Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday said a decision on farmers’ loan waiver would be taken at the appropriate time.He said guidelines and set procedures must be followed while taking such a decision. The Mahayuti govt would not backtrack from any of the assurances it had given, Fadnavis told reporters here after attending the…
Pune: As a sombre crowd gathered at Sant Tukaramnagar in Pimpri on Saturday to bid a final farewell to 22-year-old Irfan Shaikh, a crew member of the ill-fated Air India plane that crashed moments after takeoff in Ahmedabad on June 12, his mother, Taslim, sat frozen in grief, clinging to the coffin containing her son’s…
PUNE: Bibvewadi police on Friday registered a case of cheating based on an 85-year-old man’s complaint that said he lost Rs 11.45 lakh in a matrimonial fraud. The alleged incident occurred between April 18 and June 6 this year.The elderly man lives with his son and daughter-in-law in a bungalow at Bibvewadi. His wife died…
Pune: India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Saturday issued a comprehensive rainfall warning of extremely heavy to very heavy rainfall (red and orange alerts) across several states over the next week. Heavy precipitation exceeding 200mm in 24 hours has been forecast for isolated areas of Madhya Pradesh on June 23, with Konkan, Goa, Madhya Maharashtra and…
Pune: It might be just another title in the junior tennis circuit, but for Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi, the trophy in the Grade 2 ITF event in Gladbeck, Germany, on Saturday was quite significant.The 16-year-old from Coimbatore, who set the courts on fire in the WTA 125 Mumbai Open by reaching the semifinals as an unranked,…
Pune: Managing director and CEO of JCB India Deepak Shetty said on Saturday that 75% of JCB’s global engineering work was done from the city, with over 700 engineers working at the company’s design centre. Shetty was speaking at the fourth foundation day celebrations of College of Engineering, Pune Technical University (CoEPTU).“From India, we export…
Pune: A team of doctors from Army Hospital (Research and Referral) flew in on an Indian Air Force’s Super Hercules aircraft on Friday night to collect and transport a liver and two kidneys from a 59-year-old brain-dead woman in Pune to New Delhi for transplantation, after her family generously consented to organ donation. The donor,…
Pune: Holiday and business travellers are now increasingly purchasing more expensive travel insurance policies, experts said, as anxieties mounted over possible disruptions such as Covid surges, war, hospitalizations abroad and issues with airline safety. In Pune too, flyers said they did not mind paying the premium, as long as a range of unforeseen events were…
Pune: A girl (15) from Raja Bahadur Mill Road, reported missing by her parents on May 25, was found dead on a platform at Jabalpur railway station in Madhya Pradesh on June 17, while her distant relative (22) was spotted in an unconscious state in Nagpur.Senior inspector Ravindra Gaikwad of the Bund Garden police said,…
Pune: The urban development department has cleared four of the six town planning schemes proposed more than one year ago by the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority, officials said on Saturday. Of the remaining two, the proposal for Maan-Mhalunge — once showcased as a model scheme in 2018 — is still under assessment. The Manjari…
