National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has strategically pre-positioned rescue teams across Maharashtra and Goa to ensure faster response to floods, landslides, urban flooding and other rain-related emergencies Pune: The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has strategically pre-positioned rescue teams across Maharashtra and Goa for faster response to floods, landslides, urban flooding and other rain-related emergencies.The…
Pune: Cyber fraudsters posing as Mumbai police duped a 71-year-old Kothrud resident of Rs74 lakh by threatening to arrest him in a fabricated case.It took place between June 27 and July 1. The man lodged a complaint with the Pune Cyber police on Thursday.A cyber police officer said that on June 27, the complainant received…
Pune: A 48-year-old courier firm owner from Sadashiv Peth lost Rs 45 lakh to cybercrooks over the promise of high returns on investments in the stock market and cryptocurrency.This took place in June this year. Khadak police registered a case on Thursday.A police officer said, while looking for a business software online, the complainant came…
Pune: The city is seeing an unsettling surge in typhoid and other intestinal infections this year, with doctors warning that the actual scale of the outbreak might be far greater than suggested by official figures.According to Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) data, 38 cases of enteric fever (typhoid) were recorded till June 24. But infectious disease…
Picture for representation purpose Pune: For a young girl from a remote district of Maharashtra, walking into a five-star hotel in Pune for a job interview seems more than an internship opportunity.Weeks later, she walked out with an internship offer, becoming one of the many young cadets selected in a pilot initiative that officials claim…
A court on Friday effectively ruled out the polygraph test of Siya Goyal and Chetan Chaudhary, accused of murdering realtor Ketan Agarwal, and sent them to 14-day judicial custody PUNE: A court on Friday effectively ruled out the polygraph test of Siya Goyal and Chetan Chaudhary, accused of murdering realtor Ketan Agarwal, and sent them…
Citizens fill forms and submit documents during the SIR drive in Khadki Pune: Booth-level officers (BLOs) have stepped up door-to-door verification under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, with many collecting supporting documents from voters during home visits to minimise the need for them to appear before electoral registration officers (EROs).The exercise comes…
Illustration of an Indian private hospital representative receiving a show-cause notice from the civic body, highlighting a regulatory compliance dispute in the healthcare sector Pune: The civic body’s health department has issued show-cause notices to 15 private hospitals for allegedly flouting norms under the Bombay Nursing Homes Registration Act, 1949 (BNHR), primarily for not prominently…
The illustration shows a dead body. Pune: A medical practitioner (29) died by suicide around 10am on Friday after jumping from the 24th floor of an under-construction building in Ravet.She had been working at a private hospital in Pimpri Chinchwad.Senior police inspector Hrishikesh Ghadge of the Ravet police told TOI that the incident occurred around…
(L to R) Former chief of the Maharashtra Fire Service Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Assistant Director of the State Fire Service Kiran Hatyal and president of FSAI Sujal Shah at the conference Pune: Fire and life safety standards for a range of emerging infrastructure projects, including EV parking facilities, data centres, etc, are set to become mandatory…
