Pune: Several weather stations across Maharashtra recorded a slight drop in minimum temperatures on Saturday compared with Friday, with readings dipping by 0.5°C to 1.8°C at select locations.In the Madhya Maharashtra region, Lohegaon witnessed the sharpest fall, with the minimum temperature dropping by 1.8°C to 17.1°C on Saturday from 18.9°C a day earlier. Solapur recorded…
Pune: A 50-year-old woman from Chinchwad has lodged a complaint with the police alleging that online fraudsters cheated her of Rs 61.65 lakh between Jan and Oct last year by luring her with promises of high returns through online share trading.The victim approached the Pimpri Chinchwad police last week, and her complaint was formally registered…
Pune: A five-year-old boy was found dead on a farm in Kejal village of Bhor taluka on Saturday morning. Police and forest officials who visited the spot suspect that the child was attacked by an animal.The deceased was identified as Krushna Kiran Sonawane.According to Rajgad police, initial suspicion pointed to a possible leopard attack. However,…
Pune: Ajit Pawar‘s nephew and MLA Rohit Pawar on Saturday said the Pawar family reunited again as per his late uncle’s wish, after casting his vote at Pimpali village in Baramati for the Pune Zilla Parishad elections — the first polls after the death of the former deputy CM on Jan 28.Rohit said during his…
Pune: A woman police constable posted at Faraskhana police station was suspended for failing to take action against a Bangladeshi woman residing in the red-light area of Budhwar Peth. Deputy commissioner of police (Zone I) Krushikesh Rawale issued her suspension order on Friday night. Instead of alerting senior officers about the illegal immigrant, she allegedly…
Pune: The Congress leadership told all its local units to expand the party’s base in all districts without depending much on Sharad Pawar‘s NCP (SP) amid the outfit’s efforts for merger with the other faction of NCP.During a meeting of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee (MPCC) in Mumbai recently, the members emphasised on preparing to take…
Pune: Cabs and autos were hard to come by amid exorbitant fares in the morning hours, as drivers operating under aggregators went on a daylong strike on Saturday.The Uber cab fare from Kondhwa to Pune airport was almost Rs700 against the usual Rs300–350. A ride from Kondhwa to FC Road on Uber Go reflected an…
Pune: NCP members, including cabinet minister Hasan Mushrif and Maval MLA Sunil Shelke, on Saturday said they would support Sunetra Pawar’s decision on the merger with NCP (SP) though the party’s senior leadership maintained that Ajit Pawar did not have any discussions on integrating the outfit with Sharad Pawar’s faction.Interacting with reporters in Kolhapur, Mushrif…
The landscape of Shinganapur described in the Adiparva, a 16th-century narrative poem PUNE: Before the urbanscape, was the landscape of western Maharashtra dense forests or an open savanna? Science has answers, but people need convincing.In the quest for explanations, ecologists Ashish Nerlekar and Digvijay Patil tapped into the unlikely archives of Marathi literature, an approach…
Pune: Weekend gridlocks have almost become a norm on the Mumbai-Pune expressway, and this Saturday was no exception. A surge of traffic once again brought the corridor to a crawl, with lumbering trailers and heavy vehicles choking the ghat stretch and turning peak-hour movement into a sluggish and exhausting ordeal. Officials said the traffic surge…
