Pune: Several residents of Saibabanagar woke up to a nauseating stench in the early hours of Thursday and reported respiratory distress, following poly aluminium chloride gas leakage from an unattended tank at an open plot near Aai Mata Mandir, close to Gangadham Chowk.As many as 22 people, including six children, were admitted to Sassoon General…
Pune: The Science and Technology Park (STP) at Savitribai Phule Pune University will launch three new centres of excellence in the near future.The announcement was made during an event organised at the Pune International Centre to mark the completion of STP’s 40 years of operations. A coffee-table book celebrating the four decades of work was…
Pune: RTI activists have raised fresh concerns over bureaucratic appointments to key transparency posts after the state govt introduced new eligibility criteria for information commissioners.A govt resolution (GR) issued on Monday laid down age, education and experience norms for the posts of state chief information commissioner (SCIC) and state information commissioners (SICs), marking a shift…
Pune: The PMC is planning to develop a 9km road link extending from Kondhwa (Khadi Machine Chowk) to Wadki Chowk on Pune-Saswad road following resolution of land acquisition hurdles that long delayed Katraj-Kondhwa road widening.The project aims to significantly strengthen the road network in south Pune. To kickstart the process, the civic administration will appoint…
Pune: More than 30 stations are proposed on four new Metro routes covering various city areas, with PMC and Maha Metro initiating discussions on their exact locations, design, alignments, entry-exit points and space required.A joint meeting was held at the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) building on Tuesday, wherein the civic administration put forth basic requirements…
Pune: The PMRDA has shifted into action mode to accelerate work on the Maan–Hinjewadi–Shivajinagar Metro Line 3, with senior officials undertaking on-ground inspections to identify and resolve critical bottlenecks delaying progress.Officials said the 23km route would start operations in phases, with twelve stations are likely to open by mid-June, followed by finishing the remaining 11…
Pune: The women and child development (WCD) department has not initiated any recovery of funds disbursed to ineligible beneficiaries under the Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana, a Right to Information (RTI) reply has revealed.In a written response dated April 23, the department informed RTI applicant Vihar Durve that an estimated 12,757 men had availed benefits…
Pune: A retired Pune Metro officer (75) from Pashan has lodged a complaint with the Baner police, stating that online fraudsters cheated him of Rs 48 lakh by threatening to arrest him in child pornography and money laundering cases between March 23 and April 13.The suspects posed as officials of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of…
Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will investigate the allegations of tree trimming at the mayor’s official bungalow on Ghole Road in Shivajinagar.The inquiry came after activists raised objections to the trimming. “The details on how the permission was granted would be checked. A report regarding it would also be drafted in the next week,”…
Pune: Maharashtra Day on May 1 will usher in a long weekend and highways leading towards Lonavla and Mahabaleshwar are expected to swell with traffic by Thursday night. Residents are rethinking what a break should look like weighing long drives in temperatures nearabouts 40°C against easier, heat-conscious escapes closer to home.“We’re leaving at 4 am….
