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Delegation of Queen’s University Belfast with officials of Bharati Vidyapeeth Pune: Students at Bharati Vidyapeeth could soon get opportunities for international academic exposure, joint research projects and postgraduate pathways in the UK as the university has initiated talks for a strategic partnership with Queen’s University of Belfast.A delegation from the UK university visited Bharati Vidyapeeth…

Voters outside a hearing centre in Kolkata where SIR concluded a few months ago Pune: The election machinery has set up 192 hearing centres across Pune district to process claims and objections after the draft electoral rolls are published, election officials told TOI. “The numbers may increase or decrease depending on the draft roll,’’ officials…

Mula-Mutha in spate in Pune following the release of water from Khadakwasla, Pavana and Mulshi dams Pune: Several stations in Maharashtra’s Western Ghats logged triple-digit rainfall for yet another day on Monday, while rain-related incidents claimed two lives across the state in the past 24 hours.Tamhini in Pune district emerged as the wettest location with…

BLOs carry the enumeration forms to residential and commercial buildings for the SIR drive in Khadki Pune: For thousands of married women in the state, Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls may involve an additional layer of scrutiny even if they are linked to the 2002 voter rolls.Answers to frequently asked questions released by…

Nagpur: Congress MLA Vijay Wadettiwar, while reacting to BJP minister Pankaja Munde‘s remarks about being tired of politics, on Monday offered her support for CM’s post, on condition that she quit BJP.A video of Munde speaking at a public rally has gone viral, in which she is allegedly expressing frustration over certain things in politics…

Pune: The city unit of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has written to the state chief electoral officer to extend the SIR drive up to Sept 1. The party said the administrative machinery would not be able to complete the exercise by Aug 8.AAP functionaries said that teachers are managing additional duties as BLOs but face…

Locating voters and their exact addresses has become a task for BLOs Pune: When a BLO in Pune’s Ambegaon assembly constituency tried tracing a woman voter whose surname had changed after marriage and whose address in the 2002 electoral roll no longer matched her present residence, the official expected help from the party-appointed booth-level agent….

Kalepadal police nabbed 13 youngsters aged between 18 and 22 years, all residents of Mohammedwadi and Kalepadal, and seized 11 motorcycles fitted with modified silencers. Pune: The deafening roar of motorcycles fitted with illegally modified silencers has become a recurring late night nuisance for residents of Wanowrie, NIBM Road and Mohammedwadi.While the Kondhwa police recently…

Swelling Mutha river under Shivaji Maharaj bridge after water discharge from Khadkwasla dam on Sunday Pune: Heavy rainfall across catchment areas of the district pushed water storage levels in key reservoirs close to maximum capacity, with the collective usable water storage of four dams in Khadakwasla cluster reaching 28.89 TMC (99.1% of total live capacity)…

A villager walks home in the rain near Lavasa; satisfactory rainfall was recorded in catchment areas around Pune on Sunday Pune: Coastal and eastern parts of Maharashtra may expect the most rain in the coming week till Aug 8, while the rest of the state will experience varying monsoon activity, according to the India Meteorological…