The election department will begin training officials from June 20, while partially pre-filled forms will be distributed from June 29. Pune: District collector and district election officer Jitendra Dudi on Wednesday said voters who have been mapped with records available from previous electoral rolls will not receive notices during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). Election…
The arrested guru’s bungalow at Ubalenagar in Pune PUNE: A self-styled guru and his seven associates, including six women, were arrested from a bungalow at Ubalenagar in Wagholi around 2am on Wednesday for allegedly sexually exploiting a woman and cheating her on the pretext of resolving her health and family problems.Pune commissioner of police (CP)…
ECI may consider extending the SIR exercise if time is required to ensure that all eligible voters are covered Pune: The state Chief Electoral Officer has forwarded the Congress’s demand to postpone the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls by a month to the Election Commission of India. The party cited concerns that the…
The genus Mimeusemia belongs to the forester moth group within the Noctuidae family Pune: Scientists from the western regional centre of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) in Pune have discovered a new species of forester moth in Karnataka’s Kali Tiger Reserve in the Western Ghats, marking the first addition to the genus Mimeusemia in…
MSEDCL staff conduct repairs of fire-damaged cables Pune: Several areas near the city airport in Lohegaon faced a power outage for close to three hours on Tuesday night after garbage dumped in a nullah in the Kalas area caught fire, causing damage to the cable network.“Electricity supply was interrupted around 10.30pm on Tuesday night. It…
RSS’s Sunil Ambekar participated in an event organised by Pune Union of Working Journalists on Wednesday Pune: RSS’s publicity in-charge Sunil Ambekar on Wednesday said that the organisation’s chief Mohan Bhagwat meant people-to-people talks between the two countries when he said doors need to be kept open for dialogue with Pakistan.Ambekar was in Pune for…
Ameya Joshi of Kothrud said residents were being made to endure water cuts on the grounds of scarcity while developers and others were allowed to use water freely for commercial activities Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation’s mandate to use treated sewage water at construction sites has collapsed under weak enforcement and logistical challenges, allowing builders…
Former Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan from Congress Pune: Senior functionaries in the Congress and NCP (SP) in Maharashtra, who expressed fears that the BJP may attempt to split their parties, said none of their MPs or MLAs would defect.The opposition has claimed that the BJP and the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena are executing ‘Operation Tiger’…
Pune: The Directorate General of Defence Estates (DGDE) has appointed Vikas Kumar as the Defence Estates Officer (DEO) for the Pune Circle, nearly 10 months after the post remained without a full-time head.The prolonged vacancy had raised concerns over the management of vast defence land holdings across Maharashtra under the Army’s Southern Command.Kumar assumed charge…
The route is set to grow from 437km in 2026 to a staggering 1,099km in 2027, requiring the strengthening and development of 662km of new road sections across the district Pune: District collector Jitendra Dudi on Wednesday announced a total ban on road-digging by utility agencies on routes designated for the Pune Grand Tour (PGT)…
