A PMC standing committee meeting was held on June 16 Pune: The BJP-led PMC standing committee on Tuesday approved a proposal to hand over select municipal schools to a private organisation and fund it to run them, despite opposition from other political parties.The main proposal stated that five Pune Municipal Corporation-run (PMC) English-medium schools will…
Pic for representational purpose Pune: Three men riding a motorcycle allegedly snatched an Army captain’s cellphone near Wakad bridge in the early hours of Sunday. The incident occurred while the officer was speaking to his wife, who was travelling from Karnataka to Pune. He had gone to pick her up.A robbery case was registered at…
Farmers around Nande have completed ploughing and field preparation and are now waiting for the monsoon showers to begin sowing Pune: The delayed onset of the southwest monsoon has raised concerns among farmers and agriculture officials in Pune district, with the sowing of key pulse crops such as green gram (moong) and black gram (urad)…
Maharashtra govt constituted a committee under Nashik divisional commissioner Praveen Gedam in Sept 2025 which carried out a preliminary scrutiny of 38,027 complaints and conducted a detailed examination of 2,337 cases where records were available. It found that 424 cases involved illegal orders passed through improper administrative and legal procedures. Pune: The state govt has…
Protests across the country have erupted over CBSE’s On-Screen Marking system, including claims of blurred answer-sheet scans, unchecked responses and discrepancies in awarded marks and unexpected reductions after verification Pune: Several CBSE Std XII students are facing an unexpected admission crisis as delays in the board’s re-evaluation process leave them without revised mark sheets to…
Pune: Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials inspected the refectory at the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) on Tuesday night after repeated complaints of worms being found and various other contaminations in the food served in the messes on the campus.Students have been complaining for long that the SPPU administration was turning a blind eye…
The Pune-Nashik highway falls under the Rural police jurisdiction Pune: The govt usually sets a target to reduce accidents by at least 10% for every police unit in the state, but has pegged it at 15% for the Pune Rural police that records almost 1,000 road fatalities annually — the highest among various jurisdictions in…
Police estimate that more than 150 customers have invested approximately Rs50 crore in the stalled project Pune: The Wagholi police have registered a cheating case against a city-based builder and his partners for allegedly defrauding over 150 homebuyers of approximately Rs50 crore. The move comes after the developer failed to hand over possession of flats…
Pune: The trial in the Nasrapur rape and murder case moved closer to its conclusion with the prosecution examining final witnesses before the special Pocso court on Tuesday.The court recorded the deposition of prosecution witness (PW), a cyber expert, whose testimony dealt with the authentication and preservation of electronic evidence collected during the investigation.The deposition…
The Regional Transport Office (RTO), Pune, wears a deserted look on Tuesday Pune: Several people seeking vehicle ownership transfer or re-registration returned disappointed from Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad RTOs on Tuesday — the first day of indefinite strike of clerical staff.Ashutosh Pathak from Dhanori had gone to the Pune Regional Transport Office (RTO) to submit…
