Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation has in the last two days disconnected water supply to five housing societies amid its crackdown on those who failed to make sewage treatment plants operational despite repeated warnings.These five were among the 50 societies that had been served three notices in the last one year, a civic official…
PUNE: A professor and three second-year students of an engineering college in Wagholi were arrested early on Tuesday by crime branch officials of the Pune police for circulating answer sheets after the exam on Monday to first-year students for cheating in exchange for money.Additional commissioner of police (crime) Pankaj Deshmukh told TOI that assistant inspector…
Pune: Hospitals in the city are seeing a steady increase in Covid-19 cases among healthcare workers, including doctors and nurses. However, medical experts confirmed that there is no immediate concern about staffing shortages.In other developments, rare complications are also being reported in some patients, such as heart failure and Covid-related encephalitis — although these remain…
Once seen as too spicy or exotic, Indian home-style fare is now a global hit as busy professionals, students and locals across the world lap up meals inspired by the country’s very own tiffin cultureButter chicken and naan defined all that Chicago-based accountant Josh Brooks thought was good about Indian food. He had been to…
Pune: Throughout their lives, the three Narlikar sisters — Geeta, Girija, and Leelavati — were often asked variations of this question: What is it like to have a famous father?On behalf of the three daughters of renowned astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar (86), who passed away on May 20, Geeta, a US-based biochemist, answered the question at…
Pune: The city airport is expected to receive 13 acres from the Indian Air Force by the end of Aug or in Sept, airport director Santosh Dhoke told TOI on Tuesday. The land will be used to set up basic infrastructure, including additional aircraft parking bays, and this will allow more flights to take-off and…
Pune: The court of judicial magistrate first class Amol Shinde on Tuesday extended the custodial remand till June 7 of Nilesh Chavan, business associate of Shashank Hagawane and co-accused in the dowry death case of Vaishnavi Hagawane. The court sent Vaishnavi’s father-in-law Rajendra Hagawane and brother-in-law to magisterial custody remand till June 16. They were…
Pune: Against the odds of scorching desert winds and a fraught geopolitical backdrop, a new documentary brings to light an unexpected story of the resilience of wildlife along the India-Pakistan border in Rajasthan. ‘Living with Border Security’, the first film in the upcoming ‘Living with Nature’ documentary series, will launch on YouTube this World Environment…
Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said Maharashtra is set to provide 30 lakh houses to homeless people under the Pradhan Mantri Awas scheme and become the first state in India to achieve 100% of the target.He also said a fresh survey would be carried out to identify homeless people who are yet to…
Pune: Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan on Tuesday said “on May 10 around 1am, Pakistan aimed to bring India to its knees in 48 hours” but “their operation, which they thought would continue for 48 hours, folded up in about eight hours”.“Then they picked up the telephone and said they wanted to talk,”…
