Pune: Civil rights groups and welfare activists have urged the Union govt to urgently roll out alternative Aadhaar authentication methods claiming that thousands of citizens were being unfairly deprived of govt schemes due to biometric verification failure.They added senior citizens, differently-abled people, farmers and rural labourers were among the worst hit, as worn-out fingerprints, retinal…
Pune: A joint director (44) with a central govt’s research and development organisation in the city suffered a head injury and a fracture to his right wrist after an autorickshaw driver from Kothrud assaulted him with a brick at Bhale Chowk in Aundh on the night of Aug 17.The autorickshaw driver had blocked the way…
Pune: A fabricator (55) from Warje suffered a fracture to his right hand when an autorickshaw driver twisted it during a fight after the three-wheeler grazed his car at Wadgaon Budruk on Wednesday afternoon.The fabricator was driving on the Prayeja City Road when the incident occurred. He approached the Sinhagad Road police on Thursday to…
Pune: The Indian Air Force (IAF) will finally hand over 13 acres of land to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for the Lohegaon facility by Oct, said minister of state for civil aviation MP Murlidhar Mohol on Friday.He told TOI: “AAI has set up some establishments, like offices, for IAF on another plot in…
Pune: Chhattisgarh deputy chief minister Vijay Sharma on Friday said there is a sense of resentment among the people of Bastar district over INDIA bloc nominating former Supreme Court judge B Sudershan Reddy as its vice presidential candidate. Reddy was the top court judge who in a verdict in 2011 outlawed Salwa Judum, the state-sponsored…
Pune: Guardian minister Ajit Pawar on Friday rejected some Ganesh Mandals’ request to allow them to start the immersion procession ahead of the five most revered Manache Ganapati this Ganeshotsav and made it clear that Kasba Ganapati would continue to lead the century-old tradition.Keeping in mind the long delays in finishing the immersion procession in…
Pune: Farmers opposing the proposed Purandar airport on Friday said they would not call off their agitation despite the state govt’s decision to scale down land acquisition from 2,382 hectares (7,000 acres) to about 1,285 hectares (3,175 acres). “Unless we see an official notification, we will not believe the claim of reducing the project’s size….
Pune: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) vice-chancellor Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit on Friday credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his govt with renewing faith in the Constitution.“So far we had forgotten what the Constitution prescribes and what it prohibits,” said Pandit in her keynote address delivered through video conferencing mode at a national conference on ‘75 Years…
Pune: All 2,800 employees on contract under the National Health Mission (NHM) in Pune district, Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation and Pune Municipal Corporation marched to the district collector’s office on Friday, over their demands for job regularisation and better pay as per state govt’s 2024 GR.Their strike since Aug 19 has affected crucial health programmes…
Pune: Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Friday appealed to the farming community not to take any drastic steps and said that state govt is taking several measures to provide them relief. His remarks come in response to the opposition targeting govt over a farmer’s death by suicide in Ahilyanagar district’s Newasa taluka. In a…
