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Real estate observer Anarock, in its quarterly report, has found that housing sales in the Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) declined by around 11% in April-June 2022 as compared to the preceding three-month period, amid 15% drop in national average sales, comprising top seven markets. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/rising-rates-input-costs-hit-housing-sales-in-pune/articleshow/92584257.cms

The Chatushrungi police are investigating a case of grievous hurt against the owners of a rottweiler after it bit a retired ACP and his pet dog on Wednesday at Virbhdranagar in Baner. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/rottweiler-off-leash-bites-retired-police-officer-pet-owners-booked/articleshow/92584299.cms

June with 152.3mm rainfall had an 8% shortfall this year, making it the lowest precipitation for the country after two years, IMD data shows. The normal quantum is 165.3mm. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/india-registers-8-rainfall-shortage-in-june-lowest-after-2-years-imd/articleshow/92584244.cms

Maharashtra secured a I+ grade in the performance grading index (PGI) report released by the Union department of school education and literacy on Wednesday for 2019-20 academic year. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/maharashtra-does-slightly-better-in-school-education-survey/articleshow/92584287.cms

More than 25.15 lakh vaccine doses were administered in June in Maharashtra, a nearly 34% jump over May's numbers. Last month, the state had administered 18.79 lakh doses - across all age groups. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/covid-vaccine-coverage-in-maharashtra-jumped-34-in-june/articleshow/92584346.cms

Opposition leader and former CM Devendra Fadnavis (51) is all set to be the chief minister of Maharashtra again. This will be his third term as CM. While his first term was from 2014 to 2019, the second one lasted only 80 hours in November 2019. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/maharashtra-bjp-upbeat-as-51-year-old-devendra-fadnavis-makes-a-comeback/articleshow/92557860.cms

Four men were arrested on Tuesday night, two days after they allegedly punched a 33-year-old human resource manager of a private firm to death in the parking area of a bar-cum-restaurant at Bhumkar Chowk in Ambegaon Pathar, off the Katraj-Dehu road bypass, on Sunday night. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-ex-ips-officers-son-punched-to-death-in-bars-parking-lot-4-held/articleshow/92557461.cms

Maharashtra urban department principal secretary Bhushan Gagrani on Wednesday told TOI that building permissions in all corporation and council areas of the state would be provided only through online mode from July 1. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/from-july-1-only-online-building-nod-in-maharashtras-civic-areas/articleshow/92557503.cms

A study from Maharashtra has found clear evidence that mothers with Covid-19 can transmit the virus to their newborns and in some instances, infants can also be born with the infection. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/study-from-maharashtra-finds-proof-of-covid-spread-to-babies-from-moms/articleshow/92557523.cms

Officials from the health department on Wednesday said they are expanding Covid testing levels in the urban areas of the district, where caseload and the positivity rates have both increased. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-focus-shifts-to-urban-areas-as-covid-positivity-rate-increases/articleshow/92557601.cms

The city cyber police have formed a special team to probe cases of fraud, extortion and harassment by agents of instant loan apps. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-cyber-police-form-special-team-to-probe-loan-app-fraud-cases/articleshow/92557581.cms

The Bhosari police on Monday arrested a man from Karnataka on the charge of duping a 26-year-old woman from Chinchwad and her family members of Rs64.71 lakh on the promise of giving them handsome returns on their investment in forex trading. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-woman-family-duped-of-rs-65-lakh-one-arrested/articleshow/92530749.cms

The start of the monsoon is a challenge for schools with students falling sick, but this year has been different with a lingering fear of Covid-19 infection. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-june-attendance-dips-after-unwell-students-stay-home/articleshow/92530786.cms

A total of 675 Covid cases were registered in the Pune Metropolitan Region on Tuesday, with no deaths. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/675-cases-in-pune-metropolitan-region-on-tuesday/articleshow/92530799.cms

The Hadapsar police are investigating a complaint lodged by a medical director (62) of a private hospital in Magarpatta stating that two men had demanded Rs10 lakh from him on June 24 for settling an alleged dispute pending with the income tax department in Mumbai. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/2-booked-for-demanding-10-lakh-from-hosp-director/articleshow/92507544.cms

A new species of scorpion — belonging to genus chiromachetes — has been discovered by researchers from Thackeray Wildlife Foundation. This species has been named chiromachetes agasthyamalaiensis as it is endemic to the agasthyamalai mountain range in the western ghats. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolhapur/new-scorpion-species-found-in-western-ghats/articleshow/92507644.cms

Why do parents have to decide the courses of our life? I foolishly obeyed when my parents insisted I take up architecture. Though I passed, I was hopeless at the job. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/giving-gyan-dear-bachi-why-do-parents-choose-our-lives-paths/

The political turmoil in Maharashtra has not impacted its Covid-19 management or the disbursal of funds towards key tasks, state health minister Rajesh Tope told TOI on Monday. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/covid-control-not-hit-by-political-tussle-rajesh-tope/articleshow/92504519.cms

