Nashik: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said that Nashik — supported by a massive infrastructure drive underway across the city and its metropolitan region — is set to transform into a major investment hub after the upcoming Kumbh Mela.The CM noted that development works worth around Rs25,000 crore are currently ongoing in preparation for…
Kolhapur: The maximum temperature in Solapur soared to 40.3°C on Monday, rising by 3.4 degrees as compared to Sunday. Its minimum temperature was 20.8°C. Mukesh Raut, a working professional from Solapur, said, “It feels like a heatwave in the daytime in just the second week of March. Usually, temperatures above 40°C are seen in April…
Pune: A 52-year-old woman died after a scooter rammed into the motorcycle on which she was riding pillion at Indori village in Maval taluka on Friday night. The Talegaon MIDC police identified the deceased as Muktabai Ghardale (52) of Kharabwadi in Khed taluka. Pune: School Probe, Water Contamination, Civic Decisions & More Her nephew, who…
Pune: At The Box Too, pieces of fabric slowly turned into a sprawling assemblage of the women who shape people’s lives. Over three days from March 6 to 8, Pune based textile artist Vaishali Oak created a participatory live installation titled The Strength of Women to mark International Women’s Day. The work was presented as…
Lens on minority schools in Pune over 51% rule PUNE: Deputy director of education (Pune division) Ganpat More has instructed education officers in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad municipal corporations and Pune Zilla Parishad to verify whether schools granted minority status are implementing the mandatory quota of having 51% members of the management and students from…
Lata Khade, an angan‑wadi worker who once helped enroll hundreds of women under the Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana, is now finding the very scheme she championed slipping out of her grasp.Despite having all her documents in order, technical glitches and e-KYC hurdles have left her without the last three months’ payouts.“As I try for…
Jyoti Ausarmal has taken up residence in Beed for her son and daughter’s education. She is a beautician and sews clothes from home. She has also enrolled for a course in designing Their victories may seem negligible by most urban standards:Getting ancestral land transferred in their names after years of resistance, fighting the family and…
Pune: The Junnar forest division has shifted 20 leopards from the overcrowded Manikdoh centre to the Vantara wildlife rescue and rehabilitation centre in Gujarat.Officials said another batch of around 30 big cats may also be relocated, depending on space availability and necessary approvals, as part of efforts to manage the growing number of rescues.The transfer…
Astrophysicist Debarati Chatterjee, a leader in gravitational wave research, champions making science accessible Theoretical physicist takes on the cosmos’s hardest questions and brings gravitational-wave science from the laboratories to the peopleTheoretical physicist Debarati Chatterjee focuses on neutron stars, col‑ colliding black holes and ripples that travel across the cosmos. But just as central to her…
Pune Municipal Corporation has temporarily suspended all gas-based crematoriums following a Union ministry directive prioritizing domestic LPG PUNE: The civic body on Sunday announced a temporary “suspension of all gas-based crematoriums across the civic areas following a directive from the Union ministry of petroleum and natural gas.” The press release from Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)…
