Pune: A 35-year-old woman, who had gallstones, has become the first patient to undergo a robot-assisted surgery at the city’s BJ Medical College and Sassoon General Hospital (BJMC & SGH). The successful procedure, performed free of cost on Wednesday, made the hospital the first govt medical college in western Maharashtra and the third in the…
Pune: Colleges across the city showed slight shifts in the cutoff marks compared to last year when the first cutoff list was released for the first year of junior college on Saturday. While there was a slight uptick in the cutoff marks in the commerce stream in some colleges, the cutoff marks in major colleges…
Pune: MahaRERA’s progress on recovery warrant has remained slow, with only 31% of cases executed. Despite state govt’s directive to dispose of these cases within three months, merely Rs 233 crore has been recovered out of Rs 760 crore due in 1,212 cases across Maharashtra, officials told TOI on Saturday.The slow progress contradicts revenue minister…
Pune: A month after National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) blamed PCMC for lack of maintenance after stormwater flow through culverts was blocked along the service road of Pune-Bengaluru highway (NH-48), the civic body has countered the claim.The PCMC officials said a recent inspection by them revealed that several blocked culverts were constructed by NHAI…
Pune: The Bharati Vidyapeeth police on Friday booked former Pune Municipal Corporation corporator Vasant More and around 30 of his supporters on the charge of staging an agitation without permission at Katraj Chowk. The protesters demanded that PMC expedite the Katraj-Kondhwa Bypass widening project.The project, which aims to increase the road’s width to 84 metres…
Pune: The Ambegaon police on Thursday arrested two Bangladeshi sisters, aged 30 and 38, for residing illegally in India. Along with them, the police also arrested the husband of one of the women, who allegedly assisted them in acquiring forged documents, including Aadhaar cards, PAN cards, and Voter ID cards, from Bihar. The man hails…
Pune: Cybercrooks, who posed as agents of an online jewellery store, duped a 45-year-old homemaker from Hinjewadi of Rs43.31 lakh in an online task fraud. The crooks gave prepaid tasks of writing posts related to their jewellery store and duped her between March and April this year .The woman filed an online complaint. After preliminary…
Pune: The civic body has drafted a plan to improve daily lifting of garbage and support cleaning activities in the Lohegaon airport area. The airport administration had approached PMC for garbage management in the airport’s vicinity. Concerns were raised about increasing presence of animals and birds in the neighbourhood, because trash was not cleared regularly….
Pune: Rajya Sabha MP Medha Kulkarni on Friday said Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) was responsible for pending civic issues as well as the city’s traffic and environment problems — all of which should be dealt with on priority.She held a meeting with civic officials at PMC headquarters on Friday.Kulkarni told reporters after the meeting that…
Pune: The civic body on Thursday held a drive against roadside encroachers in different parts of the city, confiscating their wares and makeshift stalls.Action took place against 300 vendors at various locations — including Hadapsar, Mundhwa, Sinhagad Road and Dhole Patil Road.“Encroachers were doing business illegally. They were flouting the rules and causing traffic congestion,…
