The ongoing pre-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) mapping exercise is progressing slowly in cities, including Pune and Mumbai, with senior election officials attributing it to the nature of preparatory work and high urban mobility.Data accessed by TOI as of April 24 shows that 65.1% of the state’s 9.88 crore electors have been mapped with the last…
Pune: All Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) canteens will sell tea and breakfast at a fixed rate of Rs 40 from June 1, 2026, announced the state transport minister Pratap Sarnaik on Thursday.The minister, during his inspection of the Vallabhnagar depot in Pimpri Chinchwad, added that the restrooms established by the transport body must…
Pune: NCP (SP) working president and Baramati MP Supriya Sule on Thursday announced that she will never again contest election against any member of the Pawar family.Supriya’s sister-in-law and NCP chief Sunetra Pawar welcomed her statement and said there should not be one more Pawar versus Pawar contest on any poll turf.The Pawar family members…
Pune: Police have registered a case against a BJP youth wing office-bearer for allegedly referring to Kondhwa as “Karachi of Pakistan” in a video that went viral on social media earlier this week.The FIR was filed two days after the video surfaced, following protests by local residents and activists outside the Kondhwa police station demanding…
Pune: Over 100 passengers travelling to Lucknow and Delhi on an Air India Express flight endured a frustrating delay of more than 14 hours on Wednesday.The flight (IX-1618), originally scheduled to depart at 4.30pm, was repeatedly rescheduled throughout the evening without clear communication from the airline, passengers said. It finally departed for Lucknow around 7am…
Pune: A special court in the city convicted Sameer Hajju Pathan and Rahul Gajendra Kamble for robbery with use of a deadly weapon and sentenced them to seven years’ imprisonment, but acquitted them of the charges under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), observing that the existence of an organised crime syndicate is…
Pune: A 25-year-old paan stall owner from Talawade had a narrow escape on Tuesday night, when two men poured petrol on him and tried to set him on fire after he refused to give them a cigarette for free.The Chikhali police have arrested Sachin Punase, 25, of Chakan and Bhushan Suradkar, 25, of Nighoje in…
Pune: A drunk man on Wednesday night hit five people with his friend’s car at a vegetable market in Balajinagar, off Pune-Satara Road, after the latter told him to park it.Worse, he did not have a driving licence. Senior inspector Vitthal Pawar of the Sahakarnagar police station said, “We arrested the driver, Akbar Tamboli (30)…
Pune: Erratic water supply, rising encroachments, crumbling footpaths and worsening traffic took the centre stage at a citizens’ meet in Deccan Gymkhana recently, with residents saying their quality of life has “deteriorated sharply” and demanding time-bound action from corporators.The interaction, organised by the citizens’ group Deccan Gymkhana Parisar Samiti (DGPS), brought together corporators from two…
Pune: As many as 26 people, including two fire brigade officials, suffering from uneasiness were hospitalised following poly aluminium chloride gas leakage from an unattended tank at an open plot near Aai Mata Mandir, close to Gangadham Chowk, around 12.30am on Thursday.The Bibvewadi police said the steel tank corroded over time. A hole developed in…
