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Covid deaths in the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) fell to 7 in March, while the state's toll dropped to 77, the lowest after March 2020. The fatalities in Mumbai city fell to just 4 in March. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/monthly-deaths-in-pune-metropolitan-region-7-maharashtra-77-lowest-in-2-years/articleshow/90580234.cms

April is likely to be a scorcher with days and nights likely to be much hotter than last month in parts of India, a temperature outlook by IMD has indicated. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/days-nights-to-be-warmer-in-april-than-march-imd/articleshow/90579662.cms

The state government on Thursday announced new ready reckoner (RR) rates for the financial year 2022-23, with the increase for the 23 newly merged villages in the Pune civic limits pegged at 10.15%.In comparison, the RR rate rise in the old parts of the city is 6. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/ready-reckoner-rates-up-8-15-on-avg-in-dist-10-15-in-newly-merged-villages/articleshow/90579680.cms

The state’s public health department has recorded more than 8,000 Adverse Events Following Immunization (AEFI) cases, across all age groups, since the start of the Covid vaccination drive, on January 16 last year. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/maha-logs-over-8000-aefi-cases-98-of-them-minor/articleshow/90579682.cms

As many as 72 people tested positive for Covid-19 in the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) on Thursday as against just 33 a day before. The data released by the district health office showed that as many as 4,651 tests were conducted in the region in the past 24 hours. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/72-test-ve-in-pmr-35-recover/articleshow/90579667.cms

Enforcement Directorate (ED) team from Mumbai conducted searches at the residence of controversial advocate Satish Uke at Parvati nagar in east Nagpur in the early hours of Thursday. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/ed-raids-residence-of-advocate-satish-uke-in-east-nagpur/articleshow/90557444.cms

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Nearly 15 flights were delayed, two diverted and one was cancelled after a tyre burst of a Sukhoi 30 MKI aircraft led to the closure of the Pune airport runway, managed and maintained by the Indian Air Force (IAF), from noon till 3:15pm on Wednesday. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/runway-shut-for-3-hours-after-sukhoi-tyre-burst-at-pune-airport/articleshow/90553889.cms

Several places in Marathwada, apart from Aurangabad, have been witnessing emergency load-shedding for the past 24 hours amid the current power crisis in the state. Such load-shedding was last witnessed in 2018, more than three-and-a-half years ago. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/aurangabad/load-shedding-back-in-marathwada-after-3-yrs/articleshow/90553707.cms

The Maharashtra government has hiked the Dearness Allowance (DA) for its 17 lakh employees by 3%. The announcement came within hours of the Centre announcing a similar hike for its employees and pensioners from January 1, 2022. Dearness Allowance is paid as a means to offset the effects of inflation. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/maharashtra-government-staff-gets-3-da-hike/articleshow/90553833.cms

Amid an intense heat wave, Maharashtra has recorded its first heat stroke death — that of a 33-year-old farmer-cum-food vendor in Jalgaon. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/temps-soar-in-state-jalgaon-man-dies-of-heat-stroke/articleshow/90553458.cms

Maharashtra has recorded registration of 2,66,437 property documents and earned Rs5,497.28 crore in March (till 29th), both highest for any month in the 2021-22 fiscal. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/march-logs-max-property-registrations-revenue/articleshow/90553475.cms

Today Maharashtra, a state that is known for its progressive, cultural and noble tradition of liberal politics, will be down with shame to see how the leaders of the ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi government in the state conspired and filed false charges against the leaders of the opposition – the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/maharashtra-in-a-state-of-despondency/

The Adjudicating Authority, appointed under Prevention of Money Laundering Act or PMLA, on Tuesday confirmed the attachment of Satara’s Jarandeshwar Sahakari Sugar Karkhana (cooperative sugar mill) worth over Rs 65 crore linked to deputy CM Ajit Pawar. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/ed-to-take-over-sugar-mill-linked-to-ajit-pawar/articleshow/90528275.cms

