Pune: The Union transport ministry has granted permission to state govt to resume manual fitness tests of vehicles until Oct this year, Pune MP and MoS for civil aviation Murlidhar Mohol said on Saturday.Earlier, the ministry had mandated that vehicle fitness tests could only be conducted at Automated Testing Stations (ATS). However, with many RTOs…
Pune: NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar on Saturday said the FIR registered by the Karnataka police in his uncle Ajit Pawar’s death in a plane crash had been transferred to the Maharashtra CID but it still did not act on it, while the CID officers told TOI that it had been made a part of…
Pune: The Pune RTO on Thursday penalised 15 cabbies for overcharging commuters and told aggregators to follow the RTA-approved fares — Rs37 for the first 1.5km and Rs25 for every subsequent kilometre — in its attempt to streamline the cab operations in the city.Deputy regional transport officer Swapnil Bhosle said, “Ola and Rapido have agreed…
Pune:A cool chopper ride to Mumbai or a dash to Delhi on a chartered flight has become dearer by 30-40% in April — T S Eliot’s “the cruellest month”.Reason: The West Asia conflict-induced price hike of aviation turbine fuel (ATF). End-result: Decline in customer base of operators.Ishwarchandra Gulgule, the managing director of Kaigu Aviation, toldTOI,…
Pune: A 43-year-old resident of Rasta Peth was killed on Thursday afternoon after a water tanker ran over him in Hadapsar. Following the incident, the Hadapsar police registered a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against both the tanker owner and the driver.The victim, identified as Pratik Sheth, was riding his scooter towards…
Pune: Images shot by French documentary photographer Frédéric Noy with a smartphone camera over three years in India are on display at Ravi Paranjpe Studio in Model Colony from April 17-19. Titled An Unselfed Visual Journal, the exhibition has been organised by Alliance Française de Pune.Noy is a veteran of long-form, slow visual storytelling and…
Pune: The Army has initiated construction of a new polyclinic under the Ex-Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme (ECHS) in Buldhana district, about 400 km from Pune, with the facility expected to benefit over 22,000 former servicemen and their families.Army officials said the groundbreaking ceremony for the polyclinic was held at Sagwan village recently. The land was…
Pune: The Chandannagar police on Friday arrested a lawyer, his wife and daughter on the charge of bludgeoning the lawyer’s secretary to death.The wife had suspected that the lawyer was in an illicit relationship with his secretary. When the secretary did not return home and her number was not reachable, her husband began searching for…
Pune: The practice of learning from nature’s designs and processes to solve human problems — from energy and architecture to healthcare and technology — biomimicry offers real-world applications at a time when sustainability conversations often remain surface-level.Educator and biomimicry practitioner Prashant Dhawan mentioned innovations emerging from students’ projects — such as safer electrical switches inspired…
Pune: Four people collectively lost Rs 1.32 crore after cybercrooks lured them to share-trading for handsome returns between Jan and March.Separate complaints were registered with the Vishrambaug, Baner, Kalepadal and Talegaon Dabhade police on Thursday.Fraudsters contacted a retired resident (69) of Sadashiv Peth on a social media platform and offered good returns if the latter…
