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A Pune-Mumbai e-Shivneri bus at Pune station Pune: Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC)’s own e-bus expansion remains sluggish despite state govt’s push for electric mobility, casting doubt on its target of adding 2,300 electric buses to its fleet by March next year.MSRTC’s e-bus fleet has grown by only 30 buses in recent months, rising…

Deputy CM and NCP chief Sunetra Pawar Pune: Someshwar Cooperative Sugar Mill election in Baramati is set for another Pawar-versus-Pawar showdown, as merger talks between the two NCP factions appear to have hit a wall.Sharad Pawar-led NCP (SP) has announced that it will field candidates against NCP, led by deputy CM Sunetra Pawar, in the…

Players compete in a Kurash wrestling match Pune: The investigation into a racket involving fake certificates for the Kurash sport revealed that it had spread across the state and the Pune City crime branch found that office-bearers of the Maharashtra State Kurash Association had distributed over 1,000 certificates since 2016.The police have now begun verifying…

Passengers of the Kochi-bound Air India Xpress flight speaking to ground staff after the flight delay Pune: Nearly 100 passengers were left stranded at Pune airport in the early hours of Tuesday after their Air India Express flight to Kochi was delayed by more than five hours.Flight IX-2739, scheduled to depart from Pune at 1.30am,…

AI-enabled camera system installed at one of the leopard-affected villages in Junnar forest division Pune: The Junnar forest division has expanded its technology-based response to human-leopard conflict, installing 50 artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled detection systems across vulnerable villages since April this year.The latest installations have taken the number of such units deployed by the division to…

The new facility is also expected to help scientists study magnetic fields in space. Pune: Researchers will now have easier long-term access to a massive dataset collected by Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, after Germany’s Deutsches Zentrum für Astrophysik created a mirror of data from the MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey from MeerKAT radio…

The association wanted govt to withdraw the blanket ban on coaching for children below 13 years, and protect parents’ right to decide their children’s education Pune: Professional Teachers’ Association of Maharashtra on Tuesday demanded changes in the proposed Maharashtra Private Coaching Centres Registration and Regulation Act.They demanded that the state govt categorise coaching classes according…

Pune: Two drug addicts allegedly assaulted a Government Railway Police (GRP) constable on Sanjay Gandhi Road near Pune railway station around 1.30am on Tuesday.The two drug addicts were detained later and a complaint was lodged. Senior inspector Santosh Pandhare of Bund Garden police said, “The GRP’s constable, Akshay Bombale (28), suffered injuries to his neck….

Pune: Cybercrooks posing as officials of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and Mumbai police allegedly duped a 74-year-old woman from Dhayari of Rs48 lakh between Aug 26 and Aug 29.The elderly woman lodged a complaint with Nanded City police on Monday. She lives alone in her flat, while her two sons live in UK…

Pune: A Std X student (16) died, while her sister (17) and father suffered serious injuries after a trailer truck hit their motorcycle from the rear on Katraj-Kondhwa Road around 1.30pm on Tuesday.The motorcyclist had picked up his daughters from their school in Katraj and was heading home when the accident occurred. Passers-by rushed to…