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Union Minister Nitin Gadkari highlighted the Mumbai-Pune Expressway’s enduring quality after twenty-seven years PUNE: Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday said the Mumbai-Pune Expressway has remained pothole-free 27 years after its construction, while taking a swipe at social media criticism following a recent incident involving the expressway’s missing link.“I built the…

Pune: The Chikhali police on Sunday arrested a 27-year-old daily wage worker for allegedly robbing a 25-year-old man of Rs 20,000 after offering him a lift in a car. His two accomplices are absconding, police said.The incident took place late Saturday night when the complainant was on his way to a money transfer agency to…

Pune: The ongoing Shravan period is seeing some people go beyond fasting and dietary restrictions by reducing their screen time, switching off social media notifications, avoiding mindless scrolling and keeping their phones away.“This is a sort of modern extension of the traditional focus of the month. We are consciously looking to create a quieter month…

Pune: A 17-year-old teenager injured in an accident in Dharashiv district and being shifted to a Pune hospital for further treatment died, along with his grandfather, when the ambulance carrying them crashed into a stationary container truck on the Pune-Solapur highway early on Sunday.The accident occurred at Kedgaon village near Yavat, about 63km from Pune….

NDA commandant Vice Admiral Anil Jaggi delivered a speech at a seminar organised by the Maritime Research Centre Pune: China’s expanding underwater activities in the Indian Ocean, including the deployment of research vessels, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and underwater gliders, highlight the urgent need for India to strengthen its Underwater Domain Awareness (UDA), Vice Admiral…

Cheng² Duo will perform at Mazda Hall on Tuesday, August 18, at 7 pm, in a concert organised by the Poona Music Society. Pune: Music, for siblings Bryan and Silvie Cheng, is as much about connection as about performance. The cello-piano duo’s band Cheng² Duo will perform in Pune on Tuesday, Aug 18, at a…

PUNE: Ramanuj Mahto, a daily wager from Bihar, was at Pune railway station on Monday for the Pune-Danapur Express, when he felt compelled to buy two bottles of water for his wife and four children.“A bottle costs Rs 14. But I have my children with me. Railway stations are not known for clean drinking water,”…

The complainant alleged that the social media post on PM Modi had the potential to disturb public peace Pune: A court has granted anticipatory bail to advocate Amol Ankush Gavhane in a case registered over a social media post that allegedly featured a photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with an objectionable caption.The case stems…

Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari (centre) spoke at a lecture series, Festival of Thinkers, organised by Symbiosis international University in Pune on Monday Pune: Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari on Monday mentioned how he was trolled on social media for damages on the connecting link recently, even…

Passengers booking cabs via aggregators like Uber, Ola and Rapido in advance for flights, trains, and inter-city journeys are increasingly finding themselves stranded when drivers cancel the trips at the last minute Pune: Nitesh Singh, a Hadapsar resident, almost missed a flight after his scheduled cab to the airport cancelled five minutes before arrival. “I…