Pune: Frustrated over long-pending civic issues, such as irregular water supply, poor drainage, damaged roads and inefficient garbage management, residents of Wagholi and nearby areas have decided to take a collective step. They plan to approach the newly elected local corporators with a detailed list of civic problems and demand that the issues be resolved…
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has warned Ready Mix Concrete (RMC) plants operating within city limits to strictly comply with pollution control norms, failing which they will face action, including sealing of units.Civic officials stated the warning comes at a time when the city’s air quality remains in the moderate category, with the…
Pune: A Pimpri Chinchwad crime branch team arrested five men and rescued a 43-year-old building material supplier near Sangamner in Ahilyanagar district, within six hours of his abduction from Kalewadi on Monday evening. The abductors had demanded a ransom of Rs 50 lakh.Police recovered two country-made pistols, six cartridges, a car, and the victim’s expensive…
Pune: The owner of a labour supply firm and a private company’s employee collectively lost Rs2.31 crore to cybercrooks recently in separate online share-trading frauds.The labour supply firm owner lost Rs2 crore between Feb 2 and March 7. His son lodged a complaint on his behalf with the Pimpri Chinchwad cyberpolice. The private firm’s employee…
Pune: For the last one month, hundreds of residents in societies of an upscale Kharadi locality have felt like they have stepped into a post-apocalyptic reality.Each day, these residents are forced to wear masks every single time they step out of their homes, in a desperate attempt to avoid the toxic smoke emitted 24×7 by…
PUNE: Industries in parts of Pune district have started feeling the impact of an LPG shortage triggered by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, as several units in the engineering and powder-coating sectors have already reported disruptions in production.A powder-coating unit in Chakan, Mass Precision Pvt Ltd, which employs around 250 workers, has halted…
Pune: What happens when a man who considers himself progressive suddenly hesitates to hang his wife’s undergarments out to dry in front of his parents? That awkward moment of hesitation lies at the heart of “Besharam Aadmi”, a one-man play written and directed by Vijay Sharma and performed by Amol Parashar. The show will be…
Pune: In order to curb recurring accidents and traffic congestion near the Navale Bridge, 14 CCTV cameras will be integrated into the police monitoring network within the next 15 days, officials from the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) told TOI on Tuesday, following a safety review.In addition to the enhanced surveillance, authorities have officially…
Pune: The court of special MCOCA judge SS Kanthale on March 7 rejected the bail application of Parvez alias Sahil Haiderali Inamdar, a co-accused in the Sept 5, 2022, attack on organised crime detenu Tushar Hambir in the jail ward of the Sassoon General Hospital.Hambir was undergoing treatment for a back ailment at the time….
Pune: Garbage, dry waste or crop burning no longer remains an isolated issue, with the whole city increasingly forced to suffer from the toxic fallout of this illegal activity in recent years.However, some localities are particularly hit by such incessant burning, significantly downgrading air quality for their residents.Take for instance the impact of crops being…