The Sangli police have arrested two men from Solapur, allegedly involved in black magic practices, on the charge of murder in the case where two brothers and seven members of their families were found dead at their houses in Mhaisal town on June 20. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolhapur/maharashtra-9-of-sangli-families-were-poisoned-say-cops-2-held/articleshow/92504563.cms

The Pune Metropolitan Region recorded 330 new Covid cases on Monday. There were zero deaths. Statewide, there were five deaths - all in Mumbai - and 2,369 new cases. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-metropolitan-region-records-330-covid-cases-no-fatalities/articleshow/92504595.cms

The Cantonment police are searching for five people, including a girl, for allegedly cheating a delivery agent of an e-commerce website by replacing a smartphone worth Rs43,019 with soap cakes on Saturday 1.30pm. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-girl-swaps-mobile-handset-with-soap-dupes-delivery-boy/articleshow/92504617.cms

Most hospitals seem to have removed mask mandates for visitors, a trend experts said is worrying, given how cases have increased. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/inside-hospitals-visitors-staffers-ditch-masks-experts-warn-of-spread-to-patients/articleshow/92503387.cms

The total number of active Covid-19 cases in Aurangabad district, including in the municipal limits, has breached the 100-figure-mark and on Saturday evening there were a total of 104 Covid patients.This has prompted the the authorities to appeal to the public to exercise caution. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/aurangabad/aurangabad-district-currently-has-104-active-covid-cases/articleshow/92481051.cms

The Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) will be setting up two electrical charging stations in the city where people can get their electrical vehicles (EVs) charged. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/msedcl-to-set-up-2-ev-charging-stations-in-nashik-city/articleshow/92483038.cms

June 25 will mark the 47th anniversary of the Emergency imposed by the then prime minister Indira Gandhi. As people haven’t forgotten this date, similarly, they haven’t forgotten how she was voted out for throttling democracy for her vested interests. But still, even today, a section of the people argue that Indira Gandhi had no choice but to impose Emergency only to thwart international conspiracy of destabilizing the country. They also deliberately ignore the fact that she had imposed Emergency only out of her sheer fear of losing power. History has references where later, Indira Gandhi, herself, had admitted that her decision of declaring an Emergency in the country was not called for. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/fear-of-losing-power-haunts-uddhav-thackeray/

A 31-year-old trekker was killed after heavy boulders fell on him while he was climbing towards Kalyan Darwaja on the Sinhagad fort around 9.30am on Saturday.The trekker, Hemang Gala, was a resident of Navyug Mitra Mandal Chowk on Bhandarkar road in the Deccan Gymkhana area. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-rockfall-near-kalyan-darwaja-on-sinhagad-fort-kills-trekker/articleshow/92478597.cms

When schools reopened earlier this month, a number of children had already taken a flu shot as they were days or months from turning 12 — the minimum age for a Covid jab. ​​​Doctors have said these children should take a Covid vaccine (Corbevax) after they turn 12, without delay. Parents don't have to space out a Covid vaccine and a flu shot, they added. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/kids-can-take-flu-covid-vaccines-together-doctors/articleshow/92479033.cms

The Hinjewadi police on Saturday arrested a 31-year-old software engineer from Bavdhan on the charge of raping his junior colleague after forcing her to drink liquor. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-techie-held-for-raping-junior-colleague/articleshow/92479339.cms

According to health officials, two of the main reasons behind the rise in Covid hospitalisations at civic and private hospitals in Pune city limits is that most of these patients have only taken the first dose of their vaccine, as also that many of them are comorbid. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-only-first-jab-comorbidities-behind-most-hospitalisations/articleshow/92479385.cms

The Kondhwa police on Saturday initiated a probe against four persons, including a former Shiv Sena corporator, in a case of cheating, forgery and assault in an attempt to grab a piece of land located at Gangadham Chowk near Market Yard. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-ex-shiv-sena-corporator-booked-on-charges-of-assault-cheating/articleshow/92479789.cms

The additional director-general of Indian Council of Medical Research, Dr Samiran Panda, told TOI on Saturday that the next four to six weeks would be crucial to understand the disease transmission dynamics better, against the backdrop of the current uptick in Covid-19 cases. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/dr-samiran-panda-next-4-to-6-weeks-crucial-to-understand-transmission-dynamics/articleshow/92465833.cms

A 45-year-old cyclist from Pune, Preeti Maske, a mother of two children, has set a world record by becoming the first woman to cycle on her own from Leh to Manali in just 55 hours and 13 minutes. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/shimla/pune-mother-cycles-from-leh-to-manali-in-55-hours-sets-record/articleshow/92464163.cms

Covid-19 hospitalisations have gone up in some parts of the state (including Pune and Mumbai), but data shows numbers are still well below levels from December last year, when the third wave began. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/maharashtra-covid-19-hospitalisations-rise-but-still-nowhere-near-3rd-wave-level/articleshow/92464052.cms

There has been an increased variation in rainfall in the city as well as the district this season - most of it being convective in nature, unlike evenly spread monsoon rain. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/this-monsoon-pune-witnesses-increased-variation-in-showers/articleshow/92464071.cms

