NCp (SP) chief Sharad Pawar Pune: NCP (SP) announced that it will stage a statewide protest after govt hiked fuel prices for the fourth time in 15 days .The party’s chief Sharad Pawar met its core committee in Mumbai on Monday where, along with the upcoming MLC elections, fuel price hike, inflation and the poor…
Broken railings of Garware bridge on Monday Pune: A BBA student (19) from Kiwale suffered minor injuries after his car crashed into the railings of Garware bridge on JM Road and fell on the plants along the subway below around 1.30am on Monday.The student’s medical test revealed that he was driving the car in an…
Pune: Anger, anguish and alarm swept through Aundh’s 500-seat Bharatratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Auditorium on Monday, as residents tore into PMC’s plan to fell 163 of 689 trees along the Mula riverbank in Balewadi for a riverfront project. At the packed public hearing, citizens questioned both the legality of the process and the scientific basis…
Illustrated in a comic-book style, masked men assault a man with an iron rod in a crowded Indian market, depicting a violent street attack for editorial news coverage. Pune: The Hadapsar police have registered a case against an autorickshaw driver, a woman passenger and another male passenger, after they beat up a PMPML bus driver…
Voters’ lists will be updated Pune: The district administration will launch a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) drive of electoral rolls across the district to make voters’ lists more accurate, transparent and updated, district collector and district election officer Jitendra Dudi said on Monday.Around 91.16 lakh voter records will be physically verified through door-to-door visits. The…
Pune: Shiv Sena workers of the Pune unit on Monday staged a protest at the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) headquarters against the inferior quality of pre-monsoon works and waterlogging following recent showers.The protestors alleged that the situation had exposed the PMC’s mismanagement and failure to complete infrastructure work on time.“Contracts worth crores were awarded for…
Pune: The Pimpri police on Sunday arrested a 43-year-old bouncer employed at a mall on the charge of flashing a 24-year-old woman while she was waiting for a bus at the BRTS stop on the Mother Teresa flyover in Chinchwad on May 21.Senior police inspector Vijayanand Patil of the Pimpri police said the accused, Zakir…
Pune: Several districts, including Pune, Navi Mumbai and Nagpur, may now have to rely on reserve staff for the ongoing house-listing exercise for Census 2027 after Bombay high court’s vacation bench stayed the state govt’s move to deploy teachers and non-teaching staff from private unaided schools for compulsory census duties.The stay order, especially during the…
Pune: A 41-year-old eatery owner and his worker were injured after five men allegedly attacked them with a billhook and opened fire at them at Kodawadi Phata in Rajgad taluka, around 50km from Pune, on Sunday night. The victims escaped bullet injuries, but the attackers vandalised the eatery before fleeing.“The eatery owner sustained billhook injuries…
Naseeruddin Shah and Paresh Rawal at the inaugural session of the theatre festival on Monday Pune: The inaugural session of the Shreeram Lagoo National Theatre Festival was a masterclass wrapped in a friendly catch-up. Veteran thespians Naseeruddin Shah and Paresh Rawal traded recollections, advice and laughter — shaping an evening where craft and mischief sat…
