No casualties were reported. Attempts were being made to ascertain the cause of the fire. (Express Photo by Arul Horizon)Pune News Live Updates: Ten shops at Juna Bazaar in the Mangalwar Peth area of Pune city were gutted in a fire incident Wednesday morning, said officials. The Pune fire brigade control room received a call about the fire at 7.38 am. Teams of fire brigade, along with fire tenders and water tankers, rushed to the spot. They brought the fire under control by around 8.25 am. Fire officials said tin shed shops carrying electrical and mechanical items suffered damages in the incident. No casualties were reported. A
Water supply will be shut off in most parts of Pune city on Thursday, January 19, as the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has planned electric-related works at various water treatment plants. Water supply will resume the next morning on January 20 but with low pressure. Model Colony, Shivajinagar, Khadki, Kothrud, Dahanukar Colony, Senapati Bapat Road, Bhandarkar Road, Prabhat Road, Warje, Katraj, Bharti Vidyapeeth, Sahakarnagar, all peth areas, Salisbury Park, Koregaon Park, Keshavnagar, Phursungi, NIBM, Race Course, Tadiwala Road and Wanowrie are the areas which will have no water supply on Thursday.
The two-day G-20 Infrastructure Working Group (IWG) meeting under India’s G20 Presidency kicked off in Pune on Monday. The meeting was inaugurated in the presence of Union minister for MSME Narayan Rane, who informed delegates about the rich legacy of the city. The Union Minister also said the central government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are making efforts to ensure citizens are not affected by the global economic slowdown. The first IWG meeting was attended by 65 delegates across the G20 membership, invitee countries and International Organisations. Cultural performances on the theme of Shiv Rajyabhishek including Lavani, Karpallavi, Potraj, Mardani khel etc were also organised for the delegates.
Both retail and wholesale egg prices have firmed up in Pune as lower supply hits the market. Lower production at the farm end and hoarding at the traders’ end are the reasons despite the cost of production remaining more or less static on a year-on-year basis, according to market sources.
As per the National Egg Coordination Committee (NECC), the price of 100 eggs in Pune for January is Rs 568.83. This translates into Rs 5.68/egg and Rs 68.12 per dozen for wholesale. In the retail market, a dozen eggs is now trading at Rs 80 with a single egg costing Rs 7. Last January, 100 eggs cost Rs 497.29 and a dozen for wholesale Rs 60. In the retail market, a dozen cost Rs 65-70. (Read More)
The Maharashtra government Tuesday granted yet another extension to the Koregaon Bhima Commission of Inquiry. An order in this regard issued by the state home department on Tuesday stated that the commission has been given an extension of three months till March 31, 2023, to submit the report.
The earlier period of extension granted to the commission expired on December 31, 2022.
The two-member commission, headed by retired high court judge J N Patel with former chief secretary Sumit Malik as the other member, was constituted by the state government on February 9, 2018, to inquire into the “exact sequence” of events that led to violence on the 200th anniversary of Battle of Koregaon Bhima on January 1 that year. One person had died and several others were injured in the violence. (Read More)
The property tax department of Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation has urged the chairpersons of 100 residential housing societies to ask flat owners to pay their tax arrears. The tax department also warned of confiscating properties if the arrears are not paid.
In a letter, PCMC assistant municipal commissioner Nilesh Deshmukh said, “We have intensified our drive against property tax defaulters. Property tax defaulters in the residential category owe Rs 480 crore arrears to the PCMC.” (Read More)
Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who has a non-agricultural tax amounting to Rs 21,960 pending on a 1-hectare land she owns in Adwadi village of Sinnar taluka of Nashik district, has promised to pay the tax by Wednesday.
“Legal advisor of the actress met us today and told us that the tax will be paid by tomorrow,” Sinnar tehsildar Eknath Bangale told The Indian Express on Tuesday evening.
The tehsildar said the actress owns over 1-hectare land in Sinnar taluka where she runs a windmill energy farm. “She has invested in a windmill. The land was bought in 2009. She has paid the tax for all these years. Only the tax for this particular assessment year is pending,” the tehsildar said. (Read More)
Pune and its neighbouring areas are likely to witness above-normal temperatures in the coming days, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast.
“At present, there are no major weather systems or cold winds from north India that are affecting Maharashtra. There will be mostly clear sky conditions prevailing during this week,” an official from the IMD, Pune, said.
The minimum temperature this week will gradually increase and settle at around 14 degree Celsius, the forecast suggests. (Read More)
A Pune Fire Brigade employee suffered serious injuries on his throat from a kite string laced with ‘manja’ while crossing a flyover in Gultekdi area on Tuesday afternoon. He has been identified as Navnath Mandhare. He is a driver with the Pune Fire Brigade.
Mandhare came to the fire brigade office in Bhavani Peth in the morning. Later, he was asked to go to the Kondhwa fire station.
