With Dasara and Diwali traditionally being the busiest periods for real estate purchases, officials expect collections to swell further. Buyers are actively scheduling registrations on auspicious dates, while developers roll out festive discounts and new project launches Pune: The state’s registration and stamps department has collected nearly half of its annual revenue target ahead of…
Someshwar Mahadevan and Ankush Singh Aka Loneking Pune: When Lillete Dubey took the Mahabharata to the stage as “Jaya” in 1998, she chose rock and roll. Nearly three decades later, in singer-composer Someshwar Mahadevan’s retelling of Ramayana, rap has found a place, compressing the seven kaands into a little over six minutes.The difference is more…
Farmer Digambar Gaikwad in his stunted tur farm Pune: Sixty-four-year-old Digambar Gaikwad is staring at a bleak future. Four acres of agricultural land with a yield of withered and damaged crops, drying borewells and a mounting Rs6 lakh debt are all he’s left with.“I own four acres of land, and cultivate on another eight acres…
Pune: Justice (Retd.) Gita Mittal tells Delhi High Court that AITA, AITA Trust and DLTA are closely intertwined, seeks a forensic audit and access to documents relating to funding, land and finances.The Administrator for the All India Tennis Association (AITA) has appealed to the Delhi High Court to make AITA Trust (Trust) and the Delhi…
Withered soybean crop in Washi tehsil of Dharashiv district Pune: State govt has approved ground truthing surveys in 18 additional talukas, apart from those covered under Trigger-1, to assess crop conditions amid deficient rainfall and other adverse factors during June-Sept 2026.These talukas are Mudkhed and Mukhed in Nanded district; Jivati, Brahmapuri and Ballarpur in Chandrapur;…
Fourteen students and activists were detained while attempting to travel from Pune to Delhi by train PUNE: Fourteen students and activists on Friday said they would stage the anti-CEC protest in the city, instead of Delhi, after Madhya Pradesh police released them from detention following the HC’s direction.They were detained from a train on Thursday…
An AI-generated illustration of an elderly man in Baner after he lost money to share-trading fraud Pune: A 78-year-old man from Baner became the latest victim of a share-trading fraud after a cybercrook, posing as an executive of a prominent stock broking firm, duped him of Rs 32 lakh.The crook promised him attractive returns on…
An AI-generated illustration of an elderly man speaking over a phone Pune: A 71-year-old resident of Aundh lost Rs 30 lakh to a cybercrook, who posed as a policeman and threatened him with arrest in a money laundering case between Sept 25 and Oct 8.The elderly man lodged a complaint with Chatushrungi police on Thursday.The…
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, INDIA bloc MPs and other opposition leaders hold placards and raise slogans against chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar during a protest march at Vijay Chowk, in New Delhi Pune: Disappointed by the absence of several party MPs during its protest in New Delhi demanding the removal of chief election commissioner…
Pune: A total of 18,748 Form 7 applications seeking deletion of names from the draft electoral roll were filed in the state till Oct 8, four days before the Oct 12 deadline for claims and objections under the SIR process.The deletion requests are just for 0.02% of Maharashtra’s 7.72 crore electors. “Every objection would be…
