Covid Vaccination underway at Mavle hospital. (Express photo by Ashish Kale/File)Pune Live News: Pune region reported 283 new Covid-19 cases and three deaths today. Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) reported 92 and 32 Covid infections. Meanwhile, 999 new Covid-19 cases were registered in the state taking the total count to 66,23,344. The state also witnesses 49 deaths. Currently, there are 12,219 active cases in Maharashtra.
In another news, Members of NCP on Friday staged an agitation against Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut for her recent comments over India’s independence in Pune. NCP has demanded strong action against the actor. In a viral video, Ranaut is heard saying that what India got in 1947 was “alms”. “That was not freedom but ‘bheekh’ (alms), and the freedom came in 2014,” she added, supposedly referring to the year in which the Narendra Modi-led government came to power.
Pune city’s air quality will remain ‘moderate’ on Saturday. The Air Quality Index value for the city is expected to be 121, with air around Shivajinagar remaining relatively poorer. The minimum temperature recorded over the city rose across Pune district. The IMD has forecast clear sky conditions till noon and later cloudy sky conditions to prevail later on Saturday. The city’s maximum temperature is would be around 30 degrees.
First Information Report (FIR) has been lodged against Kiran Parakash Gosavi, the self-styled detective who had gone viral following his selfie with Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan after the 23-year-old was held by the Narcotics Control Bureau during a drugs raid on a cruise ship. Gosavi has been accused of cheating a resident of Bhosari through a job racket. This is the fourth case agaist Gosavi in Pune district.
Swargate Station of Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) was beaming with passengers on Sunday ahead of its strike from Monday. (Express Photo By Pavan Khengre)
The Gadchiroli police killed at least 26 Maoists in a fierce encounter in the Gyarapatti-Kodgul forest in the Korchi-Dhanora tehsils of the district on Saturday. Four policemen were also injured in the encounter and were taken to Nagpur for treatment.
Superintendent of Police Ankit Goyal told The Indian Express, “We have recovered 26 bodies so far. The deceased Maoists will be identified by Sunday morning.” Read More
Pune region reported 283 new Covid-19 cases and three deaths today. Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) reported 92 and 32 Covid infections. Meanwhile, 999 new Covid-19 cases were registered in the state taking the total count to 66,23,344. The state also witnesses 49 deaths. There are currently 12,219 active cases in Maharashtra.
A woman has been arrested in Pune in Maharashtra in connection with a 2020 cheating case registered against Kiran Gosavi, private investigator and witness in the Narcotics Control Bureau's cruise ship drug bust operation, police said on Saturday.
A Pune Cantonment police station official said Kusum Gaikwad was held as she allegedly received a part of the proceeds after some persons were cheated with job promises.
"In the cheating case registered by us in 2020, of the Rs 4.05 lakh involved, a sum of Rs 1.30 lakh went into Gosavi's account and the rest was given to Kusum Gaikwad. Gaikwad was also sending prospective cheating victims to Gosavi," said Senior Inspector Ashok Kadam of Pune Cantonment police station. (PTI)
Over 150 acres of land in close proximity to Pavana, Indrayani and Mula rivers in Pimpri-Chinchwad have been included in the residential zone by the Maharashtra government. A notification to this effect was issued Friday.
The decision comes as a big breather to those who have constructed buildings in the area. It is also likely to open up more space for development purposes. Read More
A fortnight ago, history researcher Prasad Sudhir Tare checked his email early in the morning and saw that a museum in France had sent him the thumbnail of a painting of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj that was previously unknown in India. “At that moment, I got the feeling that I was standing in front of the king. I paid my obeisance. I was overwhelmed to think of the artist who had stood before Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and made the work,” says Tare, who is a member of Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal.
