Pune: Monday turned out to be the hottest day for the city in May as maximum temperatures soared to 43.8°C and 41.6°C in Lohegaon and Shivajinagar, respectively. The city’s all-time highest May temperature, 43.3°C, was recorded at Shivajinagar on May 7, 1889, IMD data showsMonday’s maximum temperature in Lohegaon was 6.3 degrees above normal, while…
Pune: PMRDA officials said on Saturday that It would take another six to seven months to complete the construction of a dedicated Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) court building within the district and sessions Court complex.The building was initially expected to be completed by late last year.“The pace of work has slowed down…
Pune: State principal secretary for industries P Anbalagan has said the govt will undertake a comprehensive infrastructure gap analysis across the Chakan-Talegaon industrial corridor as global companies prepare fresh expansion plans in Maharashtra.He said the focus is to identify deficiencies in roads, electricity infrastructure, waste management and mobility connectivity in the aforementioned industrial corridor, which…
Pune: The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) may be planning a major expansion of its e-bus fleet, but the current charging infrastructure remains inadequate.According to data provided by the state transport body, MSRTC currently operates 738 e-buses. By the end of the 2026-27 financial year, the number is expected to rise to 2,300 —…
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) removed four unauthorised religious structures during an overnight demolition operation ending Monday in the Chikhali-Kudalwadi area amid tight security and heightened tension.The action followed notices issued more than a year ago to 31 unauthorised religious structures in the locality. These notices were served after one of the city’s…
Pune: A city Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) on Thursday awarded over Rs77 lakh compensation separately in a 2016 case wherein on August 19, a medical professional couple on a motorcycle was killed after a car driving on the wrong side hit their vehicle in Lohegaon.The tribunal also recorded a legal battle between the maternal…
Pune: The Maharashtra Registration and Stamps Department has revived a major project to digitise over a century of land and registration records. State registration officials told TOI that the initiative aims to digitise 30 crore pages of historical documents dating back to 1865, a move set to transform property transparency and ease of transactions across…
Pune: Rocky plateaus and hill outcrops in the Western Ghats, which appear barren for most of the year but support rare plants, insects and amphibians found nowhere else, are facing growing destruction from mining, quarrying and climate change, a new international study involving Pune-based scientists has said.Published in the Society for Conservation Biology’s Conservation Biology,…
Pune: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has cut off water supply to 24 housing societies this month for failing to run their sewage treatment plants (STPs) despite several notices. The civic body has also penalised 16 housing complexes Rs 10,000 each for discharging wastewater into stormwater channels.PCMC warned that more housing societies could face…
Pune: A study conducted at Rasayu Cancer Clinic in the city for almost a decade provided clinical evidence of Ayurveda Rasayana Therapy (ART)’s effectiveness in managing advanced pancreatic cancer and increasing the survival duration of patients.Led by Dr Yogesh Bendale, the CMD of Rasayu Cancer Clinic, the study was conducted on 17 advanced-stage pancreatic cancer…
