Passengers booking cabs via aggregators like Uber, Ola and Rapido in advance for flights, trains, and inter-city journeys are increasingly finding themselves stranded when drivers cancel the trips at the last minute Pune: Nitesh Singh, a Hadapsar resident, almost missed a flight after his scheduled cab to the airport cancelled five minutes before arrival. “I…
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari highlighted the Mumbai-Pune Expressway’s enduring quality after twenty-seven years PUNE: Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Monday said the Mumbai-Pune Expressway has remained pothole-free 27 years after its construction, while taking a swipe at social media criticism following a recent incident involving the expressway’s missing link.“I built the…
Pune: For truck driver Santosh Kumar, reaching the Nashik highway from Chakan MIDC has become a daily battle. On some days, he spends nearly three hours crawling through traffic maze just to exit Chakan, almost as long as it takes to drive to Mumbai.“The roads outside MIDC limits are in a terrible state. Some roads…
Pune: Open garbage dumping across Chakan MIDC has become a chronic issue, with industrialists blaming the lack of a dedicated waste-management facility for turning multiple stretches of the industrial belt into dumping grounds, creating health risks and damaging the reputation of one of Maharashtra’s key industrial hubs.Siddhesh Meher, who runs a fabrication and packaging unit…
PUNE: Ramanuj Mahto, a daily wager from Bihar, was at Pune railway station on Monday for the Pune-Danapur Express, when he felt compelled to buy two bottles of water for his wife and four children.“A bottle costs Rs 14. But I have my children with me. Railway stations are not known for clean drinking water,”…
A BLO camp for the SIR drive in Shivajinagar constituency Pune: The SIR field exercise that concluded on Monday found that an average of 40% of voters were untraceable across nine of the 11 urban assembly constituencies in Pune. Kasba Peth and Bhosari are the two exceptions.Nearly 28 lakh voters of the 90.8 lakh electorate,…
Proposed HCMTR roads will run below the Metro tracks where these infra projects will intersect Pune: The Metro viaduct would be on top and the elevated HCMTR road would run below it wherever these intersect each other or run in tandem.The decision was taken last week in a joint meeting of top PMC (Pune Municipal…
NCP (SP) working president Supriya Sule Pune: Baramati MP and working president of NCP (SP) Supriya Sule on Monday said that her party will oppose hill cutting and for road projects in Pune, including the Patal Lok project.“We are not against development, but it should not come at the cost of environment,” she said, adding…
NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar in the two-day meet of the party’s district functionaries in Mumbai last weekend Pune: The senior NCP (SP) leadership, according to its district functionaries, has clarified that the party will remain in the opposition, after they sought clarity on speculations over the outfit joining NDA.NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar addressed…
Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis Pune: Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday stressed the need to bring youth into the mainstream and keep them away from Naxalite influence, drawing from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech.Fadnavis said the state’s 3.25 crore young people would be key to build a one-trillion-dollar economy in his pre-recorded…
