Pune: The Pimpri police on Monday arrested four youths on the charge of attempting to kill an 18-year-old student with sharp weapons over an old dispute. The incident occurred on Sunday in Pimpri. The victim suffered injuries to his hands and is undergoing treatment.Inspector Vijayanand Patil of the Pimpri police said the victim and the…
Pune: The PCB has initiated repairs on roads within its limits in recent days after receiving numerous complaints about potholes from residents.So far, around 70 potholes have been fixed on various key roads — including East Street, MG Road and Coyaji Road — officials said. They added that the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) has also…
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad cyber police on Monday arrested five men in connection with a share-trading fraud, in which a software engineer from Moshi lost Rs 1.11 crore between Feb and May this year.A cyber police team led by senior police inspector Ravikiran Nale arrested three of the suspects from Nagpur, and two were taken…
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has achieved record-breaking property tax collection in the first quarter of the 2025-26 financial year.This is largely due to the effective use of data from its “City Hub for Data Communication” (CHDC) project.In the first 90 days, the PCMC has collected Rs522 crore towards property tax, which is…
Pune: The state’s public works department (PWD) received a mere Rs 9,068.49 crore in the supplementary budget tables on Monday, barely 20% of the Rs 46,000 crore required to clear pending contractor dues, despite the department requesting Rs 20,000 crore to address urgent infrastructure needs and mounting liabilities.The supplementary budget, totalling Rs 57,509 crore, was…
Pune: State public works department’s (PWD) officials told TOI on Tuesday that their revamped Pothole Complaint Redressal System (PCRS) app has ensured that around 90% complaints are addressed, two months after it was overhauled.Out of 498 complaints received as of June 2025, 458 were resolved, and only 40 remain pending, said PWD officials. The data…
Pune: The Bombay high court has directed a five-member expert committee, appointed on June 26 last year, to submit within two months a report to state govt on the issue of replacing the demarcations of flood lines in 2017 development plan for Pune city and superimpose them with those demarcated in the maps, dated March…
Pune: The civic administration is considering tapping Jambhulwadi lake in Katraj as a drinking water source, for which PMC’s water supply department is working on a detailed project report (DPR) to supply water from the lake to around 30,000 residents in the nearby areas.The lake, with a capacity of 60 lakh cubic metres, is fed…
Pune: Water supply disruptions persisted in the Pashan, Baner and Bavdhan areas till Tuesday afternoon after a leakage developed in the water pipeline the previous evening, with repairs wrapping up in the early hours. PMC officials said they expected to restore supply to full capacity by Wednesday.Repairs to the water supply line impacted pumping at…
Pune: The rainfall activity picked up in Pune and surrounding areas, especially in ghat sections, on Tuesday after a couple of days’ subdued showers.The ghat areas, including Tamhini (210mm), Shirgaon (96mm), Lonavla (48mm), Kuruvande (66mm) and Girivan (51 mm), recorded light rain. Key locations in the city, including Shivajinagar (3.7mm), Pashan (6.2mm), Lohegaon (4.4mm), Chinchwad…
