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Pune police to take action against late-night birthday celebrations in public places

The directive comes in response to grievances that the police are not adequately addressing the disturbance caused by late-night birthday celebrations in public places, including on roads and at chowks

Pune

Published on Jan 16, 2025 10:20 PM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

NCP’s Hadapsar assembly candidate seeks clarity on verification of 5% votes

The court also directed that any doubts among voters or candidates regarding microcontrollers and chips should be addressed

Several candidates who contested and lost the state assembly polls raised concerns over the credibility of electronic voting machines (EVMs) and the election process after the assembly election results were declared. (REPRESENTATIVE PHOTO)

India News

Updated on Jan 16, 2025 04:01 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

Farmers step up protest over export duty, halt onion auctions at Lasalgaon

The agitation saw farmers demanding immediate relief at the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) in Lasalgaon

Ajit Pawar urged the BJP-led Centre to remove the export duty and provide relief to onion farmers. Pawar had written to Union commerce minister Piyush Goyal, highlighting the challenges faced by growers in Nashik, one of India’s largest onion-producing regions. (HT PHOTO)

Pune

Updated on Jan 14, 2025 09:24 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

Poll aspirants flood voters with calendars in state

With civic elections likely to be held in mid-2025, one of popular strategies by political aspirants across Maharashtra as part of outreach efforts is distribution of personalised calendars

Pune

Updated on Jan 12, 2025 08:06 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

Police may be ‘lacking somewhere’ if they are unable to tackle crime, says Ajit Pawar

Pune has in the past seen spate in cases involving koytas with local gangs using he weapon to attack others and create terror in different localities

Everyone knows there is no political interference in the work of the police, Pawar claimed. (FILE PHOTO)

Pune

Updated on Jan 10, 2025 08:06 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

Beed sarpanch murder: Ajit Pawar defends Munde, says provide evidence to take action

Following the murder, Munde, an MLA from Parli in Beed, has been under attack from opposition parties and even some leaders of the ruling Mahayuti as Walmik Karad, the key accused in the extortion case linked to the sarpanch’s murder, is his close aide

On demand made from various quarters for the resignation of Munde, Pawar said his cabinet colleague has told him he was not involved in the murder of Deshmukh. (FILE PHOTO)

Pune

Updated on Jan 10, 2025 07:38 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

Satya Nadella lauds Sharad Pawar-led body on AI use for farmers

The Baramati-based agricultural trust, in collaboration with Microsoft, has been conducting experiments on sugarcane farming using AI tools. A total of 1,000 farmers have been selected for these trials

In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Nadella said, “It was great to meet the team at ADT Baramati today, who are using our AI tools to help farmers grow healthier, more sustainable harvests.” (HT FILE)

Pune

Updated on Jan 09, 2025 06:38 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

Pune civic body swings into action against encroachments

Over the past two days, shanties were removed from chronic spots, including Congress Bhavan, NIBM Road, and under several flyover bridges

Pune

Updated on Jan 07, 2025 08:06 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

Gadkari praises ‘anti-Brahmin’ leader Khedekar at Pune event

Union minister Nitin Gadkari lauded Maratha leader Purushottam Khedekar on his 75th birthday celebrated at an event organised by Maratha Seva Sangh in Pune

Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday lauded Maratha leader Purushottam Khedekar on his 75th birthday celebrated at an event organised by Maratha Seva Sangh in Pune. (HT FILE)

India News

Updated on Jan 05, 2025 04:00 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

Public representatives to meet CM over Pune’s infrastructure issues

Maharashtra ministers plan to meet CM Fadnavis to address Pune's infrastructure issues, including water supply and pending development projects.

