Pune: Hospitals in the city are seeing a steady increase in Covid-19 cases among healthcare workers, including doctors and nurses. However, medical experts confirmed that there is no immediate concern about staffing shortages.In other developments, rare complications are also being reported in some patients, such as heart failure and Covid-related encephalitis — although these remain…
Once seen as too spicy or exotic, Indian home-style fare is now a global hit as busy professionals, students and locals across the world lap up meals inspired by the country’s very own tiffin cultureButter chicken and naan defined all that Chicago-based accountant Josh Brooks thought was good about Indian food. He had been to…
Pune: Throughout their lives, the three Narlikar sisters — Geeta, Girija, and Leelavati — were often asked variations of this question: What is it like to have a famous father?On behalf of the three daughters of renowned astrophysicist Jayant Narlikar (86), who passed away on May 20, Geeta, a US-based biochemist, answered the question at…
Pune: The city airport is expected to receive 13 acres from the Indian Air Force by the end of Aug or in Sept, airport director Santosh Dhoke told TOI on Tuesday. The land will be used to set up basic infrastructure, including additional aircraft parking bays, and this will allow more flights to take-off and…
Pune: The court of judicial magistrate first class Amol Shinde on Tuesday extended the custodial remand till June 7 of Nilesh Chavan, business associate of Shashank Hagawane and co-accused in the dowry death case of Vaishnavi Hagawane. The court sent Vaishnavi’s father-in-law Rajendra Hagawane and brother-in-law to magisterial custody remand till June 16. They were…
Pune: Against the odds of scorching desert winds and a fraught geopolitical backdrop, a new documentary brings to light an unexpected story of the resilience of wildlife along the India-Pakistan border in Rajasthan. ‘Living with Border Security’, the first film in the upcoming ‘Living with Nature’ documentary series, will launch on YouTube this World Environment…
Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said Maharashtra is set to provide 30 lakh houses to homeless people under the Pradhan Mantri Awas scheme and become the first state in India to achieve 100% of the target.He also said a fresh survey would be carried out to identify homeless people who are yet to…
Pune: Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan on Tuesday said “on May 10 around 1am, Pakistan aimed to bring India to its knees in 48 hours” but “their operation, which they thought would continue for 48 hours, folded up in about eight hours”.“Then they picked up the telephone and said they wanted to talk,”…
Pune: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has resolved a nearly two-decade-old legacy issue involving similar Electoral Photo Identity Card (EPIC) numbers, weeding out approximately 2.6 lakh duplicate cards from the electoral database across the country.The exercise, which involved scrutinising records of over 99 crore electors across 10.5 lakh polling stations in all 4,123 assembly…
Pune: From EV-ready parking provisions and streamlined redevelopment rules to digital governance and pet policies, Maharashtra State Co-operative Housing and Apartment Federation has submitted a fresh set of demands to be incorporated in the upcoming model bye-laws 2025 for cooperative housing societies. These demands have been placed before a state-appointed committee headed by the cooperation…