Cases of rabies infection after dog bites rose by over 100% in Maharashtra during the first year of Covid, RTI data has revealed. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/rabies-cases-in-maharashtra-doubled-during-first-year-of-pandemic-rti-data/articleshow/90529374.cms

The owner of an unauthorised LPG cylinder godown at Babajinagar in Katraj suffered injuries to his hands in a fire that broke out after at least 20 cylinders, mostly mini-LPG bottles of 5kg and 7kg capacity, exploded while gas was being transferred to these cylinders from regular domestic LPG from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/20-lpg-cylinders-explode-at-illegal-godown-in-katraj/articleshow/90528875.cms

High drama prevailed in Dhanori on Tuesday afternoon, when a mob assaulted an inspector and other staffers of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) anti-encroachment department and damaged an earth mover during a demolition drive. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/mob-attacks-pmc-staffers-on-anti-encroachment-drive/articleshow/90528860.cms

The district has got a bad report card in a majority of waste management areas as well as for air, water and noise pollution, an MPCB assessment has revealed. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-district-fares-poorly-on-air-water-noise-waste-norms/articleshow/90528857.cms

A good number of people when asked what their aim in life is, will say “I want to be happy”. The pursuit of happiness leads us through different paths; religion, meditation, yoga, social work, helping others, cultivating relationships, and so on. There are thousands of self-help books that claim to show you how to attain a state of happiness; clearly they don’t work because each year, more and more such books keep getting published. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/the-healthy-7-is-also-the-happy-7/

The laboratories found only 20 patients with Covid-19 infection after testing 3,482 citizens in the last 24 hours in the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR), making up for 0.57% positivity rate. Health officials said the positivity rate was consistently staying below 1 % for the past many days. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/positivity-remains-below-1-in-pmr/articleshow/90505981.cms

With the latest rise in fuel prices, diesel on Monday breached the Rs100-mark in Aurangabad and the fuel is now being sold at Rs 100.14 per litre - the highest retail price in Maharashtra. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/aurangabad/maharashtras-highest-diesel-price-in-aurangabad/articleshow/90506450.cms

The strike by the employees of the Maharashtra State Power Generation Company affected power generation at the Koyna dam. Since the start of the two-day strike, power generation fell from 1,820 MW to 1,440 MW at the hydropower station complex which has a total capacity of generating 1,920 MW. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolhapur/maharashtra-stir-triggers-cascading-effect-on-generation-in-koyna-plant/articleshow/90506410.cms

Residents in some pockets of the city reported power outage on Monday afternoon, when the mercury hit nearly 40 degree Celsius, with the students preparing for examinations, professionals working from home and elderly suffering the most. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/power-outage-in-pockets-industry-suffers/articleshow/90505966.cms

Eight of the 9.54 lakh children, who received Corbevax in Maharashtra till March 28, had minor side effects (adverse events), accounting for an AEFI rate of 0.0008%, the latest state health department report has revealed. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/8-of-9-5-lakh-kids-report-minor-complaints-after-corbevax-shots-in-maharashtra/articleshow/90506411.cms

With the Omicron-Covid surge in several parts of Europe and Asia, more Indians are now in favour of taking the third booster shot of the Covid vaccine, according to a national survey. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/as-cases-up-abroad-51-in-state-ready-for-booster/articleshow/90505357.cms

The state government on Sunday evening invoked stringent sections of MESMA (Maharashtra Essential Services Maintenance Act) as unions representing over 80,000 workers of power companies, MSEDCL, MAHAGENCO and MAHATRANSCO, threatened to go on two day strike. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/2-day-power-strike-from-today-maharashtra-govt-invokes-mesma/articleshow/90483141.cms

A team of eye surgeons in Maharashtra have identified a particular "mutant gene" that makes Indian citizens prone to getting glaucoma - a leading cause of blindness. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/maharashtra-doctors-find-mutant-gene-that-makes-some-vulnerable-to-glaucoma/articleshow/90483508.cms