On Saturday, Mohol, Patil, and other city MLAs held a meeting with municipal commissioner Rajendra Bhosale and heads of various departments to review ongoing projects and pending works. (HT PHOTO)

Pune

Updated on Jan 05, 2025 06:30 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

‘It is not a political stage’, says Chaggan Bhujbal; shares dias with Sharad Pawar in Pune

The NCP split in July 2023 after Ajit Pawar, Bhujbal and several others joined the Eknath Shinde government

Pawar and Bhujbal unveiled the statues of Mahatma Phule and Savitribai Phule installed at the premises of Chakan Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) (HT PHOTO)

Pune

Updated on Jan 04, 2025 08:14 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

Sharad Pawar, Chhagan Bhujbal & Dilip Walse-Patil likely to share dais in Pune today

The event, organised by Shirur MP Amol Kolhe, will take place at the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) premises in Chakan

This is the first time the trio will share the dais since the split in the NCP earlier this year. (FILE PHOTO)

Pune

Updated on Jan 03, 2025 08:38 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

PMC’s failure to monitor water tanker movements sparks concerns over mismanagement

Pune's PMC faces scrutiny after STP water was supplied as drinking water to a housing society. GPS monitoring of water tankers remains ineffective.

Only green-coloured tankers will be permitted to transport STP water, while potable water will be supplied exclusively from our designated tanker points, says official. (HT FILE)

Pune

Updated on Jan 03, 2025 08:22 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

Ajit Pawar requests Centre to scrap 20% export duty on onion

Ajit Pawar urges the central government to remove the 20% export duty on onions to support farmers facing falling prices and losses due to unseasonal rains.

With falling onion prices, deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar has written to the central government, requesting that the 20% export duty on onion be scrapped urgently. (HT PHOTO)

Pune

Updated on Dec 20, 2024 06:08 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

BJP issues show cause notice to MLC Mohite Patil for anti-party activities during polls

BJP issues show cause notice to MLC Ranjitsinh Mohite Patil for alleged anti-party activities, seeking his explanation within seven days.

It claimed that Mohite Patil had instructed his associates and family members to work against BJP candidates and threatened party workers, putting pressure on them using police agents. (HT PHOTO)

Pune

Updated on Dec 18, 2024 05:10 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

Discontent among Pune dist MLAs over cabinet exclusion

Following the cabinet expansion on Sunday, some MLAs from Pune and the region have expressed dissatisfaction over being left out

Pune

Updated on Dec 17, 2024 08:08 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

Repeated reminders later, PMC calls meeting on audit queries related to land management

According to sources, the asset management audit has highlighted several lapses, including non-recovery of rent from leased lands, improper property transfers, and inadequate adherence to procedural norms.

In a letter dated November 25, 2024, the principal accountant general of the IAAD had issued a stern reminder to municipal commissioner Rajendra Bhosale stating, despite issuing 36 memoranda, the PMC has not complied with the objections raised in the audit. (REPRESENATTIVE PHOTO)

Pune

Updated on Dec 03, 2024 07:48 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

Yugendra Pawar, 10 others from Pune district seek EVM data verification

In the recently concluded assembly elections, Ajit Pawar defeated Yugendra Pawar by around 1.02 lakh votes

As per ECI rules, candidates can seek the process within seven days of the election results. (HT PHOTO)

Pune

Updated on Dec 03, 2024 07:26 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

Activist Baba Adhav calls off hunger strike in Pune

Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) chief Sharad Pawar, NCP (SP) state unit head Jayant Patil, Shiv Sena (UBT) head Uddhav Thackeray and the party’s leader Sanjay Raut met the activist and urged him to end the hunger strike

Adhav, 95, began his protest at Phule Wada, the residence of social reformer Jyotiba Phule, in the city on Thursday and ended his agitation by accepting a glass of water from Thackeray’s hands on Saturday. (HT PHOTO)

Pune

Updated on Dec 01, 2024 06:24 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

Fadnavis, Ajit Pawar in Pune; CM Shinde visits native place in Satara

Before Fadnavis’s speech, his political opponent and Nationalist Congress party (SP) leader Sharad Pawar shared the same dais and left from the event

BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis along with Actor Aamir Khan and others light a ceremonial lamp during the Bharatiya Jain Sanghatana National Convention 2024, in Pune on Saturday. (Devendra Fadnavis X)

Pune

Updated on Dec 01, 2024 06:20 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

