An HSRP being fixed on a vehicle in Pune Pune: Just a week remains for the June 30 deadline to kick in for the installation of High-Security Registration Plates (HSRPs) on vehicles registered before April 1, 2019, and the demand for counterfeit HSRP lookalikes has surged amid poor appointment and fitment rates.Vendors said orders for…
The state govt has launched a massive drone-based survey to map urban properties and is digitising the mutation process for nearly one crore records Pune: Property owners across Maharashtra may soon find it easier to access accurate ownership records and update land documents. The state govt has launched a massive drone-based survey to map urban…
Shubham Sumit wins the Silver Conch for Best Indian Short Fiction Film for his FTII diploma film Small Clouds at the 19th MIFF Pune: Shubham Sumit had learned to imagine films much before he had ever watched one.Two decades ago, in Buxar (Bihar), Sumit used to lie on the terrace of his house on summer…
Pune: The Koregaon Park police have recovered more than 300 counterfeit Rs 500 currency notes after conducting searches at the rented residences of two accused in Tingrenagar and Lohegaon on Sunday.Police had arrested Omprakash Agarwal (32), a resident of Tingrenagar, and Mausam Narendra Mishra (36), a resident of Lohegaon, on Dhole Patil Road after they…
School education minister Dada Bhuse (third from right) and vice-president for Geo and Education at Google Chris Phillips (on Bhuse’s right) along with other officials Pune: The state school education department and Google for Education have formed a partnership to train over four lakh teachers of govt and aided schools across Maharashtra in artificial intelligence…
The police have recommended measures including patching pothole, correcting faulty road dividers, redesigning footpaths and removing encroachments to streamline traffic flow Pune: From encroachments to uneven or asymmetrical footpaths, potholes and poor road conditions, the Pune traffic branch has identified 60 infrastructure and related issues contributing to congestion across its 30 divisions. The police plan…
Pune: The civic body’s general body meeting on Monday approved a proposal to begin the process to prepare a draft development plan (DP) for 23 areas that were merged with the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) in 2021.The proposal also included appointment of city engineer Aniruddha Pavaskar as the town planning officer for the DP work….
Picture for representation purpose only Pune: The Mahalunge MIDC police are searching for three men who allegedly thrashed a cab driver and his friend, claiming that the driver’s car had brushed against theirs. The trio also smashed the cab’s windscreen. The incident happened on Saturday at Purnanagar near Mahalunge. A 26-year-old cab driver from Chikhali…
Opposition corporators wear helmets in House PUNE: The proceedings of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) were disrupted on Monday after opposition corporators from the Congress and NCP (SP) staged a symbolic protest, wearing construction helmets and black armbands to oppose what they described as the “aggressive and intimidating” behaviour of BJP members. Congress councillor and…
Pune: The interim executive committee of the All India Tennis Association (AITA) seems to have tied itself in a legal tangle, and in danger of being dissolved, after refusing to cooperate with the Administrator appointed by the Delhi High Court in April.While the interim committee, headed by president Chintan Parikh (Gujarat state association) and secretary…
