Pune: The delayed arrival of the southwest monsoon has severely disrupted kharif sowing across the district, with cultivation on barely 3,000 hectares by the end of June compared to nearly 35,000 hectares during the corresponding period last year, agriculture officials said.Delayed rainfall and inadequate soil moisture during the first three weeks of June forced the…
Pune: A woman scrap collector’s ordeal ended in tragedy after a truck driver offered her a lift, robbed her of gold jewellery worth Rs80,000 and abandoned her near the Shirur bypass, about 67km from Pune, on Friday night. While returning home on a motorcycle with another man, who was her acquaintance and had offered her…
Pune: Cybercrooks posing as officials of a placement firm duped a software engineer (36) from Hinjewadi of Rs7 lakh on the promise of securing him a job with an IT company.After a preliminary investigation, the Hinjewadi police registered a case recently. A police officer said the complainant works for an IT company in Hinjewadi. He…
Pune: Cybercrooks duped a 38-year-old business consultant from Dudulgaon of Rs 5.23 lakh by offering him a franchise of a logistics services provider.The suspects collected money from the complainant between May 21 and June 20 under various pretexts. The complainant lodged a complaint with the Dighi police on Monday.According to a Dighi police officer, the…
Smaller centres and private hospitals are adopting robots for orthopaedics, neurosurgery, and urology, using these devices to improve implant accuracy and reduce recovery times for joint replacements Pune: Doctors are increasingly turning to robotics to perform surgeries once thought impossible. By using robotic arms and high-definition optics to navigate tight cavities and execute ultra-precise manoeuvres,…
Pune: As football fever grips the city, its restaurants, cafés, and sports bars find themselves caught in a high-stakes dilemma: meeting surging customer demand while navigating a growing legal “grey area” over commercial screening rights.While football-themed menus, prediction contests, and late-night screenings have begun appearing across the city, many establishments are now proceeding with extreme…
Pune: As football fever grips the city, its restaurants, cafés, and sports bars find themselves caught in a high-stakes dilemma: meeting surging customer demand while navigating a growing legal “grey area” over commercial screening rights.While football-themed menus, prediction contests, and late-night screenings have begun appearing across the city, many establishments are now proceeding with extreme…
The PMC’s education department runs 250 Marathi, English, Urdu and Kannada-medium schools where students from socially and financially weak sections study. Nearly 1,800 teachers work in these schools. Pune: Days after Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) approved funds to a private agency to run civic schools, more organisations are coming forward to take charge of such…
Pune: A 17-year-old boy hit four vehicles with a tempo he was driving to escape police interception on the Pune-Solapur highway in Vaiduwadi on Tuesday evening.The Wanowrie police registered a case of rash and negligent driving against the boy. The police also booked the vehicle owner for letting a minor drive.No one was injured in…
The gaur may have become separated from its herd and remained near the urban fringes. It may have entered the city in search of food or water Pune: A sub-adult Indian gaur was safely rescued by a team of forest officials from Pune forest division on Tuesday after it was trapped between two concrete water…