He was going towards Kondhwa on a two-wheeler when, while crossing the flyover at Dias Plot in Gultekdi area, a kite string became entangled around his neck, injuring his throat. (Read More)
Making cities sustainable, resilient, inclusive and how to plan these mega urban centres with a people-centric approach and meet their financial needs have been among the major themes discussed by delegates at a two-day meeting of the G20 Infrastructure Working Group (IWG).
The first IWG meeting under the aegis of G20, whose presidency is currently with India, was attended by 64 delegates from 18 member countries, eight guest nations and as many international organisations before concluding on Tuesday. It discussed the '2023 Infrastructure Agenda' under the Indian G20 presidency.
"There are five major areas on which we are working on (through the deliberations). The first one is how we make cities sustainable. Second and third were about making them resilient and inclusive. The fourth one was about financing needs of cities," Solomon Arokiaraj, joint secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, said while briefing the media on the two-day conclave.
Elaborating on the financing needs, he said deliberations were on how to attract more funding to support infrastructure in cities.
"The funding options are government, private and multi-lateral funding and there are various innovative financing mechanisms that are evolving like land value capture. In addition, we discussed how cities have to plan dynamically with a people-centric approach," said the senior bureaucrat. (PTI)
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear on January 23 a plea of bike taxi aggregator Rapido against the Bombay High Court order directing it to suspend its services in Maharashtra immediately for operating without a licence from the state government.
A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha agreed to hear the petition of the Pune-based bike taxi aggregator after senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the firm, said the matter needs to be listed urgently. (PTI)
Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who has a non-agricultural tax amounting to Rs 21,960 pending on a 1-hectare land she owns in Adwadi village of Sinnar taluka of Nashik district, has promised to pay the tax by Wednesday.
“Legal advisor of the actress met us today and told us that the tax will be paid by tomorrow,” Sinnar tehsildar Eknath Bangale told The Indian Express on Tuesday evening. Read more
Solomon Arokiaraj, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Finance addressing the media during the concluding ceremony of G-20 First Infrastructure Working Group Meeting on Tuesday.
The Bombay High Court Tuesday asked Shoma Sen, an accused in the Elgaar Parishad case, to approach a special NIA court for bail before moving HC with an appeal. Sen was arrested by the Pune police on June 6, 2018.
The National Investigation Agency took over the probe into the case from the Pune police in January 2020 and the trial was transferred to the special NIA court. Sen, a professor, had approached the Bombay High Court seeking bail, which the single-judge bench had transferred to a division bench comprising two judges. Sen made an application seeking to convert her bail plea as an appeal to be heard before a division bench of the High Court. Read more
The property tax department of Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation has urged the chairpersons of 100 residential housing societies to ask flat owners to pay their tax arrears. The tax department also warned of confiscating properties if the arrears are not paid.
In a letter, PCMC assistant municipal commissioner Nilesh Deshmukh said, “We have intensified our drive against property tax defaulters. Property tax defaulters in the residential category owe Rs 480 crore arrears to the PCMC.” Read more
“Science is inherently international. Don’t let Brexit or right-wing nationalistic politics spoil it,” American Nobel Prize-winning scientist Prof Harold Varmus said at a public talk ‘Axioms on a Career in Science’ at National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS) in Pune Tuesday.
The Nobel Laureate in physiology or medicine (1989), who is currently the Lewis Thomas University professor of medicine, was in Pune for two days and interacted with scientists and students. At the public talk, he spoke about the ten axioms that have been guiding principles for him for a career in science. Read more
Pune and neighboring areas will not experience significant cold till the end of this week, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast.
The minimum temperatures, during the rest of the days of this week, will gradually increase and settle at around 14 degree Celsius, the IMD said Tuesday. Read more
The two-day G20 meet of the Infrastructure Working Group that began in the city Monday showcased the cultural richness of Maharashtra and infrastructure development in Pune.
At a time when the United Nations (UN) declared 2023 as the ‘International Year of Millets (IYOM), the G20 delegates thronged the exhibition stalls of products of millets and their health benefits in large numbers. There are also stalls showcasing bamboo artifacts and products made by tribal people of the state.
A stall of Bhimthadi Foundation by women’s rights activist Sunanda Pawar features products of women’s self-help groups in the rural areas. Another counter showcases khadi clothes to promote the indigenous textile industry at the global level. (Read More)
Two policemen were injured after getting entangled in a stray kite string while they were travelling on a two-wheeler on the Pune-Satara road on Sunday.
Policemen Mahesh Pawar and Sunil Gawli, both attached to the Shivajinagar police headquarters, sustained injuries on their neck and hand, according to an eye witness.
Balasaheb Dhamale, a bird lover and rescuer, said the incident took place around 4.30 pm as he was passing through the same bridge on his two-wheeler. (Read More)