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The Mundhwa police are searching for a household packer and mover service provider from Dhayari and his two aides after arresting a tempo driver in connection with a cheating and extortion case registered by an IT professional. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/1-held-in-exortion-case-3-on-the-run/articleshow/89258740.cms

Attendance may be low in the first week as schools reopen on Tuesday. Several private schools in the city are cautious and will start only next week but government and municipal schools will reopen after the local administration gave the nod on Saturday. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/thin-attendance-likely-in-schools-today/articleshow/89258750.cms

Doctors have cautioned that a longer spell of the ongoing diurnal temperature variation (difference between day and night temperatures) could lead to an increase in viral or upper respiratory tract infections, as well as incidence of body ache and sinus issues. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/day-night-temp-difference-20c-docs-fear-rise-in-viral-infections/articleshow/89258735.cms

The number of Covid-19 cases dropped to 3,762 in the Pune Metropolitan Region on Monday, its least since January 6 when 3,648 people had tested positive for the virus. Besides, 14 more patients succumbed to the infection in the region in the last 24 hours, taking its toll to 19,475 so far. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/fresh-infections-drop-to-25-day-low-in-pmr-14-more-patients-succumb/articleshow/89258770.cms

With a target of winning over 100 seats, the city unit of the BJP has started preparations for the upcoming Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) elections to retain the civic body, while local leaders from the NCP, Congress and Shiv Sena said that they are ready to hold the next round of from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/bjp-keen-on-retaining-civic-body-alliance-talks-by-mva-partners/articleshow/89258757.cms

Residents of the Jai Bhawani Road neighbourhood, in the Nashik Road area, were in for a shock on Monday morning. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/leopard-strays-into-nashik-city-injures-75-yr-old-before-capture/articleshow/89258624.cms

The Ramwadi underpass work that connects Pune airport, Vimannagar, Kalyaninagar and Koregaon Park is causing residents of the area to take a detour of nearly two kilometres. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/ramwadi-underpass-waits-for-metro-work-to-finish/articleshow/89232163.cms

Maharashtra has reported a 25-day low in daily detections, while cases in Mumbai dropped by 18% over the past 24 hours. The state reported 22,444 cases, lowest since January 4 (18,466) and a fall of nearly 20% since Saturday. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/state-witnesses-25-day-low-in-daily-case-count/articleshow/89231641.cms

Five people, including three women, from Mira Road in Thane district, travelling by an SUV died when the four-wheeler first hit and then jumped over a median on the Pune-Mumbai highway and crashed into a container truck travelling in the opposite corridor at 8am on Sunday at Shilatane village from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/5-die-after-suv-hits-median-crashes-into-truck-in-lonavla/articleshow/89232141.cms

The three vaccines against Covid-19 — Covovax, Corbevax and ZyCov-D — receiving the Drug Controller General of India’s nod last year for emergency use in the country are yet to be used in the immunisation drive in India, casting posers on the delay in their utilisation. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/posers-on-delay-in-rollout-of-dcgi-approved-jabs/articleshow/89232148.cms

The night temperature rose slightly to 8.9 degrees celsius on Sunday compared to the 8.6 degrees C recorded on Saturday by the India Meteorological Department’s Shivajinagar observatory, which covers a major portion of Pune city. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/night-chilly-at-8-9c-but-day-temp-goes-up-by-over-20-deg/articleshow/89232147.cms

In a move that has not only surprised hoteliers but patrons too, the state excise department has increased annual excise fees recovered from all bars by 15% and as much as by 70% for wine shops. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/maharashtra-fees-up-15-for-bars-and-70-for-wine-shops/articleshow/89232742.cms

The new statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj has arrived in Aurangabad and a formal inauguration ceremony is to take place soon. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/aurangabad/chhatrapati-shivaji-maharajs-descendants-must-unveil-statue/articleshow/89213051.cms

There has been a big drop in the growth rate of active Covid cases in the state, which officials said was a sign of the third wave ebbing. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/data-active-tally-grows-at-slowest-rate-since-early-jan/articleshow/89212949.cms

Schools and colleges in Pune will reopen from February 1, announced Maharashtra deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar on Saturday after his weekly review meeting with the district officials. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/schools-colleges-in-pune-to-reopen-from-february-1/articleshow/89213464.cms

An IAS officer was arrested on Saturday morning from his Thane residence for his involvement in the Teachers’ Eligibility Test 2019 malpractice case. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/ias-officer-arrested-in-tet-malpractice-case/articleshow/89212936.cms

Hinting at the Covid-19 third wave declining in Maharashtra, health minister Rajesh Tope on Saturday said the daily cases in the state declined to 25,000 from around 47,000 per day recently — almost a 50% dip. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/tope-hints-at-covid-19-third-wave-waning-in-maharashtra/articleshow/89212943.cms