A 35-year-old Indian Army doctor has registered a complaint with the Khadki police stating some men stole four gold chains, equal number of bangles and a ring, collectively worth Rs5.32 lakh, by breaking into her official quarters in Range Hills on June 23 and 24. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-gold-jewellery-stolen-from-army-doctors-quarters/articleshow/92464092.cms

The civic administration has intensified its survey of eateries and restaurants across the city to keep a check on encroachment activities and setting up of illegal sheds, following an incident of fire at a rooftop restaurant in Baner a couple of weeks ago. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-eateries-survey-to-check-illegal-sheds/articleshow/92464145.cms

A 45-year-old cyclist from Pune, Preeti Maske, a mother of two children, has set a world record by becoming the first woman to cycle on her own from Leh to Manali in just 55 hours and 13 minutes. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-mother-cycles-from-leh-to-manali-in-55-hours-sets-record/articleshow/92464163.cms

The Nashik RTO has sent a proposal to its head office in Mumbai for setting up an intelligent driving test track on its premises. This automated track will bring transparency in issuing driving licenses to applicants of two-wheelers and four-wheelers. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/intelligent-driving-test-track-at-nashik-rto-soon/articleshow/92447354.cms

Former minister and Shiv Sena MLA Deepak Kesarkar, who is now in the Eknath Shinde camp, told TOI on Friday that the rebel group is in no hurry to return to Maharashtra until two issues - the possible disqualification of 16 dissident MLAs and the appointment of the chief whip in the legislative assembly- are resolved. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/maharashtra-political-crisis-group-of-50-in-no-hurry-to-leave-guwahati-says-mla-deepak-kesarkar/articleshow/92445621.cms

The College of Engineering, Pune, Asia's third oldest engineering institute, will now be called CoEP Technological University, stated a Maharashtra government notification to award the college a public university status. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/college-of-engineering-pune-asias-third-oldest-engineering-institute-now-a-public-varsity/articleshow/92445662.cms

The delayed monsoon rainfall has severely affected sowing in Pune district this year.As of June 24, barely 14,319 hectares have so far been covered under sowing as against 80,870 hectares till June last year, district agriculture officer Dnyaneshwar Bote said on Friday. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/late-monsoon-affects-crop-sowing-in-pune/articleshow/92445681.cms

With Covid cases rising in the state, especially in Mumbai, Pune, Thane, Palghar and Raigad, the state health department has directed chemists' associations to maintain records of buyers of self-test kits or rapid antigen kits so that they can be shared with local authorities. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/chemists-in-maharashtra-districts-with-high-covid-cases-to-keep-records-of-self-test-kit-buyers/articleshow/92445696.cms

Members of Shiv Sena in Ahmednagar and Jalgaon municipal corporations are in 'tight spot' following the rebellion by Eknath Shinde. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/maharashtra-eknath-shinde-supporters-in-ahmednagar-jalgaon-civic-bodies-sit-on-the-fence/articleshow/92445720.cms

Various mandals (organisations) and local residents from the vicinity of the Nivdunga Vithoba and Palkhi Vithoba temples in Nanapeth and Bhavani Peth extended their services such as foot massage, footwear repair, haircutting and shaving, besides offering food and snacks to the warkaris (a from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/haircuts-to-foot-massage-locals-in-seva-of-warkaris/articleshow/92422379.cms

The Kolhapur Municipal Corporation (KMC) has slapped a fine of Rs 45,000 on a contractor for keeping unprocessed solid waste in the open. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolhapur/kolhapur-civic-body-fines-contractor-of-rs-45000/articleshow/92425069.cms

The Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) recorded 641 new Covid cases on Thursday, a 50% jump over Wednesday's number (427). There were zero deaths. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/50-jump-pune-metropolitan-region-records-641-new-covid-cases-on-thursday/articleshow/92422829.cms

A spokesperson of Dr Reddy's, which distributes Sputnik V in India, told TOI on Thursday that it expected the booster stock of the vaccine would be available in one or two major hospitals in various cities soon. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/sputnik-boosters-for-private-hospitals-in-pune-by-june-25-dr-reddys/articleshow/92422860.cms

Rainfall is likely to peak in parts of Maharashtra - including Konkan and Madhya Maharashtra (Pune, Kolhapur, Satara) - during the next three days, India Meteorological Department (IMD) officials have told TOI. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/rainfall-to-peak-in-parts-of-maharashtra-in-next-3-days-imd/articleshow/92422877.cms

The Chatushrungi police on Wednesday arrested autorickshaw driver Anil Prakash Sadashiv (32) on the charge of creating ruckus under the influence of alcohol and assaulting a sub-inspector, while punching two constables and tearing apart their uniforms, near Vitthal temple on Pashan-Sus Road around 1.30am the same day. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-drunk-auto-driver-assaults-cops-arrested/articleshow/92422922.cms

A 21-year-old private hospital attendant suffered head injuries on being attacked with an iron pipe by a 17-year-old youth from his neighbourhood at Wakad around 11.30am on Wednesday. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-teen-attacks-youth-after-posing-as-woman-college-friend-during-chats/articleshow/92422945.cms