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…
Pune: Regular commuters on Pune–Mumbai Expressway have urged the authorities to expedite Khopoli–Kusgaon missing link project, citing inconveniences faced by them due to repeated delays.Rinki Dhruv, a Mumbai resident who frequently travels to Pune, said, “While there are practical difficulties, it is about time the authorities complete the project to ease travel for commuters.”Echoing similar…
Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday questioned the political frenzy over Sunetra Pawar, NCP MP of Rajya Sabha and wife of deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, attending an event organised by the women’s wing of RSS in New Delhi on Wednesday, even as she said on social media on Thursday that no political meaning…
Pune: “Everybody remembers the sweet Andal. But I want to show the Andal who accused Krishna of being a thief, a liar and a coward for not responding to her devotion,” said dancer-choreographer Anita Ratnam.Ratnam has brought to Pune her dance-drama ‘Naachiyaar Next’, celebrating the eighth-century Tamil poet-saint Andal who refused to live by mortal…
Pune: A day after the state government put the controversial TDR (Transfer of Development Rights) proposal for Janata Vasahat slum rehabilitation on hold, activists and residents have demanded it be scrapped entirely. They allege serious irregularities in land classification, inflated valuations and a lack of transparency that could undermine the rights of slum dwellers.The project…
Pune: Popularised by freedom fighter and social reformer Lokmanya Tilak as a community festival in the city, Ganeshotsav will find a new ground in Germany on Saturday. Rohit Tilak, great-grandson of Lokmanya Tilak, will install the Tulshibagh Ganapati idol in Frankfurt on Aug 23 before travelling to Bonn the next day to hand over a…
Pune: The Hinjewadi police on Wednesday arrested a woman, her mother, and brother on the charge of abducting a woman from her office in Hinjewadi over the suspicion of the latter’s relationship with her husband.The trio forced the woman into a car and beat her up inside it, police said.Assistant inspector D R Sali of…
Pune: The state excise department’s Pune office on Wednesday suspended the liquor licence of the Mundhwa restobar at the centre of a row over hosting a freshers’ party on Monday night attended by over 800 students of a Kothrud-based educational institution. The students created a ruckus outside the restobar and in front of a nearby…
Pune: The ‘Latur Pattern’ dominated undergraduate medical admissions in Maharashtra in the first list of admissions to MBBS courses announced on Aug 13. The pattern involves continuous and methodical practice of model question papers months before the exams and has been associated with SSC or HSC examinations for decades.Of the 8,138 students who secured seats…
Pune: Two farmers from Indapur taluka drowned, while their friend escaped with minor injuries after a compact sports utility vehicle (SUV) they were travelling in plunged into a canal.The accident occurred late on Thursday after the vehicle broke through the barricades in Pimpalner village on the Kurduwadi-Tembhurni road in Solapur district, about 190km from Pune.According…
