ANUJ MATHUR

[Pune Mirror @ThePuneMirror]

Age is truly just a number! A Mumbai-based startup named Hobby Tribe is winning praise across social media after its founder, Joshua Salins, introduced their newest team member: a 64-year-old intern. Driven by a desire to stay professionally engaged rather than sit at home, the senior intern is actively working, sharing his decades of knowledge, and interacting with his much younger colleagues. Salins proudly called the hire the "best decision we've made," while delighted netizens are comparing this wholesome real-life story to the hit Robert De Niro movie The Intern.

#MumbaiStartup #TheIntern #AgeIsJustANumber #bestdecision #latestnews

[Pune Mirror @ThePuneMirror]

In a strong display of road discipline, a biker in Hyderabad successfully stopped a TGSRTC bus from travelling on the wrong side of the road along the Waverock-Bachupally route. A viral video capturing the standoff shows the biker refusing to yield, eventually forcing the bus driver to reverse and return to the correct lane. The incident has sparked a widespread conversation on traffic enforcement, with netizens hailing the biker for his commitment to road safety.

#HyderabadBiker #wrongside #bus #viral #latestnews

[Anuradha @Anuradha6jza]

This guy has exposed a trick of IndiGo Airlines.

He had a flight to Pune at 6:00 AM. He reached the airport on time, but his web check-in wasn't working.

At the counter, he was told that web check-in had to be completed at least 24 hours before departure.

By then, the flight was full.

Now his question is: if the number of tickets sold is equal to the number of seats available on the flight, how did someone else get his seat?

Are airlines selling more tickets than the number of seats available?

His second question is: if someone books a ticket just 4–5 hours before departure due to an emergency, how can they possibly complete web check-in 24 hours in advance?

Airlines can easily say they'll move passengers to another flight, but the passenger is the one who suffers — through lost time, mental stress, missed commitments, and urgent meetings.

[🇺🇦 Andy Cohen 🇺🇦 @iamandycohen]

I have been a loyal customer of @Hertz for years. No longer. Their customer service is now an AI Agent that will incessantly route you back to the same AI Agent. No way to speak to anyone except roadside service.

It is a scary proposition if all companies are moving this way.

[Pune Pulse @pulse_pune]

#Pune Road Tragedy: Death Toll Rises to Two After 6-Year-Old Boy Succumbs to Injuries in #Kharadi Crash

https://t.co/vqshsm8PlZ

[Punekar News @punekarnews]

🚨 MISSING ALERT – PLEASE HELP SHARE 🚨

A 17-year-old autistic boy, Samiksha, has been reported missing from Lunkad Goldcoast, Viman Nagar, Pune, since approximately 3:00 PM today.
He may be disoriented, frightened, or trying to find help.

Clothing: White vest and red shorts

He is believed to have moved from Viman Nagar towards Lohegaon. Residents of Viman Nagar, Lohegaon, and nearby areas are requested to stay vigilant and help locate him.

If you see him or have any information about his whereabouts, please contact on following numbers 9763330053 or 9623479616

Please share this post across your WhatsApp groups, social media platforms, and local communities. Your one share could help bring him home safely.

#MissingAlert #Pune #VimanNagar #Lohegaon #PuneNews #MissingPerson #HelpFindSamiksha #CommunityAlert #PunekarNews #PuneUpdates

[Rattan Dhillon @ShivrattanDhil1]

Yesterday, I posted about my sibling’s petrol car getting stranded on the road due to a fuel pump failure. The company itself confirmed it was linked to a fuel blending issue related to ethanol.

But unfortunately, I had to delete the post because of immense pressure from higher authorities. For the first time in my life, I was forced to take down something purely out of concern for family safety and precautions.

The unfortunate truth is that whenever someone speaks up about ethanol-related issues, attempts are made to silence them. This may continue, but these problems won’t disappear and tomorrow it could be my own car stranded the same way.

#ethanol @nitin_gadkari

[ravish kumar @ravish_journo]

बार काउंसिल ऑफ इंडिया के चेयरमैन मनन मिश्र ने कहा है कि 30-40 प्रतिशत वकीलों की डिग्री फर्ज़ी है। भारत में क़ानून का राज चलता है, प्रधानमंत्री मोदी अक्सर अपनी विदेश यात्राओं में यह बात कहते हैं। जिस देश में 30-40 प्रतिशत वकील फर्ज़ी डिग्री वाले हों उस देश में क़ानून का राज कैसे माना जा सकता है। इस बयान पर देश में गंभीर बहस होनी चाहिए। यह तो वकीलों के पेशे पर भी गहरा आक्षेप है। उन्हें भी आगे आकर अपने शानदार पेशे का बचाव करना चाहिए। जैसा कि मीडिया में रिपोर्ट हुआ है, चीफ जस्टिस ने भी कहा था कि दिल्ली की अदालोतों में बड़ी संख्या में ऐसे वकील प्रैक्टिस कर रहे हैं, जिनकी डिग्री संदिग्ध हो सकती है। मीडिया रिपोर्ट में सीबीआई से जाँच की बात भी छपी है। चीफ जस्टिस ऑफ इंडिया और बार काउंसिल ऑफ इंडिया दोनों को बताना चाहिए कि असली डिग्री वाले ही वकालत से लेकर प्रधानमंत्री के पद पर आसीन हों, इसके लिए क्या किया जाना चाहिए। कॉकरोच कहने की बात युवाओं को बुरी लग गईं, फ़र्ज़ी डिग्री वाली बात पर वकीलों ने कुछ नहीं किया? क्या किया?

