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The collective stock in 35 major dams in the region increased to 95% on Wednesday, an irrigation department report stated. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/35-major-dams-in-pune-region-95-full-13-more-than-last-year/articleshow/93914903.cms

A 21-year-old undertrial lodged in the Yerawada central jail has been booked on the charge of stalking and criminal intimidation after he wrote a letter to a 17-year-old girl whom he had allegedly tried to kill in January this year at Talegaon Dabhade. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-yerawada-jail-undertrial-writes-to-girl-he-tried-to-kill-in-january-booked/articleshow/93914617.cms

The Pimpri Chinchwad traffic branch has decided to experiment with a 6pm-9pm ban on the movement of heavy vehicles through Chandni Chowk from Thursday as part of an effort to ease out peak-time congestion on the Katraj-Dehu Road bypass. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-from-6pm-to-9pm-no-heavy-vehicles-at-chandni-chowk/articleshow/93914643.cms

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will introduce 150 mobile immersion tanks for the Ganesh festival. Preparations have also been made at the makeshift immersion tanks in different parts of the city. The first immersion will be on Thursday, where the devotees who celebrate the festival for one and half days will immerse the idols. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-150-mobile-immersion-tanks-to-make-rounds-of-housing-societies/articleshow/93914838.cms

The Pune Metro's operation and command centre (OCC) is ready and will be brought into use in the next 15 days, officials in the know said. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-metros-operation-command-centre-ready-to-monitor-2-corridors/articleshow/93914745.cms

Maharashtra on Wednesday recorded 1,600 fresh coronavirus cases, while five more patients succumbed to the infection in the state, the health department said. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/maharashtra-adds-1600-new-covid-19-cases-5-deaths/articleshow/93909324.cms

In a bid to make land available for industries, the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) has proposed 1,000 acres at three locations in Nashik district. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/midc-to-acquire-1000-acre-for-industries-in-nashik/articleshow/93907135.cms

Other political leaders including Shinde's deputy Devendra Fadnavis and MNS chief Raj Thackeray too welcomed the deity at their homes as the ten-day Ganesh Chaturthi festival began. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/maharashtra-cm-shinde-fadnavis-other-leaders-welcome-lord-ganesh-at-their-homes/articleshow/93906403.cms

The Dighi police on Monday registered a case against a 30-year-old man from Alandi on the charge of stalking a woman after she refused his marriage proposal.The man created a fake profile of the woman and posted it on a social media platform, the police said. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/alandi-man-booked-for-stalking-woman/articleshow/93893200.cms

The rural police on Monday arrested three men on the charge of murdering a 29-year-old Bhosari resident, Prashant Dolas, over an alleged relationship outside marriage. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-man-murdered-over-affair-three-arrested/articleshow/93891521.cms

Cases of crime against women in the city increased by 53.17% at 1,616 in 2021 as against 1,055 in 2020, the National Crime Records Bureau's latest report showed. In fact, these cases had gone down significantly in 2020 as compared to 1,390 cases in 2019. One of the reasons attributed for the decline then was Covid-induced lockdown restrictions. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/53-rise-in-crime-against-women-in-pune-says-report/articleshow/93865083.cms

As both urban and rural areas opened up with the waning of the pandemic and lifting of curbs, the shadow of crime appears to have lengthened. According to the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report for 2021, Maharashtra and Mumbai are among states and cities seeing the highest resurgence in offences recorded in the second year of Covid. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/maharashtra-logs-most-crimes-3-67-lakh-in-country-in-2021-pune-offences-see-61-drop/articleshow/93864906.cms

A 62-year-old man was duped of Rs2.80 lakh in a debit card exchange fraud after he had shared his PIN details with an attendant to pay bill at a petrol pump on August 6. A complaint in this regard was registered with the Dighi police station on Saturday from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-man-loses-rs-2-8-lakh-in-debit-card-swap-fraud/articleshow/93865060.cms

Pre-reinfection serum samples (collected after eight months of breakthrough) from the patients had negligible neutralizing antibodies titers against B.1 (first wave variant), Delta and BA.1. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-despite-hybrid-immunity-patients-contracting-omicron-says-national-institute-of-virology-study/articleshow/93864953.cms

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Monday carried out a major drive against illegal structures in the Erandwane and Karvenagar areas, focusing on constructions carried out without proper permissions, including those in the prohibited areas of the green zone. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-illegal-structures-in-karvenagar-green-zone-razed-in-second-phase-of-pmc-action/articleshow/93865023.cms

As a 7th grader in Nagpur, Mithilesh Vazalwar would look for excuses to walk the corridor outside the school’s staffroom. “It was the smell of coffee that pulled me there,” he says. “At that time I couldn’t have thought of coffee as a career, but maybe a bean had germinated in my mind.” from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/nagpur-barista-eyes-worlds-biggest-coffee-cup/articleshow/93844975.cms