Hadapsar candidate Jagtap seeks vote recount

NCP (SP) Hadapsar assembly constituency candidate Prashant Jagtap has demanded recounting of vote in EVMs and VVPAT paper slips

Pune

Updated on Nov 30, 2024 10:00 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

Parth rebukes Mitkari over remarks on PR firm DesignBox

Parth Pawar, son of NCP chief Ajit Pawar, has criticised party MLC Amol Mitkari for his remarks on DesignBox, a public relations agency hired for his father’s election campaign

The picture tweeted by Ajit Pawar shows DesignBox head Naresh Arora’s hand on the shoulder of the NCP chief. Parth Pawar, son of Ajit, has criticised party MLC Amol Mitkari for his remarks on the public relations agency hired for his father’s election campaign. (AJIT PAWAR/X)

Pune

Updated on Nov 28, 2024 08:48 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

Encroachments, debris dumping blamed for flooding on Sinhagad Road: PMC Report

Previously, releasing 60,000 cusecs caused minimal waterlogging. However, due to obstructions, even a discharge of 35,000-40,000 cusecs now leads to major flooding, the report stated

Pune

Updated on Nov 28, 2024 07:54 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

Third Front collapses before taking shape

The Third Front alliance, branded Mahashakti, fielded 121 candidates and none of whom managed to secure a win in the state assembly polls

Pune

Updated on Nov 27, 2024 10:20 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

Vikhe-Patil family strikes back, turns tables on rivals in Ahmednagar

The Vikhe-Patil family made a dramatic comeback in the recent state assembly elections, avenging their defeat in Lok Sabha polls and ensuring their opponents faced significant setbacks

Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil retained the Shirdi seat he has held since 1995, defeating Congress’s Prabhavati Ghogare by over 70,000 votes. The Vikhe-Patil family made a dramatic comeback in the recent state assembly elections, avenging their defeat in Lok Sabha polls and ensuring their opponents faced significant setbacks. (HT FILE)

Pune

Updated on Nov 27, 2024 10:14 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

Focus shifts to long-overdue local body elections

Following state polls, attention is now on the overdue municipal, zilla parishad, and other local body elections, pending since March 2022 due to the unresolved issue of OBC reservation in court

Pune

Updated on Nov 26, 2024 08:28 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

Bhosale, Khatal emerge giant-killers in western Maharashtra, toppling Chavan and Thorat

Western Maharashtra witnessed major political upsets as Congress stalwarts Chavan and Thorat faced defeat in their strongholds by Bhosale and Khatal

Pune

Updated on Nov 24, 2024 08:58 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

With no seat, Congress faces wipeout in Pune city and district

The defeat underscores the party’s shrinking influence in a region once dominated by stalwarts like Mohan Dharia, Vitthalrao Gadgil, and Suresh Kalmadi

Pune

Updated on Nov 24, 2024 08:46 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

BJP wins six city seats, Mahayuti trumps in rural Pune with eight victories

In Pune city, the BJP emerged victorious in Kothrud, Parvati, Shivajinagar, Pune Cantonment, Khadakwasla, and Kasba Peth

BJP workers celebrating victory in the city on Saturday. (MAHENDRA KOLHE/HT PHOTO)

Pune

Updated on Nov 24, 2024 07:18 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar, Dheeraj Bengrut

Illegal liquor worth ₹7 crore seized in Pune since poll code came into effect

Pune district seized ₹7 crore in illegal liquor and took action against 1,042 people since the MCC took effect, with 25% of state seizures from Pune.

