The school education department received the funds around March this year, but it has not yet been disbursed ahead to ZP administrations Pune: Representatives of schools selected under Maharashtra’s Bharat Ratna Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Model Schools programme have urged state govt to immediately mobilise the Rs159 crore sanctioned for upgrading 412 Zilla Parishad (ZP) schools….
Poor roads lead to a worse traffic situation in Hinjewadi Pune: Supriya Sule, a Member of Parliament from NCP (SP), urged the state govt to resolve infrastructure woes in Hinjewadi IT Park citing fear of industries’ relocation due to the hardships faced by employees.Various citizen groups in the IT Park have announced a protest on…
An AI-generated image of an auto parts manufacturing unit employee and two women owners of another company duped the firm of Rs 3 crore Pune: Paud police have registered a case against three people, including two women, for allegedly cheating an automobile parts manufacturing firm of Rs 3 crore by creating fake invoices for raw…
The audit will cover both legal and illegal properties within the merged villages Pune: PMC has announced a special tax audit to recover property tax from newly merged areas. The decision was taken during a standing committee meeting on Thursday.The audit will cover both legal and illegal properties within the merged villages. According to Pune…
Opposition parties criticized the Maharashtra government for its insensitive approach to tribal students. PUNE: Opposition parties on Thursday accused the Maharashtra government of being insensitive to tribal students who have been on hunger strike for nearly two weeks, after ministers Ashok Uike and Narhari Zirwal failed to persuade them to call off their protest.NCP (SP)…
The tipping point for the current unrest was the administration’s handling of the Aug 16 tragedy Pune: Around 100 students of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune staged a protest on Thursday, voicing grievances against the suspension and hostel expulsion of the student body’s general secretary, alleged curbs on student agency,…
“You can’t manage what you can’t measure.”This was the basis behind a petition filed by city resident Pushkar Kulkarni in the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in 2025, against the backdrop of the increasingly apparent water crisis in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad. His demand was propelled by the absence of concrete data on water availability, from…
Two people died at BSNL duct in Nigdi Pradhikaran on Wednesday Pune: The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) has taken cognisance of the deaths of two people inside an underground cable chamber in Nigdi and issued notices to the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), the police commissioner and the assistant commissioner of social welfare,…
Pune: The Warje police have arrested a man (65) and his wife (60) for allegedly beating their 30-year-old son to death at their home during the intervening night of Aug 24 and 25 after he demanded non-vegetarian food for dinner while in an inebriated condition. His parents refused to serve him non-vegetarian food, citing the…
Anxious families of Maharashtra tourists missing in Nepal Pune: Sixty-one of the 114 people from Maharashtra identified in the flood-hit Nepal-Tibet border region remain unreachable due to a near-total communication blackout, a senior state disaster management official told TOI on Thursday.The official said authorities also managed to establish contact with 199 people, including a group…