State health minister Rajesh Tope on Saturday clarified that mask-free state was not at all on the radar of the government and termed the news doing the rounds in connection with it “fake”. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/mask-free-maha-not-on-govt-radar-health-min/articleshow/89212946.cms

As the works of the viaduct and tracks on two priority stretches have reached its last stages, the MahaMetro said it would try to ensure that the rakes made less noise during daily operations from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/mahametro-will-try-to-keep-noise-low-while-rakes-run-on-viaduct/articleshow/89190671.cms

The standing committee of the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) on Thursday approved Rs 178 crore for installation of over 3,000 CCTV cameras. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-3000-cctvs-to-keep-vigil-in-pcmc-areas/articleshow/89193429.cms

Barely two days after walking out of jail on bail in a case of outraging a 17-year-old girl’s modesty, a youth (20) assaulted the teen with a hammer in her head and other parts of the body at Talegaon Dabhade on Thursday night. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/out-on-bail-youth-hits-teen-girl-in-head-with-hammer/articleshow/89190665.cms

Focus on research that would help people and society, public-private partnership model to generate finance in education, introducing phygital education which would essentially be a blend of physical and digital education are some of the important recommendations made by the Mashelkar committee with respect to implementation of the New Education Policy in Maharashtra. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/mashelkar-panel-stresses-on-70-school-enrolment/articleshow/89190666.cms

Senior citizens with one or more pre-existing ailments accounted for 60% of Pune’s total 158 Covid deaths from January 1-27, the latest report of the district administration has revealed. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/elderly-make-up-60-of-punes-deaths-in-jan/articleshow/89190658.cms

Investigations so far into the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) 2019 that was held in January 2020 has revealed that the marks of 7,800-odd candidates, who either failed or did not secure enough scores, were manipulated in exchange for money to declare them eligible for teachers’ jobs in state establishments, Pune police commissioner Amitabh Gupta said on Friday. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/marks-of-7800-aspirants-altered-in-tet-2019-reveals-police-probe/articleshow/89190653.cms

“I like to play and eat chocolates,” says Prem, grinning from ear to ear. It’s hard to believe that just 10 days ago, the bubbly four-year-old had overcome severe Covid-linked pneumonia with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) that had kept him strapped to an invasive ventilator for 45 days. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/after-45-days-on-ventilator-4-yr-old-boy-defeats-adult-like-covid-ards/articleshow/89190655.cms

The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court on Friday directed the chief judicial magistrate (CJM) to conduct a fact-finding exercise by personally visiting the Aurangabad jail on Saturday to verify a convict’s claim of being continuously kept in solitary confinement for two years and four months. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/aurangabad/probe-solitary-confinement-charge-hc-orders-cjm/articleshow/89190801.cms

Union road minister Nitin Gadkari on Friday said the six-laning work of the Satara to Kagal stretch on the National Highway-48 would start soon. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolhapur/gadkari-says-6-laning-of-satara-kagal-nh-stretch-to-begin-soon/articleshow/89190752.cms

More Covaxin doses would be made available across the state from the next week because thousands in the 15-18 years’ category would become eligible for its second dose.CoWIN data revealed that around 30 lakh teenagers had been vaccinated so far in the state. In the Pune district, around 2. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/more-covaxin-doses-to-be-made-available-next-week/articleshow/89167816.cms

The Chakan police on Wednesday arrested three men on the charge of trying to extort Rs30,000 from a pharmacist. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/3-arrested-on-charge-of-bid-to-extort-pharmacist/articleshow/89167802.cms

The engineering units of the Army have carried out resurfacing work on the Parade Ground Road and outside the Race Course, Turf Club, and in the lane starting from the St Andrew’s Hindustani Church and leading to Exhibition Road over the last few days. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/smooth-ride-on-military-area-roads-in-pune-cantonment/articleshow/89167812.cms

The frequent inundation of the Venus Corner area during monsoon has prompted the proposal to set up the Bhakt Niwas for Mahalaxmi (Ambabai) temple devotees above an under-construction parking facility on the Tarabai Road next to Saraswati Talkies, which is fairly close to the temple, from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolhapur/kmc-looks-to-move-proposed-bhakt-niwas-to-tarabai-rd-area/articleshow/89167903.cms

The Covid-19 hospitalisation rate stood at 5.7% and the overall weekly positivity rate was 23.82% in the state for the seven-day period from January 20 to 26 — almost the same as the previous week. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/states-wpr-23-covid-hospitalization-rate-5-7/articleshow/89167815.cms

A majority of hospitals in the city have recorded a gradual drop in Covid admissions in the last 48 hours, raising hopes of the third wave already past its peak here and beginning to slowly ebb now. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-past-3rd-wave-peak-say-hospitals-patient-inflow-drops/articleshow/89168817.cms

Physician, author, and de-addiction activist Anil Awachat passed away early on Thursday at his home in Pune. He was 77. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-author-de-addiction-activist-anil-awachat-77-passes-away/articleshow/89168745.cms

