The first phase of Census 2027 ends on Sunday Pune: House-listing operations for Census 2027 are nearly 85% complete across the state with state authorities directing district collectors, municipal commissioners and census officers to expedite the remaining work and ensure timely completion of the exercise at a review meeting ahead of the June 14 deadline.Four…
Police said both the deceased were employees of a private firm engaged in maintenance of the firefighting system of the automotive MNC, headquartered in Germany Pune: Two workers died and three were hospitalised after carbon dioxide (CO₂) leaked from a firefighting system during maintenance work at an MNC’s plant in Talegaon MIDC area on Tuesday…
Census staff regroup in their area to take stock of their work in Pune on Tuesday Pune: Enumerators conducting house-listing operations across the state said the task is far more challenging than they anticipated. They have been battling summer temperatures above 40°C almost every day of May and high humidity in June and repeated visits…
CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke addressing media persons at Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar on Sunday Pune: Opposition parties have decided to distance themselves from the second round of protests seeking Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation by Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) scheduled in Pune on Thursday.Soon after returning from the US, CJP’s founder Abhijeet Dipke led an agitation…
Pune: Members of the Maratha community staged an agitation outside the official residence of cabinet minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil on Tuesday, claiming that govt failed to keep its promises made to Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange.Vikhe Patil heads the cabinet sub-committee formed to look into the Maratha reservation issue and had visited Antarwali Sarati in…
Sarthak Sidhant’s independent investigation into the CBSE’s On-Screen Marking system escalated to a national debate Pune: At 18, when most students are taking entrance exams and rushing about for college admissions, Ranchi’s Sarthak Siddhant was spending his time reading procurement documents, comparing tender revisions and tracking decisions that affected lakhs of CBSE students.His curiosity soon…
The acquisition process for the proposed international airport at Purandar in Pune began on May 7. Officials said nearly 96% of landholders had initially expressed willingness during the preliminary survey. State govt has fixed compensation at Rs 1.61 crore per acre Pune: Farmers across seven villages in Purandar taluka have been given a June 10…
Investigators found a ring of practitioners using Chinese phone apps, portable sonography machines and door-to-door “services” to bypass legal safeguards Pune: The latest sex-determination scandal in the district has exposed a fusion of technology and medical malpractice that demands urgent action. Now, district civil surgeon Dr Nagnath Yempalle has urged state govt to ban mobile…
Over the years, Junnar’s sugar cane belt has become a safe habitat for leopards Pune: The Central Zoo Authority (CZA), as part of measures to reduce human–animal conflict in the Junnar forest division, has approved two new leopard rescue centres that will together accommodate up to 480 leopards.The proposed facilities will come up at Kuran…
India is launching a revolutionary climate observatory network that spans from the majestic Himalayas to the pristine Andaman Islands PUNE: From the Himalayas to the Andamans, India is setting up a chain of long-term climate observatories as scientists at Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) work to build weather and forecasting systems calibrated for Indian…
