Pune: Large stretches of open defence land in cantonment areas are increasingly being misused for dumping debris, grazing buffaloes and illegal activities, triggering concern among Army officers, residents and activists over security and civic neglect.Several unfenced plots located in prime locations under the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) and Khadki Cantonment Board (KCB), many of which…
Pune: Warje police have arrested four men — all residents of Warje and Shivane — for robbing a silver chain and forcing a 25-year-old man from Karvenagar to transfer Rs8,300 to their UPI app around 11.30pm on April 28 on the service road of Katraj-Dehu Road bypass.According to the police, the Karvenagar resident works with…
Pune: The ambitious underground tunnel project, envisioned to revolutionise the city’s traffic flow, will now be jointly executed by the PMC and the PMRDA.Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis has announced that a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) will be formed to oversee the project, with the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) taking the lead as most of the…
Pune: Rs50,000 for PMC water to flow from overhead tanks to taps in homes.Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)-appointed contractors and plumbers quoted this astronomical amount for pipeline connection to homes in Mohammadwadi, parts of Undri and NIBM Annexe Road area. Residents of housing societies in these pockets, set to get the PMC’s water connection, cried fleecing…
Pune: Rs50,000 for PMC water to flow from overhead tanks to taps in homes.Pune Municipal Corporations (PMC)-appointed contractors and plumbers quoted this astronomical amount for pipeline connection to homes in Mohammadwadi, parts of Undri and NIBM Annexe Road area. Residents of housing societies in these pockets, set to get the PMC’s water connection, cried fleecing…
Pune: Residents from various housing societies in the Autade-Handewadi area near Hadapsar on Friday resorted to agitation over poor water and power supply, besides lack of civic amenities.The residents gathered in the Autade-Handewadi area in the morning and gave slogans demanding solutions to problems. They vented their ire over lack of basic civic services despite…
Pune: All 16 diamond crossings in the Pune railway division would be removed by the end of this year as part of the yard remodelling project, a senior official said 11 days after Vande Bharat Express derailed near Pune station.The focus would be on intensive maintenance of diamond crossings till then, the official said. “The…
Pune: Mahayuti alliance partners BJP and Shiv Sena on Friday reacted sharply to NCP member Jay Pawar’s hope that his mother, deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar, would become the chief minister after the 2029 assembly elections.BJP minister Jaykumar Gore said BJP would return to power in 2029 under the leadership of chief minister Devendra Fadnavis….
Pune: Forest officials from the Junnar division installed two trap cages at the Mercedes-Benz manufacturing facility in Chakan on Friday after a leopard was spotted roaming the campus in the early hours.The animal was captured on CCTV footage by the company’s security team, prompting a monitoring and rescue operation. While forest personnel surveyed the premises…
Pune: Rajesh More (55) from Warje Malwadi and his 43-year-old wife Savit were killed after their motorcycle was hit by a gas tanker near Khed-Shivapur toll plaza on Pune-Bengaluru highway on Friday afternoon. Pune Rural police have taken the tanker driver into custody. TNN Source link
