laundering case….
Pune: The lawyer representing Satyaki Savarkar, the grandnephew of Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, in a fresh application to the special MP/MLA court in Pune on Wednesday sought directions to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to personally attest or countersign every application, pursis (written statement), and proceeding filed in the ongoing defamation case to “avoid any…
Senior Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar. (File Photo) PUNE: Indicating that Congress will have no aversion to MNS joining MVA with a possible reunion between the Thackeray cousins, the senior Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar on Thursday said that Congress will take a positive approach after discussing with party seniors in Mumbai. “We are considering the enemy’s…
Pune: A rally organised to celebrate the birthday of former Pune Zilla Parishad president Devram Lande turned tragic on Wednesday when a mini-truck carrying a loudspeaker hit members of a dhol-tasha troupe around 2.15pm on Wednesday at the onion market in Junnar, leaving one person killed and six injured.The Pune Rural police identified the deceased…
Pune: The Pune Cyber Police are investigating a city-based private university’s complaint about being cheated of Rs 2.46 crore between July 25 and Aug 7 by a cybercriminal in the name of “govt-aided research funding opportunities in drones and AI technology” fields.The crook misused the name of a former vice-chancellor of Savitribai Phule Pune University…
Pune: The Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) has appointed observers for 32 engineering colleges in the city after receiving complaints from students and parents regarding the flouting of admission rules.After the regular rounds for first-year engineering admissions conducted by the CET cell ended, complaints surfaced that admissions to vacant seats in colleges, especially those under…
Pune: The total area under cotton cultivation in the district has seen a significant rise this year, expanding by 74% compared to the average. According to data from the district agriculture office, cotton was planted on 1,945 hectares this year, up from 1,122 hectares last year.Daund taluka reported the highest area under cotton cultivation at…
Pune: State cooperation minister Babasaheb Patil has directed the cooperation department to rework and resubmit the draft Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Rules after incorporating minor changes suggested at a review meeting last week. The draft rules, published earlier this year, are critical for enforcing amendments made in 2019 to the Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Act, 1961.In their…
Pune: The civic body has finished around 50% of construction work on the new Sadhu Vaswani bridge in the Koregaon Park area, prolonging the wait for the project’s completion to at least another six months. At present, it is unlikely that the bridge will be ready for commuters before March 2026. Regular travellers to locations…
