Pune: A police constable (42) attached to the Pimpri Chinchwad traffic branch sustained a fracture to his left hand after being knocked by a scooter driver, who was driving on the BRTS route on the Nashik Phata overbridge at Kasarwadi. The incident occurred on Tuesday evening. The constable’s E-Challan machine was also damaged.“We are searching…
Pune: On the evening of September 3, Pune women attempted a Guinness World Record for the most people performing diya rotations simultaneously during Ganesh aarti. The gathering took place at the Dhole Patil Education Society (DPES) campus in Kharadi, where 1,724 women stood together with lit diyas to perform the ritual in unison, following stringent…
Pune: Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Thursday hinted at elections to some civic bodies in the state could be held in Jan 2026. Pawar was speaking at ‘Mukhyamantri Samruddh Panchayat Raj Abhiyan’ event organised in Pune on Thursday, where he told the administration to prepare for the polls that are overdue in many urban…
PUNE: The opposition on Thursday targeted deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar claiming that he had tried to stop IPS officer Anjana Krishna from Solapur rural police from taking action against an NCP member in an illegal sand mining case. They based their allegation on a video clip of a purported cellphone conversation between Ajit Pawar…
Pune: At Alka Chowk, traffic is reduced to a crawl every evening as two large pandals on opposite sides of the junction draw large crowds. When a play ends on one side, the crowd surges across to watch a robotic Hanuman spring to life on the other, coming in the way of slow-moving vehicles.“It is…
Pune: The Supreme Court-constituted Central Empowered Committee (SC-CEC) has written to the Maharashtra chief secretary seeking directions to Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad civic bodies to halt all proposed tree felling in the riparian zones of Mula, Mutha, Mula-Mutha, Indrayani and Pavana water bodies for the riverfront development (RFD) work.The panel has sought such directions till…
Pune: The city police’s newly deployed network of CCTV cameras, linked to a makeshift control room with servers containing photographs and data related to almost 30,000 criminals and AI analytics, has helped generate 1,000 alerts for various crowd control situations and checked 30 people with crime records in the past three days.The AI-driven system, operating…
Pune: Maharashtrian communities are gathering this month for Ganeshotsav in cities across the US, with a focus on teaching the younger generation the culture and creating spaces for neighbourly connection. For many families in the diaspora, the festival has become a way to hold on to cultural memory in a country where collective celebrations are…
Pune: The deadline to file suggestions and objections to ward delimitation announced on Aug 22 has ended with Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) receiving over 5,800 applications of which 2,900 were received on Thursday alone.The deadline to file objections regarding the 41 wards declared for the upcoming civic polls was Thursday, and the hearing will take…
Pune: Once among the country’s consistently top-ranked public universities, the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) has suffered a steep fall in the latest National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2025 rankings announced by the Union education ministry on Thursday. SPPU saw a major drop, sliding from 37th to 91st in the overall category ranking, and from…
