Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray has directed the administration to coordinate with the Ministry of External Affairs to ensure safety of students and their return. Pune News Highlights: Pune administration has set up control room for students and others from the city stuck in Ukraine. Tension between Russia and Ukraine has increased as Russia launched military operation against Ukraine. Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray has directed the administration to coordinate with the Ministry of External Affairs to ensure safety of students and their return.
A truck carrying ‘important and confidential papers’ of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examination to Pune experienced severe damage after catching fire in the early morning of Wednesday. The accident took place on Pune-Nashik Highway according to Ahmednagar police. Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) has rescheduled HSC exam on March 5,7.
Pune logged 215 new Covid-19 infections, and eight fatalities. B J Medical College reported 58 patients with Omicron variant. Overall the state recorded 1,182 fresh coronavirus positive cases and 19 deaths.
A beneficiary gets a dose of Covid-19 vaccine in Pune. (Express Photo by Ashish Kale, File)
Pune logged 215 new Covid-19 infections, and eight fatalities. B J Medical College reported 58 patients with Omicron variant. Overall the state recorded 1,182 fresh coronavirus positive cases and 19 deaths. (ENS)
The Pune district administration has set up a control room to help students and others from the district who are stranded in Ukraine.
Such people or their families can contact 202-26123371 or write to `controlroompune@gmail.com', said district collector Rajesh Deshmukh.
Russia launched a military operation against Ukraine earlier in the day following weeks of high tensions.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has directed the administration to coordinate with the Ministry of External Affairs to ensure the safe return of students and others from the state who are stuck in Ukraine. (PTI)
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The Maharashtra government on Thursday formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the cases of attacks and threats against public representatives registered across the state.
Mumbai's Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Milind Bharambe will head the SIT, said a senior official here. A Government Resolution (order) in this regard was issued by the state home department during the day, he said.
The issue of threats and attacks against public representatives had come up for discussion in the state legislature last year. The government had then assured that an SIT will be formed to probe such cases and also study related issues. (PTI)
Actu-Real Inc, a US-based specialised Contract Research Organization (CRO) focused on data analytics, and Jehangir Clinical Development Centre (JCDC), Pune, on Thursday announced the signing of a strategic collaboration agreement to further research based on real-world evidence.
Through this collaboration, Actu-Real and the JCDC will focus on collecting and analysing real-world data generated from clinical practice to support evidence-based clinical, economic and regulatory decisions.
“This joint initiative aligns with Actu-Real’s mission to enable better results through evidence-based decisions in healthcare and our vision to implement an outcomes-based approach to healthcare access”, said Dr Chitra Lele, president and founder of Actu-Real. Read more
After a truck carrying question papers of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) exams caught fire, Maharashtra has postponed by a month a few language papers scheduled for March 5 and 7.
A notification issued by the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education on Thursday said that a few exams in the general, bifocal and minimum competency vocational course (MCVC) streams were rescheduled for April 5 and 7.
March 5’s Hindi exam (scheduled from 10.30am to 2pm), and exams in German, Japanese, Chinese and Persian (from 3pm to 6.30pm) will now be held on April 5 with the same timings. March 7’s exams in Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Sindhi, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and Punjabi (scheduled from 10.30am to 2pm), and exams in Urdu, French, Spanish and Pali (scheduled from 3pm to 6 30pm) have been rescheduled to April 7 with the same timings. Read more
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A truck carrying ‘important and confidential papers’ of the upcoming Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examination to Pune suffered heavy damage after it caught fire in the early hours of Wednesday on the Pune-Nashik Highway, said Ahmednagar Police.
Officials of the Maharashtra State Board for Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) said they were in the process of taking stock of the situation and would share details on Thursday as to how this incident would affect the examination, which is set to begin in the first week of March.
Officials from Ahmednagar District Police said that the truck carrying HSC exam-related papers had started from a place in Madhya Pradesh and was on its way to Pune via the Pune-Nashik Highway. Read more
For more follow our live updates on the Russia-Ukraine conflict here: https://indianexpress.com/article/world/russia-ukraine-crisis-news-live-updates-putin-biden-united-states-seperatists-7788299/
NCP workers staged a protest in Nagpur on Thursday against the arrest of their party leader and Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case.
Nagpur NCP chief Duneshwar Pethe and other party workers gathered at Sitabuldi square and shouted slogans against the BJP-led central government and the ED.
Meanwhile, BJP workers burnt an effigy of Malik at the Jhansi Rani square and demanded his resignation. The saffron party workers also burnt an effigy of Congress president Sonia Gandhi, whose party shares power with the Shiv Sena and NCP in Maharashtra. (PTI)
The work of casting segments for the 23-km elevated metro rail line from Hinjewadi to Shivajinagar began last Friday, said Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) officials.
“The length of one segment is around 3.6 metres and the weight is around 50 tonnes. Around 10-12 such segments are used between two pillars,” said Suhas Diwase, Metropolitan Commissioner of PMRDA.
The actual work on the third metro line from Hinjewadi to Shivajinagar began in November last year, three years after the PMRDA signed a contract with a joint venture of Tata and Siemens to develop the much-awaited metro line, which can be useful to professionals of Hinjewadi IT Park. Read more.
A cyber fraudster allegedly cheated a man from Chinchwad of nearly Rs 75,000 by claiming to be a bank manager and assuring him of increasing his credit card limit.
