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Yogesh Joshi

Yogesh Joshi

Yogesh Joshi is Assistant Editor at Hindustan Times. He covers politics, security, development and human rights from Western Maharashtra.

Articles by Yogesh Joshi

Monday Musings: Pune’s leadership vacuum, and the CM who stepped in

Pune, Jul 18 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, with Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, inspects the mini models of the Pune-Shirur Upgraded Expressway, Talegaon-Chakan-Shikrapur Upgraded Expressway, and Hadapsar-Yavat Upgraded Expressway, in Pune on Saturday. State Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar and state minister Chandrakant Patil also present. (@CMOMaharashtra X/ANI Photo) (@CMOMaharashtra X)

Updated on Jul 20, 2026 02:32 IST

Monday Musings: Tukaram Mundhe’s FDA drive sends strong message to violators

Mumbai, India - July 3, 2026: Tukaram Mundhe, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), during Monsson Assembly Session at Vidhan Bhavan in Mumbai, India, on Friday, July 3, 2026. (Photo by Anshuman Poyrekar/Hindustan Times) (Anshuman Poyrekar/HT Photo)

Updated on Jul 13, 2026 03:10 IST

All that’s on your plate isn’t healthy: FDA crackdowns force a reckoning

FDA commissioner Tukaram Mundhe says not all food is adulterated, but consumers cannot be certain unless it complies with food safety norms.

Updated on Jul 12, 2026 01:42 IST

Pune’s traffic future: Flyovers, metro, key mass transit route or Patal-lok?

Every few years, Pune rediscovers an old solution to its traffic woes. This time, it is the High Capacity Mass Transit Route (HCMTR) that is back in focus. (HT FILE)

Updated on Jul 6, 2026 03:25 IST

Monday Musings: Good monsoon created complacency; weak one will test water planning

The larger question is whether civic bodies and government agencies have used the years of good rainfall to strengthen water sources. (Mahendra Kolhe/HT)

Updated on Jun 21, 2026 23:08 IST

Wells beside roads, deaths waiting to happen

According to villagers, another vehicle had fallen into a roadside well in the same area barely two weeks earlier. No lives were lost then. This time, eight people died. (FILE)

Updated on Jun 15, 2026 24:52 IST

A 33-km opportunity Pune cannot afford to waste

A 33-km opportunity Pune cannot afford to waste

Updated on Jun 8, 2026 24:22 IST

Monday Musings: When warnings are ignored

Monday Musings: When warnings are ignored

Updated on May 31, 2026 21:52 IST

Pune’s civic culture: Build, inaugurate, personalise

Pune’s civic culture: Build, inaugurate, personalise

Updated on May 18, 2026 01:16 IST

Monday Musings: When constituencies begin to feel inherited

Deputy chief minister Sunetra Pawar (right), with her sons Parth (centre), and Jay Pawar (second from right). (HT FILE)

Updated on Apr 27, 2026 01:22 IST

On Sunetra Pawar’s poll day, Jay’s 2029 claim and Rohit’s counter revive talk of another Pawar vs Pawar battle

On Sunetra Pawar’s poll day, Jay’s 2029 claim and Rohit’s counter revive talk of another Pawar vs Pawar battle

Updated on Apr 24, 2026 01:40 IST

Monday Musings: Tanker economy - Pune’s parallel water market is no longer seasonal

Monday Musings: Tanker economy - Pune’s parallel water market is no longer seasonal

Updated on Apr 20, 2026 01:12 IST

Monday Musings: There’s urgent need to save Pune’s lakes

The response signals urgency, but it also raises a quieter question: why do Pune’s lakes keep reaching this stage? (HT)

Updated on Apr 13, 2026 01:30 IST

Sunetra Pawar makes emotional pitch as she files by-poll nomination

Pawar, 62, is contesting an election for the second time. (HT)

Updated on Apr 6, 2026 21:54 IST

Parth rules out bid for unopposed by-poll win

NCP leader Parth Pawar on Monday said his party will not reach out to the Congress to seek an unopposed win in the assembly by-election in Baramati (HT)