The Golconda-style painting was made when the Chhatrapati was visiting the ruler of Golconda in 1677. In it, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj is seen standing, his full figure depicted in side profile with a long angarkha, a headgear adorned with pearls and gold, and a dagger to his side. “The beauty of these paintings is that they use natural colour and small amounts of real gold, and show us how the dressing and weapons were in those days,” says Tare. Read More
A curfew was imposed in Maharashtra’s Amravati city on Saturday against the backdrop of back to back incidents of stone-pelting on Friday and Saturday, an official order said.
As per the order issued on Saturday by the Amravati police commissionerate, the curfew has come into effect in the limits of the city and will remain in force till further order is issued.
This order was issued by officiating police commissioner Sandip Patil under sections 144(1), (2), (3) of the CrPc to avoid any untoward incidents. Read More
On the morning of June 27, 1825, the then Bishop of Calcutta Reginald Heber left Mumbai for Pune. In his memoirs, he describes how this three-day long ‘Journey to Poonah’ was marked with back-breaking hardships and sleepless nights but also with unforgettable encounters with the natural beauty of the Western Ghats.
To reach Pune from his temporary residence in Mumbai, Bishop Heber and an associate had to first travel to Panvel via sea in a small boat, covering a distance of 22 miles in about four hours. From there they set on the main part of their journey in palanquins borne by Indian hammals. On their way to Khopoli, they halted twice for food and for the palanquin bearers to get some rest. From here, the difficult part of the journey began as Heber and his associate had to alight from the palanquins and trek up the Bhor Ghat on foot, amid a heavy downpour. Read More
From inside the Naxal-dominated forests of Jharkhand comes a new grass-weaving group called Aadim Janjati Samhu with their ware of fine baskets. Patachitra artist Sirajudullah Chitrakar, on the other hand, creates scrolls and songs from West Bengal.
There are also saris in rare natural dyes, stationery made of handmade paper created from elephant dung — an organic raw material – from Jaipur, gold leaf embossed pichhwais from Rajasthan and glass objects and jewellery by an artist, Mahesh, from Firozabad. Add to this the soaring vocals of Mura Lala Marwada, who has featured in Coke Studio, and his group.
These are some of the attractions of the crafts heritage market, Dastkari Haat, which gets underway at Dutch Palace on Bund Garden Road, Pune, from Saturday (November 13).
IT WAS a confusing day for most Class 3 students, who returned to classrooms to write assessment tests, nearly two years after schools shut down physical classesdue to the pandemic. On Friday, the National Assessment Survey (NAS) took place across the country with more than 87 schools from Pune city participating in the same, where students from Class 3, 5, 8 and 10 were given assessment tests to gauge the learning outcomes and loss due to the online schooling induced by the pandemic.
The eight-year-olds, who were in Class I when they last visited the school, were excited to be back in school, even if for a day, but the ‘tough’ questions had them stumped. Many found it difficult to read questions and some even struggled to write their names on the assessment sheets. (With Alifiya Khan)
Pune city's air quality will remain 'moderate' on Saturday. The Air Quality Index value for the city is expected to be 121, with air around Shivajinagar remaining relatively poorer.
The minimum temperature recorded over the city rose across Pune district. Some of these places include Haveli - 15.2 degrees, Shirur - 15.9 degrees, Pashan - 15.7 degrees, Shivajinagar and Ambegaon - 16 degrees and Magarpatta - 21.3 degrees.
The IMD has forecast clear sky conditions till noon and later cloudy sky conditions to prevail later on Saturday. The city's maximum temperature is would be around 30 degrees.
Over Pune city, minimum temperatures continue to remain marginally below normal. On Friday, it was 11.9 degrees Celsius but this trend will change during the next two to three days. During the days ahead, the nights will be humid as cloudy sky conditions will push temperatures upwards.
Pune is also set to experience thunderstorms till November 16.
After an early start to winter-like chill, Maharashtra will experience some wet days, accompanied by thunder and lightning, till November 16, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in its latest forecast issued on Friday.
This will be under the influence of the likely formation of a low-pressure system in the Bay of Bengal and its west-northwestwards movement to mainland India.The Met department has issued an ‘Yellow’ alert over most districts of southern Konkan, Madhya Maharashtra and Marathwada starting Saturday.
