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Officials said the decision is expected to bring uniformity in development regulations across the PMRDA area and its adjoining municipal corporation limits Pune: State govt on Wednesday extended the Unified Development Control and Promotion Regulations to the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority area and the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation’s 668sqkm Special Planning Authority zone,…

At present, 812 vehicles, comprising school buses and vans, are ferrying students without the fitness document Pune: It’s been over a month since the new academic session started, but more than 800 school transport vehicles continue to operate without valid fitness certificates that have to be renewed every year, said Pune RTO officials.At present, 812…

An AI-generated illustration shows a sub-inspector is arrested by the Anti-Corruption Bureau while taking a bribe Pune: The city unit of the state anti-corruption bureau (ACB) on Wednesday caught a police sub-inspector attached to the Dighi police station while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 3 lakh to file a summary report in a criminal…

According to the FDA directive, food establishments must provide safe drinking water free of cost and display notices informing customers about its availability Pune: Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration’s directive requiring restaurants to provide free drinking water has triggered confusion among customers about whether hotels and restaurants can continue charging for packaged bottled water, particularly…

footage shows public unrest and physical confrontation with the accused following the incident in Pune (Photo credit: X) PUNE: Following an investigation into a molestation case involving a 14-year-old girl, Pune Police have arrested a robotics tutor, Arif Syed.Officials stated that the student had been attending tuition at the teacher’s home since her childhood.The incident…

Pune: The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education on Tuesday announced the Std X (SSC) and Std XII (HSC) supplementary examination results, with SSC section recording a pass percentage of 29.53, down from 36.48 in 2025 and 36.78 in 2024. The HSC pass rate stood at 38.72, lower than 43.65 last year,…

The relentless downpour over the past few days has caused widespread waterlogging, triggering outbreaks of fungal and bacterial diseases Pune: Heavy rainfall has dealt a severe blow to tomato growers in Junnar and Ambegaon tehsils, ravaging crops ready for harvest and pushing farmers into financial uncertainty during the ongoing kharif season.The relentless downpour over the…

Deputy election commissioner Gyanesh Bharti reviewed the SIR drive in Pune division Pune: Deputy election commissioner Gyanesh Bharti on Tuesday directed poll officials to complete the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls within the prescribed timeline, stressing that voter lists must be prepared with utmost accuracy and booth-level officers’ work closely monitored.Bharti reviewed…

BLOs conducting the SIR drive Pune: When a booth-level officer (BLO) visited 31-year-old IT professional Rohit Deshmukh’s (name changed) apartment in Pune last week, he realised he had two voter registrations.“I shifted from Nagpur to Pune four years ago for a job. I enrolled as a voter in Pune, but did not delete my name…

According to petitioner’s counsel Satish Dhoka, the case is the first of its kind in Pune district courts where a divorce petition was decided after the respondent participated through video conferencing Pune: A district judge granted a divorce after interacting via video conferencing with a man lodged in jail, who declined legal aid and chose…