The victim, who is a 41-year-old employee of Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL), lodged the first information report in this case at the Chinchwad police station on Wednesday.
A press release stated that a fraudster, claiming to be ICICI bank manager, contacted the complainant’s cell phone number on October 28 and 29 last year. Read more.
In yet another milestone in indigenous Quantum technology, a joint team of scientists from the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, successfully demonstrated Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) link between Prayagraj and Vindhyachal in Uttar Pradesh, a distance of more than 100 kilometres.
QKD is primarily a mechanism to undertake secure communication which utilises a cryptographic protocol involving various components of quantum mechanics. The technology enables two communicating sides to come up with random secret keys shared by both of them and known exclusively to them, so only they can use it to encrypt and decrypt messages, thus achieving a very highly-secure communication.
In December 2020, the technology was tested for communication between two DRDO facilities in Hyderabad—the Defence Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL) and Research Centre Imarat (RCI)—over a distance of 12 km. Read more.
A truck carrying ‘important and confidential papers’ of the upcoming Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examination to Pune suffered heavy damage after it caught fire in the early hours of Wednesday on the Pune-Nashik Highway, said Ahmednagar Police.
Officials of the Maharashtra State Board for Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) said they were in the process of taking stock of the situation and would share details on Thursday as to how this incident would affect the examination, which is set to begin in the first week of March.
Officials from Ahmednagar District Police said that the truck carrying HSC exam-related papers had started from a place in Madhya Pradesh and was on its way to Pune via the Pune-Nashik Highway. While sources said the truck was carrying HSC exam papers, both police and state board officials refused to confirm it officially. Read more.
A fire broke out on the fifth floor of a residential building on Jambhulwadi Road in Pune on Wednesday afternoon. But no casualties were reported in the incident. Fire department officials said that the fire could have started from an electric water heater. The Pune Fire Brigade said its control room received a call regarding the fire around 12.15 pm.
Fire officer Sanjay Ramteke said, “By the time we reached the spot, the fire had caused heavy damages. We controlled the fire before it could spread any further. It took us around 20 minutes to control the fire and then we conducted a cooling operation by spraying water to avoid any secondary fire.” Read more
Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik was produced before a special court here on Wednesday after the Enforcement Directorate arrested him in a money laundering case probe linked to the activities of fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim, his aides and the Mumbai underworld.
In the morning, Malik was taken to the ED's office in south Mumbai for questioning and he was later arrested.
The 62-year-old NCP leader was taken to the state-run J J Hospital in the afternoon for a medical check-up after which he was taken to the sessions court. Malik, clad in a white kurta, was brought to the courtroom of Special Judge R N Rokade, designated to hear matters related to the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), at 4.50 pm and was made to stand in the witness box. (PTI)
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) lead public awareness programs on hygiene on the occassion of Sant Gadge Baba Jayanti.
Maharashtra Minority Affairs Minister Nawab Malik, who was on Wednesday arrested in a money laundering probe linked to the activities of the Mumbai underworld, said he won't bow down.
"Will fight and win. Won't bow down," Malik said waving to waiting media as he stepped out of the ED office in south Mumbai after spending eight hours there. "Will expose all," he said, before being taken by ED officials in a vehicle for medical check-up.
The minister later tweeted a video clip of him making those remarks. His office also tweeted, "Main jhukega nahi! (won't bow down)."
The 62-year-old NCP leader arrived at the Enforcement Directorate office in south Mumbai's Ballard Estate area around 8 am and the agency officials recorded his statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. (PTI)
Police said that they had opened fire into the air after burglars who had broken into an unoccupied apartment in Pune threw a sickle and stones at them in the early hours of Wednesday. Neither the policemen nor the burglars, who fled the spot, sustained injuries, they added.
The incident was reported from a residential society in Chaphalkar Colony located in the city’s Satara Road area. The police said that around 4 am, the security guard of the society found some burglars breaking into one of the apartments and informed them.
Deputy Commissioner of Police Namrata Patil said, “After receiving a call about a suspected burglary, two beat marshals patrolling the area reached the spot within four minutes. Another officer on the night rounds also reached there.” Read more
After Maharashtra Minister Nawab Malik was picked up by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning in connection with a money laundering case, leaders of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government slammed the Modi government for “misusing the investigating agencies to target those who speak the truth”.
Leading the attack, NCP chief Sharad Pawar said those who speak truth are being harassed. “There is nothing new in this. We were expecting the action against Nawab Malik since he was openly expressing his stand. We were expecting that they would do something against him. Those who express their views openly against the BJP government and the investigating agencies, those who speak the truth, are being harassed,” he said.
“When I was the Chief Minister, I was also targeted in this manner. This is an attempt to defame those who speak out with a clear mind. This is a misuse of power,” Pawar added. Read more.
An employee of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC), who was suspended from service, has been arrested for allegedly disturbing government work and threatening to die by suicide.
The police have identified the accused as Vinod Bhoju Rathod, 30, a resident of the ST Colony, Swargate.
MSRTC official Ashok Sot has lodged a First Information Report (FIR) in this connection at the Bhosari police station. Read more.
An employee of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC), who was suspended from service, has been arrested for allegedly disturbing government work and threatening to die by suicide.
The police have identified the accused as Vinod Bhoju Rathod, 30, a resident of the ST Colony, Swargate.
MSRTC official Ashok Sot has lodged a First Information Report (FIR) in this connection at the Bhosari police station. Read more.