Under ECI’s revised procedure, BLOs are expected to collect supporting documents from voters at their homes and upload them online Pune: Booth-level officers (BLOs) are allegedly prodding citizens to visit election offices to submit documents against notices served under the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls instead of collecting them from home, as promised…
The scheme has 2.34 crore subscribers as of now, as per PFRDA data Pune: Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) is looking to induce non-govt employees to subscribe to the National Pension System (NPS) to meet its target of a 40 crore subscriber base in five years, its whole-time member, Sanjay Pandey, said on…
Pune: A teacher of a privately run kindergarten in Ghorpadi allegedly locked a three-year-old boy in the washroom on the morning of Sept 8 as he was “too playful” in the classroom.Mundhwa police on Sunday registered a case under the provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act against the teacher and manager of the kindergarten. The…
Pune: A 24-year-old worker died after falling from a bridge on the Pune-Nashik highway while fleeing two men who allegedly assaulted him without reason.The incident occurred in the early hours of Friday at Pimpalwandi village in Junnar taluka, about 80 km from Pune. Pune Rural police on Sunday arrested a 21-year-old man and detained his…
Pune: A cybercrook posing as an official of a piped gas company allegedly duped a 65-year-old resident from Tathwade of Rs2.8 lakh by tricking him into download an APK file under the pretext of updating his gas connection.The fraud took place on Sept 1, and the victim lodged a complaint with Wakad police on Saturday.An…
Pune: As Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) prepares to impose a citywide once-a-week water shutdown from Thursday to tackle shortage, residents have raised a pressing question: Will supply actually return to normal after the closure?For many residents, the greater concern isn’t the 24-hour shutdown but the erratic and low-pressure supply that follows, stretching a daylong cut…
Police said the victim was involved in share trading Pune: A 33-year-old man from Sus was killed after allegedly being attacked with a billhook while mediating a financial dispute between two friends in Pashan late on Sunday night.“Sahadev Ramprakash Sharma died while undergoing treatment on Monday morning. The assault took place in front of the…
In Latur, all of its 10 talukas are in the severe category. Beed is reporting “a groundwater drought” across all 11 of its talukas. Pune: Below-normal groundwater conditions have spread to 223 of Maharashtra’s 353 talukas this October, the highest number of affected regions since 2018, GSDA assessments showed.In 2018, 134 talukas were classified as…
Police registered the case after CCTV footage of the constable and his aide inside the shop was widely circulated Pune: A constable attached to the Fursungi police station and his aide have been booked on the charge of threatening a grocer in Uruli Devachi, demanding Rs 5 lakh from him and taking Rs 1.65 lakh…
Under the revised schedule, applications and objections to the draft electoral under SIR can be filed until Oct 26 Pune: ECI on Monday extended the deadline for filing claims and objections to Maharashtra’s draft electoral roll under the SIR exercise till Oct 26, while 2.83 lakh people filled up Form 6 in the past nine…