Two men on a motorcycle snatched the gold chain of a 23-year-old woman interior designer and returned, moments after she raised an alarm, to take her cellphone too near Kalewadi phata around 4am on Tuesday. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-duo-snatch-womans-gold-chain-return-to-take-her-cellphone-too/articleshow/89168717.cms

The SARS-CoV-2’s Omicron variant triggered significant immune responses in those with mild Covid and even the asymptomatic, an ICMR-NIV study has found. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/immune-response-induced-by-omicron-can-neutralise-earlier-variants-icmr-niv-study/articleshow/89167793.cms

​​Of the total cost, Rs 10.11 crore is recurring cost and Rs 2.14 crore is a non-recurring cost. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/maharashtra-approves-proposal-to-rent-18000-sq-ft-space-to-bombay-hc/articleshow/89162491.cms

Maharashtra public works department (PWD) minister Ashok Chavan has tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday. ​​This is the second time that he has tested positive for the infection. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/maharashtra-pwd-minister-ashok-chavan-tests-positive-for-covid-19-for-second-time/articleshow/89161723.cms

The Maharashtra unit of Congress suffered a setback as 28 sitting party corporators of Malegaon Municipal Corporation, including mayor Tahira Shaikh, joined NCP in presence of deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, at Mumbai on Thursday. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/maharashtra-28-sitting-malegaon-corporators-join-ncp/articleshow/89154475.cms

Dr Awachat was hospitalised some days back due to health problems, and he was brought home from the hospital around four days ago, the family member said. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/renowned-marathi-writer-social-activist-dr-anil-awachat-dead/articleshow/89151317.cms

Public health expert Dr Subhash Salunkhe on Tuesday advised the state to prepare for managing the peak of Covid-19 cases in rural areas, after most of the cities passed through it. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/maharashtra-prepare-for-cases-peaking-in-rural-areas/articleshow/89127632.cms

The number of people recovering from Covid-19 infection (11,638) exceeded fresh cases (10,981) after a gap of 28 days in the Pune Metropolitan Region on Tuesday. Besides, 12 more patients succumbed to the infection in the region in the last 24 hours. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/recoveries-top-cases-after-a-month-12-dead/articleshow/89126970.cms

The Shivajinagar observatory, which covers the core area of the city, recorded 8.5°C on Tuesday — the lowest temperature of the season so far. Pune was the third coldest place in Maharashtra after Nashik (6.3°C) and Ahmednagar (7.9°C).On Monday, the city’s mercury level had dropped to 10.4°C. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/city-shivers-at-8-5c-3rd-coldest-place-in-state-after-nashik-ahmednagar/articleshow/89126958.cms

For the Kirana gharana exponent, prolific author, and Hindustani classical music legend Prabha Atre, receiving the Padma Vibhushan is a tribute to all her gurus from Sureshbabu Mane to Hirabai Barodekar and her listeners. In a year where she will turn 91, her dedication remains to her craft. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/want-to-sing-till-my-last-breath-says-prabha-atre/articleshow/89127725.cms

The death rate in those with hybrid immunity — natural infection followed by vaccination — is the lowest among all Covid casualties, an analysis by the state’s Medical Education and Drug Department (MEDD) has shown. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/covid-deaths-lowest-among-those-with-hybrid-immunity-state-analysis/articleshow/89126957.cms

Five people died and four others were injured when a speeding truck jumped to the wrong side of the Pune-Ahmednagar highway at Shikrapur after hitting a road divider and colliding with a car and two motorcycles on Sunday night. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-five-killed-4-injured-as-truck-crashes-into-car-two-bikes/articleshow/89103893.cms

Over a crore of beneficiaries are yet to take their second dose of Covid vaccines in the state, prompting the health department to tell the local administrations to convince these people to take it at the earliest. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/covid-19-more-than-1-crore-people-delay-second-dose-maharashtra-government-concerned/articleshow/89103808.cms

Seventy-nine-year-old Arvind (name changed on request) was recently taken to hospital after fainting at home due to low blood sugar levels. When he was screened for Covid - part of hospital protocol - he was found to be positive. The Kothrud resident is in Ruby Hall Clinic's Covid ICU. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/over-75-of-those-in-covid-icus-incidental-cases-say-pune-hospitals/articleshow/89103773.cms

The minimum temperature dropped to single digits in several parts of Maharashtra on Monday with hill station Mahabaleshwar reporting 6.5°C, followed by Nashik city at 6.6°C and Jalgaon 9.2°C. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolhapur/state-experiences-winter-chill-mahabaleshwar-coldest-at-6-5c/articleshow/89103264.cms

Fresh genome sequencing reports from the state have revealed that an Omicron sub-lineage, BA.2, is slowly gaining ground in the community and the Delta variant is still largely responsible for hospitalization of Covid patients. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/omicron-ba-2-in-50-samples-in-maharashtra-but-hospital-cases-mostly-delta/articleshow/89103731.cms