The drugs customs had seized between July 2024 to December 2025, set to be destroyed. Pune: An overhaul of the customs profiling process and enhanced tracking of suspicious passengers have resulted in a five-month smuggling-free run at the city airport.The heightened surveillance and intelligence-led screening appear to have turned the Lohegaon airport into a highly…
Marathi-speaking residents of Karachi in Pakistan prepare for and celebrate Ganeshotsav with great enthusiasm Marathi-speaking residents of Karachi in Pakistan prepare for and celebrate Ganeshotsav with great enthusiasm Marathi-speaking residents of Karachi in Pakistan prepare for and celebrate Ganeshotsav with great enthusiasm Marathi-speaking residents of Karachi in Pakistan prepare for and celebrate Ganeshotsav with great…
OBC activist Laxman Hake (with a yellow scarf) Pune: OBC activists have warned of an agitation in Mumbai if Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange is permitted to protest in the state’s capital.Despite police denying him permission twice, Jarange on Tuesday started from Jalna for Mumbai to expand his agitation over Maratha quota demands. OBC activists,…
Devotees began arriving at Wakad immersion ghat early on Tuesday for immersion of their Ganesha idols before heading off to work. Pune: The Datar family in Shivajinagar concluded Ganeshotsav on Tuesday afternoon by chanting ‘Ganapati Bappa Morya’ before immersing the idol installed at home in a makeshift tank.Many other families from across the city bid…
The action comes amid more than 22,000 complaints of poor soybean seed germination reported across Maharashtra this season Pune: The state agriculture department has revoked the licence of a Madhya Pradesh-based seed company for allegedly rebranding and selling leftover soybean seeds from the previous season without required revalidation or proof of a new seed production…
Pune: The state revenue department has launched a “land bank” module to build a unified digital inventory of govt land, current allotments and parcels available for future allocation in its bid to tighten safeguards after the Mundhwa land controversy.“The initiative follows recommendations made by the Vikas Kharge committee after the Mundhwa land row, which called…
Pune: A 37-year-old farmer allegedly shot his friend inside a multipurpose vehicle (MPV) in the early hours of Monday at Jadhavwadi in Chikhali.The victim, Ravi Ghogare (26) of Jadhavwadi, suffered a bullet injury to his stomach. After receiving treatment at a nearby hospital, Ghogare lodged a complaint against his friend, Swapnil Jadhav, and the latter’s…
MOISTURE STRESS, MOUNTING LOSSES: Rain gap forces soybean farmers to destroy standing crop Pune: A prolonged break in monsoon has pushed soybean farmers across Maharashtra into deep distress, with many now running tractors over their own standing crops instead of harvesting them.After an initially promising start to the kharif season, a long dry spell left…
Pune: A 20-month-old girl was run over by a tempo while it was being reversed at the entrance of Omkar Rose Nursery at Soratpawadi Phata on Pune-Solapur Highway around 9.30am on Sunday.The Uruli Kanchan police on Monday registered a case against the tempo driver for rash and negligent driving. Senior inspector Vijaymala Pawar of Uruli…
Pune: Cybercrooks posing as bank officials allegedly duped a 65-year-old ex-serviceman from Shirur of Rs28.72 lakh on the pretext of helping him open a senior citizen pension account.The crooks on Sept 11 shared an APK file named “India Pension Card Verification Retired Pe..” with the elderly man and siphoned off money from his bank account….
