Pune: The work to develop a state-of-the-art heliport at Hadapsar Gliding Centre will begin this winter.Minister of state for civil aviation and Pune MP Murlidhar Mohol said the process of transferring land to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for the project was in its final stage and the construction was likely to start by…
Pune: VFS Global in consortium with WE Excel Software Pvt Ltd has secured a five-year contract to set up 60 model sub-registrar offices (SROs) across the state.The state registration department granted the contract for works aimed to digitise and streamline property registration, officials told TOI on Tuesday.The project will be rolled out in phases. The…
PUNE: Citizens across the state can now register and safeguard their wills at any of the 517 sub-registrar offices at any time for a registration fee of Rs 100, officials said.Unlike other property-related documents, wills are exempt from the four-month statutory deadline and can be presented for registration at any point after execution. A will…
Pune: Mayor Manjusha Nagpure on Tuesday said there would be no water cuts in the city till May-end and further decisions will be taken in June first week on the basis of stock in dams and monsoon forecast.The mayor’s announcement on water supply came after a joint meeting on Tuesday held with officials of the…
Pune: District Collector Jitendra Dudi on Tuesday announced that the land acquisition process for the proposed Chhatrapati Sambhajiraje International Airport in Purandar will begin on Thursday.The state govt has finalised a base compensation rate of Rs 1.61 crore per acre; close to 6,500 landowners in possession of nearly 1,217 hectares will benefit, Dudi said. A…
Pune: The Women and Child Development (WCD) department’s audit has exposed alarming conditions inside several dharmashalas and religious hostels that house children in the temple town of Alandi, about 25 km from Pune.The WCD department officials said the exercise was aimed to identify violations and initiate action against institutions that operate illegally or fail to…
Pune: The Bharati Vidyapeeth police have detained four minors, aged 16 and 17, for allegedly bludgeoning their 18-year-old friend to death at Nilgiri Chowk in Ambegaon Pathar on Monday night. The attack, which occurred around 9 pm off Katraj-Dehu Road bypass, reportedly stemmed from a dispute over online gaming.The victim, identified as Nayan Jadhav (18),…
Kolhapur: The Bombay high court’s Kolhapur bench on Tuesday asked the counsel for the state govt to seek instructions from the chief minister on initiating a fresh process for conferring a Padma award (posthumously) on wrestling legend late Khashaba Jadhav, India’s first individual Olympic medalist. This was after the counsel for the central govt told…
Pune: The fire brigade officials on Tuesday afternoon rescued a seven-year-old boy after cutting portions of two walls of adjoining housing societies on the Jambhulwadi road.According to the city fire brigade officials, the boy and his friends from the Govind Besil society on the Jambhulwadi road were playing cricket on the terrace of the building…
Pune: Jay Pawar, son of deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar, on Monday said NCP should have retained the Maharashtra Olympic Association (MOA)’s president post, a day after MP Murlidhar Mohol was elected for the position.He told reporters in Baramati that several people from the sports fraternity had reached out to him over the development. “We…
