“No water” notice on display outside the restroom of a restaurant near Pashan highlights the worsening water situation across the city Pune: Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation will introduce an additional 15% cut in alternate day water supply from Saturday as the Pavana dam’s stock depleted significantly in the absence of rainfall, prompting the possibility of…
Pune: The report of Sassoon General Hospital’s medical board on the death of a six-year-old girl during an eye evaluation procedure at Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital is awaited, a month after her death on May 18 triggered allegations of medical negligence.Dr Yellapa Jadhav, medical superintendent, Sassoon General Hospital, said, “Right now, we have got the preliminary…
Pune: The State Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell has declared the results for the second attempt of MHT-CET 2026 for physics, chemistry and mathematics (PCM) group, conducted for admissions to engineering, pharmacy and agriculture courses.Twelve students, including two girls, secured a perfect 100 percentile. Ten were from Maharashtra and two from other states. The examination…
Pune: The state registration department will launch the first five private model sub-registrar offices, including one in the city, in AugustTwo sub-registrar offices (SROs) would be set up in Mumbai, one in Navi Mumbai and another in Nagpur in the first phase, said a senior official of the registration department on Friday after a final…
Pune: The district administration will hold a special camp on June 22 at the Saswad sub-divisional office to resolve pending revenue-related and quasi-judicial issues delaying compensation to farmers affected by the proposed Chhatrapati Sambhaji Raje International Airport in Purandar.Officials from the revenue department, land records office, sub-divisional office, tehsil office and other agencies concerned would…
Pune: A 23-year-old civil engineer was arrested for stealing SIM cards from passengers’ cellphones kept for charging in waiting rooms of Pune railway station, the government railway police (GRP), Pune, said on Friday.The suspect is identified as Sanket Kulkarni, currently residing in Akurdi and originally from Dharashiv district. He is lodged in the Yerawada Central…
Pune: A 27-year-old software engineer jumped to death from the third floor of a residential building in the Manikbaug area on Thursday afternoon.The brother of the deceased stated in his complaint with the Sinhagad Road police that she ended her life because her husband and her mother-in-law harassed her. The same day, the police registered…
Actor Suhita Thatte rehearses for the Marathi version of play Ek Madhav Baug ahead of its screening today Pune: A 50-minute monologue explores themes of a divorced woman, a gay son and emotions of yearning and belonging in Ek Madhav Baug, originally written in Marathi in the 1980s by playwright the late Chetan Datar. It…
Garbage in the Mutha riverbed Pune: The civic body, in the past two years, has imposed a total fine of Rs 80 lakh on 1,170 violators for illegally dumping construction and demolition waste along nullahs, open plots and river beds.According to civic officials, illegal dumping was not only defacing civic areas but also raising the…
Pune: The Alandi Municipal Council has launched an extensive preparation drive to ensure safe and smooth pilgrimage for thousands of warkaris, who are expected to converge on for the annual Sant Dnyaneshwar Maharaj Palkhi procession on July 8.According to officials, nearly 190 CCTV cameras will be installed across Alandi and the nearby areas for robust…
