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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…

Pune: Many residents and activists are frustrated by the inaction of the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) against illegal hoardings in the last two years.These hoardings have proliferated over several land plots including military areas under the PCB, especially in the last few months, citizens said, adding that the last action against such hoardings was taken…

Pune: Traffic movement from North Main Road towards Koregaon Park bridge (Aga Khan bridge) has become smooth ever since the civic administration completed widening the turn and the stretch which connects ahead.Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) recently added one lane to the existing road and widened the bend, enabling vehicles to turn towards the bridge with…

Pune: A 54-year-old import-export trader from Gahunje lodged a complaint with the Shirgaon police on Sunday stating that cybercrooks duped him of Rs19.40 lakh by promising handsome commission on ‘routing’ natural oil products through them to a ‘company in Sweden’. The victim told police in his complaint that the fraudsters, who claimed to be based…

Pune: A prominent city jeweller from Sadashiv Peth lodged a complaint with the Vishrambaug police on Sunday, accusing one of his employees of stealing gold ornaments worth Rs4.89 crore in phases between April 1 and May 26. The manager of the shop, aged 37 and a resident of Sangvi, lodged a complaint with the police…

PUNE: Two new species of millipedes have been added to India’s arthropod diversity after their discovery in Western Ghats regions, namely Karad in Maharashtra and in Kerala.The discovery of the two species — named Polydrepanum xiphosum and Polydrepanum spinatum — by a team of Indian scientists was published in the New Zealand-based journal Zootaxa on…