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Pune: The Maharashtra State Gazetted Agriculture Officers’ Association has sought enhanced security for agriculture officials and reforms in seed regulation and crop insurance to prevent possible attacks on field officers.The demand follows the alleged confinement of the Akola district superintendent agriculture officer by a group of farmers and a local politician during protests over substandard…

Pune: Passengers heading to the airport as well as the ones returning, were stranded in the traffic for almost two hours after a PMPML e-bus broke down causing traffic jam on the Lohegaon airport road on Tuesday morning.Deputy commissioner of police (Traffic) Sandip Bhajibhakare told TOI, “An electric PMPML bus developed a technical snag near…

Pune: A Std XI student was killed and his two friends sustained severe injuries after their motorcycle collided with an MSRTC bus at Manchar, about 65km from Pune, on Monday afternoon.Pune Rural police identified the deceased as Vir Anil Shinde (17) of Avsari Khurd. A day before the accident, Vir had celebrated his 17th birthday….

Pune: A group of 18 men damaged a car and a van parked on a public road in the Padmavati area around 1am on Monday.Senior inspector Vitthal Pawar of Sahakarnagar police said, “The suspects were carrying sharp weapons and were moving around the area on six two-wheelers. We have obtained CCTV footage of their movement…

Pune: About 800 hens worth Rs1.65 lakh were stolen from a tempo parked near the Shivaji Market area in Camp at around 5 am on Monday.Tempo owner Dhananjay Urad (60), a resident of Camp, lodged a complaint with the Cantonment police station. According to the police, “Urad’s tempo driver transported 1,134 hens from a poultry…

The strongest gains, the IITM study found, are likely across the Indo-Gangetic Plain, Northeast India and the Western Ghats Pune: A new IITM-led study suggested that India could become progressively greener over the coming decades — forests, croplands and other vegetation are expected to grow more and absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.The study,…

Pune: The Bombay high court held that the state was within its right to divert gairan lands (govt-owned common land reserved for free grazing of village cattle) towards public purpose/projects of the central or state govts, especially when it invoked Section 40 of the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code (MLRC), having an overriding effect on its…

A stray dog loiters on the Pune airport premises Pune: A PMC official of deputy commissioner rank would be appointed as the nodal officer to coordinate with the Indian Air Force on key civic issues, particularly garbage management around the Air Force Station and the airport, Union minister of state for civil aviation Murlidhar Mohol…

During the ATS operation, 50 people were detained for questioning. Officials seized cellphones and other digital devices of the young men for further examination Pune: The Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Tuesday conducted searches at 65 locations across Pune city and district as well as Pimpri Chinchwad, questioning and detaining 50 young men suspected of…

(Top left) One of the spheroidal galaxies from the first billion years of cosmic history used in research. (Bottom left) A nearby elliptical galaxy situated about 318 million light years away. (Right) An illustration of the Kormendy relation, comparing the earliest spheroidal systems with elliptical galaxies in the nearby universe Pune: Some of the earliest…