Pune: Urban areas of the district are growing at an exponential rate, but civic bodies are falling alarmingly short at providing basics, including motorable roads, pollution control measures, garbage-free streets and, very importantly, adequate water supply.Lack of equity in water supply has in recent years topped the list of complaints against both Pune (PMC) and…
Agriculture department data indicates that farmers have largely completed kharif sowing despite uneven rainfall and weather fluctuations Pune: Maharashtra has completed 95.1% of its targeted kharif sowing area this season, but acreage under key crops like maize and pulses has declined sharply from last year, state agriculture department data showed.Kharif crops have been sown across…
Pune: Madhur Kishore found her name in the draft electoral roll, but the BLO had told her she would be flagged as unmapped. Seema Rahatani’s change of name after marriage can result in a ‘logical discrepancy’ when her details are matched with older electoral records. SS Chavan can also be called for a hearing over…
Jarange’s hunger strike entered its fourth day on Tuesday to pressure the govt to accept his demands regarding the Maratha quota. OBC activist Laxman Hake and others began their agitation from Pune’s Daund tehsil Pune: OBC activists on Tuesday launched the ‘Chalo Mumbai’ agitation to counter Maratha activist Manoj Jarange’s ongoing hunger strike; however, differences…
Supriya Sule accused the state govt of failing to provide basic infrastructure and remarked that common citizens are forced to agitate for every issue just to draw the govt’s attention Pune: NCP (SP) working president Supriya Sule on Tuesday criticised the Mahayuti govt, stating that the administration does not listen to common citizens unless they…
Draft roll entry mistakes Pune: Kondhwa Khurd has voters who are 126 years old. That makes them the oldest humans on the planet and they are in sizeable numbers too, according to the draft electoral roll.A voter from Hadapsar assembly constituency who checked the list on Monday found that his age was registered as 126…
Pune: Many voters on Tuesday faced difficulties in finding their names and the part number in the PDF format of the electoral rolls. Some said they downloaded the entire PDF for their part number, running into as many as 30 pages, to spot their names. Many others said the revision in their part numbers posed…
The protesters demanded that the govt fulfil its assurances and ensure the timely disbursal of funds to eligible candidates Pune: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), Pune mahanagar, staged a protest on Tuesday at the Directorate of Other Backward Classes and Bahujan Welfare in Yerwada, demanding the release of scholarships promised by the state govt…
In his legal notice, Behl has sought appropriate action to ensure that the Sept 2 meeting is conducted in accordance with the applicable rules and regulations Pune: Former mayor and NCP city president Yogesh Behl has served a legal notice to the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) mayor and municipal commissioner, alleging a violation of…
For many commuters, Metro became an escape from the monsoon misery unfolding on the roads in Aug Pune: Rain, pothole-ridden roads and persistent traffic jams pushed thousands of Pune commuters to Metro in Aug, taking cumulative ridership to 74.24 lakh and average daily footfall to 2.39 lakh — the highest this year so far across…
