Pune has 61,521 lifts, but only 16,022 were inspected in 2025-26, data shows Pune: Mandatory annual safety inspections of over 70% of total 61,521 lifts remained pending in the city till the end of 2025-26 financial year as assistant engineers from the electrical inspectorate are increasingly diverted to approvals and inspections of newly installed elevators,…
Pune: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday brought Shubham Khairnar to Pune for questioning in connection with the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak case. A day earlier, the agency had moved junior college teacher Manisha Mandhare and beauty parlour owner Manisha Waghmare from Delhi to Pune as part of its ongoing effort to join…
The injured autorickshaw driver, Akshay Mhaske, was waiting for breakfast in his three-wheeler when assailants fired at him from a close range and assaulted him on Wednesday morning Pune: The Crime Branch of Pune city police late on Wednesday arrested five youths and detained a 15-year-old boy for allegedly opening fire at an autorickshaw driver…
Pune: A ‘virtual friend’ duped a 28-year-old woman from Kharadi of Rs 15.50 lakh on the promise of sending her jewellery and garments from Finland.The fraud took place in June last year. The woman filed an online complaint after realising that she had been duped. Following preliminary investigations, a case was registered with the Chandannagar…
The post of chairperson at the Maharashtra State Commission for Women has been vacant since March 20, when Rupali Chakankar resigned Pune: Over 2,700 complaints were pending before the Maharashtra State Commission for Women at the end of the last financial year, with key positions in the panel remaining vacant, an RTI reply obtained by…
From left: Mihir Jadhav, Vivek Shivade, Umesh Zirpe, Akhil Katkar and Nikunj Shah The team from Giripremi successfully summited Mount Everest early on Thursday From left: Mihir Jadhav, Vivek Shivade, Umesh Zirpe, Akhil Katkar and Nikunj Shah The team from Giripremi successfully summited Mount Everest early on Thursday From left: Mihir Jadhav, Vivek Shivade, Umesh…
Pune: The Bund Garden police on Wednesday night arrested a 20-year-old youth near Belagavi in Karnataka after a girl (21) lodged a complaint stating that he allegedly threw an acid-like substance at her and her male friend on Tadiwala Road around 1.55 am on the same day.The suspect was brought to Pune on Thursday. The…
Pune: A woman (56) from Sukhsagarnagar lost her gold jewellery worth Rs 1.8 lakh to two women and a boy recently in Bibvewadi after the child sought her help to reach his home in Rajasthan and the two women diverted her attention.She lodged a complaint with the Bharati Vidyapeeth police. The case was transferred to…
Pune: A steep rise in fishing pressure, coupled with climate-related changes, could seriously affect the sardine count along the country’s southwest coast.Researchers from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) and National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) warned thousands of coastal households dependent on India’s sardine catch about this after studying over five decades…
PCMC commissioner Vijay Suryawanshi chaired the meeting on Wednesday with officials from MNGL and the state co-operatives department with representatives of various housing societies and residents’ federations Pune: Officials of Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), Maharashtra Natural Gas Limited (MNGL) and the state co-operatives department on Wednesday held a meeting with representatives of housing societies…
