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Standing committee chairperson Shrinath Bhimale said PMC was taking steps to strengthen airport connectivity in tandem with the airport’s expansion Pune: PMC standing committee on Thursday approved Rs 30 crore for acquiring land to develop a 30-metre-wide road to improve connectivity to Lohegaon airport. The civic administration plans to acquire around 14,600sqm of land for…

An AI-generated illustration shows workers in protective gear overseeing large-scale tuberculosis (TB) vaccine manufacturing at a modern pharmaceutical plant in India Pune: Serum Institute of India (SII) and Gates Medical Research Institute (Gates MRI) have entered an agreement to manufacture M72/AS01E, a novel tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate.The clinical trial of the vaccine candidate is in…

​Sharad Pawar, Sunetra Pawar PUNE: Unease has surfaced in NCP following indications of Sharad Pawar’s NCP (SP) tilting towards NDA.“If Pawar’s party joins NDA, the political equations will drastically change more in the state than the country. Some MLAs are sceptical about the party losing its importance if NCP (SP) overpowers it after joining the…

Devendra Fadnavis, Praful Patel, Sunil Tatkare, Sunetra Pawar PUNE: The recent meeting of NCP working president Praful Patel and state president Sunil Tatkare with chief minister Devendra Fadnavis without the knowledge of the party chief, Sunetra Pawar, has triggered speculations of a rift in the outfit’s top brass.Patel and Tatkare visited chief minister’s official residence,…

Pune: Maharashtra’s classrooms are still grappling with some of the most basic facilities despite hosting country’s second-largest school enrolments at 2.16 crore students. Fresh UDISE Plus 2025-26 data shows that more than 9,900 schools across the state continue to lack functional toilets for girls and boys, exposing a stark gap between infrastructure claimed on paper…

The NCDRC bench has set a three-month deadline for city-based Kakade Construction Company Private Limited to hand over possession of two flats booked in June 2006 by a doctor couple in the “Kakade City” project in Hingane Pune: National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) said a builder’s failure to complete the project and deliver possession…

ARAI Director Reji Mathai Pune: India’s automobile sector is undergoing a major technological shift, and while manufacturers are continuously improving production processes, the industry remains ill-prepared to tackle cybersecurity threats, Reji Mathai, director of Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI), informed.“This area has largely remained untouched. Companies have always faced certain attacks on their processes,…

Pune: A power failure at the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation’s (PCMC) Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) data centre during heavy rain on July 6 triggered a major disruption to the civic body’s digital services, with some operations still affected 10 days later.While most public-facing services have been restored, work to revive the remaining systems…

Accused in the Ketan Agarwal murder case Siya Goyal being taken to court from Vadgaon Maval police station Pune: A Wadgaon Maval court on Thursday extended the judicial custody of Siya Goyal and Chetan Chaudhary till July 29.Goyal and Chaudhary were arrested for allegedly murdering Goyal’s fiancé, Ketan Agarwal, by pushing him off a cliff…

Pune: The state govt on Thursday unveiled its long-awaited cab aggregator policy with strict regulations mandating real-time monitoring of cabs, a 24×7 customer support system, compulsory driver badges, fare regulation and a guarantee that drivers receive at least 80% of the total fare.The policy would include companies like Ola, Uber and Rapido.State transport minister Pratap…