A 22-year-old man, who tried to extort money from people by claiming proximity to two senior police officers, including Pimpri Chinchwad police commissioner Krishna Prakash, landed in a police net at a Nigdi restaurant on Saturday night in a trap that was led by the police chief from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pimpri-chinchwad-top-cop-sets-trap-nabs-conman/articleshow/90482661.cms

In a recent interview, during the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly elections, the Prime Minister of India titled Mr Nitish Kumar a true socialist leader. In UP and Bihar, the two most poverty-stricken states, almost every politician is a self-acclaimed socialist leader. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/pushpam-priya-choudhary-writes-why-is-nitish-kumar-not-a-socialist/

The summer schedule of airlines started on Sunday, with 66 flights operating from the Pune airport, including three flights to new destinations Ranchi, Tirupati and Jaipur.Three more flights are likely to start soon to Trivandrum, Kushinagar and Khajuraho. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/summer-schedule-takes-off-with-66-daily-flights/articleshow/90482649.cms

As many as five offences of vehicle theft have been registered in Aurangabad over the 24-hour period till Saturday afternoon.Acting on a complaint of a 31-year-old, Waluj police have registered an offence of a four-wheeler theft. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/aurangabad/5-vehicle-theft-cases-in-just24-hours-in-aurangabad/articleshow/90467842.cms

Union highways minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said a new 699km-long national highway would connect Pune and Bengaluru and would pass through the drought-prone areas of Satara and Sangli districts. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolhapur/new-highway-to-link-pune-bengaluru-nitin-gadkari/articleshow/90468393.cms

The Maharashtra Real Estate Authority (MahaRERA) may give extension to nearly 1,540 or 34% of the total 4,483 lapsed projects, without any bookings, across the state. A majority of such schemes are from Pune (363), followed by Raigad (233) and Mumbai (75). from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/1540-lapsed-projects-may-get-maharera-extension/articleshow/90468317.cms

The vehicular movement on the Pune-Mumbai expressway came to a standstill for seven hours on Saturday after a chemical-laden tanker turned on its side near the Amrutanjan bridge in the Mumbai-bound corridor around 5am and a container truck tipped over in the Pune corridor half-an-hour later in the Bor Ghat section. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/tanker-tips-over-on-pune-mumbai-eway-stalls-traffic-for-over-7-hours/articleshow/90468384.cms

The Pune Metropolitan Region recorded 34 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday. There were zero deaths.The region currently has 16 patients in hospitals and another 212 in home isolation. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pmr-reports-34-new-cases-zero-deaths/articleshow/90467684.cms

The demand for scrapping of "beautification" tax on the sale of fuel in Aurangabad intensified as diesel was sold at Rs 99.19 per litre on Saturday, the highest rate in Maharashtra. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/aurangabad/diesel-at-rs-99-19-per-litre-in-aurangabad-plea-for-relief/articleshow/90468220.cms

A 53-year-old inmate undergoing life imprisonment at Yerawada open prison was on Thursday found dead, hanging in one of the barracks on the premises. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/yerawada-inmate-found-hanging-in-barracks/articleshow/90451305.cms

As many as 213 villages in 15 blocks of Pune, Nashik, Dhule, Jalgaon, Nandurbar and Amravati districts might face drinking water scarcity from April, a recent survey of the Groundwater Survey and Development Agency revealed. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/213-villages-in-state-may-face-drinking-water-crisis-in-april-gsda-report/articleshow/90451293.cms

School education minister Varsha Gaikwad on Friday said the state had asked all private schools to ensure installation of CCTV cameras on their premises before the start of the next academic year. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/govt-makes-cctv-cameras-a-must-for-all-pvt-schools/articleshow/90451314.cms

A crime branch team led by inspector Shailesh Sankhe on Thursday night took the man into custody from a country-made liquor shop. "On Wednesday morning, he had started working as a security guard at a showroom in the Camp area and left the job within a few hours. While walking near the school, he noticed the girl, entered the campus and committed the crime," Sankhe said. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-distant-relative-held-for-sexual-assault-on-standard-vi-girl/articleshow/90452596.cms