Action has been taken against 234 vehicles and most of the illegal stock came from neighbouring state Goa. (REPRESENTATIVE PHOTO)

Pune

Updated on Nov 23, 2024 07:58 AM IST

ByAbhay Khairnar

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The directive comes in response to grievances that the police are not adequately addressing the disturbance caused by late-night birthday celebrations in public places, including on roads and at chowks

The court also directed that any doubts among voters or candidates regarding microcontrollers and chips should be addressed

The agitation saw farmers demanding immediate relief at the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) in Lasalgaon

With civic elections likely to be held in mid-2025, one of popular strategies by political aspirants across Maharashtra as part of outreach efforts is distribution of personalised calendars

Pune has in the past seen spate in cases involving koytas with local gangs using he weapon to attack others and create terror in different localities

Following the murder, Munde, an MLA from Parli in Beed, has been under attack from opposition parties and even some leaders of the ruling Mahayuti as Walmik Karad, the key accused in the extortion case linked to the sarpanch’s murder, is his close aide

The Baramati-based agricultural trust, in collaboration with Microsoft, has been conducting experiments on sugarcane farming using AI tools. A total of 1,000 farmers have been selected for these trials

Over the past two days, shanties were removed from chronic spots, including Congress Bhavan, NIBM Road, and under several flyover bridges

Union minister Nitin Gadkari lauded Maratha leader Purushottam Khedekar on his 75th birthday celebrated at an event organised by Maratha Seva Sangh in Pune

Maharashtra ministers plan to meet CM Fadnavis to address Pune's infrastructure issues, including water supply and pending development projects.

The NCP split in July 2023 after Ajit Pawar, Bhujbal and several others joined the Eknath Shinde government

The event, organised by Shirur MP Amol Kolhe, will take place at the Agricultural Produce Market Committee (APMC) premises in Chakan

Pune's PMC faces scrutiny after STP water was supplied as drinking water to a housing society. GPS monitoring of water tankers remains ineffective.

Ajit Pawar urges the central government to remove the 20% export duty on onions to support farmers facing falling prices and losses due to unseasonal rains.

BJP issues show cause notice to MLC Ranjitsinh Mohite Patil for alleged anti-party activities, seeking his explanation within seven days.

Following the cabinet expansion on Sunday, some MLAs from Pune and the region have expressed dissatisfaction over being left out

According to sources, the asset management audit has highlighted several lapses, including non-recovery of rent from leased lands, improper property transfers, and inadequate adherence to procedural norms.

In the recently concluded assembly elections, Ajit Pawar defeated Yugendra Pawar by around 1.02 lakh votes

Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) chief Sharad Pawar, NCP (SP) state unit head Jayant Patil, Shiv Sena (UBT) head Uddhav Thackeray and the party’s leader Sanjay Raut met the activist and urged him to end the hunger strike

Before Fadnavis’s speech, his political opponent and Nationalist Congress party (SP) leader Sharad Pawar shared the same dais and left from the event

NCP (SP) Hadapsar assembly constituency candidate Prashant Jagtap has demanded recounting of vote in EVMs and VVPAT paper slips

Parth Pawar, son of NCP chief Ajit Pawar, has criticised party MLC Amol Mitkari for his remarks on DesignBox, a public relations agency hired for his father’s election campaign

Previously, releasing 60,000 cusecs caused minimal waterlogging. However, due to obstructions, even a discharge of 35,000-40,000 cusecs now leads to major flooding, the report stated

The Third Front alliance, branded Mahashakti, fielded 121 candidates and none of whom managed to secure a win in the state assembly polls

The Vikhe-Patil family made a dramatic comeback in the recent state assembly elections, avenging their defeat in Lok Sabha polls and ensuring their opponents faced significant setbacks

Following state polls, attention is now on the overdue municipal, zilla parishad, and other local body elections, pending since March 2022 due to the unresolved issue of OBC reservation in court

Western Maharashtra witnessed major political upsets as Congress stalwarts Chavan and Thorat faced defeat in their strongholds by Bhosale and Khatal

The defeat underscores the party’s shrinking influence in a region once dominated by stalwarts like Mohan Dharia, Vitthalrao Gadgil, and Suresh Kalmadi

In Pune city, the BJP emerged victorious in Kothrud, Parvati, Shivajinagar, Pune Cantonment, Khadakwasla, and Kasba Peth

Pune district seized ₹7 crore in illegal liquor and took action against 1,042 people since the MCC took effect, with 25% of state seizures from Pune.

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