Members of the state medical fraternity on Thursday protested against the arrest of one medical officer and three nurses in connection with the Ahmednagar District Hospital fire on November 6, which claimed the lives of 11 Covid-19 patients. Members of the Indian Medical Association’s local unit as well as homeopathy and Ayurveda practitioners also joined the day-long stir, with OPDs in the state remaining shut.
“Only emergency services are functional,” said Dr Nisar Shaikh, former president of IMA Ahmednagar and former vice-president of IMA (Maharashtra).
While district civil surgeon Dr Sunil Pokharna and two other medical officers and one nurse have been suspended over the fire incident, services of two contract nurses have been terminated by the health department.
Passengers who rely on Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) buses have continued to face hardship due to the indefinite strike of MSRTC employees since October 27 demanding the merger of the corporation into the state government.
Though private buses, vans and other operators were allowed to ferry passengers from the depots, the number of private operators was insufficient to cater to the passengers. Read More
Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrakant Patil on Friday said actor Kangana Ranaut’s comment that the Independence India won in 1947 was “bheek” (alms) was completely wrong.
The actor is in the eye of a storm and is being criticised from several quarters after stating at an event recently that India truly gained freedom in 2014, a reference to the BJP coming to power at the Centre. Read More
Members of NCP on Friday staged an agitation against Bollywood actor Kangana Ranaut for her recent comments over India's independence. NCP has demanded strong action against the actor. Express photo by Ashish Kale.
In a viral ideo, Ranaut is heard saying that what India got in 1947 was “alms”. “That was not freedom but ‘bheekh’ (alms), and the freedom came in 2014,” she added, supposedly referring to the year in which the Narendra Modi-led government came to power.
Maharashtra's education board on Friday started the process of partially refunding fee collected from students of Classes 10 and 12 for board exams in February-March 2021 which were cancelled in view of the coronavirus pandemic. The Maharashtra State Board for Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) is partially refunding the exam fee.
The exam fee collected from lakhs of Classes 10 and 12 students will be returned partially for which the pupils need to get themselves registered on the board's portal, where they will be provided a link, said an official from the education board. (PTI)
From inside the Naxal-dominated forests of Jharkhand comes a new grass-weaving group called Aadim Janjati Samhu with their ware of fine baskets. Patachitra artist Sirajudullah Chitrakar, on the other hand, creates scrolls and songs from West Bengal. There are also saris in rare natural dyes, stationery made of handmade paper created from elephant dung — an organic raw material – from Jaipur, gold leaf embossed pichhwais from Rajasthan and glass objects and jewellery by an artist, Mahesh, from Firozabad. Add to this the soaring vocals of Mura Lala Marwada, who has featured in Coke Studio, and his group. Read More
The Maharashtra state election commission has directed the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to prepare a draft delimitation of electoral panels for the civic body as it is headed for polls in the next few months. The draft has to be submitted to the election commission by November 30 so that further procedures to finalise the jurisdiction of each panel can be completed. How will the delimitation of electoral panels be carried out, and what criteria would it be based on? (Read Ajay Jadhav's explainer here)
Another First Information Report (FIR) has been lodged against Kiran Parakash Gosavi, the self-styled detective who had gone viral following his selfie with Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan after the 23-year-old was held by the Narcotics Control Bureau during a drugs raid on a cruise ship. Gosavi has been accused of cheating a resident of Bhosari through a job racket.
This is the fourth case agaist Gosavi in Pune district.
Vijaykumar Siddhling Kanade (36), who stays in Bhosari but is a native of Latur district, had lodged the FIR on Thursday evening. As per the statement issued on Friday, Kanade was searching for a job in 2015 and for this purpose, he had posted his application on various online portals. On March 3, Kanade received an email from a firm called “Shiva International”, offering him a job in a hotel abroad. Kanade then forwarded his curriculum-vitae to the email ID shivainternational100@gmail.com, the statement informed.