Mahindra Logistics Limited leased 4.75 lakh sq ft of warehousing and logistics space in Karanje Emerald Industrial Park, Khed, Pune for five years from Karanje Emerald Logistics Park Pvt Ltd. Transaction registered January 20, 2025. Monthly rent first 24 months: ₹1.15 crore with annual escalation. Security deposit: ₹3.45 crore. Stamp duty: ₹18 lakh. Registration fee: ₹1,000. Rent payment commencement: April 3, 2025. Lock-in period: five years. Total rent over five years: approximately ₹73 crore. Mahindra Logistics currently manages over 22.1 million sq ft. The company announced last year it would invest ₹170 crore in a warehousing facility in Phaltan near Pune. Logistics and industrial space leasing across eight major Indian cities (Delhi-NCR, MMR, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad) reached 53.57 million sq ft in 2024, with over 41 million sq ft leased by October 2024.

SEDEMAC Mechatronics began limited commercial production at manufacturing facility MF3 in Shinde village, Khed taluka, Pune district, effective September 25.

NMDC commissioned its 2 MTPA pellet plant at Nagarnar, Chhattisgarh, part of a ₹5,427-crore integrated iron ore processing project linking Bacheli and Nagarnar. The project includes a processing plant at Bacheli, a 135-km slurry pipeline and the pellet plant.

NTPC Green Energy began commercial operation of 81.34 MW of the 650 MW Kalasar Solar Energy Project at Bikaner, Rajasthan, from September 26, 2026. Group installed capacity rose from 10,977.23 MW to 11,058.57 MW.

SAIL and BCCL signed an MoU to jointly develop and operate coal blocks in West Bengal: SAIL’s Indikatta Ramnagore and BCCL’s East of Damagoria (Kalyaneshwari), to develop domestic coking coal sources.

Thousands of protesters staged traffic blockades across the Nashik-Pune highway on August 9, 2026, demanding the government retain the proposed Nashik-Pune semi-high-speed railway route through Sangamner and Narayangaon instead of a new route via Shirdi.

The original proposal passed 9 km from the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescopes (GMRT) facility, raising concerns of potential interference. An alternative route via Shirdi has been proposed subsequently.

Over ₹500 crore has been disbursed in land acquisition for the original route.

Blockades were staged across Chakan, Khed, Manchar, Narayangaon, Alephata, Sangamner, Gonde Phata on the Samruddhi Expressway, and Sinnar.

MLC Satyajeet Tambe was detained by police. He stated the primary demand is that the 60-day deadline granted to a four-member committee (headed by former Atomic Energy Commission chairman Dr. Anil Kakodkar) must not be extended, and a decision must be reached within 60 days. The committee also comprises Divisional Commissioners of Nashik and Pune and Railway Board officials.

Tambe called for public dialogues in every taluka to understand public sentiment.

• Landslides and wall collapse killed four people, including three family members whose house was buried when part of Visapur Fort collapsed in Patan village, Maval. A labourer died and eight people were injured when a retaining wall collapsed at Bhel Chowk, Nigdi. Two motorcyclists were swept away near Shelu-Kurkundi village in Khed; search operations continued.
• Landslides were reported at 22 locations. The Mumbai-Pune Expressway was partly closed, including near the Missing Link, while debris clearance and traffic restoration continued. Twenty-seven revenue circles recorded over 65 mm of rain in 48 hours; Maval recorded 237.3 mm.
• Deputy Chief Minister Sunetra Pawar said 568 people had been rescued or moved to safer places. In Maval, 250 Taje residents were relocated and 30 employees rescued from a stranded bus near Talegaon; an NDRF team rescued 37 passengers from a bus near Ghorawadi station.
• Khadakwasla dam was 34% full at 4 pm and could reach about 80% within 24 hours if inflows continued. Schools in Maval and six other tehsils were to close July 7 under an orange alert.

Enforcement Directorate (ED) lodged formal complaint against 44-year-old woman resident of Beed for illegal sale of property legally attached by government. Property in Nighoje village, Khed Taluka, Pune District was seized by ED under Sections 5 and 8(a) of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) 2002. ED Assistant Director Shailendra Kumar Ravindra Kumar Gupta and Deputy Director Kondari Balaji Gurudatta had issued written orders notifying accused of attachment. Despite legal attachment, accused sold property via cash transaction with sale deed executed at Sub-Registrar's Office Khed in February 2025. Property value: ₹4.84 crore. Case registered at Mahalunge MIDC Police Station, Pimpri-Chinchwad Police Commissionerate, on Wednesday. Allegation: accused knowingly and deliberately violated government legal orders with intent to defraud state.