[Pune Mirror @ThePuneMirror]

Following Sunrisers Hyderabad's dominant 55-run victory over Royal Challengers Bengaluru, a tense post-match moment involving Virat Kohli and Travis Head has taken social media by storm. A viral clip shows Kohli completely bypassing the customary handshake with the Australian opener, despite warmly greeting other SRH players like Pat Cummins and Ishan Kishan. The friction between the two built throughout the match, starting with Kohli's highly animated celebration when Head was dismissed and later escalating into a verbal exchange where Kohli aggressively challenged Head to bowl. Head accepted the challenge and ultimately picked up the crucial wicket of RCB's Rajat Patidar. Despite the dramatic loss in the high-scoring match, RCB managed to maintain their position in the top two of the IPL standings due to their strong Net Run Rate cushion.

#Viratkohli #travishead #IPL #Viral

[Vir Das @thevirdas]

Hilarious. All the usual x handles now deployed to discredit a random youth social media handle. Usual bunch of useful idiots with engagement. Just comes off as terribly insecure. If you’re in the CJP smile about the fact that some serious money is being spent on you :-)

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

As expected Cockroach Janta Party’s account has been withheld in India.

[Shyamlal Yadav @RTIExpress]

Honourable #ChiefJusticeOfIndia speaks: Some jobless youth in law like cockroaches, become media, activists and attack system https://t.co/xNP6tWO5wE @IndianExpress

[Press Trust of India @PTI_News]

VIDEO | As petrol and diesel prices go up by Rs 3 per litre each, a consumer at a fuel station in Mumbai says, "Petrol was already Rs 103, which was difficult for us. Now it has gone up by another Rs 3.13, making things even harder. Salaries are not increasing, but expenses keep rising. I have two children, and I need petrol daily for work and to take my family around. Even using 2 litres a day means Rs 200 to Rs 400 extra every month. Petrol is essential for work and family needs, so we have no choice, but this is wrong."

(Full video available on PTI Videos - https://t.co/bIyFWTfmBd)

[Pulp Librarian @PulpLibrarian]

I regret to inform you that Ask Jeeves is dead. The site closed yesterday. Web 1.0 lost another founder.

Ask Jeeves: 3 June 1996 - 1 May 2026. Send no memes.

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Look at this map.

Nagpur 45°. Ahmedabad 44°. Prayagraj 43°. Delhi 42°. The entire country is a single dark red mass. This is not a heatwave. This is a country that was told its forests were fine.

And this is April. Not May. Not June. The hottest months have not even arrived yet.

The past few days have been hell. So I did what I always do when something bothers me. I went looking for answers.

What I found was a policy con job that has been running for over two decades.

But before I explain what happened, let's clear some definitions.

A garden is not a forest. An orchard is not a forest. A plantation is not a forest.

A forest is a living system. Soil, water, fungi, insects, birds, mammals, decades of accumulated complexity, specific to its land and climate. It cannot be designed. It cannot be harvested. It regulates water, cools land, shelters hundreds of species. It takes decades to become what it is.

You can plant a forest. But it will take decades to become one.

In 2001, India's forests were disappearing. The Indian state, led by the Vajpayee government, faced a choice. Protect what remained, or change what the numbers said.

It chose the numbers.

The Forest Survey of India quietly changed the definition of what a forest means. Any land with 10% tree canopy cover and more than one hectare in area was now a forest. Your mango orchard. A coconut plantation in Tamil Nadu. A tea garden in Assam. Lodhi Garden in Delhi.

All forests, on paper.

The FSI will tell you that 10% canopy cover follows international norms. The FAO also uses 10% as its threshold. But the FAO's definition comes with a crucial exclusion that India's FSI quietly dropped. 

The FAO explicitly states that fruit tree plantations, oil palm plantations, olive orchards, and agroforestry systems are not forests. The World Bank says the same. India adopted the number but discarded the exclusion. 

It took the cover of international legitimacy while gutting the standard that gave it meaning.

