Pune: Irregular water supply dominated PMC general body meeting on Wednesday, with corporators cutting across party lines expressing strong concerns over the issue and the hardship it was causing to the residents. Taking note of the problem, mayor Manjusha Nagpure told officials to conduct meetings at all 15 ward offices, with corporators in attendance, to…
Pune: A 21-year-old student of an engineering college in the city drowned on Tuesday at Lotus Point waterfall in Maval taluka’s Ekole village, about 70km from Pune. The victim, identified as Ayush Harinkhede, was a resident of Katraj and hailed from Gondia district. Harinkhede visited the scenic spot in the morning for an outing with…
Pune: NCP (SP) working president Supriya Sule on Tuesday came out in support of food and drug administration (FDA) minister Narhari Zirwal over the ACB action in his office in Mantralaya last week and said she was shocked to see the chief minister initiating a raid in his minister’s office.Supriya also demanded that chief minister…
Pune: PMC commissioner Naval Kishore Ram on Tuesday said that the civic administration is focusing on decongesting 32 key roads in the city by keeping their carriageways free of obstacles, at a time when commuters’ complaints about frequent traffic congestion have reached a crescendo. Ram assured that a plan is taking shape to pursue road…
Pune: State govt on Tuesday transferred the deputy secretary of minority development department, a day after CM Devendra Fadnavis ordered a probe and stayed minority status certificates issued to 75 education institutes within hours after Ajit Pawar’s death in a place crash on Jan 28 morning.According to the transfer order issued late in the evening,…
Pune: A student (16) of a private English-medium school in Phursungi suffered injuries to his back and legs after his three schoolmates assaulted him with belts near the institute in Phursungi around 1.30pm on Feb 12.The injured student lodged a complaint with the Phursungi police on Monday evening. Pune: Violent Abduction Sparks Protests, Metro Boost,…
Pune: The Alankar police detained a woman (31), working as a manager with a private company, after she sprayed a solution at the face of her grandmother (75) at the latter’s Karvenagar residence to commit theft around 11.50am on Monday. However, the spray did not cause much damage and the elderly woman raised an alarm.Other…
Pune: The Maharashtra govt on Tuesday granted revised approval for Kharadi-Swargate-Khadakwasla and Nal Stop-Warje Metro lines in accordance with earlier clearances from the Union govt. The project, spanning 31.6 km, will feature 28 elevated stations. The total cost of both the lines will be Rs 9857.85 crore, with both the Union and state govt contributing…
Pune: Maharashtra is likely to roll out the first phase of Census 2027 through a two-step process starting in May. The exercise will begin with self-enumeration from May 1-15, followed by house listing and census from May 16 to June 15, officials said on Tuesday. They said a formal notification outlining the schedule would be…
Pune: Suspended sub registrar Ravindra Taru “facilitated the commission of offence to hide the real information” at the time of registration of the disputed Mundhwa land parcel sale deed, the court of additional sessions judge DP Ragit observed in the Feb 16 order rejecting Taru’s bail application.The judge referred to the chargesheet filed by the…