Updated on Apr 6, 2026 21:48 IST

Monday musing: When the rain is real, and the city still isn’t ready

Last Thursday’s rain was not extraordinary in volume over the day. But its intensity over a brief window overwhelmed the city’s drainage capacity. (HT)

Updated on Apr 6, 2026 24:24 IST

Monday Musings: Building a city underground, without knowing what lies beneath

Underground corridors, especially in the dense old city, are complex engineering exercises that demand precise mapping of existing utilities — water pipelines, sewer lines, cables, and, crucially, legacy structures like wells. (HT FILE)

Updated on Mar 29, 2026 23:50 IST

From flunking math to advising bizmen: Rise and fall of rape-accused ‘godman’

Kharat was born Laxman Kharat in Kahandelwadi village in Nashik district. (File photo)

Updated on Mar 27, 2026 06:48 IST

Monday Musings: Politics, faith and the comfort of godmen

As allegations against Kharat (in pic) surfaced, older images and accounts of political leaders visiting him began to circulate. (HT)

Updated on Mar 23, 2026 05:14 IST

Monday Musings: Can low-emission zones make Pune breathe easier?

For decades, Pune has comforted itself with the belief that it is not as polluted as Delhi or Mumbai. The city likes to think of itself as breezy, green and relatively breathable. Yet the numbers tell a different story. (HT)

Updated on Mar 16, 2026 24:16 IST

Monday Musings: The political economy of farm loan waivers in Maharashtra

Maharashtra’s experience suggests that agrarian distress cannot be reduced to a single policy lever. (REPRESENTATIVE PHOTO)

Updated on Mar 9, 2026 01:02 IST

Monday Musings: Pune plans big, but struggles to finish what it starts

The latest example comes from the proposed Metro Phase-4 corridor, meant to connect Khadakwasla to Kharadi through some of the city’s most congested stretches. The project itself promises relief to growing suburbs, but the plan has already hit a familiar hurdle: land for the metro car shed. (HT FILE)

Updated on Mar 2, 2026 01:30 IST

In the aftermath of Ajit Pawar's death, the rise of Rohit Pawar decoded

Nationalist Congress Party (SP) leader and MLA Rohit Pawar at a press conference at the YB Chavan Centre.

Updated on Feb 22, 2026 06:19 IST

Monday musings: When Pune’s protests make noise, but say little

By evening on Sunday, the stretch outside Congress Bhavan in Shivajinagar looked familiar again—police vans parked, party workers loitering, and broken glass marking the end of a protest that began as a show of strength and slid quickly into violence. It was loud, televised, and it will likely be forgotten by the next news cycle. (Mahendra Kolhe/HT)

Updated on Feb 16, 2026 24:58 IST

When elections refuse to end

The electronic voting machines have barely cooled before being wheeled out again. (HT)

Updated on Feb 8, 2026 22:54 IST

The 32-hour operation to defuse a moving bomb on the Mumbai–Pune Expressway

On the Pune–Mumbai carriageway, a gas tanker travelling downhill lost control while negotiating the curve and overturned on its side.

Updated on Feb 6, 2026 03:08 IST

Monday Musings: When grief becomes a vacuum

Within days of the crash, Sunetra Pawar was sworn in as Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister. (HT FILE)

Updated on Feb 2, 2026 24:46 IST

From shadow to succession: Sunetra Pawar steps into the centre of power

From shadow to succession: Sunetra Pawar steps into the centre of power

Updated on Feb 1, 2026 24:35 IST

Ajit was in favour of reunion, NCP merger now halted: Sharad Pawar

“The merger talks, which had been underway for the past four months, have now been interrupted. Unfortunately, Ajit Pawar’s death has halted the merger talks,” Pawar said, adding that there had been a shared desire for unity. “Our desire is also that the two sides should come together.” (Hindustan Times)

Updated on Jan 31, 2026 18:29 IST

Ajit wanted NCP merger on Feb 12, plane crash halted talks: Sharad Pawar

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar died after an aircraft carrying him crashed near Baramati Airport in Pune district on Wednesday.

Updated on Jan 31, 2026 06:35 IST

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