Pune

Work on to clear debris on Pune-Lonavla ghat section after landslide Pune: Central Railway on Thursday cancelled 14 trains, including Deccan Queen, Deccan Express and CSMT-Pune Intercity Express, from July 10 to 17 to facilitate ongoing restoration work on the landslide-affected Lonavla-Karjat ghat section, disrupting travel plans and leaving many passengers, especially pass holders, stranded.Other…

Pune: An 18-year-old farmer from Shirur taluka was electrocuted on Wednesday evening, trying to pump water for his cattle on the farm.The incident happened at Savindane village in Shirur taluka, about 60 km from Pune around 7.30 pm. The Pune Rural police have identified the deceased farmer as Ganesh Bhor. An officer said, “It was…

Rescue operations at the garbage plant cave-in site in Moshi Pune: More than 34 hours after the administrative building at Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation’s waste-to-energy plant in Moshi caved in, rescue teams from the National Disaster Response Force, the Army, fire departments from the civic body and PMRDA continued round-the-clock efforts on Thursday to extricate…

Pune: A 29 year old man was assaulted by two men for allegedly changing the song played in a gym in Hadapsar without their permission, around 7 pm on Monday.The 29-year-old man from Sayyednagar registered a complaint with the Hadapsar Police. Police said, “The complainant reached the gym when a song was being played by…

Governor of Himachal Pradesh Kavinder Gupta (left), and managing trustee and executive president Rahul Karad at MIT-World Peace University Pune: Himachal Pradesh governor Kavinder Gupta visited MIT World Peace University on July 5th and held discussions with the university’s academic leadership.The discussions ranged from higher education and leadership development, to student transformation initiatives. Speaking during…

Garbage up to 70ft surrounds the caved in building in Moshi Pune: The answer everybody tracking Wednesday’s disaster in Moshi wants to know is if construction norms to build the waste-to-energy plant’s administrative building, just 30 metres away from the garbage mountains, had been adhered to.The building caved in when tons of garbage slid and…

The palkhi of Sant Tukaram Maharaj arrives in Pune city on Thursday evening Pune: As a bleak dawn broke over the rain-soaked skies of Pimpri Chinchwad on Thursday, every road, decorated with colourful rangolis, seemed to lead towards Pune city, welcoming the palkhis of Sant Tukaram Maharaj and Sant Dnyaneshwar Maharaj.By Thursday afternoon, the cacophony…

Rescuers on top of the garbage mound in Moshi planning their next step Pune: At least 1,150 metric tonnes of trash generated every day in Pimpri Chinchwad is brought to the Moshi waste-to-energy plant for processing. Four separate units, waste-to-energy, plastic, bio-CNG, construction and demolition, process it on 81 acres, an overload for the facility…

BLOs and other officials from the team visit citizens in Shaniwar Peth and JM Road in Pune Pune: Election authorities across the state have begun cracking down on booth-level officers (BLOs) for deliberate absenteeism, repeated non-compliance with official directions and wilful negligence during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. Such dereliction of…

Pune: Incessant rain over the last few days has forced booth-level officers (BLOs) to shift part of the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise indoors, with camps being organised at housing societies, community halls and wedding halls across Pune district to speed up voter verification.The camp-based model has come up in large residential complexes,…