Pune: Imagine being forced to wade through a pool of ankle-deep, filthy and stinking sewage every time you step out of home to go to work or school, to meet family and friends, or even just for routine grocery runs nearby.This is the unfortunate reality in which over 5,000 residents of the Baif Road locality…
Pune: The city police’s effort to secure an early conclusion of the Ganesh immersion procession this year was frustrated by an over six-hour hold-up as many mandals refused to proceed to the immersion point after the use of speaker sound systems was stopped at midnight until 6am on Sunday. It took 32 hours and 23…
Pune: When Ramesh Jadhav from Baramati, a farmer, lost his father last year, he had apprehensions about a long wait to get his name entered in the 7/12 extract, the crucial land ownership document. However, he was able to make the correction within weeks and without spending a single rupee under the special drive initiated…
Pune: Citizens have immersed as many as 6,50,421 Ganapati idols during the 10-day-long Ganeshotsav under the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) limits with 4,43,395 idols were immersed only on Saturday, the last day of the festival.The makeshift iron immersion tanks received a very positive response where people immersed 3,62,747 idols. The devotees donated 1,78,376 idols after…
Pune: The Ganapati immersion-day noise monitoring by College of Engineering Pune (COEP) Technological University students may have recorded a marginal dip in sound levels this year — lowest since the pandemic — but the overall exposure remained alarmingly above permissible limits.The average noise across 10 chowks on Laxmi Road during the two-day immersion (Sept 6…
Pune: Property buyers in the city can expect a quicker turnaround on registration work, with the state property registration department introducing a performance grading system across all 27 sub-registrar offices in Haveli taluka from Sept onwards. The initiative aims to ensure that original registered documents are handed back to citizens the same day, ending long-standing…
Pune: This year’s Ganapati immersion processions in Pune saw a surge of teenage energy in dhol tasha troupes. Along Laxmi Road and Belbag Chowk, school and college students joined seasoned drummers, driving the beats that propelled the immersion processions forward. Organisers noted a sharp rise in young participants, with many mandals setting an age limit…
Pune: The Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) is considering a technical fix amid growing complaints from commuters to the problem of silent electric buses startling pedestrians and motorists by gliding past without any sound or warning.Senior PMPML officials said they would soon approach the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) to explore sound-based alert…
with pic Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday said his govt’s priority is to ensure that the welfare of one community does not come at the cost of another. “Our policy is clear. We will not create clashes between communities or take away the rights of one to give benefits to others,” he added.Fadnavis…
Pune: An air India Express flight (IX-2717) from Bhubaneswar to Pune aborted landing on Sunday around 3.30pm allegedly due to low visibility.The flight with around 100 flyers took off from Bhubaneswar at around 1.40pm and reached Pune by 3.30pm.Biswajeet Biswal, a Sinhagad Road resident, who visited the Pune airport to drop his daughter off said…