Two days after his convoy was stuck in slow-moving traffic while on his way to Satara, CM Eknath Shinde took a pit stop at Chandni Chowk on Sunday while returning to Mumbai for a spot review of the ongoing flyover work. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-chandni-chowk-to-get-100-wardens-demolition-of-overpass-on-september-12/articleshow/93842034.cms

The Pune Metropolitan Region on Sunday recorded 271 new Covid cases. There were no deaths. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-metropolitan-region-records-271-new-covid-cases/articleshow/93842075.cms

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will recruit and deploy as many as 1,650 security personnel to guard its properties. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-municipal-corporation-to-hire-1650-security-guards/articleshow/93842024.cms

The Bharati Vidyapeeth police are investigating a case against a dog trainer from Ambegaon Pathar, after he has been slammed with allegations of subjecting a pet dog to a merciless beating that resulted in his death. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/dog-trainer-booked-for-strangulating-pet-to-death-in-pune/articleshow/93842026.cms

The Upnagar police have registered an FIR against an unidentified person for flying a drone over a restricted army area in Nashik Road. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/unknown-person-booked-for-flying-drone-over-army-area-in-nashik/articleshow/93842074.cms

The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has received around 12 tenders for its ambitious Rs363 crore mechanised road sweeping plan. Under the project, sweeping will take place only on roads with a width of 18metres in the north and south halves of Pimpri Chinchwad limits, to be carried out over 670km on a seven-year contract. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/12-tenders-for-pimpri-chinchwad-municipal-corporation-road-sweeping-project/articleshow/93843130.cms

A biker was killed in a road accident near the Army Public School on Alandi Road around 6.30pm on Friday after a PMPML e-bus hit his two-wheeler on the rear end. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/maharashtra-pmpml-e-bus-hits-motorcycle-runs-over-biker-on-alandi-road/articleshow/93827435.cms

The residents of Kalyaninagar are dealing with a problem where bungalow owners, commercial establishments, and societies are blocking public parking spaces outside their premises by putting up red traffic cones. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-cones-to-block-parking-anger-kalyaninagar-residents/articleshow/93827428.cms

Autorickshaws in the city, Pimpri Chinchwad and Baramati will charge Rs25, instead of the existing Rs21, for the first 1.5km and Rs17 for every subsequent kilometre as against the prevailing rate of Rs14 with effect from September 1. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/auto-fare-rs-25-for-first-1-5km-in-pune-from-september-1/articleshow/93827080.cms

Around six men opened fire on a car and robbed Rs3.6 crore of two angadias (private courier delivery men) after intercepting their vehicle on the Pune-Solapur highway at Varkute-Pati in Indapur around 2.30am on Friday, after probably getting leads about the cash transportation from a former colleague of the victims. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-six-open-fire-loot-rs-3-6-crore-from-private-couriers-car/articleshow/93827049.cms

A day after Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde's convoy found itself in the slow moving Chandni Chowk traffic, top civic and highway officials on Saturday met at the site and decided to add two more lanes to the junction and pull down an old bridge. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/maharashtra-cm-eknath-shinde-sees-chandni-chowk-jam-now-a-new-traffic-plan/articleshow/93827052.cms

Monsoon withdrawal may start from the extreme parts of northwest India in the week starting September 1, Met officials said. The IMD has said conditions were likely to become favourable for commencement of withdrawal of southwest monsoon from some parts of northwest during the week as rainfall activity was likely to be below normal there from September 1-7. Reports Neha Madaan, from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/monsoon-withdrawal-likely-from-september-1/articleshow/93827057.cms

Two men died when a car rammed a moving truck near Vilholi area on the Mumbai-Agra national highway at 3.45 am on Friday. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/two-die-in-accident-on-agra-highway-4-killed-in-8-days/articleshow/93811713.cms

A 6km stretch of the Pune-Mumbai Expressway was closed for around two hours on Friday for maintenance work and setting up signages regarding safety instructions. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/6km-stretch-of-pune-mumbai-eway-closed-for-two-hours/articleshow/93809981.cms

Students appearing for intermediate and elementary drawing examinations can fill forms till September 7, the state Directorate of Art has stated in a circular. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/maharashtra-drawing-exam-forms-can-be-filled-till-september-7/articleshow/93809978.cms

The Nashik ACB, which arrested an executive engineer of the state's tribal development department's public works department on Thursday for accepting a bribe of Rs 28.8 lakh, has seized Rs 1.4 crore from two of his residences in Nashik and Pune. Rs 98 lakh was recovered from the Nashik house and Rs 45 lakh from the Pune one during a search soon after the arrest. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/acb-seizes-rs-1-4-crore-from-2-houses-of-arrested-engineer/articleshow/93809143.cms

The heavy rain spells this season have caused significant damage to several monuments in Maharashtra - with portions of their fortification walls collapsing in some locations, Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) officials stated on Friday. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/heavy-rain-spells-damage-many-forts-in-maharashtra-archaeological-survey-of-india/articleshow/93809144.cms

Dark roads riddled with potholes make commuting along the Prince of Wales Drive in front of the Empress Botanical Garden and the crossroads ahead of Rajendra Singhji Institute a nightmare. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-defunct-streetlights-poor-roads-make-daily-commute-dangerous/articleshow/93809150.cms

