A court on Friday effectively ruled out the polygraph test of Siya Goyal and Chetan Chaudhary, accused of murdering realtor Ketan Agarwal, and sent them to 14-day judicial custody PUNE: A court on Friday effectively ruled out the polygraph test of Siya Goyal and Chetan Chaudhary, accused of murdering realtor Ketan Agarwal, and sent them…
Citizens fill forms and submit documents during the SIR drive in Khadki Pune: Booth-level officers (BLOs) have stepped up door-to-door verification under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, with many collecting supporting documents from voters during home visits to minimise the need for them to appear before electoral registration officers (EROs).The exercise comes…
Illustration of an Indian private hospital representative receiving a show-cause notice from the civic body, highlighting a regulatory compliance dispute in the healthcare sector Pune: The civic body’s health department has issued show-cause notices to 15 private hospitals for allegedly flouting norms under the Bombay Nursing Homes Registration Act, 1949 (BNHR), primarily for not prominently…
The illustration shows a dead body. Pune: A medical practitioner (29) died by suicide around 10am on Friday after jumping from the 24th floor of an under-construction building in Ravet.She had been working at a private hospital in Pimpri Chinchwad.Senior police inspector Hrishikesh Ghadge of the Ravet police told TOI that the incident occurred around…
(L to R) Former chief of the Maharashtra Fire Service Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Assistant Director of the State Fire Service Kiran Hatyal and president of FSAI Sujal Shah at the conference Pune: Fire and life safety standards for a range of emerging infrastructure projects, including EV parking facilities, data centres, etc, are set to become mandatory…
Shambhuraj Desai said in the assembly that elected members should give details, if any, about misappropriations in SRA projects to the department concerned. The information will be probed Pune: State cabinet minister Shambhuraj Desai on Friday said there had been no misappropriation of flats or transfer of development rights (TDR) based on fraudulent beneficiaries in…
Supply is expected to be restored at full capacity only on Saturday, but people are sceptical about the water pressure being adequate Pune: Water supply to residents of Pashan, Sutarwadi, Baner and Balewadi areas was hampered for the third consecutive day as the civic body struggled to complete repairs to the main pipeline till Friday…
The city has been experiencing showers leading to waterlogging and roads getting washed out, despite the civic body’s repeated assurances that Pune is rain-ready Pune: The Panshet, Varasgaon and Temghar dams recorded continuous spells of rain on Friday — 60mm, 60mm and 45mm. respectively — leading to a further rise in water storage.The irrigation department…
Indonesia seems a perfect vacay destination Pune: With the Indian rupee weakening to around Rs95 against the US dollar, an increasing number of Indian travellers are choosing destinations where the rupee has greater purchasing power against the local currency. “Destinations like Europe, US and Canada are out of question because things have become very expensive…
Civic activist Sandeep Khardekar has written a letter to the civic chief seeking an inquiry, saying such wastage of water needs to stop immediately Pune: Activists and residents have expressed displeasure after their initial astonishment to see a tanker watering plants on a Metro median on Paud Road during heavy showers on Friday. A video…