A 21-year-old man was arrested on Thursday night on the charge of murdering his neighbour, a 16-year-old speech impaired youth, barely an hour after the teenager’s body was found in a gunny bag in a school playground off Paud road. The boy was throttled to death, police said. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/speech-impaired-boy-found-throttled-to-death-neighbour-held/articleshow/90451304.cms

Covid deaths in the state in March have fallen by a staggering 90% against 737 casualties reported in February. The slide is 95% if compared with the third wave peak of January, when 1,524 deaths were seen. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/covid-deaths-in-march-down-95-from-3rd-waves-jan-peak/articleshow/90450760.cms

The production of the units in the Bhosari industrial area has been affected big time amid availability of power for only 12 hours till March 26.While some companies decided to keep their units shut, others arranged generators to meet the March-end deadline. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/12-hour-power-supply-cut-hits-industries-in-bhosari/articleshow/90429735.cms

Sangli district, where nearly 32,000 children have been given their first dose of Corbevax in just over a week, is currently the state leader in coverage among the 12-14 age group. The Corbevax drive began on March 16. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/sangli-leads-in-drive-for-12-14-age-group/articleshow/90429756.cms

Police probing the sexual assault on a Std VI student by a man in the washroom of her school at Shivajinagar on Wednesday said most of the CCTV cameras covering the institute did not have the recording facility. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/focus-on-cctv-footage-after-assault-on-school-campus/articleshow/90429744.cms

A study carried out to assess Omicron's immune-escape ability has found that it's better at resisting Covaxin than the original SARS-CoV-2 B.1 (Wuhan) variant, and the Beta and Delta variants. The research was carried out by experts from the Pune-based ICMR-National Institute of Virology (NIV). from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/omicron-can-resist-covaxin-better-niv-data/articleshow/90430730.cms

The Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) is in the process of finalising the study material for the undergraduate medical students from the state, who have returned from war-ravaged Ukraine. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/maharashtra-university-of-health-sciences-online-studies-for-ukraine-returnees/articleshow/90430663.cms

Police on Thursday night detained a man in connection with the sexual assault on a Std VI student in the washroom of her school at Shivajinagar sometime between 11am and 11.30am on Wednesday.“We detained the man, who looks similar to the suspect as seen in the CCTV footage at the school. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/std-vi-girl-sexually-assaulted-in-schools-washroom-man-detained/articleshow/90429746.cms

The anti-tuberculosis (TB) treatment in children is set to become shorter, more cost-effective and compliance-friendly, with the World Health Organisation (WHO) strongly recommending change in the paediatric TB treatment duration from six months to four months in its latest guidelines. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/who-recommends-shortening-tb-treatment-period-to-4-months-in-kids/articleshow/90429737.cms

The Swargate police have arrested five men from Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Nanded in Maharashtra on the charge of robbing Rs 25.5 lakh from a Nanded jeweller’s employee by posing as anti-corruption bureau officials on Shankarseth Road on March 7. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/five-arrested-for-robbing-jewellers-staffer-of-25l/articleshow/90429732.cms

A major outage caused due to a technical fault at the Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company Limited (MSETCL) power transformer in the Bhosari sub-station affected over 60,000 consumers on Wednesday morning. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/maharashtra-power-outage-in-bhosari-and-akurdi-affects-60000-consumers/articleshow/90408362.cms

The state assembly on Wednesday passed a bill extending the set-off (adjustment) period for stamp duty payment from one year to three years for every new property resale. Accordingly, the stamp duty would be payable only on the price difference of a property instead of the entire amount for a period of three years. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/maharashtra-stamp-duty-sop-for-resale-of-properties-extended-to-3-years/articleshow/90408181.cms

With the new Education Policy (NEP 2020) Indian education enters into the era of inclusive education where children with disabilities will not be denied school admission under any circumstances. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/decoding-disabilities/are-we-ready-for-inclusive-education/