Pune:The Bombay high court has granted regular bail to Majid Usman Attar, a co-accused in a Rs1.53 crore investment fraud registered in 2023 by the Kondhwa police. Attar, along with the prime accused and three others, is facing charges of luring depositors with promise of high returns on investment in a business firm run by…
Pune: An annual district plan of Rs1,032.88 crore for 2026–27 will be placed before the District Planning and Development Council (DPDC) at its first meeting of the year on Thursday. The meeting will be chaired by the newly appointed Pune guardian minister and deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar. Prepared by the district administration, the plan…
Pune/Mumbai: State revenue minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Wednesday said non-agricultural (NA) tax has been permanently abolished under the direction of CM Devendra Fadnavis. The reform comes nearly one-and-a-half years after it was first proposed and is expected to accelerate redevelopment and regularisation of aging housing societies in major cities like Pune, Mumbai and Thane.The notification,…
Pune: The Maharashtra govt has approved a unique campaign titled, “My Village, Healthy Village,” designed to empower rural health services and foster disease-free, self-sufficient communities. The initiative would be implemented annually across the state from April 1 to March 31. The state cabinet has approved a budget of approximately Rs80 crore for the implementation of…
Pune: An allegedly unauthorised RCC (reinforced cement concrete) structure on Baner Hills continues to stand more than five years after Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) issued a demolition notice, prompting renewed concerns from residents and environmental groups about delayed enforcement and potential safety risks.A PMC notice, dated Dec 2020, had ordered the demolition of the structure…
Pune: Seagate Technology is placing its Pune operations at the centre of its India growth strategy, as artificial intelligence drives a new wave of data centre expansion and storage demand.Calling India a “super important region globally”, chief technology officer John Morris pointed to the scale of planned infrastructure build-out. “Over the next five years, in…
Pune: A senior woman (64) was arrested on Tuesday and mephedrone and cocaine collectively worth Rs2.6 lakh were sized from her.The Mumbai-based woman was taken into custody in Pimple Gurav late on Monday night, when she had come to deliver the drugs.Inspector Amol Nandekar of the Sangvi police said they had received a tip-off. “We…
Pune: As many as 15 students and four teachers from a Zilla Parishad school in Nevasa taluka in Ahilyanagar district suffered injuries after a state transport busthey were travelling in crashed into the railings along the Kalyan-Nagar highway and turned on its sidearound 7am on Thursday. The accident occurred near Dumbarwadi village in Junnar taluka,…
Pune: Four illegal hoardings were removed on Tuesday as part of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)’s special drive against such unauthorised facades with five squads for active execution.PMC’s sky sign department head Madhav Jagtap said the administration would find details of illegal hoardings using Google Maps and other software. “A fee with retrospective effect and…
Pune: The Dighi police on Tuesday rescued 17 women and busted a sex racket operating from a hotel on Alandi-Charholi Road.Inspector Vinayak Patil of the Dighi police told TOI that the police received a tip-off that a sex racket was being operated from a hotel located along the Alandi-Charholi Road. The police sent a decoy…
