A 20-year-old man has been detained by police in Pune after allegedly stealing a passenger bus and driving it on the wrong side of the road, causing panic among commuters.
While the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited, which runs buses in the Pune as well as in Pimpri Chinchwad, is fighting for space to keep its own buses, it is plagued by the 'encroachment' of another kind -- that of vehicles dumped in its space. These vehicles were brought by the authorities and are standing there in spite of many protests. Devidas Deshpande reports.
The shutdown generated tension in Mumbai and a number of towns and cities across Maharashtra.
While consumers feel that petrol pinches directly, diesel hurts indirectly, as it is an input in almost all the goods and services we use.
Can the country afford to have problems of such magnitude in the cities of Gurgaon, Bengaluru, Pune and Hyderabad, which not only are the major growth drivers but are also the biggest revenue contributors in their respective states?
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