The government will also tell you this was never hidden. That it was publicly stated in every report, disclosed in Parliament. That is technically true. But a disclosure buried in a technical government document is not transparency. It is the appearance of transparency. 

I did not know any of this until I went looking. Neither do most Indians whose forests, whose land, whose air this directly concerns. The con is not in what was hidden from experts. It is in what was never explained to the people it was done to.

This is not a technicality. This is the con.

It was a trick as old as power itself. If you cannot fix the problem, fix the measurement.

For ten years after 2001, Congress governed India. Two terms, two environment ministers, including Jairam Ramesh, one of the more serious ones. They saw the numbers. They knew what the numbers meant.

They did nothing.

Because the lie was convenient. India looked good in international climate negotiations. The fiction of a greening India served everyone in power, so everyone in power kept it. Congress did not create this lie. It simply chose, year after year, to live inside it.

The BJP is different.

When they returned to power in 2014, they came with something Congress never had. An absolute majority, and no coalition compulsions. They did not merely inherit the lie. They built on it. And in 2023, they legislated it.

The Forest Conservation Amendment Act of 2023 removed legal protection from "deemed forests." Forests that existed outside the official definition but were ecologically real. 

Forests that Adivasi communities had lived in and depended on for generations. Forests that cooled land, held water, sheltered species. They were not on the right list. Since the amendment, forest destruction on Adivasi land has accelerated. 

The people who knew these forests best, who had protected them longest, now watch them being cleared. Legally.

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[Pune Mirror @ThePuneMirror]

A heartbreaking tragedy struck Magarpatta area in Hadapsar, Pune, on April 7 when a 4.5-year-old girl, Anika Navnath Devikar, was killed after a poorly installed iron slide in her society garden collapsed on her while she was playing. The accident caused severe injuries to her head, face, and neck, and despite being rushed to a private hospital, she succumbed to her injuries. What makes the incident more shocking is that complaints had been repeatedly raised about the unstable slide but were ignored by society officials. A case of negligence has been registered at Hadapsar Police Station against the society chairman and other office bearers. The tragic incident has left the parents devastated and sent shockwaves across Pune.

#Hadapsar #Magarpatta #TragicIncident #ChildSafety #SocietyNegligence

[Pune Mirror @ThePuneMirror]

In a major consumer-friendly decision, Maharashtra Food & Drug Administration Minister Narhari Zirwal has made it legally mandatory for all hotels and restaurants to clearly disclose on their menu cards or electronic display boards if they are using cheaper "cheese analogue" instead of natural milk-based paneer. The new rule, which came into effect on April 27, 2026, will be strictly enforced from May 1, 2026, with violators facing action under food safety laws, including permanent cancellation of their licence. Maharashtra's initiative has already been recognised nationally, with FSSAI issuing a circular on April 21, 2026, extending the rule across the entire country. Citizens can report violations on the toll-free number 1800-222-365.

#FakePaneer #CheeseAnalogue #FDA #Maharashtra #ConsumerRights

[Pune Mirror @ThePuneMirror]

Traffic violations were reported again at Symbiosis Airport Chowk in Pune, where three bikers allegedly jumped a red signal and crossed dangerously. The bikes with registration numbers MH12Z M3762, DMH12Z H3798, and MH12U X9112 were seen moving through the intersection despite the signal being closed for their side. At the same time, traffic from the right had a green signal, creating a risky situation. The riders reportedly weaved through moving vehicles, causing confusion and increasing the chances of an accident. Such repeated violations highlight growing concerns about road safety and the lack of traffic discipline in the city.

#PuneTraffic #RoadSafety #SignalJumping #TrafficViolation #Punetimesmirror

[Pune Mirror @ThePuneMirror]

Dangerous Joyride in Pune: Video of 4 Children on Single Scooter Sparks Safety Concerns

A concerning video from the streets of Pune has surfaced, showing four children riding together on a single scooter. The footage highlights a major road safety violation as the youngsters risks their
Lives on road posing an equal threat for other commuters too

[Pune Mirror @ThePuneMirror]

Bombay High Court has ordered a fresh probe into the alleged disproportionate assets of former Pune Municipal Corporation City Engineer Prashant Waghmare. The court set aside earlier orders that had stopped the Anti-Corruption Bureau from carrying out an open inquiry into allegations that Waghmare amassed assets worth nearly ₹2,000 crore.

The case began in 2016 after social activist advocate Tanaji Gambhire filed a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Bureau. He alleged that Waghmare used his position in PMC’s Building Permission Department to gather massive wealth through family members and construction firms.

During the preliminary inquiry, ACB officer Sanjay Patange said Waghmare did not provide details about his bank accounts, investments, foreign travel and other expenses. The High Court has now allowed the ACB to continue its investigation.

#PMC #BombayHighCourt #PrashantWaghmare #Corruption #Punetimesmirror