Pune

Pune: Aug has only just begun, but the city has already recorded more rainfall than its June-Aug seasonal normal. This comes even as India Meteorological Department (IMD)’s latest long-range outlook indicated below-normal rainfall over Maharashtra in Aug, an unexpected contrast in a monsoon season that has already reshaped the city’s rainfall record.According to IMD’s 1971-2020…

The Election Commission of India extended Maharashtra’s electoral roll revision by 10 days. (Representational image) PUNE: Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday extended the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Maharashtra by 10 days, pushing the deadline for submission of enumeration forms and the door-to-door verification exercise by booth-level officers from…

Booth-level officers help each other upload the details of voters in a school in rural Pune PUNE: The state’s election machinery distributed enumeration forms for Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls but digitising nearly 10 crore forms accurately remains a challenge even though the drive has been extended up to Aug 17.Election officials said…

Pune: Maharashtra State Seeds Corporation Limited (Mahabeej) has initiated an internal inquiry into complaints of poor germination of its soybean seeds after receiving over 1,000 complaints from farmers across Vidarbha and Marathwada. The move comes days after TOI raised the issue in a report published on July 30.Mahabeej managing director Dilip Swami said the inquiry…

Pune: Pimpri Chinchwad police have arrested an unemployed youth from Moshi for allegedly allowing cyber fraudsters to use nine of his bank accounts as mule accounts to route money siphoned off from victims across the country.The accused, Sachin Kale, a native of Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar who lives in Moshi with his family, allegedly received around Rs…

NCP workers protest against Congress over the party’s “Gungi Gudiya” remark against Sunetra Pawar, in Pune on Tuesday Pune/Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: The social media post of Congress referring to deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar as “Gungi Gudiya” sparked a controversy on Tuesday, as NCP reminded the party the same term was used against former Prime Minister…

Auto rickshaws waiting for the fitness test Pune: Transporters have urged authorities to conduct a trial run of the fully automated vehicle fitness testing system at the Pune Regional Transport Office’s (RTO) Dive Ghat inspection centre before its rollout on Wednesday.The Pune RTO has installed four automated testing machines for different categories of vehicles at…

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Pune: Three people, including a woman, allegedly put glue into the mouth of a nine-month-old boy at his Kalwad Vasti house in Lohegaon around noon on July 31 after he cried during an ongoing argument over a family property dispute.The boy’s father (39), a casual worker, lodged a complaint on Monday evening. The Lohegaon police…

Pune: As many as 15 two-wheeler riders skidded and fell on Raja Bahadur Mill Road on Tuesday morning due to soil and oil on the road surface.Riders sustained injuries to their knees, hands and shoulders, city fire brigade officials said. Most of the injured riders were on their way to work at companies in Yerawada…