Over 1,000 residential establishments, including housing societies and bungalows, in the PCMC limits have been served notices for failing to eliminate mosquito breeding sites. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pimpri-chinchwad-municipal-corporation-serves-over-1000-notices-for-mosquito-breeding-sites/articleshow/93809154.cms

With just five days to go for the 10-day Ganeshotsav, Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has received 219 applications from mandals across the city. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/nagpur-219-ganesh-mandals-apply-47-get-nod-so-far/articleshow/93785680.cms

Anil Kamble (35) has a predilection for duping people, with 11 cheating cases against his name in the last eight years. Surprisingly, he is none too despairing when he is caught by the police, usually rather easily. For, Kamble is homeless and a kidney patient too, and where better than jail to get free food and regular dialysis. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-serial-conman-doesnt-mind-jail-since-food-and-dialysis-are-free/articleshow/93787242.cms

A 17-year-old college student was on Thursday morning swept away in the Indrayani river at the Kund Mala waterfall — a popular monsoon tourist spot near Talegaon Dabhade — after he jumped into the gushing water to save his drowning friend. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/maharashtra-in-bid-to-save-pal-student-swept-away-at-kund-mala/articleshow/93787214.cms

Pediatricians are reporting a significant increase in cases of recurrent viral infections in which kids - mainly those of schoolgoing age - are coming down with fever, cough and cold twice or thrice in a single month. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-many-schoolkids-now-ill-2-3-times-a-month/articleshow/93787308.cms

The crime branch of the Pimpri Chinchwad police has busted six gangs involved in the police recruitment examination fraud, following the identification of a total of 121 people and arrest of 56 among them during a six-month investigation. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-cops-bust-6-gangs-involved-in-police-recruitment-fraud/articleshow/93787486.cms

The issue of frequent power cuts in Kondhwa has cropped up again with complaints of power outages for four consecutive days from residents of around 30 buildings at Shivneri Nagar in the area. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/frequent-power-cuts-irk-kondhwa-residents/articleshow/93764912.cms

As many as 63,971 (58.27%) seats remained vacant as of Wednesday at the end of the regular round three of the admission process to First year Junior College in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad. There are 308 colleges under the centralised admission process with an intake capacity of 1,09,790 against which only 45, 819 have been admitted. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/special-fyjc-round-today-list-on-aug-30/articleshow/93764973.cms

Half of all the confirmed dengue cases in the city this year have come from just four city wards, according to data from the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/only-4-pune-municipal-corporation-wards-report-50-of-all-dengue-cases-officials-call-for-caution/articleshow/93763736.cms

A man (36) from Pimple Jagtap in Shikrapur fell unconscious as seven-eight men kicked and punched on his head, chest and stomach after a homeopath (27) summoned them during a quarrel following his car hitting the woman's scooter, resulting in her fall on Wagholi-Kharadi bypass around 1.45pm on Tuesday. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-man-beaten-unconscious-after-car-hits-scooter/articleshow/93763611.cms

A 16-year-old school dropout was detained on the charge of attacking a food delivery person with a knife at Kirtinagar in Vadgaon Budruk around 7pm on Tuesday in a bid to avoid paying for the chicken biryani he had ordered online from an eatery. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-teen-attacks-delivery-person-to-skirt-payment-for-biryani/articleshow/93763782.cms

Two students of a private residential school in Igatpuri for mentally challenged and physically disabled children died reportedly from food poisoning on Wednesday morning. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/food-poisoning-two-from-school-for-disabled-die-in-nashik/articleshow/93763643.cms

A 35-year-old man ended his life by setting himself ablaze on Tuesday night after he attacked his seven-year-old son and 55-year-old mother-in-law with a sharp-edged weapon at Hanumantwadi of Latur town - around 265-km from here. The mother-in-law died. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/aurangabad/aurangabad-man-kills-mother-in-law-before-ending-his-own-life/articleshow/93763810.cms

A national study of respiratory diseases by several hospitals has found specific triggers and seasonal factors that could aggravate conditions such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and tuberculosis. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/study-links-asthma-to-rain-shows-summer-is-healthier/articleshow/93740811.cms

The Bhosari police on Monday arrested two men on the charge of robbing Rs3,355 from a PMPML bus conductor near the transport utility’s stop in Kasarwadi.The police identfied the duo as Kunal Kalekar (26) and Omkar Chavan (20), both from Phugewadi. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/duo-arrestedfor-robbing-pmpml-conductor/articleshow/93742616.cms

At least three attendants of a fuel pump near Bhumkar Chowk in Narhe were injured, two of them seriously, after a masked man attacked them with the blunt end of an axe and robbed them of Rs20,500 around 1.35am on Monday, before running away with an accomplice waiting outside on a scooter. from Pune News, Latest Pune News Headlines & Live Updates - Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/pune-masked-man-attacks-staffers-of-fuel-pump-in-narhe-robs-them-of-rs-20500/articleshow/93740654.cms