The big cats have been rescued from Pimparkhed, Jambut and Takli Haji villages Pune: A total of 51 leopards have been captured by the Junnar forest division in an unprecedented trapping operation since Nov 2025. This highlights the sheer scale of the growing human-wildlife conflict within the sugar cane-rich belt along the Pune-Ahilyanagar border.Forest officials…
The online facility will be accessible from 10am on the department’s official portal Pune: Students enrolled in first-year junior college (FYJC, Std XI) across Maharashtra will now have greater flexibility in modifying their academic choices after admission. The directorate of secondary and higher secondary education has introduced a new online system allowing students to change…
The restaurant said the customers finished eating their food after complaining to the staff about a bone in a dish Pune: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is investigating a complaint against Pune restaurant Pind Punjab after a customer allegedly found a piece of bone in a pure vegetarian thali served at the establishment’s Camp…
Among the worst-hit areas, Junnar alone accounts for water supply to 111 villages through 27 tankers. Khed and Ambegaon also continue to face acute shortages despite sporadic rainfall. Pune: More than 2.3 lakh residents and over 33,000 livestock in 133 villages and 493 hamlets across the district remain dependent on water tankers, with Junnar, Ambegaon,…
An HSRP being fixed on a vehicle in Pune Pune: Just a week remains for the June 30 deadline to kick in for the installation of High-Security Registration Plates (HSRPs) on vehicles registered before April 1, 2019, and the demand for counterfeit HSRP lookalikes has surged amid poor appointment and fitment rates.Vendors said orders for…
The state govt has launched a massive drone-based survey to map urban properties and is digitising the mutation process for nearly one crore records Pune: Property owners across Maharashtra may soon find it easier to access accurate ownership records and update land documents. The state govt has launched a massive drone-based survey to map urban…
Shubham Sumit wins the Silver Conch for Best Indian Short Fiction Film for his FTII diploma film Small Clouds at the 19th MIFF Pune: Shubham Sumit had learned to imagine films much before he had ever watched one.Two decades ago, in Buxar (Bihar), Sumit used to lie on the terrace of his house on summer…
Pune: The Koregaon Park police have recovered more than 300 counterfeit Rs 500 currency notes after conducting searches at the rented residences of two accused in Tingrenagar and Lohegaon on Sunday.Police had arrested Omprakash Agarwal (32), a resident of Tingrenagar, and Mausam Narendra Mishra (36), a resident of Lohegaon, on Dhole Patil Road after they…
School education minister Dada Bhuse (third from right) and vice-president for Geo and Education at Google Chris Phillips (on Bhuse’s right) along with other officials Pune: The state school education department and Google for Education have formed a partnership to train over four lakh teachers of govt and aided schools across Maharashtra in artificial intelligence…
The police have recommended measures including patching pothole, correcting faulty road dividers, redesigning footpaths and removing encroachments to streamline traffic flow Pune: From encroachments to uneven or asymmetrical footpaths, potholes and poor road conditions, the Pune traffic branch has identified 60 infrastructure and related issues contributing to congestion across its 30 divisions. The police plan…
