Pune: An NCP (SP) delegation, led by its state president Shashikant Shinde, will meet Maharashtra Chief Electoral Officer on Monday to demand an extension to the SIR exercise and raise concerns over the large number of uncollected enumeration forms, including those under the absent-shifted-dead-duplicate or others (ASDDO) category and the door-to-door verification drive, MLA Rohit…
Pune: Shashikant Chaudhary, a BLO for parts of Punawale in Pimpri Chinchwad, felt tiredness and relief sweep over him on Sunday evening. “Monday is the last day for the field exercise of SIR. Our camps in housing societies received a good response. It was a long weekend, and many people called for additional information or…
Pune: Commuters have alleged that several autorickshaw drivers in the city are already charging fares according to the revised tariff, even though the new rates will come into effect on Sept 1.The Regional Transport Authority has approved the revised fare structure wherein passengers will be charged Rs30 for the first 1.5km and Rs20 for every…
When Hadapsar resident Anand Barve rode through the Camp area on a Saturday evening in July, he never imagined a waterlogged pothole would leave him barely able to walk the next day.“The impact was so severe that I immediately felt something had gone wrong with my lower back. I woke up on Sunday with intense…
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Pune: Maharashtra govt has made it mandatory to set up rainwater harvesting and solid waste or bio-sludge management systems before local authorities approve applications for new water connections or drainage lines in old buildings.Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) plans to set up a special team to implement the directives.Civic officials said 80 to 100 connections are…
Pune: The police chiefs of Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad are among several senior police officers nominated for the Ati Utkrisht Seva Padak and Utkrisht Seva Padak announced on the Independence Day eve.Moreover, Sudhir Hiremath, special inspector general of police (CID) and Rajkumar Shinde, superintendent of police (GRP, Pune), are two more prominent names nominated for…
Pune: A 35-year-old man allegedly throttled his wife to death before dying by suicide by hanging himself at their rented house in Kuruli village of Khed taluka around 4am on Thursday.The Pimpri Chinchwad police found a note purportedly written by the man on the floor. The note stated that he killed his wife because she…
A large tree in Pune provides relief from the sun Pune: Pune River Revival (PRR) has organised a campaign through two exercises to encourage people to recognise at least one tree that holds special significance to them and share the story behind it.The first exercise is a campaign, Pune Tree of the Year, that will…
BLOs working at SIR process camp in Dynanada school in Karvenagar Pune: The district election machinery is grappling with the collection of acknowledgements linked to enumeration forms distributed by BLOs. Voters were given two forms —the main enumeration form and a separate acknowledgement form, which has to be signed by the BLO. Some have yet…
